Tri-beam Laser Rifle (Broken Steel)

The  is a weapon which is added to Fallout 3 with the Broken Steel add-on. It is carried by super mutant overlords.

Characteristics
The Tri-beam laser rifle has the appearance of a "sawed-off" laser rifle, missing the tube on the bottom length of the barrel and having a new emitter aperture and attached wires. The new emitter fires three laser beams with each shot. Unlike the Metal Blaster, and Protectron's Gaze, it also expends three microfusion cells per shot. Because each shot depletes 3 microfusion cells, it has an actual magazine size of only 8.(24 ÷ 3 = 8)

This weapon is smaller than a normal AER9 laser rifle, yet it's one pound heavier.

This weapon has an object effect that allows it do 40 additional HP of damage when the target is the player. The +40 damage is for EACH beam, thereby increasing its damage potential by 120 per shot, and this value is not mitigated by your damage resistance.

A fully-repaired tri-beam rifle can fire 334 shots, which is 1002 microfusion cells worth of energy, before breaking.

Appearances
The Tri-beam laser rifle appears only in the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel and New Vegas (in the bootlegger's shack, or as a reward when the player returns the Missing Laser Pistol to the armory in Hidden Valley. Also with the Wild Wasteland trait. Two of the three aliens at the Mercenary Camp north of Horowitz Farmstead often carry the Tri-beam laser rifle).

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