Gauss Rifle (Fallout 76)

The Gauss rifle is a non-automatic rifle in Fallout 76.

Characteristics
The Gauss rifle can be modded with more capacitors, a shielded barrel, and a compensator or suppressor.

Capacitors and exposed copper wiring run alongside the barrel, and a Nixie tube display above the stock gives the weapon's charge percentage. The rifle operates on a charging principle, as the user holds down the trigger to build up the charge, releasing the trigger fires each round with full base damage. An uncharged round only has 50% of base damage. (Ingame testing in patch 28 showed no damage without charge. 2 damage without charge, 72 damage with full charge. Damage is directly proportional to the charge level. Explosive damage always full - 11 on test, does not depend on charge level). It is fed rounds through a dorsal mounted cylindrical magazine and its projectile produces a momentary blue trail, similar to a lightning bolt.

The Gauss rifle is chambered for 2mm EC rounds as opposed to the microfusion cells used by the Anchorage-era variants. The Gauss rifle fires an explosive projectile that deal explosive area-of-effect damage. This enables the Gauss rifle to hit multiple targets with a single shot, provided they are clustered together in very close proximity to each other. Due to the amount of recoil and the charging rate, this weapon will not achieve the fire rate listed in its statistics. The actual fire rate is closer to 10.

Crafting

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Weapon modifications

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Variants

 * Presidential Gauss rifle

Locations

 * The Whitespring bunker - Sold in the military wing command center.
 * Watoga Station - Sold by the vendor bot.
 * Abandoned mine shaft 4 - On the back shelf in the small shed.
 * Watoga Underground - In Silo 4, in a workstation, on a middle shelf, on a rectangular crate.
 * Randomly awarded by events/quests in the Cranberry Bog.
 * Dropped by deathclaws.
 * Dropped by scorchbeasts.

Gallery
Карабин Гаусса (Fallout 76)