How To Get The Unique “The Smitty Special” Plasma Caster In Fallout: New Vegas

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The Sitty Special is a unique Plasma Caster that can be purchased from Gloria Van Graff, located inside The Silver Rush in Freeside.

Quick tips before you go buy this weapon:

Expensive. The weapon is incredibly expensive, as it can cost as much as 25,000 caps.
- You can circumvent the cost using Ghost Duping. The Ghost Dupe glitch allows you to purchase this weapon (and every other item) without it costing you a single cap. Link to a Ghost Duping guide here.

Acquisition

As mentioned previously, this weapon can be purchased from Gloria Van Graff at the Silver Rush in Freeside. If you don’t know how to get there, you can follow this guide:

Start by traveling to the location “The Strip North Gate”, located northwest of Camp McCarran.

The Strip North Gate on the world map | Fallout: New Vegas — *The Strip North Gate on the world map*

Go down the street to the northeast and take the last turn to the left.

The street to travel down | Fallout: New Vegas — *The street to travel down*

The last left turn | Fallout: New Vegas — *The last left turn*

You’ll see the Silver Rush at the end of this street.

Entrance to the Silver Rush | Fallout: New Vegas — *Entrance to the Silver Rush*

Go inside and speak to Gloria Van Graff, she’ll be standing behind the weapon-covered counter.

Gloria Van Graff behind her counter | Fallout: New Vegas — *Gloria Van Graff behind her counter*

Speak to her and buy the weapon from her.

Dialogue choice that opens her merchant inventory | Fallout: New Vegas — *Dialogue choice that opens her merchant inventory*

The Smitty Special in her merchant inventory | Fallout: New Vegas — *The Smitty Special in her merchant inventory*

Comparing The Smitty Special To The Plasma Caster

The Smitty Special fires in fully automatic mode.
It deals less damage (35 damage vs 65).
It fires more than 2x faster than the base Plasma Caster (7 attacks/second vs 3 attacks/second), this gap can be closed by fully upgrading the Plasma Caster, which will allow it to fire 3.75 attacks/second.
It has nearly double the spread (1.3 vs 0.7).
It has 2x the magazine capacity (20 vs 10).
Its durability is far higher (1095 attacks before breaking vs 395 attacks before breaking).

Gameplay Tips

Due to the existence of the Plasma Caster High-Speed Electrode upgrade for the base plasma caster, this is more of a cool side-grade to the Plasma Caster than a direct upgrade, as the DPS of the two weapons (provided the upgrade is installed is nearly identical).
The decreased damage makes this weapon less suitable against armored enemies.
The best usecase for this weapon is as a crowd control weapon for an energy weapons build, however, this role is better filled by weapons like the Gatling Laser.

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