The power fist is a mechanical glove mounted with a hydraulic jack. When punching, the jack pushes forward, smashing into the enemy. Sometimes, enough power is transferred to the target to knock them down. It is a mid-tier weapon dealing a decent amount of damage, albeit at a slow rate. This weapon is an improved holdout weapon, meaning it can be concealed if the players Sneak skill is 50 or greater.
Boulder City ruins - in an ammunition case on the second floor of one of the houses.
Camp McCarran - there are 5 or more in the tents. These tents are located directly east of the entrance.
Camp Golf - plenty of them can be found in the trooper tents, in front of the House Resort.
Cottonwood Cove - there are 2 in footlockers, in the tent next the Cottonwood Cove HQ (No Lockpick skill needed and very easy to steal).
Hidden Valley bunker - the Brotherhood of Steel is quite fond of them, and have many stashed away in footlockers in their base. However, they may instead have laser pistols.
Hoover Dam - there is one inside a footlocker which is inside one of the sleeping quarters near Quartermaster Bardon's office.
If you look closely, you can see notches on the fist. They add up to 33.
As of the Old World Blues add-on, the power fist attacks much more slowly, even with maxed out Unarmed and high Strength, and with the Slayer perk, it punches rather the same speed as it did in Fallout 3, making it an unappealing Unarmed weapon. The slower attack speed is not present in the other variants like the zap glove and ballistic fist, however.
Bugs[]
PCPlayStation 3Xbox 360 The power fist does not use a higher resolution texture when used by the player, despite one being available in the game's resources.
PCPlayStation 3Xbox 360 The power fist uses the default Pip-Boy image from Fallout3, despite there being a new, updated version present in the game's resources.