Firelance

Firelance is a variant of the Alien Blaster and is one of the most powerful weapons in the game. It uses Alien Power Cells, unique ammunition that is extremely hard to find. It is spawned by a random encounter. For information on tips to possibly trigger the event, please refer to the discussion page of this article.

Locations

 * The location of the "Firelance Event" is not fixed and is random. Several examples are listed on the discussion page of this article.
 * There are several defined random encounter spots where the Firelance Event may take place, but they are also sites where many other kinds of random encounters might occur.

Appearances
The Firelance appears only in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * It is possible that the spacecraft can glitch and leave 24 Power Cells and a Firelance stuck in the sky in addition to the regular 24 Power Cells and a Firelance on the ground. (unconfirmed)
 * If you use Dogmeat to find and retrieve the gun for you, he will often give you "dogmeat" (the item) instead, despite actually picking up the Firelance. It is better to follow him and observe where he picks it up, then load a previous save and walk to that exact spot. (unconfirmed)
 * If the event occurs while passing trough a rocky part of the wasteland the firelance may drop onto rocks and not be retreivable by dogmeat as he gets stuck in them alot (the same with ammo)
 * It is possible to aquire this weapon on something else. This author entered the Super Duper Mart, killed a raider, looted the body, and found it on the corpes.

Trivia

 * Both the Firelance and the Alien Blaster resemble Commander Adams' pistol from the 1958 movie the Forbidden Planet, both in design and firing. The "bullets" disperse in a very similar way when they hit solid objects, such as walls.
 * A weapon called the Firelance made appearances in the paragraph book accompanying the game Wasteland, often cited as a direct inspiration on the developers of Fallout. In the paragraph book, it is mentioned through the course of the false and intentionally misleading "Martian Warlord" plot.

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