Gatling Laser (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Gatling laser is a heavy energy weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The Gatling laser has a strength requirement of 8 and uses EC packs as ammunition. It deals extremely high damage per second, particularly when used with a high energy weapons skill, focus optics mod and max-charged ammo.

The Gatling laser achieves such a high DPS by firing multiple low powered lasers at an incredibly fast rate. It consumes ammunition at an equally incredible rate, depleting a full clip of 240 EC packs in just 8 seconds.

In the unpatched version of Fallout: New Vegas, the Gatling Laser was only superior versus unarmored opponants due to the return of the Damage Threshold system meaning an enemy with 5 DT would remove 5 DMG from each beam of the Gatling Laser. Fortunately in patch 1.2 energy ammo was made more effective and now any weapon using ECP, MFC or SEC automatically ignore 2 DT of the enemy's armor. Overcharged ammo ignores 6 DT and Maxcharge ammo ignore 10 DT. Because of this change the Gatling Laser went from being useless against armored enemies to being useful up to around 15 enemy DT.

Compared to Fallout 3's Gatling laser it has significantly higher DPS and ammo consumption rates and is much less effective against armored targets. With the Carbon Fiber frame mod the weapon becomes remarkably light weight at 9 pounds (identical to the tri-beam laser)

The Gatling laser model includes a large metal pack that appears on the back of anyone using it.

Modifications

 * Focus Optics: Increases damage (+3).
 * CF Frame: Decreases weight (50%).

Locations

 * Occasionally carried by Brotherhood of Steel Paladins.
 * Can be bought from the Brotherhood of Steel Store after you become a Paladin.
 * One can be obtained during the quest For Auld Lang Syne if you choose to kill Orion Moreno. It will be on his corpse.
 * During I Could Make You Care you may fight a Brotherhood Paladin with one.
 * It can also be bought at the Silver Rush every now and again.
 * Can be taken(not stolen)from inside the Brotherhood of Steel Safehouse that you will gain acsess to after completing the main Brotherhood of Steel quest storyline.

Bugs

 * Sometimes the backpack won't disappear when changing to a different weapon. Switching back and forth between the gatling laser and some other weapons while having them holstered seems to fix this whenever it occurs.
 * Sometimes, when putting away the Gatling Laser, it will not disappear and your character will carry it around with only one hand. Reloading a previous save seems to fix this.
 * When the gatling laser is equipped, the players weight will increase by 9 ( tested with gatling laser with cf frame ) possibly making the player overencumbered but will vanish when unequipped.