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 is a ranged sawed-off laser shotgun and fires three laser beams with each shot. Unlike the Metal Blaster, and Protectron's Gaze it expends three Microfusion Cells per shot.
 * The weapon 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.
 * It has a black-green, darker tone than the standard laser rifle.
 * Because each shot depletes 3 microfusion cells, it has an actual magazine size of only 8.(24 ÷ 3 = 8)

Appearances
The Tri-Beam Laser Rifle appears only in the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel.

Tri-Beam Laser Rifle vs. Metal Blaster

 * The Tri-Beam Laser Rifle has a longer effective range.
 * The Metal Blaster has a slightly shorter effective range.
 * The Tri-Beam Laser Rifle will do more damage with a VATS sneak attack (only one critical bonus allowed per VATS attack).
 * 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 Laser Rifle will generally do more damage for a player with a low critical chance.
 * The Metal Blaster will do substantially more damage for a player with a high critical chance.
 * The Tri-Beam Laser Rifle uses three Microfusion Cells.
 * The Metal Blaster uses only one cell per discharge.
 * The Tri-Beam Laser Rifle is repairable only with other Tri-Beam Laser Rifles.
 * The Metal Blaster can be repaired with any AER9 Laser Rifles or the Wazer Wifle.
 * The Tri-Beam Laser Rifle shoots 3 lasers per shot
 * The Metal Blaster shoots 9 lasers per shot

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