Fat Man (Fallout: New Vegas)

The Fat Man is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
It is heavy, especially in hardcore mode when combined with its mini nuke ammunition, but very powerful. In fact, it is so powerful that in most cases, the use of the Fat Man is complete overkill.

The Fat Man requires some getting used to, as the heavy mini-nuke projectiles will arc down; thus, if shot straight ahead, the mini nuke will land several meters from were it was shot, severely damaging and/or killing the player character. Otherwise, if aimed correctly, the Fat Man's trajectory has an effective range of roughly 150 meters. The weapon can be used outside of V.A.T.S. for indirect fire over a considerable distance.

Following detonation of the mini nuke, the immediate area will be moderately irradiated, reaching peaks of about 15 rads/second.

Specialty mini nukes made available with the Gun Runners' Arsenal add-on are not usable with the version of the Fat Man in the base game. They can only be fired from the Fat Man (GRA) or Esther.

Modifications

 * Fat Man Little Boy kit, decreases weight by half (from 30 lbs. to 15 lbs.).

Variants

 * Esther, a unique variant of the Fat Man that raises radiation resistance and damage threshold.
 * Fat Man (GRA), the GRA variant that differs only in being capable of accepting new types of mini nukes.

Locations

 * Cottonwood crater - On the body of a dead prospector.
 * Quarry Junction - Lying near the edge of a radioactive pool to the west of the quarry.
 * Nopah cave - On the corpse of a super mutant master. Upon returning to the cave several days later, this super mutant may be found alive with another Fat Man and only a small amount of health. He continues to respawn every few days thereafter.
 * Hidden Valley bunker - Can be purchased from Torres in the Brotherhood Armory after you are granted full access.
 * Nellis Air Force Base - Can be bought from the Boomer munitions manager in the mess hall & munitions storage, after receiving permission from Pearl.
 * A Fat Man and 3 mini nukes can be pickpocketed or looted from a Boomer while they are sleeping in one of 3 tents near crops to the southeast of the mess hall & munitions storage. If killed, this Boomer respawns every 3 days, providing a steady source of mini nukes.
 * A Fat Man can be found on the body of a super mutant master near a cazador nest directly south of Jacobstown. This location is marked during the quest Bleed Me Dry. Facing away from the Jacobstown gate and climbing up and around the hills to the right will lead to the path. The area is also accessible by going west from Red Rock Canyon, over some very steep trails.
 * Crimson Caravan Company - May be purchased from Blake.
 * The Fort - At high player levels one can be found on a legionary blacksmith
 * 188 trading post - May be bought from the Arms Merchant.

Bugs

 * There is a glitch where if you kill an enemy that had their weapon equipped, then equip your Fat Man and go pick up the dead enemy's gun (from the ground, not their inventory). The ammunition from their dead body will transfer into mini nukes and be put into your inventory. Example: Kill a fiend shooting at you with a laser rifle, then on their dead body you will see their hands still clutching their weapon. Shoot the arm that is holding the weapon and it will pop onto the ground. Proceed to equip the desired gun needing your preferred ammunition, then pick up the laser rifle. How ever many microfusion cells were on the fiend's body will be transferred into the amount of mini nukes/alien powers cells/etc... put into your inventory. This can also be done with the alien blaster and almost if not all other ranged weapons. (This glitch works the best with a laser RCW so that you can get up to 60 mini nukes at a time. Tested Xbox 360, works if done correctly) Note: In order for this glitch to work you must have the patch deleted (pre-patch).
 * Sometimes when a second mini nuke is fired to a distant location, an explosion will not be seen.
 * If you cripple your legs and go into third person, it will look like your character is holding the Fat Man, but there will be nothing there. Instead, it will be laying on the ground near you or floating in the air. If you fire it the nuke will go in whatever direction it is aiming. Confirmed on Xbox 360.
 * Direct hit damage from the projectile does not get applied. This is a bug that applies to all non-hitscan projectiles that cause explosions.