Spiked Knuckles (Fallout: New Vegas)

The spiked knuckles are a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
These have the same design as the brass knuckles, but are made with a darker metal and have spikes attached to each knuckle, enabling the knuckles to puncture and slash open the skin of an opponent.

Special Attacks
This weapon can use three special attacks in V.A.T.S.:Stomp, Uppercut and Cross. Note that in Fallout: New Vegas unarmed damage is double normal weapon damage when used in V.A.T.S.

Durability
The spiked knuckles can successfully strike about 1495 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Love and Hate
 * Brass knuckles

Comparison

 * ¹ Includes V.A.T.S double normal weapon damage.

Locations

 * Primm, inside a safe in the Vikki and Vance Casino. They must be stolen, triggering karma loss.
 * Boulder City, on a shelf in one of the ruined buildings.
 * Viper gunslingers and Fiends sometimes carry this weapon.
 * Spiked knuckles can be looted from various low to medium level human enemies.
 * Sold by Cliff Briscoe inside the Dino Bite Gift Shop in Novac.

Bugs

 * Spiked knuckles do not use a higher resolution texture when used by the player, despite one being available in the game's resources.