Drone Cannon Ex-B

The drone cannon Ex-B is a unique weapon in the Fallout 3 add-on Mothership Zeta, carried by the experimental weapons drone.

Characteristics
Drone cannon Ex-B is an experimental version of the standard drone cannon used by guardian drones. The Ex-B fires an energy ball with an arcing trajectory, and the fired projectile is capable of ricocheting off of solid objects once.

Similar to the drone cannon, it is ineffective in V.A.T.S. because the trajectory and ability to ricochet is not taken into account. Instead the projectile will be fired in a straight line, which typically will leave projectiles several meters away from their intended targets.

Durability
The drone cannon Ex-B can successfully fire about 417 times from full condition before breaking; the same amount as a normal drone cannon.

Variants

 * Drone cannon - the common variant.

Location
In the southern area of the weapons lab, there is a room where one can use a nearby button to spawn-in brahmin for the drones to kill (not the room next to the shooting range, but the room next to the weapons cache). Enter the room and destroy the drone for the weapon. There is also a second one in the same room that is automatically activated when the first is destroyed.

Bugs

 * When shot, the projectile will occasionally pass through walls or the floor and do nothing.
 * In some accounts, when shot, the projectile will just disappear as soon as it hits the target, damaging it but not exploding.
 * When shot into deep water, the projectile will disappear, and then reappear and seemingly "float" in place on the surface without exploding. Projectiles fired onto the floating projectile will attach and stack, also without exploding.
 * In V.A.T.S. mode, the Ex-B seems to aim like a normal drone cannon, landing short of the enemy as if expecting the projectile to bounce.
 * On some occasions, the cannon will fire the projectile but will bounce off surfaces and not explode.