From The Vault
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| dmg/attack:
| 40 (48) + 100 
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| DPS:
| 140 (148)
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| attacks/sec:
| 1 (unmodified: 3.3333)
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| # of projectiles:
| 1
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| spread:
| 0.5
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| related perks:
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| crit dmg:
| 50
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| crit chance:
| x 1
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| ammo type:
| Alien Power Module
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| ammo per shot:
| 1
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| ammo capacity:
| 1
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| shots/reload:
| 1
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| skill:
| Big Guns
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| AP:
| 30
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| item HP:
| 1000
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| repair:
| Drone Cannon
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| weight:
| 18
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| value:
| 2000
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| base id:
| xx000845
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The Drone Cannon is a weapon of alien origin which is added to Fallout 3 in the Mothership Zeta add-on.
[edit] Characteristics
It is the removed arm cannon of a Guardian Drone. It fires a ball of energy that acts as a grenade, bouncing and then exploding after a period of about 3 seconds. The projectile has the ability to move buses and cars before exploding.
This weapon is hard to use at first, but once you understand its operation, it becomes an extremely devastating weapon.
When fired into water, the projectile will continue normally, bouncing off any obstructions under the water. It will explode normally like other explosives.
[edit] Variants
- Drone Cannon Ex-B. While the Ex-B does not have increased damage over the Drone Cannon, the projectiles fired from it explode on impact while still arcing, unlike the bouncy Drone Cannon shot.
[edit] Obtaining
This gun can be found on Guardian Drones along with Alien Power Modules to power them. The cannons can also be shot off the drones and picked up like other weapons.
[edit] Appearances
The Drone Cannon appears in the Mothership Zeta add-on for Fallout 3.
- This weapon is sometimes glitchy when fired in VATS, most likely because of the grenade-like effect of the projectile.
- It is possible that this weapon was originally planned to have a Backpack, like most other Big Guns, since with this weapon and a Power Armor equipped, The armor's "Power Pack" disappears. This is most clearly visible with Tesla Armor. This is similar to the Scoped Gauss Rifle, which also eliminated the Power Pack.
- This weapon actually does two types of damage. The first type of damage is the physical collision of the projectile with the target, much like with the the Rock-It Launcher. This type of damage however is not believed to be calculated by your pip boy. The second type is the explosion produced by the projectile.
- Interestingly enough, The Drone Cannon the Drones actually use has a missile projectile rather then the player's lob projectile. It is also worth note that the Bot's cannons projectiles move 2x faster and explode on impact. The Unique Player version while not "exploding on impact" rather just doesn't have a timer so it appears to explode on impact
- The Drone Cannon is not available after completion of Mothership Zeta
- When taking the cannon from a drone, it has no icon (PipOS Error - 404 [File Not Found])./ This may be a subtle hint about how the Pip-Boy 3000 is unable to scan Alien technology. While in the Player's inventory. However, the Drone Cannon Ex-B does have a picture.
[edit] Gallery
| Weapons of Fallout 3 |
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| Unarmed
| Brass Knuckles (Steel Knuckles) · Deathclaw Gauntlet · Power Fist (Fisto!, The Shocker) · Spiked Knuckles (Plunkett's Valid Points)
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| 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)
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| Small Guns
| Pistols
| .32 Pistol (Wild Bill's Sidearm) · N99 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)
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| Shotguns
| Drum-Magazine Combat Shotgun (The Terrible Shotgun) · Double-Barrel Shotgun · Sawed-Off Shotgun (The Kneecapper)
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| SMGs
| 10mm SMG (Sydney's 10mm "Ultra" SMG)
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| Explosives
| Grenades
| Bio-Gas Canister · Cryo Grenade · Frag Grenade · Nuka Grenade · Plasma Grenade · Pulse Grenade
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| Mines
| Bottlecap Mine · Cryo Mine · Frag Mine · Plasma Mine · Pulse Mine
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| 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 · Spanner · (Tesla Cannon (Beta)) · (Wanda)
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