Plasma caster

The Winchester P94 is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics
The plasma caster is a powerful energy weapon, having a rather low AP cost and high rate of fire. Its precision in V.A.T.S. suffers if a character cannot meet the steep Energy Weapons skill requirement (100) and at 20 pounds it is the heaviest energy weapon in the game. It's extremely rare without Old World Blues or Lonesome Road and not very durable, so the Jury Rigging perk or weapon repair kits may be necessary for continuous use of this weapon. It can be fired 396 times from full condition before breaking.

Modifications

 * Plasma caster high-speed electrode, increases the rate of fire of the plasma caster by 25%.

Variants

 * The Smitty Special, a uniquely modified variant of the plasma caster, innovated by Smitty.

Locations

 * Silver Rush - one can be bought in very poor condition, or stolen for very poor/ perfect condition (See: Silver Rush bugs for more information on how to get the perfect condition one).
 * Orion Moreno sometimes uses it in the Second Battle of Hoover Dam if you completed the side quest For Auld Lang Syne without killing him.
 * Y-17 trauma override harness in Big MT may carry them at higher levels, becoming the most apparent around 40-50.
 * Sometimes carried by Marked Men in the Divide.
 * Carried by Colonel Royez and sometimes by his irradiated NCR heavy troopers in the Long 15.

Behind the scenes

 * While the original idea to include the Winchester P94 in Fallout: New Vegas came from J.E. Sawyer, Paul Fish was responsible for modelling and texturing it.
 * The weapon's name is a throwback to its original item name from the Fallout beta.

Bugs

 * The weapon fails to fire a projectile properly when used in third-person view. After equipping it when in third-person view it may not work even when switching to first-person view. Re-equipping it while in first-person view may solve this.
 * When using the weapon in V.A.T.S. the projectile will often not fire unless very close to the target, and if standing under a roof the projectile may collide with the structure.