Ballistic fist

The ballistic fist is a weapon .
==Characteristics==
An unarmed weapon consisting of a dark-colored, dirtied gauntlet with a wrist-mounted shotgun and a pressure plate worn over the knuckles of a dark-colored glove. The impact of the plate against the intended target triggers the shotgun's firing mechanism. It deals the highest amount of damage per strike of all unarmed weapons, albeit at the slowest attack speed (same as its unique variant Two-Step Goodbye , the bear trap fist , the power fist, and the corrosive glove . It also deals the highest amount of critical hit damage, albeit with low-end durability and a high-end caps value. It requires the maximum 100 Unarmed skill level and 9 Strength to use effectively.
===V.A.T.S. Special Attacks===
===Durability===
The ballistic fist can successfully strike about 395 times from full condition before breaking.
==Variants==
* Two-Step Goodbye - a unique variant sold by Vendortron at the Gun Runners kiosk.
===Comparison===
==Locations==
* Crimson Caravan Company - Can be purchased from Blake.
* Hidden Valley bunker - Can be purchased from Torres (requires progressing Still in the Dark as far as being sent to find the missing BOS patrols).
* Hoover Dam - Can be purchased from Quartermaster Bardon in the Hoover Dam offices.
* Freeside - Can be purchased from Mick at Mick & Ralph's after passing a 30 Speech skill check to access his special inventory.
* Great Khan armory - Can be purchased from the Great Khan armorer (requires an Accepted or higher reputation with the Great Khans).
* The Fort - The praetorian guards standing in and around Caesar's tent carry ballistic fists. The guards inside the weather monitoring station also carry them (only accessible during Render Unto Caesar, The House Always Wins II, and/or Wild Card: You and What Army?).
* Legate's camp - Carried by the praetorian guards.
==Notes==
* If the Ranger Takedown is used with this weapon, the target of the attack will take normal damage even though the pressure plate would not be touched. In the third person, the player character hits with their leg. In first-person, they use their palm, which would also be in the direct path of the shotgun.
* When using the Khan Trick, the sand thrown with this move shares the same explosion animation with the successful ballistic fist strike, although the pressure plate is left untouched.
* When using the Scribe Counter, the explosion comes from the player character's left hand, even though the ballistic fist is worn on the right.
* When the special attack Stomp is used in V.A.T.S., the explosion appears to originate from the player character's foot. This can cause a reaction in the gibbed NPC's body physics, such as flinging a corpse's limbs away in different directions due to the explosion.
* Despite the ballistic nature of the weapon, it can be used to make silent sneak kills like other unarmed and melee weapons.
* When using full armor suits, such as the T-51b power armor or Remnants power armor, the shotgun appears to be grafted or welded to the suit. This is unlike the displacer glove or Pushy, which appear to overlap. This is caused by the armor and the ballistic fist clipping into one another.
* When punching any type of grate that would allow bullets to pass through it, the weapon may actually deal damage to NPCs on the other side (like cashiers in casinos).
* This weapon is similar to the punch gun from Fallout Tactics.
* At 9 Strength, this weapon and its unique variant Two-Step Goodbye have the highest Strength requirement of any Unarmed weapon.
* This weapon can be used for the Gun Runners' Arsenal challenge Armed For Bear.
==Behind the scenes==
Despite firing shotgun shells upon a successful hit, the weapon does not drain 20 gauge or 12 gauge shells from the player character's inventory if present. This is the result of an engine limitation: melee and unarmed weapons cannot be assigned an ammo type, nor set to drain them. Joshua Sawyer stated the developers encountered problems attempting to implement this feature with several unarmed weapons including the ballistic fist as a way to distinguish their value against other weapons, but ultimately were forced to program it with an independent, invisible, infinite ammo supply."Did you ever intend for the Ballistic Fist in Fallout: New Vegas to use shotgun shells as ammo?"J.E. Sawyer: I intended for several of the Unarmed weapons to use ammo, but we encountered some problems with implementing it. I would have liked to continue with it because I think ammo use/reloading could have helped distinguish those weapons in more interesting ways."
==Gallery==
Ballistic fist icon.png| Unused ballistic fist Pip-Boy icon
==References==
Category:Fallout: New Vegas Unarmed skill weapons
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