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Brass knuckles are a set of unarmed weapons in Fallout: New Vegas.
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Background
Developed in antiquity, this weapon is prevalent in the post-War wastelands.
Brass knuckles, or knuckledusters, take the form of four linked metal rings in a shallow convex formation with a bumper attached to the concave face. The rings are slipped over a combatant's fingers with the bumper pressed into the palm of the hand.
When a punch is thrown, the brass knuckles take the majority of the impact impulse, transferring much of the punch's kinetic energy to the target by way of the harder, smaller impacting surface of the metal knuckles. This drastically increases the likelihood of serious tissue disruption and bone damage.
Characteristics
Also known as "knuckle dusters", the brass knuckles allow the player character to inflict more damage to their opponent than they would with bare fists by concentrating the power behind each blow into the metal rings.
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 | 36 | 18 | 2 | |
| Stomp | 50 | 72 | 20 | 3.6 | Only on knocked down enemies |
| Uppercut | 50 | 41.4 | 20 | 2.07 | |
| Cross | 75 | 39.6 | 20 | 1.98 | 2.5x damage to limbs |
- Note: Unarmed weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
Durability
The brass knuckles can successfully strike about 995 times from full condition before breaking.
Variants
- Spiked knuckles - A more powerful variant.
- Love and Hate - A unique variant carried by a Viper leader at Bonnie Springs.
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 | |||
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brass knuckles | 18 | 36.9 | 2.05 | x1 | 18 | 18 | 2 | 995 | 1 | 120 | 120 | 25 | 2 |
| Love and Hate | 30 | 75.8 | 2.53 | x1 | 30 | 19 | 3.2 | 1495 | 1 | 750 | 750 | 50 | 3 |
| Spiked knuckles | 25 | 59.2 | 2.37 | x1 | 25 | 19 | 2.6 | 1495 | 1 | 500 | 500 | 50 | 3 |
- Note: Unarmed damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
Locations
- Gomorrah - Carried by Big Sal and Nero.
- New Vegas Strip - Sold by Mister Holdout outside Gomorrah.
- Nevada Highway Patrol station - A set of brass knuckles at 99% condition can be found in the jail cell next to the body of a dead prospector, alongside a Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap.
- NCR Correctional Facility- Carried by Scrambler
Behind a locked door (Science 75) in the Villa police station.
Bugs
After holding dynamite and equipping the brass knuckles, the brass knuckles will not appear on the player character's hand, and instead a stick of dynamite will act as the brass knuckles. [verified]
