Avenger minigun (Fallout 2)

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Rockwell designed the Avenger as the replacement for their aging CZ53 Personal Minigun. The Avenger's design improvements include improved, gel-fin, cooling and chromium plated barrel-bores. This gives it a greater range and lethality.

”— In-game description, *Fallout 2*
The **CZ57 Avenger minigun** is a big gun in *Fallout 2*.

## Background

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Rockwell designed the 5mm CZ57 Avenger as the replacement for their aging CZ53 personal minigun. The Avenger's design improvements include improved gel-fin cooling and chromium plated barrel-bores, giving it a greater range and lethality. It also has an ammo capacity of 120x 5mm round like the earlier versions of the CZ53 model.

## Characteristics

A strict upgrade from the vanilla minigun, the Avenger is nonetheless quickly offset by the appearance of the Vindicator.

## Locations

* SHady Sands, NCR Bazaar, purchased from Buster's Fine Emporium of Armament
* San Francisco, Chinatown, purchased from Mai Da Chiang at the Red 888 Guns
* Control station Enclave, Guard Barracks, found in ammunition box
* Control station Enclave, Rig Detention Cells, found in ammunition box
* Bounty hunters random encounter, found on bounty hunter's corpse

## Notes

* Because of the ammunition (5mm JHP not AP) and the number of bullets fired per burst (40), each one having possibility to score a critical, you can achieve the highest possible damage in Fallout 2 using this weapon, by having the right perks (Bonus Ranged Damage (2), Living Anatomy, Better Criticals), attack an un-armored living target (like a dog for example) and score a critical that multiplies your damage by 5. Damage exceeding 5000 have been reported.
* Interestingly, in Fallout 2 1.02, Avenger loaded with JHP ammunition always damages K-9 Cybernetic dog for zero hitpoints (no damage) in any indirect (shot through) attack, if K-9 is in your group.
* A remodeled version of the CZ57 Avenger appears in Fallout: New Vegas.
* Avenger can become one of deadliest weapons in game(together with Bozar) if perks Better Criticals and Sniper with 10 Luck were chosen; making it perform 40 shots, everyone critical, each with 20% probability to cause instant death(due to 0-100 → 20-120 critical hit calculations shift).

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The "CZ57" designation was first mentioned in *Fallout: New Vegas*.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 J.E. Sawyer on formspring. Archived from the original on 2013-01-11. when asked about the visual differences between the *Fallout 2* Avenger and the *Fallout: New Vegas* CZ57 Avenger: "Yes. They look different because the CZ57 Avenger in F:NV has to work with existing F3/F:NV grip, firing, and reload animations."
3. ↑ In-game description: *"{38900}{}{Avenger Minigun}"*
*"{38901}{}{Rockwell designed the Avenger as the replacement for their aging CZ53 Personal Minigun. The Avenger's design improvements include improved, gel-fin, cooling and chromium plated barrel-bores. This gives it a greater range and lethality. Min ST: 7.}"*
*"name\_lightMiniGun = {Avenger MiniGun}"*
*"desc\_lightMiniGun = {Rockwell designed the Avenger as the replacement for their aging CZ53 Personal Minigun. The Avenger's design improvements include improved, gel-fin, cooling and chromium plated barrel-bores. This gives it a greater range and lethality.}"*
(PRO ITEM.MSG (Fallout 2), Items.txt)