Talk:Plasma Defender

Why is this gun categorized as a pistol in the template and the Fallout New Vegas weapons page? By the looks of it, it seems sorta like a rifle. Or is there something I'm missing? The  Jovar  20:39, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Because someone put the wrong picture in, the last picture was of the multiplas rifle. Nitty Tok. 20:40, August 29, 2010 (UTC)


 * Ohhhh, thanks for clearing that up! I was confused for a second... The   Jovar  20:41, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Heh that was me. My bad! -- Kris mailbox 21:17, August 29, 2010 (UTC)

Why is there both a regular plasma pistol and this weapon? Unless it has significantly different stats than the plasma pistol this weapon would be redundant.

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Probably for a couple of reasons that I can think of, listed as follows:

1. Consistency (with regards to F1 & F2 lore, as we are back on the west coast in F:NV), there is a new plasma rifle (plasma caster) - this resembles the old school F1 & F2 plasma rifle, it is even mentioned under the plasma caster page that you can mod the plasma caster: "You can attach a magnetic accelerator to it, essentially making it a turbo plasma rifle." This mod sounds strikingly familiar to how you can mod the plasma rifle in F1 & F2.

2. Variety, as it adds more weapons into the game, both of these combined is a plus in my book. So now i'm just hoping there is a mod for it that allows you to put a scope on it ;)

In answer to your statement regarding redundency, it could be possible that you can't add a scope to the F3 plasma pistol, but you can with the plasma defender.

i can't find any mods for this weapon, traditionally speaking, but im glad its in the game, i stole it from silver rush just around the time in the game where the plasma pistol original became obsolete (granted that did not take long) plus its design is very nice. Toolazytomakeaaccount 09:36, November 3, 2010 (UTC)

What?
Why is this weapon a unique weapon? thats what its listed as. How does one know its unique? 68.147.40.224 02:45, October 17, 2010 (UTC)
 * I've only ever seen it in the silver rush, never seen it anywhere else (except for arcade gannon) 174.66.129.52 09:41, November 3, 2010 (UTC)
 * This gun is not at the lucky 38 casino; no cocktail lounge, nor casino, nor presidential suite. Also, there's no floor safe at the lucky 38, nowhere. We should remove this from the main page.
 * Someone didn't look too hard; there IS one there. Nitty Tok. 03:22, November 19, 2010 (UTC)
 * Sorry, my bad :S, it is just outside the elevator, to the left at the end of the counter (across it).

I found one of these on a Bright Follower at level 3 the other day. 114.76.40.23 07:11, July 18, 2011 (UTC)

So I'm going to remove "once the player has reached level 8"

Capitalization
Why is is "Plasma Defender" and not "plasma defender" if it is not a unique weapon? --(talk 03:42, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
 * "Defender" is the brand name, like "Anaconda", "Python", or "Desert Eagle". It is a Glock 86 Defender. Nitty the Kitty! 05:23, 12 January 2012 (UTC)