Fallout: New Vegas skill magazine Future Weapons Today
	effects +10 Energy Weapons for 60 sec. (+20 with Comprehension) (for 180 seconds with Retention) weight 0 value $20 base id 000ec4a6

 

Future Weapons Today is a skill magazine in Fallout: New Vegas.

BackgroundEdit

A pre-War magazine that is entirely devoted to energy weapons. It is similar to the book Guns and Bullets although this magazine's effects are temporary. The March issue that's so prominent in the Mojave Wasteland includes an interview with Colonel Moretti, slamming the venerable Winchester P94 plasma rifle, an article on new fully-automatic Gatling lasers, AER9 laser rifles, light and compact Tesla cannons and a story covering a marine sniper with a Wattz 2000 laser rifle in Nanjing on page 42.

CharacteristicsEdit

Reading this magazine raises your Energy Weapons skill by 10 points (20 points with the Comprehension perk) for 60 seconds (180 seconds with Retention).

CraftingEdit

This item can be crafted by the player.

Creation requirements

Materials:		Requirements:		Produces:
wonderglue (1) blank magazine (2)	range	Workbench¹ Repair: 25 Lonesome Road add-on Voracious Reader Picking up a copy of Future Weapons Today after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen.	level	Future Weapons Today (1)

¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.

LocationsEdit

Below is a list of all fixed locations of Future Weapons Today skill magazines in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-ons. For an overview of magazines per location, see the main overview page.

Closest map marker	Location description
Camp Golf	Inside the Misfits' tent.
Camp Golf	House Resort, second floor on top of a filing cabinet, next to the broken terminal at the end of the southern hallway.
Camp McCarran	Inside the storage tent in the parking lot.
Cottonwood Cove	Male restrooms, on the floor.
Followers Safehouse	On the left most bed in the safe house next to the advanced radiation suit.
Gun Runners	Inside HQ, visible in a nightstand in the toilet area of the barracks.
Lucky 38	In the Presidential suite.
Lucky 38	On a table in the Cocktail Lounge.
Nipton	Nipton Hall, on the shelf just behind the Mayor's desk.
Poseidon Gas Station	To the south, in a box on a shelf in Violet's makeshift fort.
Ruined highway interchange fnvlr	Just south of the map marker on the highway, in a blue, orange striped trailer, together with a Patriot's Cookbook, Milsurp Review and ¡La Fantoma!.
The Aerie fnvhh	Under the bed.
Whittaker Farmstead	One at a shelf in the kitchen.

NotesEdit

If you look on the magazine in the loading screens, the weapon being held is a Gatling laser, but if you look at the actual magazine the weapon is a minigun.

GalleryEdit

Future Weapons Today as depicted during the loading screens.

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