Railway Rifle (Fallout 3)

The railway rifle is a custom-built weapon in Fallout 3.

Characteristics
The gun uses railway spikes as crude flechettes. Though only moderately damaging, it is very effective at dealing limb damage (due to a 3x limb damage multiplier), able to cripple limbs with just one shot. On the killing shot, a spike may tear off the struck limb or head, and possibly pin it to a fixed object, for example a wall or the floor. With each shot, the Railway Rifle makes a distinctive "toot-toot" noise similar to a trains whistle. While it has a low amount of spread, its accuracy is not perfect and the rifle will often miss at long range. However, its projectiles have much more mass than bullets, making it more effective at short to medium ranges, and most effective in V.A.T.S. where its limb-destroying effects can be put to precision use. It is also remarkably effective at disarming enemies, as it will often launch their weapons a substantial distance on a V.A.T.S. hit. It has a high critical multiplier stat that, depending on your base critical chance, may make the railway rifle one of the best non-unique Small Guns.

The railway rifle can fire a total of about 224 spikes, the equivalent of 28 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Locations

 * Laszlo Radford uses the railway rifle, he is a random encounter who may be found at certain "random encounter" locations throughout the Wasteland, but only after you have obtained at least 1 schematic of it.

All of the components except the crutch can be found in Fort Independence. Simply walk into the building and turn right. There will be a staircase, then a door afterwards, open the door and proceed downward. Go into the cubicle on the far end of the room on the right.There will be shelves containg 3 fission batteries, and a steam gauge assembly move into the other room on the same floor. Turn right, and there will be a table with 2 pressure cookers

Construction
The rifle is built from a crutch that comprises the stock and grip part of the gun, a pressure cooker that acts as a firing chamber, a fission battery that acts as the firing pin and a steam gauge assembly that comprises the grip, ammunition storage and barrel of the gun.

Bugs

 * On the PC, you might rarely run across a reload bug, which will make the railway rifle fire without ending the reload sequence, if you keep firing, more strange bugs will start occurring with the weapon like shooting multiple shots at once or stop shooting and still hearing gun fire noises...
 * This only seems to happen on the unpatched version and is not confirmed on all PCs since it rarely happens.

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