The Mauler

From The Vault

Fallout 3 unique weapon The Mauler

Attack statistics

dmg/attack:

45 (56.25)

DPS:

45 (56.25)

attacks/sec:

1

related perks:

Auto Axpert

(+ 11.25)

Criticals

crit dmg:

0

crit chance:

x 0

Other

skill:

Melee Weapons

AP:

50

item HP:

800

repair:

Auto Axe, Steel Saw, Ripper

weight:

20

value:

200

base id:

xx00b514

The Mauler is a melee weapon available in the Fallout 3 add-on The Pitt. It is a unique Auto Axe that deals much more damage than the original. It can be obtained from Everett during the quest Unsafe Working Conditions once 80 Steel Ingots have been handed in.

[edit] Statistics

It has a larger damage/hit and damage/second ratio compared to the standard Auto Axe (45 compared to 35) and uses less AP (50 compared to 65). This weapon also seems to automatically block when you are attacked by another melee weapon.

[edit] Notes

Though the Mauler is the single most damaging melee weapon (with the exception of the Shishkebab and Pyromaniac), it is also the heaviest, making it a more difficult weapon to carry around.

[edit] Bugs

Grinding barrels and other physics objects will usually result in damage, as they will be pulled violently into the player, then spat off in some random direction at a decent rate of speed proportional to the mass of the object; Cars will sometimes scoot towards you, barrels will hit a player hard enough to damage, and shopping carts rocket off like bats out of hell. It is possible to kill NPCs with lots of patience and no repercussions, by repeatedly flinging barrels at them with the Mauler.
Its animation doesn't loop correctly. If you continuously grind the air, you will notice the weapon "twitching" after several seconds, like the animation starting over again and again.
When using it in FPS mode it may disappear mid-animation, bringing up the Pip-Boy immediately afterwards you will notice that you Pip-Boy has disappeared too (but not the screen). Changing to a different weapon quickly clears this bug. (confirmed PS3)

[edit] Behind the scenes

Everett says that this one of his favorite weapons, and that he used it to chop up ghouls and trogs from The Pitt to Monroeville, PA. The mention of ghouls is likely a reference to the fact that the Monroeville Mall was the location where the original Dawn of the Dead was filmed and in Night of the Living Dead the police and news casters call the zombies "ghouls". Also, "zombies" is a common derogatory name for ghouls.
The Pittsburgh Maulers were a team in the short-lived United States Football League.

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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.