The journey through the Wasteland in Fallout 4 is, by no means, an easy one. You need the best of weaponry in your arsenal to ensure your survival and this is where this guide comes into play.
Fallout 4 Unique Weapons Locations
This guide essentially details all the unique weapons that you can acquire in Fallout 4. We have also listed down locations for each of these weapons along with special effects that each of these unique weapons carry.
In addition to this, we have also provided a list of Legendary Weapon Effects which are basically special boosts acquired by killing certain legendary enemies in the game:
Legendary Weapon Effects
Legendary Weapon Effects are essentially modifiers which you can acquire by defeating certain Legendary Enemies. These bonus effects are pretty powerful and can make your journey through the Wasteland a tad easier:
Assassin’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 50% increased damage against humans.
Automatic
This legendary weapon effect allows you to have automatic fire mode.
Berserker’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal increased damage depending upon your damage resistance.
Bloodied
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal increased damage depending upon your health.
Cavalier’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to take 15% decreased damage while you’re blocking or sprinting.
Crippling
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 50% more limb damage.
Enraging
This legendary weapon effect allows your targets to frenzy with critical hits.
Explosive
This legendary weapon effect allows your bullets to explode on impact dealing 15 AOE damage.
Exterminator’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 50% increased damage against Mirelurks and bugs.
Freezing
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal +10 cryo-damage and freeze targets with critical hits.
Furious
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal increased damage with each consecutive hit, but on the same target.
Ghoul Slayer’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 50% increased damage against Ghouls.
Hunter’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 50% increased damage against animals.
Incendiary
This legendary weapon effect allows you to set targets on fire for +15 damage.
Instigating
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal double damage to full-health targets.
Irradiated
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal +50 radiation damage.
Junkie’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal increased damage depending upon the withdrawal effects.
Kneecapper
This legendary weapon effect allows you to have 20% chance to cripple targets’ legs.
Lucky Weapon
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal double damage with critical shots with critical meters refilling 15% faster.
Medic’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to heals targets instead of dealing damage to them.
Mutant Slayer’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 50% increased damage against Super Mutants.
Never Ending
This legendary weapon effect allows you to have unlimited ammo capacity.
Nimble
This legendary weapon effect allows you to have 75% faster movement speed while ADS.
Nocturnal
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal increased damage at night-time and decreased damage during day-time.
Penetrating
This legendary weapon effect allows you to negate 30% of the target’s damage resistance and energy resistance.
Plasma Infused
This legendary weapon effect allows you to turn enemies into goo and adds +10 points of energy damage.
Poisoner’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to poison targets for 10 seconds.
Powerful
This legendary weapon effect gives you +25 extra damage.
Quickdraw
This legendary weapon effect decreased Action Points cost by 25%.
Rapid
This legendary weapon effect grants you 25% increased rate-of-fire and 15% increased reload speed.
Relentless
This legendary weapon effect refills you Action Points with critical hits.
Sentinel’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to take 15% decreased damage while you’re static.
Staggering
This legendary weapon effect allows you stagger enemies with each hit.
Stalker’s
When not in combat, this legendary weapon effect increases VATS accuracy, but at the cost of increased Action Points.
Troubleshooter’s
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 50% increased damage against robots.
Two Shot
This legendary weapon effect allows you to shoot additional projectiles.
VATS Enhanced
This legendary weapon effect increases VATS hit chances, decreases Action Points cost by 25% and 40%.
Violent
This legendary weapon effect allows you to deal 25% damage and limb damage with increasing recoil.
Wounding
This legendary weapon effect allows you to bleed target for +25 additional damage.
Fallout 4 Unique Weapons Locations
These are exceptionally powerful weapons which possess certain bonus effects.
