Flare (Fallout)

The flare is a thrown weapon in Fallout, Fallout 2 and Fallout Tactics.
==Characteristics==
Flares can come in handy in low-light situations. If thrown or dropped, any targets standing in the vicinity of the flare are treated as if in daylight, making them a lot easier to hit with ranged attacks if darkness is causing a penalty to accuracy.
Although the flare will only normally inflict up to 1 damage when hitting an enemy, aiming at the eyes/head and scoring a Critical Hit can blind/knockout or even instantly kill (requires Better Criticals perk), regardless of their armor (*see NOTE). When combined with Living Anatomy, flares will do at least 5 damage to any organic target since they only need one AP to throw. This will allow a character with an Agility of 10 to outperform many starting weapons in terms of damage dealt per turn. Aimed shot with a flare costs 1 AP.
In Fallout, they can also be sold for 35 bottle caps, which can be quite helpful early on for players who have little money.
==Locations==
===Fallout===
* The Vault Dweller starts off with 2 flares.
* Six in a wall locker at Vault 15's entrance.
* Sold by Killian Darkwater and various merchants.
* Jasmine at Old Town gives some when the steal necklace from the merchants quest is accepted.
* Four in a locked fridge at the Hall of the Dead.
* Four in a desk in the Necropolis motel
* Three in a footlocker in the Tower of Doom.
===Fallout 2===
* NOTE: Current version of Fallout 2 sold on Steam/GoG have 0 damage instant kills disabled due to a mod packaged with the game when sold.
* Sold by various shops outside of Arroyo, such as Klamath's two merchants Sajag and Maida Buckner.
* Three flares on a bookcase in a Klamath house to the west.
* 3 found in the caves beneath raider camp in the mountains.
* Three in the toxic caves entrance level, in a locker.
* Three in Lara's bookcase in the Den West Side.
* Five in Grisham's bookcase in Modoc Main Street.
* Three in the desk at Modoc trading post.
* Two on the workbench at the Modoc tannery.
* Two in a locked locker at Vault City's Maintenance Center.
* Five in a footlocker on level 2 of Vault 8.
* Two in a locker on level 3 of Vault 8.
* One in a bookcase in the building in front of Gecko settlement's The Harp.
* Three flares in a locked locker in the mercenaries' cave.
* Three in a box at the eastern end of the Mercenaries' cave.
* Marcus in Broken Hills carries one.
* Three flares in an ice chest in the Railway Station's brewery.
* Four on a workbench at Sierra Army Depot's entrance.
* Would have been found in the caves under Abbey's cathedral.
===Fallout Tactics===
* Commonly bought from merchants, while the smoke flare is seen in the Kansas mission.
==Notes==
* A lit flare is worth more than an unlit flare. However, they cannot be sold.
* Lit flares are destroyed once the player character transitions to another map.
* When lit in dark areas such as Vault 15, it will improve % chance of hitting an enemy.
==Bugs==
 If a stack of flares is used on any world object, the whole stack will become lit. After a certain amount of time one flare will disappear from the stack while the rest will remain permanently lit.
==Gallery==
Flareon.png|Lit flare
FOT flare.png|Fallout Tactics flare
Icon FoT flare.png|Fallout Tactics flare icon
FoT smoke flare.png|Fallout Tactics smoke flare
Icon FoT smoke flare.png|Fallout Tactics smoke flare icon
;Fallout
Flares Vault 15.png|Vault 15 entrance
Fridge Hall of the Dead.png|Hall of the Dead
Dynamite Necropolis motel.png|Necropolis motel
Footlocker Tower of Doom.png|Tower of Doom
;Fallout 2
Fo2 knife KD.png|Klamath house
Fo2 locker toxic caves.png|Toxic caves, entrance
GaB DWS Lara's hideout.png|Lara's
Fo2 Grisham.png|Grisham's
Fo2 flare Mtp.png|Modoc trading post
Fo2 flare Mtannery.png|Modoc tannery
Loot VC maintenance center.jpg|Maintenance Center
Ammo footlocker Vault 8.jpg|Vault 8, level 2
Meds lockers Vault 8 l3.jpg|Vault 8, level 3
Fo2 RadAway GS.png|Gecko settlement
Cats Paw and First Aid Book MC.jpg|Mercenaries' cave
Ammo MC.jpg|Mercenaries' cave
Cat's Paw Wright's still.png|Railway Station
Fo2 workbench and toolboard SAD.png|Sierra Army Depot's entrance
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