Railway Rifle (Fallout 3)

The railway rifle is a custom-built weapon in Fallout 3.

Characteristics
The gun uses railway spikes as crude flechettes. Though only moderately damaging, it is very effective at dealing limb damage (due to a 3x limb damage multiplier), able to cripple limbs with just one shot. On the killing shot, a spike may tear off the struck limb or head, and possibly pin it to a fixed object, for example a wall or the floor. While it has a low amount of spread, its accuracy is not perfect, and the rifle will often miss at long range. However, its projectiles have much more mass than bullets, making it more effective at short to medium ranges, and most effective in V.A.T.S. where its limb-destroying effects can be put to precision use. It is also remarkably effective at disarming enemies, as it will often launch their weapons a substantial distance on a V.A.T.S. hit. It has a high critical multiplier, which depending on your base critical chance, may make the railway rifle one of the best non-unique Small Guns.

Durability
The railway rifle can fire a total of about 224 spikes, the equivalent of 28 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Locations

 * Laszlo Radford uses the railway rifle, he is a random encounter who may be found at certain locations throughout the Wasteland, but only appears after you have obtained at least 1 schematic for the railway rifle.
 * All of the components can be found in Fort Independence. Simply walk into the building and go straight and open the door. On the back left shelf, all the way to the left is a crutch. After that, back up and go right. There will be a staircase, then a door afterwards, open the door and proceed downward. Go into the cubicle on the far end of the room on the right.There will be shelves containg 3 fission batteries, and a steam gauge assembly move into the other room on the same floor. Turn right, and there will be a table with 2 pressure cookers
 * All of the components can also be found in the RobCo Facility. There are many fission batteries and steam gauge assemblies spread throughout the floor area as well as two Crutches in the central large room, near some computers. Finally, in the Kitchen, there are two pressure cookers on the stoves. You also may find additional fission batteries in the robots on the ground.

Crafting
The rifle is built from a crutch that comprises the stock and grip part of the gun, a pressure cooker that acts as a firing chamber, a steam gauge assembly that comprises the grip, ammunition storage and barrel of the gun, and a fission battery as a power source to operate the weapon.

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