In order to acquire these special weapons, you need to purchase them from vendors or complete quests. In addition to this, you can also defeat enemies and acquire some of them by looting their dead bodies:
2076 World Series Baseball Bat
Special Bonus: Minor Chances of Flying Targets
How to Get: Jamaica Plain City Hall reward
Ashmaker
Special Bonus: Minor Chances of Igniting Targets
How to Get: Side with Fahrenheit during The Big Dig
Automatic Laser Musket
Special Bonus: Automatic Fire
How to Get: Acquired during the Minutemen Quest: The Nuclear Option
AX90 Fury
Special Bonus: 50+ increased damage against Super Mutants
How to Get: Purchase from Teagan in the Prydwen
Big Boy
Special Bonus: Fire an extra projectile
How to Get: Purchase from Arturo in the Diamond City
Big Jim
Special Bonus: +20 chances of crippling target’s legs
How to Get: Find it inside the Walden Pond
Broadsider
Special Bonus: N/A
How to Get: Complete Last Voyage of the U.S.S. Constitution
Death From Above
Special Bonus: ADS with +75 increased movement speed
How to Get: Reach Paladin and buy it from Proctor Teagan
Deathclaw Gauntlet
Special Bonus: N/A
How to Get: Complete the Devil’s Due optional mission
Deliverer
Special Bonus: N/A
How to Get: Complete the Railroad Quest: Tradecraft
Eddie’s Peace
Special Bonus: Additional limb damage
How to Get: Found during Detective Case Files: Long Time Coming
Experiment 18-A
Special Bonus: +25 increased rate-of-fire and +15 reload speed
How to Get: Purchase from the Institute Requisitions in the Institute
Final Judgment
Special Bonus: +25 increased rate-of-fire and +15 reload speed
How to Get: Acquire it from Elder Maxson during Institute Quest: Airship Down or the Railroad Quest: Precipice of War
Furious Power Fist
Special Bonus: Increased damage on the same target with each hit
How to Get: You need to remove the threat of Swan in Boston Common
General Chao’s Revenge
Special Bonus: +50 damage against robots
How to Get: Purchase from Trudy in the Drumlin Diner
Good Intentions
Special Bonus: Cause frenzy with critical hits
How to Get: Acquire it from Clint Elevated Freeway Camp
Grognak’s Axe
Special Bonus: Cause stagger and increased damage with bleed
How to Get: Inside a display case in Hubris Comics
HalluciGen Gas Grenade
Special Bonus: Cause frenzy for 60 seconds
How to Get: Craft it using the material inside the basement laboratory of HalluciGen, Inc.
Homing Beacon
Special Bonus: Zao’s sub missile strike
How to Get: Complete Here There Be Monsters
Institute Beacon
Special Bonus: Spawn Synths at beacon’s location
How to Get: Complete the Institute Quest: Airship Down
Junk Jet
Special Bonus: N/A
How to Get: Located in the ArcJet Systems during Steel Quest: Call to Arms
Justice
Special Bonus: Cause stagger chances
How to Get: Purchase from Penny in the Covenant
Kellogg’s Pistol
Special Bonus: Fill up AP with critical hits
How to Get: Found during Main Quest: Reunions
Les Fusil Teribles
Special Bonus: +25 limb damage with increased recoil
How to Get: Find it inside the Captain’s cabin in Libertalia
Lorenzo’s Artifact
Special Bonus: Push targets away with telekinesis
How to Get: Complete Cabot House
Old Faithful
Special Bonus: 2x damage to full-HP targets
How to Get: Purchase from Arturo in the Diamond City
Partystarter
Special Bonus: +50 damage against humans
How to Get: Purchase from KL-E-O in the Goodneighbor
Pickman’s Blade
Special Bonus: Increased sneak damage and bleed effects
How to Get: Side with Pickman
Prototype PA77
Special Bonus: Unlimited ammo
How to Get: Inside a Master locked safe inthe University Credit Union
Railway Rifle
Special Bonus: N/A
How to Get: Complete the Railroad Quest: Underground Undercover
Reba II
Special Bonus: +50 damage against Mirelurks and bugs
How to Get: Help Barney during Misc. Quest: Barney Rook
Reckoning
Special Bonus: Take 15% decreased damage when static
How to Get: Purchase from Level 4 Workshop Merchant
Righteous Authority
Special Bonus: 2x damage by critical hits and refill Critical Meter 15% faster
How to Get: Complete Brotherhood of Steel Quest: Call to Arms
Rockville Slugger
Special Bonus: 40% less Action Point cost
How to Get: Purchase from Moe in the Diamond City
Sentinel’s Plasmacaster
Special Bonus: 2x damage to full-HP targets
How to Get: Purchase from Proctor Teagan after reaching Sentinel
Shem Drowne’s Sword
Special Bonus: Deal radiation damage
How to Get: Find it during Detective Case Files: The Guilded Grasshopper
Shishkebab
Special Bonus: N/A
How to Get: Acquire it from Slag in the Blast Furnace
Spray’n’Pray
Special Bonus: Bullets to explode on impact dealing 15 A-O-E damage
How to Get: Purchase from Cricket – the caravan trader
Survivor’s Special
Special Bonus: Increased damage at low HP
How to Get: Either murder Paladin Brandis or ask him to rejoin Brotherhood during Brotherhood of Steel Quest: The Lost Patrol
The Gainer
Special Bonus: Ignite targets for +15 A-O-E damage
How to Get: Complete the Vitale Pumphouse number puzzle
The Last Minute
Special Bonus: +50 limb damage
How to Get: Purchase from Level 4 Workshop Merchant
Tinker Tom Special
Special Bonus: Increased VATs accuracy while static
How to Get: Purchase from Tinker Tom in the Railroad HQ
Virgil’s Rifle
Special Bonus: +50 against Super Mutants
How to Get: Murder Virgil and get it from him
Wastelander’s Friend
Special Bonus: +50 limb damage
How to Get: Purchase from Deb in the Bunker Hill
Wazer Wifle
Special Bonus: Unlimited ammo
How to Get: Complete Shaun’s three quests
