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For an overview of Desert Eagle models in all games, see Desert Eagle .44. |
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The Desert Eagle is a small gun in Fallout and Fallout 2.
Characteristics
The Desert Eagle serves as an excellent mid-game pistol, offering higher damage than the old 10mm, and a fairly common ammunition type. It out-ranges the .44 Magnum revolver by a bit, and carries 2 more rounds in a magazine, but the .44 Magnum does more damage and can be fired for fewer AP. Overall, this weapon is great until a needler pistol or .223 pistol can be found. It could be replaced by a 14mm pistol, but only with an armor-piercing fix patch.
Variants
In Fallout 2, it can be upgraded with an extended magazine, increasing its ammunition capacity to 20 rounds.
Locations
Fallout
- Killian Darkwater, mayor of Junktown, has and sells one.
- One of Daren Hightower's thugs, the one wearing leather armor.
- Two thugs protecting Jain in the Hub have one each.
- Garl, the leader of the Khans, has one.
- Carried by scribes in Lost Hills.
- One is carried by Smitty in Adytum.
Fallout 2
- Carried by Tyler in the Den.
- Given as a quest reward for getting a plow for Mr. Smith in Vault City.
- Any member of the Vault City guard has a Desert Eagle for a sidearm.
- Sold by Lou in the Malamute Saloon in Redding.
- Used by all armed Enclave mechanics at Navarro, in tandem with Wattz 1000 pistols.
- Can be obtained by looting the corpse of officer Jack in NCR, during "Take care of Officer Jack" for Mira. He can either be killed, allowed to blow himself up, or pickpocketed in the same building close to Dorothy and her robot Toto.
Notes
In the Fallout demo, the Desert Eagle is called a Magnum pistol.[1]
This was Chris Taylor’s favorite gun during Fallout’s development, so he had to include it. It and the 9mm Mauser are the only two “real-world” firearms in Fallout.[2]
Sounds
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References
- ↑ Fallout demo item description: "{1800}{}{Magnum Pistol}"
"{1801}{}{An ancient Desert Eagle pistol, in .44 Magnum. Interest in late 20th century filmsmade this on of the most popular handguns of all times.}" - ↑ Post by Chris Taylor where he stated, ‘The gun choices in FO1 were 90% mine. I felt that weapon technology would have developed differently in the Fallout universe after the split with our timeline, so I tried to make less of the weapons "real-world". The two exceptions (that I can remember) are the Desert Eagle .44 and the 9mm Mauser. The DE was my favorite gun at the time and I had to include it.’
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