The Outer Worlds 2 – Best Weapons Ranked!

Looking for the BEST Weapons to pick up in The Outer Worlds 2? We’ve got you covered! These are the 15 Best Weapons You NEED In The Outer Worlds 2!

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Best Weapons Ranked – The Outer Worlds 2

Here are the Best Weapons in The Outer Worlds 2 ranked by overall powerful, utility and usefulness. As always, your mileage may vary depending on your TOW2 build, but generally speaking these are the best Weapons you want to pick up as soon as possible.

Big Bang
Goomerang
Bullet Blender
Chainspark Cannon
Rattler
The Simplifier
Murder’s Best Friend
The Oracle
Biggest Fan
Wham-Bam!
Pitchball Machine
Shrink Ray
Death Sentence
Thunderstruck
Rookie’s Reward

15. Rookie’s Reward

Rookie’s Reward is a unique Sub-Machine Gun that levels up as you earn combat experience. While it starts out weak, if you dedicate enough time to using it the stats will grow substantially including increased Damage and Rate Of Fire. Even better, Rookie’s Reward can be obtained at the very start of the game by turning off the power to its locked case aboard your ship, The Incognito. This makes it a good starting weapon for all builds in The Outer Worlds 2.

Unique Effect: This unassuming gun acquires experience as you use it, increasing its power to new levels.

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14. Thunderstruck

Thunderstruck is a unique hammer that players can obtain on the first planet, Eden. This melee weapon shoots out Thunder projectiles upon heavy attacking that can deal damage to multiple targets at once and build up the shock debuff. Best used with a Melee Build.

Unique Effect: Crash Of Thunder – Heavy Attacks with this weapon will send forward a thunderous projectile to shock foes.

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13. Death Sentence

The Death Sentence unique Rifle packs a powerful punch! It’s unique modification called “Doom Counter” causes a doom counter to be placed on the enemy target when you deal weak spot damage, causing the target to take extra damage. The best build for the Death Sentence is a Rifle Build.

Unique Effect: Doom Counter – Hitting a weakspot puts a doom counter on the target, when the counter expires the target takes extreme damage.

12. Shrink Ray

The Shrink Ray is the most useful Science Weapon in The Outer Worlds 2, shrinking enemies down to boot-smashing size. However, this weapon requires a LOT of ammo, and strong enemies must be weakened first before you can use it on them. Still, this fulfills the Scientist fantasy quite well and is extremely strong at taking out enemies if you plan for it. The Shrink Ray works best on the Science Build.

Unique Effect: Shrinkify! Reduce foes down to boot-stomping size! Powerful enemies will resist this effect unless weakened first. They instead take damage and are briefly stunned from molecular trauma.

11. Pitchball Machine

The Pitchball Machine fires explosive pitchballs (really mini-rockets) that increase in damage with the amount of Tossball and Pitchball cards you have collected. What makes this weapon great is its high ammo capacity and rate of fire compared to slower explosive weapons such as the rocket launcher, plus it’s medium range allows you to “toss” explosives on grouped up enemies for tons of damage! The Pitchball Machine works best on the Explosives Build.

Unique Effect: Catch! Fires explosive pitchballs. Damage increases with the number of collected Tossball and Pitchball Cards.

10. Wham-Bam!

The Wham-Bam! unique hammer is a legendary weapon that players can pick up by completing an optional bounty quest on the second planet, Dorado. This powerful melee weapon benefits from the unique Shotgun-Hammer mod which triggers a shotgun blast on hit. This weapon requires loaded shotgun ammo for the shotgun effect to fire. Wham-Bam! works best on a Melee Build.

Unique Effect: Shotgun-Hammer – Triggers a shotgun blast on hit. Requires loaded shotgun ammo to fire.

9. Biggest Fan

The Biggest Fan unique pistol is the ultimate weapon for increasing Critical Hit Chance and Weak spot Damage, with a 5% bonus for each every time the weapon is fired. This effect stacks and is cleared after a short time. So if you enjoy the hip firing your weapon extremely fast this would be the way to go. Biggest Fan works best with a Gunslinger Build.

