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The fire bomb is a weapon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts.
Characteristics
A hand-thrown incendiary weapon made out of a Sunset Sarsaparilla bottle that has been filled with a flammable substance and stuffed with a rag to ignite it. It will also turn enemies into piles of green goo if the killing blow is a Critical Hit, similar to that of plasma-based energy weapons. It is considered an improved holdout weapon.
Locations
- One can be stolen from Angel cave, clutched in the hand of a partially buried skeleton.
- White Legs light-bringers and Dead Horse stalkers carry them.
- Sometimes found in explosives crates in Survivalist caves.
- Joshua Graham will usually have some for sale.
- It can be purchased from Vendortron at the Gun Runners after returning to the Mojave Wasteland.
- Occasionally can be purchased from Chet at Goodsprings.
- Can occasionally be purchased from Michelle Kerr at the 188 Trading Post.
- Can also be purchased from Alexander, underneath the overpass at the 188 Trading Post.
Notes
- As the fire bomb uses the dynamite animation set, the model of the weapon is not an exact match for the world model of Sarsaparilla bottles, including the dimensions and texture.
- Fire bombs also provide an alternative version of the planting items trick. Instead of one's target exploding (as with other explosives), they will erupt into flames and collapse. If the target is knocked down, they will simply erupt into flames on whatever they were lying on.
- Like a grenade, they do not go off on contact, so they can bounce away from the target. Also, they have a small effect radius. These two combined make them difficult to use outside of V.A.T.S.
- A flip lighter is used to ignite the bottle's rag, though the lighter will never be seen in one's inventory and is not obtainable as a separate item. A similar lighter is part of the texture files for the cut Molotov cocktail in Fallout 3. The flip lighter is also used in lighting short and long-fuse dynamite.
Behind the scenes
The fire bomb's function and cobbled-together design is based on the Molotov cocktail, an umbrella term for improvised explosives both incendiary and otherwise, coined as a derogative aimed at then-Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Soviet Union, Vyacheslav Molotov by the Finnish during the Winter War.
Gallery
Fire bomb in the perk image for Fight the Power!
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