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Laser Commander Required Character Level. I played through most of Fallout 3 with a wazer wifle, and for New Vegas, the Gatling laser is my weapon of choice for everything. Fallout: New Vegas character build guide By Daniel Acaba 03 November 2010 Making your hero in Fallout: New Vegas can be daunting, here's our guide on making everything from snipers to melee only.

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!
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.

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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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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.

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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.

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Holodisks and notes

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• 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.

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.