Pew Pew

Pew Pew is a unique laser pistol

Characteristics
Pew Pew belonged to Allen Marks, a man infamous for hunting people for Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps in the Mojave Wasteland. He broke into the Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters prize vault and it was there he died. Underneath a bottle cap on the gun are the words "Had it coming" etched into the casing, along with eight hash marks. Additional hash marks also appear along both sides and the underside of the main body of the pistol.

Pew Pew does more damage than the standard laser pistol, but at the cost of 5 energy cells per shot, resulting in only two shots before reloading. It is considered an improved holdout weapon and can be concealed so long as the Courier's Sneak skill is 50 or greater.

Durability
Pew Pew can fire a total of about 395 times using standard cells, the equivalent of 198 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Laser pistol - the standard variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
 * Laser pistol (GRA) - A variant of the laser pistol which can accept modifications
 * Missing laser pistol - found only during the Pistol Packing unmarked quest.
 * Compliance Regulator - a unique laser pistol that paralyzes a target on a critical hit.

Location
This weapon can be found inside the Sunset Sarsaparilla headquarters after presenting at least 50 Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps to Festus and beginning A Valuable Lesson. The weapon is found next to the body of Allen Marks.

Behind the scenes
There remains an unused script in the Fallout: New Vegas GECK,, that was meant to be associated with Pew Pew. According to the script, Pew Pew was meant to quickly fire twice with every pull of the trigger and use up two charges, instead of only being able to fire twice before having to reload. The script comment states "If the player has one charge left in the pistol and fires, the gun will fire twice and pull the ammo for the second shot from the player's reserve, before playing the reload animation. As soon as we have a way to check ammo, I'll set this up to not fire the second shot if there's no ammo left in the gun."

Bugs
When changing ammo types in the third person, Pew Pew doesn't make any reloading sound.