Gatling plasma

The Gatling plasma is a weapon in Fallout 76.

Characteristics
The gatling plasma is a heavy energy weapon and is affected by perks in those two categories. It fires very rapidly with relatively poor accuracy. Rather than individual bullets or cells, it uses plasma cores, generally only found in higher level areas of the map. They can also be crafted. Reload is slow and the gun must "spin up" before it starts firing. While it has a very large magazine, each time the weapon is selected, it will be loaded with the number of shots equalling the number of cores in inventory. If not immediately reloaded, at the beginning of the fight it will shoot those 3 or 5 shots then have to reload and spin up before firing again. It will stay reloaded until another weapon is selected. When it is reselected, it will again be loaded with only a handful of shots. The game keeps track of how many shots are left in each plasma core. While the reload animation shows one core being ejected and another inserted, in reality, reloading a partially used magazine will subtract the needed shots from the currently used core and add them to the magazine. The core count does not go down at each reload but only after the current core is completely used up.

Locations

 * Normally present in The Whitespring Bunkers armory. All but the final Enclave quest is required to access the vendor.
 * Can be found in Government aid drops at higher levels.

Bugs
When hip-fired or at a close target, the projectile has a tendency to clip through the target.