Tri-beam Laser Rifle (Broken Steel)

The  is a weapon which is added to Fallout 3 with the Broken Steel add-on. It is carried by super mutant overlords.

Characteristics
The Tri-beam laser rifle has the appearance of a "sawed-off" laser rifle, missing the tube on the bottom length of the barrel and having a new emitter aperture and attached wires. The new emitter fires three laser beams with each shot. Unlike the Metal Blaster, and Protectron's Gaze, it also expends three microfusion cells per shot. Because each shot depletes 3 microfusion cells, it has an actual magazine size of only 8.(24 ÷ 3 = 8)

This weapon is smaller than a normal AER9 laser rifle, yet it's one pound heavier.

This weapon has an object effect that makes it do 40 additional HP damage when the target is the player. That means that each beam does 65 points of damage, and taking all three beams deals 195 points of damage.

The tri-beam rifle can fire 334 shots, which is 1002 microfusion cells worth of energy.

Appearances
The Tri-beam laser rifle appears only in the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel and New Vegas (in the bootlegger's shack, or as a reward when the player returns the Missing Laser Pistol to the armory in Hidden Valley).

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