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The 10mm submachine gun is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
With a fully automatic rate of fire and a 30-round magazine, the SMG is effective against wildlife and unarmored humans. 10mm ammo for the weapon is one of the most plentiful in the game and the SMG is also quite common, making it easy to repair. However, it suffers from poor accuracy due a high spread, making it ineffective at longer ranges.
Characteristics[]
10mm submachine gun expanded
A one-handed, magazine-fed automatic weapon. It has a high damage-per-second (DPS) and low Damage Threshold. The high spread of this weapon requires the wielder to be at close ranges for all of the rounds fired to impact on the target. With full automatic fire and a 30-round magazine, the SMG performs well in close quarters combat.
Durability[]
The 10mm submachine gun can fire a total of about 2495 standard rounds, the equivalent of 84 reloads, or 63 reloads when modified with extended magazines, from full condition before breaking.
| Ammunition type | Unmodified | W/ Extended mags | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shots | Reloads | Shots | Reloads | |
| Standard, HP & JHP | 2495 | 84 | 2495 | 63 |
Modifications[]
- 10mm submachine gun extended magazines - +10 rounds per magazine.
- 10mm submachine gun recoil compensator - reduces spread by 1.
Variants[]
- Sleepytyme
- a unique variant with a pre-installed suppressor/compensator sold by Vendortron at the Gun Runners.
Comparison[]
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Weapon name (melee or unarmed) |  | - Attacks in V.A.T.S. | |
 | - Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive) |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per attack (damage per projectile) |  | - Damage per action point | |
 | - Damage per second |  | - Weapon spread | |
 | - Area of effect damage |  | - Magazine capacity (shots per reload) | |
 | - Effect damage & duration |  | - Durability (number of attacks before breaking) | |
 | - Bonus effects |  | - Weight | |
 | - Attacks per second |  | - Value in caps | |
 | - Critical chance % multiplier |  | - Value to weight ratio | |
 | - Critical damage |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Critical effect damage & duration |  | - Strength required | |
 | - With all mods attached | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10mm submachine gun | 19 | 171 | 9 | x0.08 | 19 | 3 | 22 | 2.6 | 2.2 | 30 | 2495 | 5 | 2370 | 474 | 50 | 5 |
| 10mm submachine gun | 19 | 171 | 9 | x0.08 | 19 | 3 | 22 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 40 | 2495 | 5 | 4470 | 894 | 50 | 5 |
Sleepytyme  | 22 | 220 | 10 | x0.1 | 22 | 4 | 22 | 4 | 1.7 | 40 | 2495 | 5 | 8250 | 1650 | 50 | 5 |
Locations[]
- Boulder City - Inside the ruins.
- Red Rock Canyon - Several Great Khans, especially the ones who traveled from Boulder City, may have 10mm SMGs.
- Gun Runners - The Vendortron sells them.
- The Tops, New Vegas - Can be found inside a safe in the Penthouse Suite.
- Vault 34 - Multiple 10mm SMGs can be found within the vault armory and the vault itself.
- Can be bought from various merchants and traders throughout the Mojave Wasteland.
- Occasionally found on NCR troopers patrolling the Mojave.
- One of Andy Scabb's thugs carries one.
- Sometimes found on Caesar's Legion soldiers, most reliably on the route to Novac.
- Found from time to time on Viper gunslingers.
- Many Kings gang members carry this weapon.
- Fiends may carry 10mm SMGs, such as in Vault 3.
- Nelson - Dead Sea carries one.
- Some tribals in Zion will carry this.
- Sometimes found on lobotomites, though mostly at mid levels.
Notes[]
Along with the 9mm submachine gun, the 10mm SMG will not slow one down when equipped.
Behind the scenes[]
Joshua Sawyer commented that the decision to place 10mm as opposed to 9mm weapons in vaults was intentional, noting their appearance as more "vaulty/futuristic."[Non-game 1]
Gallery[]
References[]
Non-game
- ↑ Question: "Was it a deliberate decision to make 10mm weapons very common in vaults and 9mm weapons common outside of them? It felt like 10mm weapons were more military or vault-tec issue while 9mm were civilian."
Joshua Sawyer: "Yes. 10mm weapons seemed more "vaulty"/futuristic in my mind."
(Joshua Sawyer on Formspring)
