Gatling Laser (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Gatling laser is a heavy energy weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Gatling laser has a strength requirement of 8 and uses EC packs as ammunition. It deals extremely high damage per second, particularly when used with a high energy weapons skill, focus optics mod and max-charged ammo.

The Gatling laser achieves such a high DPS by firing multiple low powered lasers at an incredibly fast rate. It consumes ammunition at an equally incredible rate, depleting a full clip of 240 EC packs in just 8 seconds.

While the Gatling laser can almost instantly kill lightly armored targets such as Jackals, it is largely ineffective against heavily armored opponents due to Fallout: New Vegas' damage threshold system. As no single shot from the Gatling laser can penetrate the DT of a tough opponent it cumulatively deals very little damage against them. This weapon's effectiveness is lessened against even lightly armored opponents such as Legionaries, so it's recommended to save your ammo for the lighter, higher damage Laser RCW.

Compared to Fallout 3's Gatling laser it has significantly higher DPS and ammo consumption rates and is much less effective against armored targets. With the Carbon Fiber frame mod the weapon becomes remarkably light weight at 9 pounds (identical to the tri-beam laser)

The Gatling laser model includes a large metal pack that appears on the back of anyone using it.

Modifications

 * Focus Optics: Increases damage (+3).
 * CF Frame: Decreases weight (50%).

Locations

 * Occasionally carried by Brotherhood of Steel Paladins.
 * Can be bought from the Brotherhood of Steel Store after you become a Paladin.
 * One can be obtained during the quest For Auld Lang Syne if you choose to kill Orion. It will be on his corpse.
 * During I Could Make You Care you may fight a Brotherhood Paladin with one.
 * It can also be bought at the silver rush every now and again

Bugs

 * Sometimes the backpack won't dissapear when changing to a different weapon. Switching back and forth between the gattling laser and some other weapons while having them holstered seems to fix this whenever it occurs.
 * Sometimes, when putting away the Gatling Laser, it will not disappear and your character will carry it around with only one hand.
 * When the gatling laser is equipped, the players weight will increase by 9 ( tested with gatling laser with cf frame ) possibly making the player overencumbered but will vanish when unequipped.