Talk:AER14 prototype

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It seems fairly obvious what the start of the note means; 532 nm is probably the wavelength of the light produced by the rifle, which happens to be right about the middle of the Green range. 1064 nm probably means that it's producing infrared light at 1064 nm and using second-harmonic generation (SHG) to drop the wavelength to 532 nm while increasing the energy of each photon. There are commercial laser pointers which use the exact same wavelengths, even.

8.18 PM is a bit more difficult, though. A quick search on wikipedia shows that PM can be an acronym for PhotoMultiplier though, which might fit. 64.201.204.52 23:42, October 22, 2010 (UTC)

Does anybody know what makes this rifle special? It seems to have a higher DAM value than normal laser rifles (though I haven't yet fully repaired a normal laser rifle), and it consumes two cells per shot. Does it simply pack more punch into a single shot, or does it have the effect of Beam Splitter Mod built-in? If this weapon only fires a single, more powerful beam, then this weapon is less effective for Sneak Attacks than a standard laser rifle modded with the Beam Splitter, but more potent in regular combat, with the exception of critical hits. Thoughts?Schneidend 06:47, October 24, 2010 (UTC)

According to the Geck, this weapon has a 2x crit rate, so people highly specced to deal critical strikes and the use of Meltdown might find it useful when they run into a half dozen deathclaws.

I don't understand why you can't eveput a laser rifle scope on this weapon, I mean I understand that its supposed to be a "unique" weapon but what about those long range shots, and what if I want more damage and choose to go with the laser rifle splitter. I mean come on, ya they added weapon mods but not for unique weapons which dissapoints me.

what if it simply stands for the time8:18pm?

---rwjlover

iron sights

it says on the main page unlike the traditional laser rifle this weapon does not have iron sights, this may be a glitch for me only or something like that, but on my energy weapons character using traditional laser rifles there is no iron sights on them either. Toolazytomakeaaccount 00:20, December 5, 2010 (UTC)

It's no glitch. None of the laser firearms have iron sights, much to my dismay as the AER9W & AER14 are among my most favored weapons and I love using iron sights over optics on firearms. However, with my imagination, I like to think there's a built-in peephole optical (reflex) sight behind the MF cell receptacle. My only creative way to explain how you can zoom in with no sights other than the HUD. Demon971 23:33, Feburary 6, 2011 (CST)

Dude, I had the exact same theory about aiming it! --TJbrena 16:33, February 16, 2011 (UTC)

Energy Cells

Could it be possible that the AER14 was supposed to run on any type of energy ammo, but the years of decay and spore people covering it in fungus could have limited it to MF cells?

OR it could have been some Vault Resident (probably a child with the attention span of a twig) found the Energy Rifle and had some energy cells in his pocket. He could have loaded them into the AER14 and fired it. The gun could have reacted by the use of energy cells and fired a laser bolt but it shot backwards and killed the kid. And that would also explain the reason it uses 2 MF cells instead of 1, because the kid damaged the rifle.

Just a theory. The Victorious Phoenix

It is a bit odd that the wrong ammo type is lying right next to the weapon. It is possible that the AER14 was originally to take energy cells and the developers just goofed - sticking to MFCs but forgetting to switch out the ammo type on the floor beside it. But that all sounds a bit contrived. My first reaction was that the cells were a joke by the level designers. You know, "Let's make it look like this poor dope didn't know what kind of ammo the prototype used." Would certainly explain his dead-ness, in spite of the powerful weapon he possessed.

That's my theory, anyways. Adam80027 (talk) 07:39, January 26, 2014 (UTC)

Page Vandalism

Can someone tell me where the fuck the "WHICH MEANS ITS TOTALLY AWESUMSAUCE!" segment in the transcluded section comes from? It seems i can't remove it.

Lock not level dependent?

Under the location part of this article, it says "enter the stairway door to the common area which has a lock with a difficulty that varies according to the players level." I don't think this is true, as I just grabbed it and the door was a very easy lock. I am level 50 (recently turned) and I have a security skill of 100. Could someone check this to make sure its accurate? --Jak29 05:26, April 8, 2012 (UTC)

Comparisons

I added some info to the characteristics section to advise the difference to the base version of the weapon (laser rifle in this case) and the change was reverted because 'section not for comparisons'.

My question would be, if the info is not appropriate in this section in this case, why would it be appropriate in the case of most other unique weapon on the site? http://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Cram_Opener, http://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Pew_Pew, http://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/YCS/186 and http://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Ratslayer as a few examples. If it is the wording itself that is bad then that is understandable, but simply 'not for comparisons' seems like a lot of other pages would require changing.Mrsuperhappy (talk) 18:18, August 20, 2017 (UTC)

It would be the latter. Characteristics sections are supposed to be the place to put characteristics of the weapon in question, not comparisons to other weapons. This became a problem with people putting whole laundry lists of comparisons to other weapons in the section. If other articles have them, they need to be re-written. Great Mara (talk) 18:24, August 20, 2017 (UTC)

That sounds fair enough, the ycs/186 article I linked is the most glaring example (and was infact the model by which I typed up the comparison here.Mrsuperhappy (talk) 18:29, August 20, 2017 (UTC)

Sound Effect?

Why is the sound effect at the bottom of the page the Fallout 3 sound effect? New Vegas has a different laser rifle sound, and I'm pretty sure it applies to ALL of the variants. This issue is present in the wiki page for every New Vegas laser rifle variant, except the base weapon.--Staryoshi06 (talk) 08:50, October 2, 2019 (UTC)

Y'know, you could easily just change it yourself instead of questioning it in the talk page. If you notice something like this, then it is easily defined as a mistake in a user's editing. In a case like this, it is indeed a mistake, and as such, it needs to be corrected, which you could do this wiki the honour of instead of expecting others to do it for you (unless you're an inexperienced editor and don't know how to, which you haven't specified). "We're werewolves, not swearwolves." 09:13, October 2, 2019 (UTC)