This compact launcher fires spring-loaded projectiles over short distances. Deals tremendous damage on direct impact.
- Cycle
- -
- Damage falloff
- -
- Ammo
- 1/3=4
loaded / in reserve / total
110- Zoom
- ×1.67
Damage
Damage by hit zone
This weapon has no damage falloff, so these do not change with distance.
- Head -
- Upper torso -
- Torso -
- Left arm -
- Right arm -
- Left leg -
- Right leg -
How the bullet falls
Aimed at the top of the head - how far the round falls below it, on the axis and marks the bars above use
15
221m
- 1 Head0-9m 0.00 m below the line here
- 2 Upper torso9-16m 0.25 m below the line here
- 3 Torso16-18m 0.66 m below the line here
- 4 Legs18-27m 0.89 m below the line here
- 5 Ground27m+ 1.84 m below the line here
The damage model
- Per hit
- 150before falloff
- Raw projectile
- 150
Flight
- Zero range
- 10m before it starts falling
- Gravity
- -14m/s squared, downward
- Time of flight
- 1.67s to 100 m - computed from velocity
Against the bestiary
Deals Internal damage. It hits Bloodskin hardest (11x) and Armored softest (1x).
Killed outright by one hit
Bileweaver HeadBloodweaver HeadDoctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadHellhound HeadMuzzled Hellhound HeadHive HeadWater Devil BodyFirebreather HeadArmored HeadConcertina Armored HeadImmolator HeadMeathead Upper torsoBrute WeakspotUrsa Mortis Weakspot
One shot
Leech Body
Two shots
Rotjaw WeakspotAssassin HeadBloodskin WeakspotHellborn Head
Three shots
Butcher HeadScrapbeak HeadSpider Head
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this weapon's damage type, at point blank. Falloff at range can only ask for more shots, never fewer - so a creature this weapon one-shots here may need two further out.
Handling
What firing does to your view
The muzzle climbs 8° after every shot, 4° while aiming. How much of the screen that eats is not fixed - it depends on how wide your own field of view is, so these are drawn at the game's default 55°, and a wider setting costs you less of it.
- The kick itself plays out in 0.1s, long over before you can fire again at 5.73s.
- Aiming slows how fast you can swing the gun around to 60% of normal.
- Its kick is steeper than 84% of 31 special loadouts.
Where the shot goes
Your weapon rests shouldered, so that is the cone an unaimed shot uses - crouching, walking and jumping all scale it. Sighted, it closes to 0.45.
- 6 Jumping ×2
- 3 Shouldered
- 0.45 Aiming
- Its shouldered cone is better than 35% of 34 special loadouts.
- Jumping throws a sighted shot away entirely - the cone opens from 0.45 to 1350.
How sway builds
Across0.25 Up and down0.1 start → end
1
0 s1 s2 s3 s4 s
Seconds since you aimed
- 1 Holdsfor as long as you aim 0.25 across · 0.1 up and down The sway stays this size for as long as you stay aimed.
What you wait for
One shot, then 5.1 s to load it back. 5.1 s for one full trip through the magazine.
5.1 s reloading
- Its reload is better than 60% of 31 special loadouts.
Melee and the bestiary
Attacks
Light attack
- Damage
- 15
- Damage type
- Melee Blunt
- Cleave cap
- 1 body
- Recovery
- 0.85 sbefore the next light attack
- Tired
- 1.95 sthe delay once you are out of stamina
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 the bestiary
Light attack
Deals Melee Blunt damage. It hits Hive hardest (2.8x) and Water Devil softest (0.45x).
Two hits
Leech BodyBileweaver HeadBloodweaver Head
Three hits
Hive Head
Five or more
Doctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadHellhound HeadMuzzled Hellhound JawFirebreather HeadImmolator HeadWater Devil BodyArmored HeadConcertina Armored HeadBrute WeakspotUrsa Mortis WeakspotAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotHellborn HeadMeathead Upper torsoSpider HeadButcher HeadBloodskin WeakspotScrapbeak Head
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Traits and perks
What traits change
Where a trait swaps in a different reload animation, the seconds are that animation's own length, separate from the weapon's reload stat. A longer start is not always worse: on a clip-fed rifle the expedited animation takes longer to begin and then loads several rounds at once.
Recommendations
Blade Seer Recommended 1 pts While using Dark Sight, increases distance of highlighted Bolts, Arrows, Harpoons, Throwing Axes, and Throwing Knives to 75m. Also applies to Beetle View.
Bolt Thrower Recommended 3 pts Reduce reload time for Crossbows, Bomb Launchers, and Bomb Lances.
Crack Shot Reduce sway for weapons and increase zoom level in iron sights for rifles and pistols with stocks. Excludes shotguns and sawed-off variants.