Gauss Rifle (Fallout 4)

The Gauss rifle is a weapon in Fallout 4.

Characteristics
Unlike the earlier iterations of the Gauss Rifle from Fallout 3 and New Vegas, this rifle appears to be a crude prototype weapon. 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: the user holds down the trigger to build up the charge, and releasing the trigger fires a round. Although heavy and crude looking, the Gauss Rifle is able to deliver astoundingly high damage when fully charged, outclassing a Hunting rifle (Fallout 4) chambered in .50 caliber in its base state. Its ability to be modded with more capacitors, a shielded barrel, and a compensator or suppressor make it a lethal tool for the patient marksman. Like the M72 Gauss rifle it is chambered for the exceedingly rare and expensive 2mm EC rounds opposed to the Microfusion cells used by the Chinese variants.

Variants

 * The Last Minute is a variant of the gauss rifle sold by Ronnie Shaw after the quest Old Guns.

Locations

 * A gauss rifle is found on the Brotherhood of Steel's ship The Prydwen. It may be stolen as soon as player gets onto ship and is capable of picking a Master lock or hacking a terminal.
 * Carried very often by level 35+ railroad heavies and rarely by Brotherhood power armor troops during Institute faction missions.
 * The gauss rifle can be purchased from Weapons vendors after reaching Level 25 Note: Weapon appears in vendors at level 29.
 * A gauss rifle can sometimes be found in a chest upstairs in the Nahant Chapel (found at level 39, unconfirmed how consistent or min. level)
 * A gauss rifle can sometimes be found at the Combat Zone possibly a random spawn in the area or on a raider (needs more verification as the player has to have not be inside of Combat Zone until after level 35)