Tesla-Beaton Prototype

The Tesla-Beaton prototype is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas. It is a unique variant of the Tesla cannon.

Characteristics
The Tesla Beaton Prototype looks like the Tesla cannon (Fallout 3), but with orange glow instead of blue, and a fully encased energy emitter.

Locations
The Tesla-Beaton Prototype can be found at the Crashed Vertibird, near the Old Nuclear Test Site far southeast.

BEWARE: There are 6 Hardened Sentry Bots, and 4 hardened Mister gutsys guarding the Crashed Vertibird at medium to high levels.

HINT: An easy way to get this weapon, or rather to get past the guards, is to hire Boone, and simply keep him topped up on health, letting him do the work. This made it easy even at level 14.

Hint #2: An even easier way is to first obtain the Pulse gun which has the "EMP" added effect, which will allow you to kill nearly every robot here in one shot (the Hardened Sentry Bots can take 2 or 3). This weapon is found in a locked chest in the Vault 34 Armory. This weapon is also extremely handy in the "Sacrificial Chamber" in Vault 11, or anywhere these types of robots appear.

Appearances
The appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes
The weapon's name is a reference to Kate Beaton, a webcomic artist whose comics have featured Nikola Tesla several times. Beaton is a native of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, whose flag appears on the weapon.

Bugs

 * The Tesla-Beaton Prototype will still fire even if you only have a single Electron Charge Pack in your inventory, and for the same damage as if you had expended 45.

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