.32 Pistol

From The Vault

Fallout 3 weapon .32 Pistol Attack statistics dmg/attack: 6 DPS: 30 attacks/sec: 5 (unmodified: 6) # of projectiles: 1 spread: .5 Criticals crit dmg: 6 crit chance: x 1 Ammunition ammo type: .32 caliber ammo per shot: 1 ammo capacity: 5 shots/reload: 5 Other skill: Small Guns AP: 20 item HP: 100 repair: .32 Pistols weight: 2 value: 110 base id: 0000080A

The .32 Pistol is a diminutive handgun in Fallout 3.

Contents 1 Characteristics 2 Variants 3 Locations 4 Behind the scenes 5 Bugs

[edit] Characteristics

As the name would imply, this handgun uses .32 Caliber Round ammunition. It is commonly found to be in use by Capital Wasteland Raiders. Although it is a light weapon, it pales against the 10mm Pistol in terms of rate of fire and damage, and might be considered a waste of ammunition. It can, however, be fired quite fast if the player can get a rhythm down.

Overall it is a pitiful weapon, barely useful even to a player fresh out of the Vault, and only really would be useful as a last resort for when the aforementioned player runs out of ammo for his or her 10mm Pistol, or if it breaks, but later in the game after couple of level ups (after leaving Vault 101, if the SPECIAL points are placed correctly), even your bare fists can be a better choice than .32 Pistol, with .32 ammo being much better used in the powerful and accurate hunting rifle or its powerful variant Ol' Painless. The only real use to the player is to sell it.

[edit] Variants

• Wild Bill's Sidearm (The Pitt add-on) - Found in Wild Bill's pockets, Wild Bill's Sidearm is much more powerful than any other small sidearm. (Exceptions being the AEP7, the Plasma Pistol, or the .44 Magnum.)

[edit] Locations

These are not very hard to come by. Most locations to find it are in shops, and on Raiders and Talon Company Mercs.

• One can be found at Minefield, near the mattress where Arkansas snipes at you.
• One can also be found at the Small Ranch near Megaton, which can be entered right after exiting the Vault.
• One can be found in the National Guard Bunker on a wooden shelf, next to a box of 5 bullets for it.
• Your father has a fondness for .32 pistols, as he is equipped with one after exiting Tranquility Lane, and two can be found inside Project Purity, one in the gift shop, and another in the basement sub-levels.

[edit] Behind the scenes

• It is possibly based on the "pocket revolvers" of the early 1900's - they were almost all top-break and the most common caliber was one of the many .32 cartridges made at the time, all equally anemic.

• This weapon is similar in appearance to an Iver Johnson .32S&W revolver, sharing both the five-shot capacity and the cheap, unreliable construction.

[edit] Bugs

• This Weapon will not revolve in Third Person mode, nor will the trigger be held; instead the PC's finger will remain behind the trigger and magically appear in front of the trigger to pull it.

v·d·e Weapons of Fallout 3

Unarmed Brass Knuckles (Steel Knuckles) · Deathclaw Gauntlet · Power Fist (Fisto!, The Shocker) · Spiked Knuckles (Plunkett's Valid Points) Melee Auto Axe, Steel Saw (Man Opener, The Mauler) · Axe (The Dismemberer) · Baseball Bat · Chinese Officer's Sword (Jingwei's Shock Sword, Samurai's Sword, Vampire's Edge) · Combat Knife (Occam's Razor, Stabhappy, Trench Knife) · Knife (Ant's Sting, Slasher Knife, Ritual Knife, Toy Knife) · Lead Pipe · Nail Board (Board of Education) · Police Baton · Pool Cue (The Break) · Repellent Stick · Ripper (Jack) · Rolling Pin · Shishkebab · Shock Baton (Electro-Supressor) · Sledgehammer (The Tenderizer) · Shovel (Fertilizer Shovel) · Super Sledge (Fawkes' Super Sledge) · Switchblade (Butch's Toothpick) · Tire Iron (Highwayman's Friend) Small Guns Pistols .32 Pistol (Wild Bill's Sidearm) · 10mm Pistol (Colonel Autumn's 10mm Pistol) · Chinese Pistol (Zhu-Rong v418 Chinese Pistol) · Dart Gun · Silenced 10mm Pistol · Scoped .44 Magnum (Blackhawk, Callahan's Magnum, Paulson's Revolver) Shotguns Combat Shotgun (The Terrible Shotgun) · Double-Barrel Shotgun · Sawed-Off Shotgun (The Kneecapper) SMGs 10mm SMG (Sydney's 10mm "Ultra" SMG) Rifles Assault Rifle · BB Gun · Chinese Assault Rifle (Xuanlong Assault Rifle) · Hunting Rifle (Ol' Painless) · Infiltrator (Perforator) · Lever-Action Rifle (Backwater Rifle) · Lincoln's Repeater · Railway Rifle · Sniper Rifle (Reservist's Rifle, Victory Rifle) Big Guns Drone Cannon (Drone Cannon Ex-B) · Fat Man (Experimental MIRV) · Flamer (Burnmaster, Rapid-Torch Flamer, Slo-Burn Flamer) · Gatling Laser (Precision Gatling Laser, Vengeance) · Heavy Incinerator · Minigun (Eugene) · Missile Launcher (Miss Launcher) · Rock-It Launcher Energy Weapons Pistols Alien Atomizer (Atomic Pulverizer) · Alien Blaster (Firelance, Captain's Sidearm) · Laser Pistol (Colonel Autumn's Laser Pistol, Protectron's Gaze, Smuggler's End) · Mesmetron (Microwave Emitter) · Plasma Pistol (MPLX Novasurge) Rifles Alien Disintegrator (Destabilizer) · Gauss Rifle · Laser Rifle (Metal Blaster, Wazer Wifle) · Plasma Rifle (A3-21's Plasma Rifle) · Tesla Cannon · Tri-Beam Laser Rifle Explosives Grenades Bio-Gas Canister · Cryo Grenade · Frag Grenade · Nuka Grenade · Plasma Grenade · Pulse Grenade Mines Bottlecap Mine · Cryo Mine · Frag Mine · Plasma Mine · Pulse Mine Cut content (Black Bart's Bane) · (Breaker) · (Clover's Cleaver) · Cryolator · (Curse Breaker, Excalibat) · (Discharge Hammer) · (Gauss Rifle (Beta)) · (Grenade Launcher) · Katana · (Law Dog) · (Lightning Gun) · (Love Tap) · Mason Jar Mine · Mirelurk Bait Grenade · (O'Grady's Peacemaker) · (Pa's Fishing Aid) · Piggy Bank Grenade · (Tesla Cannon (Beta)) · (Wanda) Mentioned AEP5 Laser Pistol · AER12 Laser Rifle · M199 Assault Rifle · X277 "Viper" Magnetic Rail Cannon Parentheses () denote unique weapon variants, italics denote weapons available through add-ons.