Turret (Fallout 76)

Turrets are a type of robot encountered in Appalachia in Fallout 76.

Specifications
Machinegun and laser turrets can be mounted on the walls or on ceilings. They are fitted with a dome to contain the parts and seals when the turret is not actively tracking targets. Each turret has three different modes that can be indicated by the color of its light. When a turret is passive its light will be green. If a turret is searching for a target, its light will turn yellow. When a turret finds a target, its light turns red and it becomes hostile.

A ground turret is made of a body, motors, barrel, combat inhibitor and either a tripod or column base. Turrets may also be held in old shopping carts, as in the ammo dump.

Gameplay attributes
These turrets have a body, barrel, and motors. Turrets will actively track targets and may become aware of an enemy from a few rooms away. Some turrets are linked to terminals and may be shut down. Not all turrets connected to terminals will be able to be affected, however.

Variants
There are three main types of turrets in Appalachia. There are the ceiling and wall-mounted bubble turrets that can be found in pre-War locations around the wasteland. The second type is the turrets that are floor mounted and were/are used by different hostile groups such as raiders and super mutants. The third type is settlement turrets that the player character can build to defend their C.A.M.P.

Wall/ceiling mounted
These turrets can be mounted on walls and ceilings. While inactive they are immune to all forms of damage. A hatch on the dome will open and expose the barrel and combat inhibitor when tracking a target.

Laser turret
These robot emplacements were used in many security systems in places such as vaults, corporate buildings and military installations. When hostile they will attack targets with a single laser repetitively, much like a laser rifle.

Laser turret - 3 shot
This variant of laser turret will fire lasers rapidly, almost as quickly as a Gatling laser, although with much less accuracy. These turrets will also have boosted health and damage.

Machinegun turret - 3 shot
Effectively a minigun mounted on a wall, the 3-shot machinegun turret can deal lots of damage at close range.

Machinegun turret Mk I - shopping cart
A machinegun turret placed in a shopping cart. These have the same stats as a regular machinegun turret, but cannot rotate.

C.A.M.P. turrets
These turrets can be built by the player character to defend the C.A.M.P. Each one provides defense to a C.A.M.P. and will assist when attacked. Machinegun and heavy machinegun turrets are self-powered. Laser, heavy laser, shotgun, and missile turrets must be powered by a generator and stop working if the generator is knocked out. Enemies will target generators when attacking. Prior to Fallout 76 patch 1.1.0.8, 3/13/2019, turrets used much more of the camp budget than were used by other items. That patch greatly reduces the budget cost for turrets and limits total turrets in a C.A.M.P. to 10.

Machinegun turret
Standard machinegun turret mounted on a tripod.

Heavy machinegun turret
Similar to the machinegun turret.

LASER turret
Semi-automatic laser gun on a tripod. It requires power to function and has lower rate of fire than the machinegun turrets, but makes up for it in accuracy and range which allow it to be placed in very high places effectively.

Heavy LASER turret
Heavy laser on a tripod. In spite of it using the barrel for an automatic laser gun it has a low rate of fire.

Shotgun turret
Turret firing shotgun shells. Fairly powerful but has limited range. Despite being armed with a gun, it requires power to function.

Missile turret
Turret armed with a quad-barreled missile launcher.

Locations

 * Harpers Ferry has four machine gun turrets in the city proper and several more inside the buildings at Harpers Ferry Armory.
 * Sugar Grove has a machine gun turret overlooking the lobby and three ceiling-mounted laser turrets on the lower levels inside.
 * There are ceiling-mounted turrets throughout the missile silos at Site Alpha, Site Bravo and Site Charlie.

Appearances
Turrets appear in Fallout 76.

Bugs
Turrets built at the C.A.M.P. may target a building fixture and fire at it non-stop, even after attempting to relocate the turret.