Tesla rifle (Fallout 76)

The Tesla rifle is a ranged weapon

Characteristics
The Tesla rifle fires arcing electricity that can jump from the initial target to nearby enemies for full damage. The weapon has an aiming radius more like a shotgun, wider than other rifles.

Crafting

 * -|Level 50=


 * -|Level 40=

Weapon modifications

 * -|Receiver=


 * -|Sights=

Locations

 * Purchase the plan from Brotherhood of Steel Vendor bot Phoenix in Watoga Shopping Plaza.
 * Rarely dropped by deathclaws.
 * Rarely dropped by boss chests.

Variants

 * Night Light - A unique Tesla rifle given as a Survival mode reward available during May 21–27 and August 13–20, 2019.

Bugs

 * The Tesla rifle may occasionally drop without a sight attachment.
 * The charging shotgun Tesla rifle is not considered a shotgun.
 * When fired at surfaces, arc damage always deals -50% damage regardless of barrel or charge. When fired at NPCs, the arc damage correctly deals 100% damage.
 * Automatic, charging and charging shotgun barrels are adding or subtracting weapon damage itself instead of modifying damage multiplicatively or adding or subtracting to the additive damage bonus multiplier.
 * Due to the above, glitched Tesla rifles that spawn in at levels 1-39, which have 0 base damage, can deal billions of damage per hit due to an integer underflow.
 * When using a charging or charging shotgun barrel, an uncharged direct impact is reduced by more than -50%.
 * The arc damage is unaffected by the uncharged modifier, and will deal more damage than an uncharged direct impact.
 * Any Tesla rifle may leave lingering developer marker text (CHAIN) at points of impact instead of the anticipated visual effects.
 * The chain effect is coded as an explosion and is affected by the Grenadier perk.
 * As of Steel Dawn, the Tesla rifle no longer has bugged charge data. As a result, the non-charging variants will deal less damage and the charging variants will actually add damage when charged.
 * When reloading in third person and at the same time moving sideways, the reload animation will bug out and the character will appear facing downwards for a second.