Unique Effect: Fan The Hammer – Each time this weapon is fired, it gains +5% critical hit chance and +5% weak spot damage, this effect stacks and clears after a short time.

8. The Oracle

The Oracle is a unique Rifle which includes the Prediction Optics mod. This effect tracks the nearest target when scoped and locks on to them, curving any fired bullets to hit its mark. You can obtain the Oracle by progressing the main story through the second planet, Dorado, and working with the Ascendant Order. The Oracle works best on the Rifle Build for The Outer Worlds 2.

7. Murder’s Best Friend

The Murder’s Best Friend unique dagger is the best weapon in the game when it comes to a Stealth Assassin playthrough. With this weapon each stealth kill grants you bonus damage and stealth speed, making it the perfect compliment to stealth slaying. This weapon works best with a Stealth Build for The Outer Worlds 2.

Unique Effect: Killing Spree – Coats with blood after each stealth kill, granting +20% damage and crouched movement speed until discovered. Max 3 stacks – at max footsteps become completely silent.

6. The Simplifier

The Simplifier is the best Sniper Rifle in The Outer Worlds 2, giving you near perfect accuracy at limitless range (seriously, there’s no falloff damage point). Even better, The Simplifier comes with two options for zooms: longer and REALLY long. Players can use the quick melee button to switch between zooms on the fly which becomes extremely useful during some of the game’s larger map battles. The Simplifier works best for a Sniper Build in The Outer Worlds 2.

Unique Effect: Pinpoint Assassin – Has near perfect accuracy. Has no falloff point for bullet damage by range. Has a custom modular scope with variable zoom range (Toggle with Quick Melee while in ADS).

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5. Rattler

The Rattler Pistol is likely the best early weapon in The Outer Worlds 2 that you can use for a variety of builds and you can also use it up to the end game if you want. This unique Revolver shoots 6 shots in one round, making it easy to stack up damage, plus you can modify with a variety of useful barrels such as Plasma for even more damage! The Rattler Pistol works best for a Science Build or Gunslinger Build.

Unique Effect: Snake Shot – Converts all standard cartridges into shotshells that provide increased spread and devastation at close range at the expense of accuracy.

4. Chainspark Cannon

The Chainspark Cannon is one of the most borderline broken weapons in the entire game. This shock-based machine gun spits out chain lightning that connects across multiple enemies, damaging them all. This will be your go to weapon in The Outer Worlds 2 for facing Automechanicals as shock damage will stun them, forcing them to stop damaging you and your companions. The Chainspark Cannon works best on the Machine Gun build for The Outer Worlds 2.

Unique Effect: Chain Lightning – Fires huge blasts of electricity that chains through enemies.

3. The Bullet Blender

The Bullet Blender is a unique Assault Rifle with excellent rate of fire and weakspot damage, but also, it can use any type of ammo in your inventory! And the best part? No reloading! The Bullet Blender is perfect for a no-thinking, run and gun build – just hold down the trigger and watch your enemies fall! This weapon can be found via one of the game’s many Advanced Lockboxes. The Bullet Blender works best for a Rifle Build.

Unique Effect: Blend – This gun never has to reload and accepts all types of bullets that the player has.

2. Goomerang

The Goomerang is the ultimate Bio-mass weapon in The Outer Worlds 2. This is a shotgun powered with Corrosion damage that also locks onto targets, quickly melting them before your eyes. With the right perks, this weapon is absolutely deadly from close range. The Goomerang works best with a Science Build.

Unique Effect: Bio-Barrage – Fires a barrage of wacky goo blobs that bounce. Aiming with the Goomerang allows it to lock-on and home towards enemies.

Big Bang

The Big Bang is the largest and most devastating science weapon in the game. It uses material harvested from rifts to shoot a giant ball of energy capable of vaporizing everything in its path. Because the ammunition for this weapon is extremely rare, it is a weapon best reserved for dangerous situations where maximum firepower is required. The Big Bang works best with a Science Build in The Outer Worlds 2.

Unique Effect: Mass Destruction – Fires a single massive projectile that obliterates everything in its path.