Gobi Campaign Scout Rifle

The Gobi Campaign scout rifle is a unique weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Gobi Campaign scout rifle is a unique sniper rifle that was used by the United States Armed Forces in the Gobi Desert military campaign in China before the Great War. The scout rifle is coated in a desert camouflage, and comes pre-equipped with an extended magazine, a slightly shorter barrel and a maintenance kit stored in the stock. Thus, its condition deteriorates more slowly than other sniper rifles.

Like most unique weapons, it cannot be modified with a suppressor or carbon fiber parts, although its decreased weight and texture imply that the latter modification has already been applied.

Compared to a normal sniper rifle, the Gobi Campaign scout rifle does slightly more damage, has a higher DPS, has less weapons spread, fires more rapidly, and degrades more slowly. Its reduced action points cost can also be very useful for squeezing an extra shot into a V.A.T.S. sequence. However, the major downsides are that it cannot be silenced, and weapons to repair it are severely limited, even with the Jury Rigging perk.

Variants

 * Sniper rifle, standard variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
 * Christine's COS silencer rifle, a silenced variant of the sniper rifle.

Location

 * Sniper's nest - Found in the Very Hard-locked footlocker, which requires a Lockpick skill of 100 to open.