Gatling Laser (Fallout: New Vegas)

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

Characteristics
This weapon has a strength requirement of 8 to use effectively 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 a high DPS by firing multiple low powered lasers at an incredibly fast rate, about 1800 rpm. It consumes ammunition at an equally incredible rate, depleting a full battery of 240 EC packs in just 8 seconds. Like any Energy Weapon, Gatling laser automatically ignores 2 DT while using regular EC packs; this value raises to 5 with Overcharged ECP and even to 10 with Maxcharged ECP.

The Gatling laser is incredibly effective against un-armored foes such as cazadores, nightstalkers and ghouls. When used with maxcharged ammo, even deathclaws can easily be killed with this weapon. Its damage can be raised to 23 with focus optics and Laser Commander while using max-charged ammo. Considering -10 DT effect from max-charged ammo, gatling laser is highly effective against medium armored enemies as well.

Compared to the Gatling laser of Fallout 3, it has significantly higher DPS and ammo consumption rates. 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 Torres at the Hidden Valley bunker after you become a member of the Brotherhood of Steel.
 * One can be obtained during the quest For Auld Lang Syne if you choose to kill Orion Moreno. It will be on his corpse.
 * During I Could Make You Care you may fight a Brotherhood Paladin with a Gatling laser.
 * It can also be bought at the Silver Rush every now and again.
 * Can be taken (not stolen) from inside the Brotherhood of Steel Safehouse that you will gain access to after completing the main Brotherhood of Steel quests.

Bugs

 * Sometimes, the backpack or the weapon won't disappear when changing to a different weapon (This happens when the Gatling laser backpack is on and you switch to a different set of armor). Switching back and forth between the gatling laser and some other weapons while having them holstered seems to fix this whenever it occurs.
 * When wearing Remnants power armor, or its unique variants, you can see through parts of the battery pack, showing the orange fan through gaps in the warning signs, etc. This is a limitation of the game engine that allows to alpha layers to cancel each other.

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