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The Tesla cannon is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
The Tesla cannon is a pre-War designed shoulder-mounted heavy directed energy weapon, designed to replace conventional anti-tank weapons.[1] Based on Nikola Tesla's designs[RPG 1] the weapon entered limited production before the war and remains a rare sight in the wasteland. However, it remains a powerful tool in the hands of a skilled user, as the focused energy blast will not only deliver massive damage to the target, but the nature of the blast will also deliver a potent electric shock.
Characteristics[]
A shoulder-mounted energy weapon powered by electron charge packs that fires concentrated electrostatic bursts. It has a high Strength requirement for its weight and is functionally recoilless. Due to being considered a unique class of weapon, it cannot benefit from the Jury Rigging perk and must be repaired with either other Tesla cannons, vendors, or weapon repair kits.
Durability[]
The Tesla cannon can fire a total of about 395 times using standard packs, the equivalent of 99 reloads, from full condition before breaking.
| Ammunition type | Durability | |
|---|---|---|
| Shots | Reloads | |
| Standard | 395 | 99 |
| Bulk | 466 | 117 |
| Optimized | 359 | 90 |
| Over charge | 262 | 66 |
| Max charge | 155 | 39 |
Variants[]
- Tesla-Beaton prototype - a unique variant located near the crashed Vertibird southwest of Camp Searchlight, just southeast of the old nuclear test site.
Elijah's jury-rigged Tesla cannon - a unique variant found near Elijah's Watch in the northeast ordinal direction of Big MT.
Comparison[]
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Weapon name (melee or unarmed) |  | - Attacks in V.A.T.S. | |
 | - Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive) |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per attack (damage per projectile) |  | - Damage per action point | |
 | - Damage per second |  | - Weapon spread | |
 | - Area of effect damage |  | - Magazine capacity (shots per reload) | |
 | - Effect damage & duration |  | - Durability (number of attacks before breaking) | |
 | - Bonus effects |  | - Weight | |
 | - Attacks per second |  | - Value in caps | |
 | - Critical chance % multiplier |  | - Value to weight ratio | |
 | - Critical damage |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Critical effect damage & duration |  | - Strength required | |
 | - With all mods attached | |||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tesla cannon | 80 | 127.4 | +20 /2s | 1.34 | x2 | 40 | 37 | 3.2 | 0.1 | 20(4) | 395 | 8 | 8700 | 1087.5 | 100 | 8 |
Elijah's jury-rigged Tesla cannon  | 85 | 154.2 | +20/2s | 1.58 | x2 | 45 | 37 | 3.4 | 0.00 | 30(6) | 245 | 8 | 13500 | 1687.5 | 100 | 8 |
| Tesla-Beaton prototype | 90 | 145.8 | +25/2s | 1.34 | x2 | 45 | 37 | 3.8 | 0.08 | 24(4) | 195 | 8 | 12525 | 1565.6 | 100 | 8 |
Locations[]
- Hidden Valley bunker - Can be sold by Knight Torres.
- Brotherhood of Steel safehouse - On the shelves.
- The Great Khan armorer at the armory outside of Red Rock Canyon will stock this at random.
- May also be available for purchase at the Silver Rush after level 16.
- May be found in Big MT.
- Carried by Y-17 trauma override harnesses at higher levels.
May be found in the various high-tech gun cases found at Dry Wells, the Long 15 and the Courier's Mile.- Can sometimes be found on irradiated NCR heavy troopers that were stationed on the Long 15.
Notes[]
- The Tesla cannon uses five electron charge packs per shot, and therefore it's only possible to receive one empty electron charge pack from firing the cannon, the same with all energy weapons that use more than one cell per shot.
- Due to it previously firing only one shot per reload, it ejects single electron charge packs every shot despite only one being loaded. Also, the electron charge pack will not appear after one shot is fired, and the end of the cannon is retracted, but it still ejects another per shot.
Behind the scenes[]
A weapon called the Tesla cannon was originally to be featured in the canceled Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2, bearing no resemblance to the weapon in Broken Steel. Described as a "high-powered mass-cannon throwing tessellated plasma forward in an orgy of death and destruction" in the Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel 2 design document, it was to be the so-called "uber-weapon" of player character Maxus. "Uber-weapons" were to be unique weapons for each player character which had to be assembled from 5 parts over the course of the game, or the player could have an NPC assemble one for them. One of the five parts for this weapon was a Tesla coil.
Sounds[]
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Gallery[]
References[]
Fallout: The Roleplaying Game
- ↑ "The Tesla cannon is a shoulder-mounted directed energy weapon using technology based on designs by Nikola Tesla."
(Wanderer's Guide Book, p. 73)
