Minigun (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Rockwell made minigun or CZ53 personal minigun is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
This weapon is a six-barreled heavy machine gun, fed by a "cassette" ammunition box using the plentiful 5mm round. Utilizing the Gatling style rotating barrels powered by a internal motor, it delivers a extremely high rate of fire, making it an effective weapon and is ideal for inflicting heavy damage on large quantities of relatively unarmored enemies. With the use of armor piercing ammunition, the minigun is extremely deadly, being able to cut through even the toughest target very fast, the downside being that it uses up this somewhat rare ammunition rather quickly.

Due to its poor spread, the high rate of fire effectiveness is somewhat negated at medium to long distance combat. Additionally, this rate of fire can quickly exhaust ammunition supplies, as well as reducing the weapon's condition at a alarming rate during sustained fire. Using one requires a healthy stock of Weapon repair kits, or a supply of other miniguns to keep the weapon in good working condition. This weapon has a Strength requirement of 10 and weighing in at 25 lbs is one of the heaviest firearms in the game. However, the unique minigun, the CZ57 Avenger, weighs only 18 pounds, but cannot be modified. The Avenger has one of the highest DPS ratings of any gun in the game, if the skill requirements are met.

When firing the minigun outside of V.A.T.S., there is a small wind-up time, as the barrels spin up to firing speed, between holding the fire button and when it actually begins to fire.

Durability
The minigun can fire a total of about 5995 standard rounds, the equivalent of 25 reloads, from full condition before breaking.

Modifications

 * Minigun high-speed motor - increases firing rate by 25%.
 * Minigun damped subframe - reduces weapons spread by 0.35.

Variant

 * CZ57 Avenger: A stronger version of the regular minigun and has one of the highest DPS of any weapon in the game.

Locations

 * Black Mountain - super mutant masters can be found sometimes carrying them.
 * Black Mountain - In an average locked trunk by the radio in the camp near the top of the mountain.
 * Black Rock Cave - occasionally carried by the nightkin master.
 * Brotherhood of Steel Safehouse - on a shelf with a missile launcher and several hundred rounds of 5mm surplus ammunition.
 * Gun Runners - it can be purchased from Vendortron at level 16.
 * Hidden Valley - it can be purchased from Torres in the Brotherhood of Steel Hidden Valley bunker.
 * Jack Rabbit Springs - a super mutant master may be found carrying one at later levels.
 * Novac - it can be obtained in very poor condition, by killing a nightkin during The Screams of Brahmin quest.
 * Vault 34 - can be found in the armory.

Bugs

 * The ammunition backpack may become stuck to the back of the player character regardless of unequipping or switching to a different weapon/armor. It may also flicker or may not disappear and duplicate itself multiple times, appearing to hover and follow the player character around. To fix this as well as many other glitches for the minigun, drop the minigun then equip another weapon and drop the second weapon before picking both weapons up.
 * The weapon firing sound usually doesn't play out with the animation. For every 2-3 bursts fired, you will hear the firing sound only once or twice.
 * It's possible that the barrel spinning animation will not play out while in first person, this usually follows some other glitch.
 * Sometimes the rotor sound does not play. The sound played is not the rotor sound, but the firing sound, even though no bullets have been fired.