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The ballistic fist is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics
Edit
The ballistic fist is one of the most powerful Unarmed weapons in the game. It consists of a wrist-mounted shotgun, with a pressure plate trigger worn over the knuckles, which fires when a punch connects with the target. This amplifies the damage given due to the power of the user's fists and the deadly ballistic from the mounted gun.
V.A.T.S. Special AttacksEdit
| Legend | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | - Type of attack |  | - Skill required | |
 | - Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. |  | - Action point cost | |
 | - Damage per action point |  | - Additional effects | |
| | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | 0 | 160 | 28 | 5.71 | |
| Stomp | 50 | 320 | 20 | 16 | Only on knocked down enemies |
| Uppercut | 50 | 184 | 20 | 9.2 | |
| Cross | 75 | 176 | 20 | 8.8 | 2.5x damage to limbs |
- Note: Unarmed weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
DurabilityEdit
The ballistic fist can successfully strike about 395 times from full condition before breaking.
VariantsEdit
- Two-Step Goodbye - A unique variant with additional effects.
ComparisonEdit
| 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 | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ballistic fist | 80 | 87.3 | 1.09 | x1 | 80 | 28 | 5.7 | 395 | 6 | 7800 | 1300 | 100 | 9 | ||
Two-Step Goodbye  | 70 | 76.4 | 1.09 | x4 | 10 | 175 | 28 | 5 | 395 | 6 | 20000 | 3333.3 | 100 | 9 | |
| Displacer glove | 50 | 68.2 | 1.36 | x1 | 50 | 28 | 3.6 | 495 | 6 | 3500 | 583.3 | 100 | 4 | ||
| Pushy | 60 | 88.4 | 1.47 | x1 | 60 | 28 | 4.3 | 595 | 6 | 4200 | 700 | 100 | 2 | ||
| Zap glove | 35 | 57.3 | +50 Robots+20 Power armor | 1.64 | x1 | 35 | 28 | 2.5 | 495 | 6 | 5200 | 866.7 | 75 | 4 | |
| Paladin Toaster | 41 | 67.1 | +50Robots +20 Power armor | 1.64 | x1 | 41 | 28 | 2.9 | 395 | 6 | 6800 | 1133.3 | 75 | 4 |
- Note: Unarmed damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
LocationsEdit
- Crimson Caravan Company - Can be purchased from Blake.
- Hidden Valley bunker - Can be purchased from Torres.
- Hoover Dam - Can be purchased from Quartermaster Bardon in the offices.
- Mick & Ralph's - Can be purchased from Mick after convincing him (Speech 30) to show his special inventory.
- Great Khan armory - Can be purchased from the Great Khan armorer.
- The Fort - The Praetorian guard, Caesar's personal bodyguards, carry ballistic fists. They can be found inside Caesar's tent. The guards in the weather monitoring station also carry them.
- Legate's camp - Carried by some Praetorian guards.
NotesEdit
- Despite firing shotgun shells upon a successful hit, the weapon does not drain 20 gauge or 12 gauge shells from the player's inventory, making the source of the weapon's ammo supply a mystery.
- If the Ranger Takedown is used with this weapon, the target of the attack will take normal damage even though the pressure plate would not be touched. In third person, the player character hits with their leg. In first person, they use their palm, which would also be in the direct path of the shotgun.
- When using the Khan Trick, the sand thrown with this move shares the same explosion animation with the successful ballistic fist strike, although the pressure plate is left untouched.
- When using the Scribe Counter the explosion comes from the player's left hand, even though the ballistic fist is worn on the right.
- When the special attack Stomp is used in V.A.T.S., the explosion appears to originate from the player's foot. This can produce humorous results, such as flinging a corpse's limbs away in differing directions due to the explosion.
- Despite the nature of the weapon, it can be used to make silent sneak kills like other unarmed and melee weapons.
- When using full armor suits, such as the T-51b power armor or Remnants power armor, the shotgun appears to be grafted or welded to the suit. This is unlike the displacer glove or Pushy, which appear to overlap. This is caused by the armor and the ballistic fist clipping into one another.
- When punching any type of grate that would allow bullets to pass through it, the weapon may actually deal damage to NPCs on the other side (like cashiers in casinos).
- This weapon is similar to the punch gun from Fallout Tactics.
- At 9 Strength, this weapon has the highest Strength requirement of any Unarmed weapon.
- This weapon can be used for the Gun Runners' Arsenal challenge Armed For Bear.
Behind the scenesEdit
Sometime before release, ballistic fists were supposed to use shotgun shells as ammunition, but it wasn't supported by the game engine.[1]
GalleryEdit
Unused ballistic fist PipBoy icon.ReferencesEdit
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