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The bladed gauntlet is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
An unarmed weapon consisting of a thick, reinforced leather armband with three crude, jagged blades made from scrap metal bound to it with leather straps. It deals moderate damage per strike at a decent attack speed. It also deals moderate critical hit damage at a 2x critical chance and a moderate AP cost, albeit it has very low-end durability, a low-end caps value, and the second-highest weight of all unarmed weapons along with several others. It requires a 25 Unarmed skill level and a 5 Strength attribute level to use effectively, making it a useful weapon for an unarmed-focused character in the early game.
V.A.T.S. Special Attacks[]
| 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 | 50 | 26 | 1.92 | |
| Stomp | 50 | 100 | 20 | 5 | Only on knocked down enemies |
| Uppercut | 50 | 57.5 | 20 | 2.88 | |
| Cross | 75 | 55 | 20 | 2.75 | 2.5x damage to limbs |
- Note: Unarmed weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
Durability[]
The bladed gauntlet can successfully strike about 295 times from full condition before breaking.
Variants[]
- Cram Opener - a unique variant used by Little Buster at Camp McCarran.
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 | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bladed gauntlet | 25 | 39.1 | 1.57 | x2 | 40 | 26 | 1.9 | 295 | 10 | 200 | 20 | 25 | 5 |
| Cram Opener | 28 | 47.5 | 1.7 | x2 | 44 | 26 | 2.2 | 370 | 10 | 800 | 80 | 25 | 5 |
- Note: Unarmed damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
Locations[]
- Freeside - Sold by Mick at Mick & Ralph's.
- Mojave Outpost - Can be bought from Lacey in the Mojave Outpost barracks.
- Westside - Can be bought from Miguel at Miguel's Pawn Shop.
- Primm - Can be bought from Johnson Nash in the Nash residence.
- Can sometimes be sold by traveling merchants.
White Legs in Zion Canyon carry them at lower levels.
Notes[]
The weapon originally had a similar ability to ignore enemy DT as the Ripper and thermic lance, but it was later removed with patch 1.3.0.452.
Bugs[]
- This weapon has the icon of a melee weapon when assigned to a hotkey, even though it is an unarmed weapon. This also happens with the unique Cram Opener.[verified]
- If the Courier enters the Fort and chooses to have their weapons confiscated while having the bladed gauntlet equipped, it will still appear on the Courier. After leaving, weapons can be equipped with the bladed gauntlet still appearing on the user's hand, thereby rendering some weapons' iron sights unusable. Equipping the bladed gauntlet and then unequipping it should fix this.[verified]
