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The thermic lance is a weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.

Characteristics

The thermic lance is an industrial metalworking tool which can be used as a melee weapon. It is heavy, but deals considerable damage. It is considered a piercing weapon and therefore ignores the target's Damage Resistance and Damage Threshold. It is very durable, and also resists damage to itself if hit when used defensively (taking only 0.5% of normal durability damage). However, due to its automatic attack-type it will degrade at a faster rate than other weapons when used.

Unlike most melee weapons, holding down the attack button when wielding the thermic lance will cause continuous damage to targets in contact with the tip. While it has a relatively low critical damage rating and critical chance multiplier, both are offset by its automatic operation, which gives approximately 5 chances per second to inflict a critical hit.

Special attack

It has a special Scrap Heap attack that does 50% damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of 20 fewer action points (requires a Melee skill of 50).

Legend
Type of attack- Type of attackSkill required- Skill required
Damage per attack in V.A.T.S.- Damage per attack in V.A.T.S.Action point cost- Action point cost
Damage per action point- Damage per action pointAdditional effects- Additional effects
Type of attackSkill requiredDamage per attack in V.A.T.S.Action point costDamage per action point
Normal0200653.08
Scrap Heap50100452.22
Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.

It is not possible to execute Scrap Heap outside of V.A.T.S. as power attacks do not apply to continuously damaging melee weapons, such as the Chainsaw or Ripper.

Durability

The thermic lance can successfully strike about 9995 times from full condition before breaking.

Locations

Notes

  • The thermic lance's V.A.T.S. attack animation is unusual, due to the automatic nature of the weapon type. The attack is initiated but the automatic damage is not applied, nor does the target act as if harmed, until the end of the attack when the damage is finally applied. It also has a slight knockback effect.
  • This weapon can make full use of poisons.

Behind the scenes

Thermic lance is another name for the thermal lance, a real-world metalworking tool.

Sounds

Thermic lance icon
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