Automatic Rifle

The automatic rifle is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Dead Money.

Characteristics
The automatic rifle is a powerful light machine gun that uses the .308 caliber round. Holding 20 rounds in a box magazine, it inflicts a higher base damage per shot than any other fully automatic projectile weapon and has an unusually high critical chance. This makes it a particularly devastating weapon, especially at closer ranges where its combination of heavy punch, high critical rate, and reasonably quick fire rate enable it to tear most foes to shreds in short order, marking it as one of the most powerful guns in the game as far as DPS is concerned.

Although it is a rifle with a very long barrel and sniper rifle ammo, like most other fully automatic weapons, it does suffer from poor spread when compared to bolt-action and semi-automatic rifles. In fact, it has the highest spread of any automatic weapon in the game. Also, it has a slow rate of fire for a fully automatic weapon. Even when upgraded, it has the lowest fire rate of any automatic weapon in the game, and its low durability means it will degrade rapidly with frequent use and requires regular maintenance. Additionally, the automatic rifle fires two rounds each time in V.A.T.S.

A fully repaired automatic rifle can fire up to 996 rounds, or just short of 50 magazines, before breaking.

The automatic rifle can be repaired by copies of itself or any two-handed automatic weapon with the Jury Rigging perk.

Modifications

 * Auto. rifle upgr. internals - increases rate of fire by 10%.

Locations

 * Villa Police Station - one can be found immediately to the left through the locked contraband store room door, amongst boxes of .308 caliber rounds (The contraband room is accessed via a computer terminal on a desk next to the door - Science skill of 75 required).
 * Villa - can be found next to a Dean's Secret Stash on a rooftop in a courtyard covered with the Cloud. (See Dean's Secret Stash for detailed location.)
 * Sierra Madre Casino - can be found across from a gun cabinet on the second floor. Another can be found in a gun cabinet in the cashier's office on the first floor.
 * Puesta del Sol switching station - can be found left of the lockers which contain Ennis' terminal password.
 * Salida del Sol Courtyard - next to a corpse and a Dean's Secret Stash in the water with all the Sierra Madre chips.

Bugs

 * If loading a saved game from the main menu in which you have an automatic rifle equipped and drawn, the reload animation takes twice as long as normal. This can be solved by simply switching to another gun and then back again.

Behind the scenes

 * This weapon is based on the M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle with some modifications.