Gatling laser (Fallout 76)

The Gatling laser is a weapon in Fallout 76.

Characteristics
The Gatling laser is a rapid firing automatic heavy weapon that needs a few seconds to spool up. It uses fusion cores as ammo and it has a clip size of 500. Unlike almost all other weapons, when reloaded rather than the rounds left in the magazine going back into the player characters ammo pool, if the fusion core is swapped out for a fresh/higher charge core with rounds remaining, the depleted core is added to the players inventory.

Weapon Perks

 * Power User (Level 50, Intelligence) will not only increase the magazine size from 500 to 999, but will increase the amount of ammunition from each Fusion Core from 500 to 999--effectively doubling your entire ammunition pool.
 * Heavy Gunner (Level 30), Expert Heavy Gunner (Level 40), and Master Heavy Gunner (Level 50) are all highly recommended, as this weapon does not output suitable DPS, otherwise. Stabilized (Level 36, Intelligence) and Bloody Mess (Level 42, Luck) are also highly recommended.
 * Bear Arms (Level 35) at perk level 3 will reduce heavy weapon weight by 90%. Without this perk, the weapon weighs roughly anywhere from 20-50 units.  With the perk active, the weight will significantly decrease to approximately 2-5 units.  Due to the weapon's tendency to rapidly lose durability, it is recommended to have this perk for the purpose of carrying 2 or more of these weapons when venturing out into the wasteland.

Weapon Modifications

 * Standard Barrel has a firing rate of 273, while the Charging Barrel variants have a firing rate of 45. This weapon outputs extremely poor DPS when used with any kind of Charging Barrel variant; always select/mod your weapon to use the Standard Barrel.

Locations

 * Awarded during the Event Powering up Monongah Power Plant.
 * Awarded during the Battle Bot Event in Ash Heap.
 * Found in US Government supply crates.
 * Plans can be purchased from the MODUS Terminal Vendor in the Command section of the Whitespring Bunker after completing the Enclave Main Questline for 1500 caps.