Red Glare

The Red Glare is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Lonesome Road.

Background
A prototype rocket launcher developed in the Hopeville Missile Base sometime before the Great War, the Red Glare includes many aesthetic features, including a unique digital interface and a self-compressing, pump-action reloading mechanism.

Characteristics
Red Glare feeds from a 13 round rocket canister and is fully automatic, capable of emptying its magazine in a matter of seconds. It is fitted with a scope, which makes it effective at mid to long range. A bright red light is emitted from the weapon when firing, as well as from the rockets during flight and impact.

The standard rockets have a splash radius of 500 units, or about 7.8 yards. The Red Glare has a default scope of x2.86 magnification. The Far Sighting modification increases this to x4.35—the highest magnification in the game.

Durability
Red Glare can fire a total of about 2245 rockets, the equivalent of 173 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Modifications

 * Red Glare alpha strike: +200% rocket speed
 * Red Glare auto launcher: +25% fire rate
 * Red Glare far sighting: increase zoom to x4.35.

Locations

 * On the body of a marked men hunter in the marked men camp.
 * On the top floor of the marked men camp building, behind the hunter carrying one and across from the laser detonator.
 * In the footlocker left for the Courier by Ulysses at the Canyon wreckage after finishing Lonesome Road.

Behind the scenes

 * This weapon's name is a reference to "The Defense of Fort McHenry," later adapted into the national anthem of the United States of America, and written by Francis Scott Key in 1814. The name comes from the line "And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there."
 * The capacity of the weapon refers to the significance of the number thirteen to the history of the United States: thirteen colonies formed the United States, and in the Fallout universe, the United States was reorganized into thirteen commonwealths.

Bugs
The main section (outside grip, back end of barrel, targeting component) may "detatch" from front of barrel, moving back and to the right by one foot each. This can be fixed by unequipping Red Glare and subsequently re-equipping it.

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