Future Weapons Today is a skill magazine in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background
A pre-War magazine that is entirely devoted to energy weapons. It is similar to the book Nikola Tesla and You, 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 the 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.
Characteristics
Reading this magazine raises your Energy Weapons skill by 10 points (20 points with the Comprehension perk) for 60 seconds (180 seconds with Retention).
Crafting
This item can be crafted by the player.
Creation requirements
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
wonderglue (1) blank magazine (2) |  | Repair: 25 Picking up a copy of Future Weapons Today after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen. |  | 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.
Locations
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  | 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  | Under the bed |
| Whittaker Farmstead | One at a shelf in the kitchen |
Notes
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.
Gallery
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