Laser rifle (Fallout: New Vegas)

The laser rifle, officially the AER9 laser rifle, is a weapon .
==Background==
==Characteristics==
The laser rifle has no iron sights but compensates with excellent zoom. It can be upgraded with a scope, making it less effective in close quarters, but thanks to its good accuracy, it can be used as a medium to long-range weapon. The laser rifle makes a decent starting weapon, but with all mods and more powerful ammo types, it is extremely powerful, even at high levels.
===Durability===
The laser rifle can fire a total of about 620 times using standard cells, the equivalent of 26 reloads, from full condition before breaking.
===Modifications===
* Laser rifle focus optics - Adds +3 damage
* Laser rifle scope - Adds a long range scope with 3.5x magnification
* Laser rifle beam splitter - Splits each shot into two beams, with greater total power than a single beam
==Variants==
* Van Graff laser rifle - a unique variant temporarily given by Simon while guarding the Silver Rush during Birds of a Feather.
* AER14 prototype - a unique variant found in a sealed stairwell in Vault 22.
* The Disintegrator - a cut weapon that deals a very large amount of damage per shot.
===Comparison===
==Locations==
* Fiends often carry them.
* Can be found on Bright Brotherhood corpses in and around the REPCONN test site.
* Hidden Valley bunker L1- Torres may sell laser rifles.
* Found on the dead Brotherhood patrols during the Still in the Dark quest.
* Can be found on the three Brotherhood scouts.
* Nipton - Another can be found lying beside a dead wastelander in the Good Luck trailer park.
* Nipton house - One can be found inside in the bathtub of one of the houses.
* Silver Rush - Gloria may sell laser rifles, and numerous laser rifles can be stolen from around the store.
* They can often be purchased from Quartermaster Bardon.
* One can be found in a hotel room in Primm.
* One in the abandoned BoS bunker, on a table.
* Can be found on Y-17 trauma override harnesses at lower levels.
* X-13 testing facility - In the outer northeast, in a locked gun cabinet, in a shielded room.
==Notes==
* Prior to patch 1.2.0.31x, the laser rifle dealt only 15 points of damage per shot.
* The laser rifle does not have iron sights.
** It is also unaffected by the True Iron Sights setting, and unless it has been equipped with the scope modification will use the same animation regardless.
* Due to the fact that it can fire two beams at once by adding a beam splitter, it can score a critical hit for each beam outside of V.A.T.S. This effect allows it to sometimes (with a critical hit for each beam) cause a huge amount of damage (72.6) per shot. On characters focused on critical chance, the effective damage can be higher than 200% against foes on full T-51b power armor (31 DT) compared to the laser rifle without the laser rifle beam splitter.
==Sounds==
			
			
==Gallery==
Plasma rifle Hidden Valley L1.jpg|Torres' inventory
Weapons and ammo Silver Rush.jpg|Silver Rush
FNV laser rifle aBoS bunker.jpg|Abandoned BoS bunker 
FNVOWB laser pistols X-13 testing facility.jpg|X-13 testing facility 
Lasriflebeammod.png|Laser rifle with the beam splitter modification
Lasrifleopticsmod.png|Laser rifle with the focus optics modification
Lasriflescopemod.png|Laser rifle with the scope modification
Lasriflefullmod.png|Laser rifle with all modifications
LaserRiflefullmod2.png
LaserRiflefullmod3.png
LaserRifleScopeView.png|View through the scope
Laser rifle CA1.jpg|Concept art by Adam Adamowicz
Laser rifle CA2.jpg
Quick Draw.png|Laser rifle in the perk image for Quick Draw
==References==
Category:Fallout: New Vegas Energy Weapons skill weapons
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