Tri-beam Laser Rifle (Broken Steel)

The  is a weapon which will be added to Fallout 3 with the release of the Broken Steel downloadable content pack in May 2009. They are carried by Super Mutant Overlords.

According to a recent interview, the Tri-Beam Laser Rifle gives the Super Mutant Overlord the ability to hit the player from afar, as designer Alan Nanes describes.

" The new enemies and the new weapons are present to provide a challenge to the higher-level players. We didn't want to simply crank up the statistics of the same old enemies and call it a day; we wanted to create brand-new versions of them to give players a real sense of progression. A great example is the aforementioned Super Mutant Overlord. He's a huge brute, but we wanted to give him a powerful ranged attack as well. None of the existing weapons seemed to fit the bill, so we've created the Tri-Beam Laser Rifle, which is an extremely powerful ranged laser shotgun. This item will be fully recoverable and usable by the player. "