Consumables - Drones
Choke Cowboy Beetle
Choke Beetles can be saddled up and let you see the lay of the land. When they kick the bucket or you give the word, they'll burst into a choking cloud of gas thick as desert dust.
Item figures
These are the game's own stat-card figures - the same numbers the in-game store shows.
Item figures
- Damage
- 1
- Radius
- 3m
- Throw
- 15m
- Beetle life
- 60s
- Control
- 150m
What it does
Figures the shop card does not show, read from the item's own files.
- Flight speed 7 m/s
- Control range 150m
- Grace out of range 20s
In flight
How this leaves your hand. A heavier, slower item drops away faster and is harder to place at range.
- Launch speed 15.5 m/s
- Mass 0.10 kg
- Cannot be defused -
No trait can defuse this once it is thrown - Dauntless does not work on it.
What traits change here
These figures are this item's own - the same trait moves another item by a different amount.
- Pitcher 15.5 -> 21 m/s
Traits that suit it
The game's own suggestions for this item.
Against the bestiary
How loud it is
Heard within 1 m of where it goes off.
Computed the same way a firearm's page is: against every catalogued creature's own hit-zone table, per attack.
Against the bestiary
Light attack
Deals Melee Blunt damage. It hits Immolator hardest (1.44x) and Water Devil softest (0.45x).
Five or more
Doctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadMuzzled Hellhound JawImmolator HeadWater Devil BodyArmored HeadConcertina Armored HeadAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotHellborn HeadMeathead Torso UpperSpider HeadButcher HeadBloodskin WeakspotScrapbeak Head
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 30
- Upper torso 13
- Torso 13
- Left arm 13
- Right arm 13
- Left leg 9
- Right leg 9
Against a hunter's 150 health, from the game's own hunter hit-zone table. This carries no falloff, so the figures do not change with distance.
Where these figures come from
Every figure on this page is read from the game's own files at build time - nothing is measured in-game or entered by hand.
Item definition
- game_hunt/livedata/libs/gamedatabase/metaitems/consumables/drones.xml
- game_hunt/livedata/libs/gamedatabase/equipment/player/consumables/2t_consumable_recon_wc0039_drone_choke_cowboy.xml
Display text
- localization/english_xml/english_xml/text_ui_equipment.xml
- localization/russian_xml/russian_xml/text_ui_equipment.xml
- localization/chineses_xml/chineses_xml/text_ui_equipment.xml