Cosmic knife super-heated

The cosmic knife super-heated is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money.

Gameplay attributes
The cosmic knife super-heated appears as an ordinary cosmic knife with a slight orange glow. Its special V.A.T.S. attack is the Flambé Cut, which does 90% damage at a cost of 20 action points.

The super-heated knife has a very interesting script set up for critical hit attacks: when the player scores a critical hit, there is a 25% chance that enemies will be enveloped in smoke, and a 75% chance they will burst into flames, plus any critical hit will cause the target to begin taking two points of fire damage every second for five seconds.

The script notes for the critical hit effect state, "Randomly generates either small burn DPS + smoke or large burn DPS + fire on hit." but the fire damage effect for both smoking hits and flaming hits is identical.

Crafting

 * Note: this item is also craftable via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E (with at least 1 rank of the Camarader-E perk).

Variants

 * Cosmic knife - the common, Cloud covered variant.
 * Cosmic knife clean - a polished cosmic knife that does more damage and has an increased critical hit multiplier.

Locations

 * This item must be crafted by the player, as it is not found on enemies or in containers.

Bugs

 * The cosmic knife super-heated is not affected by the Cowboy or Super Slam perks.
 * Although capable of setting non-player characters on fire, this weapon is not affected by the Pyromaniac perk.
 * The glow layer texture for this weapon is referenced by the weapon's model, but was not included in the resources for Dead Money. This indicates the weapon was intended to produce a glow from only certain parts of the weapon, but instead provides a glow over the entire weapon due to the missing texture.