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The backwater rifle is a unique lever-action rifle which is added to Fallout 3 with the Point Lookout add-on.
Characteristics[]
The backwater rifle boasts the highest damage-per-shot of all 10mm weapons in Fallout 3, while also possessing the second-highest damage-per-shot of all rifle-type weapons. (The highest being Lincoln's repeater)
It should be noted however, that despite this weapon's attacks and critical bonuses each being 5 damage lower than those of Lincoln's repeater (resulting in 10 less damage total on a critical hit), the backwater rifle's 5x crit-chance multiplier is capable of offering up to a 90% chance to critical for a character with a maxed-out base critical chance (10 Luck, the Finesse perk and the critical chance version of survival expert), where Lincoln's repeater, with its lower 2x multiplier would only offer a 36% chance to critical with the same stats.
In this light, the backwater rifle may be more powerful in practice for high-Luck characters, as it offers a base damage of 45 (assuming no bonuses) with a 90% chance to achieve a 90 damage critical hit, as opposed to Lincoln's repeater which causes a base damage of 50, but only has a 36% chance of achieving its 100 damage criticals. This also makes the backwater rifle an effective alternative against tougher enemies, against whom Sneak attack criticals may not guarantee a kill.
The backwater rifle at 100% condition can fire 518 shots, or approximately 52 magazines, before breaking.
It can only be repaired by using other lever-action rifle or by a vendor (or with alien epoxy).
Variants[]
- Lever-action rifle, the common variant.
- Lincoln's repeater, a pre-War relic owned by the sixteenth President of the United States
Comparison[]
Name | Type | Dmg/shot | DPS | Att/sec | Crit mult | Crit dmg | Spread | AP cost | Ammo | Ammo cap | Weight | Item HP | Value |
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Lever-action rifle | Lever-action rifle | 40 | 30 | 0.75 | x5.0 | 40 | 0.25 | 30 | 10mm round | 10 | 8 | 300 | 200 |
Lincoln's repeater | Lever-action rifle | 50 | 37.5 | 0.75 | x2.0 | 50 | 0 | 25 | .44 Magnum | 15 | 5 | 600 | 500 |
Backwater rifle | Lever-action rifle | 45 | 33.8 | 0.75 | x5.0 | 45 | 0.25 | 30 | 10mm round | 10 | 7 | 700 | 250 |
Location[]
The backwater rifle is found on a shelf in the Chinese Intelligence Bunker.
Related quests[]
Behind the scenes[]
- The name of this rifle is probably a reference to a backwater part of the country. That is, an isolated and backward place, and it can be reasonably said that Point Lookout is a backwater region.
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