Miscellaneous Energy Weapons: Part 2

We have already gone over some of the non-conformists of the Fallout world, so lets do the rest! We look at the in game lore, interesting information related to development or the in game mechanics and possible design inspirations.

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Timestamps:
0:55 Tesla Cannon
11:59 Alien Blaster
27:18 Alien Atomizer
29:31 Alien Disintegrator
31:41 Sonic Emitter
34:40 Euclid's C-Finder
39:03 Tesla Rifle
40:59 Holorifle
43:33 Comment Highlights

[Caedus]

Pretty sure that's a reference to the original Ghostbusters movie. In the elevator on the first job, "why worry? Each one of us is wearing an unlicensed nuclear accelerator on our backs"

[armanada]

15:06 the reason why could be because the zetans knew that humans would shoot down their scouting-crafts so they decided to make their new alien blaster's cartridges be similiar to small energy cells so when a scouting zetan crashes, it wouldn't be much of a problem to get ammo for the gun.

[Sutekh_a_Destroyer]

My theory about the the alien blasters and fallout New Vegas only having one even though they're three aliens is that the aliens came to visit the New Vegas strip and gambled away their alien blasters thus causing them have to use laser guns

[BlueBD]

Elijahs Jurry Rigged Cannon is probably misleading. Its not Jurry Rigged in the sense he Built a Tesla canon from scrap but instead He Built a Tesla cannon from the base of the Tesla Prototype. But made significant changes to it. So While its basically a different weapon. A Fully designed Tesla cannon from him may pretty much be a Tesla Cannon 3.0.

[ollie]

I always thought itd be funny if you routed the power to the C-Finder before you got the gun from the kid and he ended up blasting his friend with it

[serbianslav]

Fun fact about the Wild Wasteland encounter in New Vegas: if you snipe the alien captain from afar where he can't notice you, the other aliens will remain neutral to you when you approach them.

[Megalon-qcpf]

The Tesla Coils look more like mini particle accelerators. 11:53- That’s the EE-3, Boba Fett’s blaster

[HIIMPIEZ]

My headcanon on the F3 Tesla Cannon is that there was perhaps a cache of nonfunctional ones, with the Brotherhood reproducing tesla coils after you collect one

[FecklessandKekless]

"Why does it accept small energy cells"
Same reason a tribal warrior can miss 10 attacks in a row against a plant even though he's probably been using a spear since he was 8 years old, i suppose

[legonkdroid]

imagine enabling the Archimedes before getting the c-finder and you see a faint blue line coming from freeside

[devikwolf]

The "unlicensed nuclear reactor core" is most likely a reference to the "unlicensed nuclear accelerator" in the Ghostbusters' proton packs.

[brockschannel]

I like to think that the fallout 3 and 4 alien blasters were created by 2 seperate Zetan factions, and the fallout 1 and 2 blaster was created by rogue Zetans working with the enclave at area 51.
Also I think the fallout 1 alien blaster was modelled after the cotton candy ray gun from "Killer klownz from outer space".

[mrm]

The Brotherhood of Steel II Tesla cannon is literally an EE-3 blaster carbine from Star Wars

[dariustiapula]

I have so much fun in the Zeta DLC. Because up to that point, I always save my fat man ammunition. Can you imagine my lone wanderer having a complete disregard for his and other safety by employing a dangerous weapon in confined spaces?.

[voided]

Euclidean C Finder has another reference. That being the "C Finder" part. When Finding the third point of a triangle, the 2 known points are known as points A & B, and you use them to find point C. By far one of my favorite references for a math nerd like me

[jesseharlan]

The image used in the design document for Fallout Brotherhood of Steel 2's Tesla cannon is very reminiscent and might actually just be a picture of Boba Fett's blaster rifle. Known to the Star Wars fandom as the EE-3 carbine rifle.

[KniarDneK]

I am fairly confident in saying that the Tesla Rifle is actually a Robobrain arm-mounted weapon. In the Automatron DLC, all variants of Robobrain besides the Cybermech Robobrain have a 'Lightning Gun' on one of their arms. Basic, Servomech and Integrated Robobrains have it on their left arm, and Quantum Robobrains have it mounted on their right.

[legion]

To mention: In mothership zeta, the zetans respawn, so if you want, you can get more ammo.

[glaz_man]

Firelance really shines with Pyromaniac and Better Criticals perks. It simply deletes any annoying creature of the wasteland. Oh, and disintegrator can be really powerful if you're lucky with legendary rolls. Angry Turtle tested two shot/bloodied/instigating variants with high-powered receiver and the damage was above or around 1k.

[Quiet_Tourist]

Unlicensed nuclear core makes me think it might be a reference to Ghostbusters where Ray refers to the proton packs as unlicensed nuclear accelerators. Maybe that’s a stretch but that’s what popped in my mind.