The knife spear is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money.
Characteristics[]
A two-handed bladed melee weapon that deals decent damage per strike at a slow attack speed, thus having a low damage-per-second (DPS) value. It deals decent critical hit damage with an average critical chance, costs a decent amount of AP, has high durability and low weight, and has a low caps value. It requires 25 Melee Weapons and 2 Strength to use effectively.
Visually, the weapon consists of four cosmic knives bound with rope to the end of a brushless broomstick handle.
Special attack[]
The knife spear has a special attack called Mauler that does normal damage in V.A.T.S. at the cost of the normal 35 action points but adds a chance to knock down opponents (requires a Melee Weapons skill of 50).
Legend | ||||
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- Type of attack | - Skill required | |||
- Damage per attack in V.A.T.S. | - Action point cost | |||
- Damage per action point | - Additional effects |
Normal | 0 | 40 | 35 | 1.14 | none |
Mauler | 50 | 40 | 35 | 1.14 | Knockdown chance |
- Note: Melee weapons do double normal damage in V.A.T.S.
It is possible to execute Mauler outside of V.A.T.S. (without the required Melee Weapons skill of 50 to perform the move) by initiating a power attack (hold attack button) while moving forward.
Durability[]
The knife spear can successfully strike about 1,995 times from full condition before breaking.
Crafting[]
The weapon can also be crafted.
Creation requirements
Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
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Cosmic knife (3) Duct tape (1) | Repair: 25 Dead Money add-on | Knife spear (1) |
¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.
Variants[]
- Knife spear clean - a rare variant that must be crafted at a workbench.
- Throwing knife spear - a projectile variant.
- Throwing spear - a projectile variant found in the Mojave Wasteland.
Comparison[]
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- Weapon name (melee or unarmed) | - Attacks in V.A.T.S. | |||
- Weapon name (gun, energy or explosive) | - Action point cost | |||
- Damage per attack (damage per projectile) | - Damage per action point | |||
- Damage per second | - Weapon spread | |||
- Area of effect damage | - Magazine capacity (shots per reload) | |||
- Effect damage & duration | - Durability (number of attacks before breaking) | |||
- Bonus effects | - Weight | |||
- Attacks per second | - Value in caps | |||
- Critical chance % multiplier | - Value to weight ratio | |||
- Critical damage | - Skill required | |||
- Critical effect damage & duration | - Strength required | |||
- With all mods attached |
Knife spear | 20 | 37.9 | x1.5 limb | 1.89 | x1 | 20 | 35 | 1.1 | 1995 | 3 | 55 | 18.3 | 25 | 2 |
Knife spear clean | 25 | 47.4 | x3 limb | 1.89 | x1.2 | 25 | 35 | 1.4 | 1995 | 3 | 55 | 18.3 | 25 | 2 |
Throwing knife spear | 42 | 20.2 | x2 limb | 0.48 | x1 | 42 | 28 | 3 | 4995 | 0.65 | 25 | 38.5 | 25 | 1 |
Throwing spear | 50 | 30 | 0.6 | x1 | 50 | 24 | 4.2 | 4995 | 0.5 | 25 | 50 | 25 | 1 |
- Note: Melee damage is doubled in V.A.T.S.
Locations[]
- Most commonly found on ghost harvesters and ghost seekers.
- One can be found next to the stairs leading up to the first fountain near the Villa police station, impaling a skeleton on the ground.
Notes[]
Despite consisting of cosmic knives attached to the end of a long handle, there is no super-heated version of the knife spear and throwing knife spear.
Bugs[]
- baseball bat:[verified]
- Enemy blood on the spear will be floating off of the surface.
- The player character's palm will be stretched out. This happens with the baseball bat but because the bat is bigger than the spear, it can not normally be seen.
Due to the knife spear being a re-skin of the - The knife spear can, due to an unknown bug, disappear in the third person point of view, but reappear in the first person point of view. Although the knife spear disappears in the third person point of view, it can still be usable in combat as if the knife spear is still there active. Reloading a previous save does not fix this issue, nor does dropping the knife spear (even though in third person point of view, it appears on the ground, it will disappear again when equipping it).[verified]
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