Pew Pew

Pew Pew is a unique Laser pistol (Fallout: New Vegas) in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
Pew Pew belonged to Allen Marks, a man infamous for hunting people for Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps in the Mojave Wasteland. He broke into the Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters prize vault, not knowing it was airtight, and was met with his demise.

Characteristics
Visually, the upper casing of the weapon has been colored red, and the focus adjustment knob on the rear of the gun has a Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle cap with a crudely drawn star attached by a screw. Underneath the bottle cap are the words "Had it coming" etched into the casing, along with eight hash marks. Additional hash marks also appear along both sides and the underside of the main body of the pistol.

On top of the main body is a wooden plate with what appears to be two capacitors attached by nails, strapped on by black tape and wired into the main body in series by a red and blue wire, hinting at its extra power output. It fires a distinctly orange beam, with the flare from the muzzle being more intense than a normal laser pistol.

does drastically more damage than the standard laser pistol, but at the cost of 5 energy cells per shot, resulting in only 2 shots before reloading. Furthermore, it is considered an improved holdout weapon, and can be concealed so long as your sneak skill is 50 or greater. It may not look like it, but in the right hands, this weapon is actually the most powerful weapon in the game, capable of dealing over 300 hp damage with a single shot. Furthermore, it is possible to get the critical chance for this weapon to 100%, making every shot a critical, which basically increases the damage output to appr. 1000 hp per shot and up to 4000 hp per shot with the Meltdown perk (depending on the number of enemies). As such, this weapon is superior to the Alien Blaster, first, because it can use Energy Cell, Max Charge ammo, and the Alien Blaster cannot, which makes this weapon superior against targets with DT, apart from further increasing its damage output, second, because Alien ammo is limited, but ammo used for this weapon is not. Weapon requirements:

Critical Chance perks and apparel - 95% crit chance are required, since VATS already gives a 5% bonus. Since the weapon has a x2.5 crit multiplier, the player needs a base crit chance of 38 to ensure 100% criticals:

1) Laser Commander: This perk's Critical Chance is bugged and ignores the weapon's critical multiplier - fixing the Critical Chance through the toolset gives a bonus to crit chance of 25% (10x2.5 crit multiplier)

2) Set Lasers for Fun Challenge Perk: This perk's Critical Chance is bugged (both ranks 1 and 2) and ignores the weapon's critical multiplier - fixing the Critical Chance through the toolset gives a bonus to crit chance of 10% (4x2.5 crit multiplier).

3) Finesse gives an additional crit chance percentage of 5x2.5=12.5.

4) 1st Recon Beret gives 5% bonus to base crit chance (5x2.5=12.5 for this weapon).

5) 10 luck grants a bonus to crit chance of 10x2.5=25% for this weapon.

6) Light Touch perk grants 5% bonus, but is bugged in the same way as Laser Commander and SLFF perks. Fixing it by implementing the perk the same way Finesse is implemented gives a bonus of 12.5% for this weapon (5x2.5%), only if you wear light armor.

Damage output:

1) The Eye for an Eye perk can potentially increase the damage output by 40% without any penalties - see the perk page for more information.

2) Better Criticals gives a bonus of 50% to critical damage output, which works best if you can get the weapon crit chance to 100%, obviously.

3) Bloody Mess increases overall damage output by 5%.

4) Psycho / Slasher chems increase damage by 25%.

5) Laser Commander increases damage by 15%.

5) Lord Death (3) increases damage by 4%.

6) Yao guai meat grants a 10% bonus to damage output.

7) Energy Cell, Max Charge increases damage output by 50%, in addition to bypassing 10 points DT.

8) Specialized perks like Stealth Girl, Entomologist etc. further increase damage output against particular targets.

Variants

 * Laser pistol, standard variant found throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
 * Missing laser pistol, found only during the Pistol Packing unmarked quest.
 * Compliance Regulator, a unique laser pistol that paralyzes a target on a critical hit.

Location
This weapon can be found inside the Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters after presenting at least 50 Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle caps to Festus and beginning the quest A Valuable Lesson. The weapon is found next to the body of Allen Marks but is not in his inventory.

Behind the scenes

 * "Pew Pew" is a commonly used onomatopoeia representing the sound of a laser.