Tesla-Beaton Prototype

The Tesla-Beaton prototype is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas. It is a unique variant of the Tesla cannon.

Characteristics
The Tesla Beaton Prototype looks like the Tesla cannon (Fallout 3), but with orange glow instead of blue, and a fully encased energy emitter.

The Crashed Vertibird where it is found appears to have been from the Navarro Enclave Base. Each shot is 45 electron charge packs.

Locations
The Tesla-Beaton Prototype can be found at the Crashed Vertibird, near the Old Nuclear Test Site far southeast. There can be 6 hardened Sentry Bot, and 4 hardened Mister Gutsy guarding the Crashed Vertibird nearby.

Alternatively, the player may encounter many feral ghoul roamers, reavers, glowing ones and the like in place of the sentry bots/gutsies.

Appearances
The appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes
The weapon's name is a reference to Kate Beaton, a webcomic artist whose comics have featured Nikola Tesla several times. Beaton is a native of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, whose flag appears on the weapon.

Bugs

 * The Tesla-Beaton Prototype will still fire even if you only have a single Electron Charge Pack in your inventory, and for the same damage as if you had expended 45.


 * Giving it to companions may cause the gun to disappear


 * calling for support on the NCR emergency radio can cause this item to be picked up by NCR rangers and disappear once they leave combat.

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