Metal Blaster

The Metal Blaster is a unique AER9 Laser Rifle added to Fallout 3 with the add-on The Pitt.

Location
It can be obtained in The Pitt by bringing Everett 50 Steel Ingots.

Characteristics

 * It is repaired with the standard AER9 Laser Rifle or the Wazer Wifle.
 * It deals considerably more damage than the normal AER9 Laser Rifle, and fires nine beams at once (making it a "laser shotgun"), though only using one Microfusion Cell. This is similar to the Protectron's Gaze obtained from The Mechanist at Canterbury Commons as a possible reward from The Superhuman Gambit quest.
 * It lacks the precision of a standard laser rifle, making it less effective for long-range attacks.

Tri-Beam Laser Rifle VS Metal Blaster

 * The Tri-Beam Laser Rifle has a longer effective range
 * The Metal Blaster will deal greater damage in a non-VATS sneak attack (one critical bonus per beam allowed in free-aim)
 * The Tri-Beam Will do more damage with a VATS sneak attack (only one critical bonus allowed per VATS attack)
 * The Tri-Beam will generally do more damage for a player with a low critical chance
 * The Metal Blaster will generally do more damage for a player with a high critical chance
 * The Metal Blaster uses only 1/3 of the ammunition used by the Tri-Beam
 * The Metal Blaster is far easier to repair than the Tri-Beam

History
Everett explains that it was created by a man from The Pitt using parts he found lying around the The Mill. Everett obtained it by looting it off his corpse. The man apparently used prisms to split the single beam into many individual beams.

Videos
thumb|500px|left|Obtaining the Metal Blaster