Salvaged Assaultron head (Automatron)

The salvaged assaultron head is a weapon in the Fallout 4 add-on Automatron.

Characteristics
The salvaged assaultron head is a unique pistol-type energy weapon that, as the name suggests, consists of little more than the severed head of an Assaultron turned into a powerful hand-held laser gun. It lacks a proper grip, having the Sole Survivor hold the weapon by the neck cabling.

Unlike the Assaultron head laser firing a continuous laser beam for a few seconds, the severed head only emits a rapid pulse, with significantly less damage.

Similar to the laser musket, it must be charged before firing by manually reloading the weapon. This can be done up to five times for each shot, increasing the damage with each extra charge. Firing it in V.A.T.S. will also default to one charge, but the head can be manually charged to the wanted level prior to VATS with no additional action point cost.

Unlike the laser musket, charging the assaultron head involves no visible action by the shooter. However, it does glow a brighter shade of red upon charging further. Unsurprisingly, the animations within the weapon are nearly identical to the one live assaultrons produce when they charge their eye laser weapon.

The salvaged assaultron head is unique in that it is the only energy weapon in the game that directly injures the shooter as well as their target. Every time the assaultron head is fired, it inflicts 50 points of radiation damage on its user regardless of charge level. This irradiation is affected by rad resistance perks. If not monitored carefully in battle, using the assaultron head can kill the player even faster than it does their targets as the radiation adds up rapidly especially in VATS.

The salvaged assaultron head cannot be modified.

Location
Found in a large chest shortly before exiting Fort Hagen hangar, after the fight against Ivey.

Bugs

 * Throwing a grenade when armed with the salvaged assaultron head will sometimes irradiate the user as if they had fired it.
 * Sometimes the assaultron head will never hit anything in VATS regardless of displayed hit chance. Even criticals will miss completely. So far the only fix seems to be reloading an older save or restarting the game.

Gallery
Головной лазер штурмотрона