Plasma Caster (Fallout: New Vegas)

The plasma caster is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
This Winchester-manufactured model P94 industrial-grade futuristic arc-welder can also be used to melt foes from a distance. You can attach a magnetic accelerator to it, essentially making it a turbo plasma rifle, a powerful energy weapon featured in Fallout and Fallout 2

Locations
The Plasma Caster can be found within the Silver Rush energy weapons shop which is found in Freeside. It can be obtained for free if the player picks up the weapon which is on display and drops it behind Gloria van graff near the back wall, you can position yourself behind her and become hidden with a sneak stat as low as 20, You will be able to tell if you will be noticed if the [Detected] status appears while crouched, just find the [Hidden] spot and you're free to pick up the weapon. You can also just pick it up and although the animation shows Gloria removing the caster, you actually get to keep the Caster.

Appearances
The plasma caster appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * The weapon fails to fire a projectile properly when used in third-person view. After equipping it when in third-person view it may not work even when switching to first-person view. Re-equipping it while in first-person view solves this (only occurred on first use).


 * When the gun is holstered and equipped in third person you will notice during the animation the weapon doesn't go anywhere it simply vanishes half-way through the animation and re-appears half-way through equipping. This is the same as the Minigun, Flamer, Incinerator and Gatling laser. It is much more noticeable with the Plasma caster as there is no ammo container on your back which makes it look as though you are unarmed when the weapon is holstered. (This is not a bug simply shortened animation, much like most Big Guns in fallout 3)


 * When doing the mission Birds of a Feather, if you choose to save Cass, Jean Baptiste will pick up the Plasma Caster. Because of a glitch that makes his body unsearchable, if you do not acquire the Caster before killing him, it will be lost forever in his inventory (Confirmed on Xbox and PC).


 * Due to a bug the Plasma Caster can be duplicated if it's removed from your inventory and placed into a storage item, the duplication will give you a Plasma Caster with 100% condition and can be repeated.