Sonic Emitter (weapon)

The sonic emitter is a weapon that appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Background
The sonic emitter is a pistol-grip energy weapon developed at the Big Mountain Research and Development Center. It can be programmed with recorded frequencies to change its effect on targets, ranging from electrocution to dismemberment. With the addition of the force field disrupting EM pulse wave, the sonic emitter gains the ability to disrupt the Big MT Facility's many force-fields.

Characteristics
The pistol's chassis is composed of a grey metallic tube outfitted with four vacuum tubes, a housing for a small energy cell, a conical muzzle, and a rear-mounted oscilloscope, all attached to a pistol grip. It shares some visual features with other pistol-grip energy weapons, such as the pulse gun, Euclid's C-Finder, and the recharger pistol. Reprogramming the sonic emitter changes the color of the oscilloscope and energy rings, as well as introducing unique effects when the weapon scores a critical hit.

All variants are improved holdout weapons and are affected by the Professional perk. They can be repaired with any other variant of the sonic emitter, and any energy pistol with the Jury Rigging perk.

Location
The Courier receives a sonic emitter - revelation during the quest Welcome to the Big Empty. Once Blind Diode Jefferson has been activated in The Sink, he can use holotape frequencies recovered by the player to reprogram the sonic emitter.

Sonic emitter - Gabriel's bark


This is an Energy Weapons pistol with bonus damage against robots and power armor wearers, as well as a unique "critical strike knockback" effect, knocking enemies down on critical strikes.

Sonic emitter - opera singer


This is an Energy Weapons pistol with bonus damage against robots and power armor wearers, as well as a unique "critical strike dismemberment" effect, crippling the target's limbs.

Sonic emitter - revelation


This is an Energy Weapons pistol with bonus damage against robots and power armor wearers, and a unique "critical strike paralysis" effect, temporarily knocking down smaller robots

Sonic emitter - robo-scorpion


The sonic emitter - robo-scorpion is an Energy Weapons pistol with bonus damage against robots and power armor wearers, as well as a unique "critical strike explosion" effect.

Sonic emitter - tarantula


The sonic emitter - tarantula is an Energy Weapons pistol with bonus damage against robots and power armor wearers, as well as a unique "critical strike incendiary" effect which ignites the target on a critical hit.