Ripper (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Ripper is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The attack button can be held down and it will dismember anything in front of the Courier and its continuous cutting action means the ripper ignores Damage Resistance and Damage Threshold.

Special attack
It has a special Long Cut attack that does 50% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 20 less action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).

It is not possible to execute Long Cut outside of V.A.T.S. as power attacks do not apply to continuously damaging melee weapons, such as the chainsaw.

Durability
The Ripper can successfully strike about 5,995 times from full condition before breaking.

Variants

 * Arcade Gannon's Ripper - a unique companion-only Ripper carried by Arcade Gannon.
 * Ripper (GRA) - a modifiable version.

Locations

 * Often carried by Legionary assassins.
 * One is available for sale after passing a Speech check with Mick at Mick & Ralph's.
 * Quite a number of Fiends in Vault 3 carry Rippers.
 * Vulpes Inculta uses one in Nipton and at the Fort.
 * A Scorpions gang member in the Monte Carlo Suites will carry one.
 * In the basement of House 103 in Higgs Village.

Bugs

 * Sometimes, a Ripper (Arcade Gannon's special version) is in one's inventory that is available for use and does not show up in the shop menus, but if it is dropped, the PC will not be able to pick it up again.
 * Due to an engine bug, the Ignore DT/DR effect does not apply correctly and because of this, Piercing Strike gives a marked improvement in DPS.