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• Fallout New Vegas Laser Commander
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Hello everyone, first time poster here.
I have been playing Fallout new vegas a lot and have finally got my hands on one of my favourite Fallout 3 weapons, the Gatling laser!

Old question, but many new players come to New Vegas or replay New Vegas, so I found it interesting to add an answer. TL;DR version Laser is better for new players, role playing, easy progression. The trick about Laser Commander though, is that it's far more valuable for its crit chance. You see, there's two categories of crit chance, the first is the base chance that runs off your luck and such, and is modified by the weapon's crit chance multiplier; most laser weapons boost this chance by 50%, the green laser rifle hidden in Vault 22 will double it, and rapid-fire weapons generally. Sap2000 v12 full crack.

Unfortunately I've tried it on a number of different enemies and have found that compared to Fallout 3's GL it is surprisingly underpowered. With New Vegas' Damage threshold system on armor, a fully repaired GL with 100 points in energy weapons and the +3 damage mod firing max-charged shots is hopeless against any heavily armored targets like Deathclaws, Super Mutants and BoS Paladins as their high DT almost completely neutralizes the damage. I've literally shot all 240 ammo at a single Paladin and inflicted only minor damage.
Obsidian also seem to have boosted the fire rate of the Gatling laser by 10 shots per second, increasing the DPS but also increasing the ammo consumption. Those 10 extra shots per second don't help one jot against armor and make it good only for killing a few unarmored enemies before all your ammo is exhausted.
I don't have the better criticals or laser commander perks yet, but I suspect that laser commander wouldn't makes much of a difference since +10% damage translates into only 1 or 2 extra points. I'm not sure if better criticals would make much difference since I don't understand the crit damage calculations and I can't tell how frequently the gatling laser currently crits.
Any suggestions? Am I using it wrong? Would those perks help?
Thanks.

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Fallout New Vegas Laser Commander

Weapons

• Laser cannon - a weapon that was to appear in Van Buren.
• Laser torch - a weapon that was to appear in Van Buren.
• Laser detonator - a laser illumination used to detonate the nuclear warheads in the Divide in .
• Broken laser rifle - a special, unobtainable version of the laser rifle in Fallout: New Vegas.

Weapon mods

Quests

• Deliver a laser pistol to Eldridge. - a quest in Fallout 2.
• Missing Laser Pistol - an unmarked quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Perks

• Laser Commander - a perk in Fallout: New Vegas.
• Set Lasers for Fun - a perk partly acquired by completing the damage challenge 'Set Lasers for Fun' in Fallout: New Vegas.

Holodisks and notes

• DCTA laser firearms protocol - a handbook on how to use a laser pistol in Fallout 3.
• Missing laser pistol - a paper note in Fallout: New Vegas.

Fallout New Vegas Plasma Spaz

Robots

• Laser robot - a Vault-Tec security robot in Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel.
• Laser turret - a fixed defensive turret found in the Midwest in Fallout Tactics.
• Gatling laser security robot - a robot used in the Bloomfield Space Center and B.O.M.B.-001 in Van Buren.