Changes: Lascaux

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The Lascaux is a Unique submachine gun manufactured by Dahl. Lascaux can be found submerged in a shallow pool in Frostburn Canyon.

Special Weapon Effects

The gun of the Bulls. – Extremely high burst-fire count. Bullet pattern is similar to the Lascaux cave paintings (see Trivia below). Can never carry an elemental effect and always spawns with a Double projectile mod and +100% Recoil Reduction.

Usage & Description

The Lascaux is an unusually powerful unique weapon for two reasons. First is that it uses one ammo count to fire two bullets, effectively giving it a rate of fire of 14.2-16.0 and twice its listed capacity. This is useful especially in close quarters where its high fire rate will ravage targets even without making critical hits. Second, it has a 10-13 rounds burst fire mode, which means when zoomed in, one pull of trigger will fire 20-26 bullets. Although the Lascaux has no muzzle climb, its firing pattern has a relatively large spread and makes it inaccurate beyond mid-range.

Notes

Gaige can make effective use of the Lascaux with Close Enough, allowing the random firing pattern to shred targets from behind, which is useful for varkids and spiderants.
The Lascaux is a good weapon choice for Gaige if she's focused on the Anarchy tree, as accuracy won't matter and the combined times for unloading and reloading magazines are relatively short.
The Lascaux may be acquired at any time, but will not scale to the player's level during Normal Mode or while the vanilla plot is in progress in True Vault Hunter Mode.
The Lascaux and the Sand Hawk are two Unique SMGs with similar usage but a few key differences. In general, the Lascaux is more limited in its range due to its large fixed spread, but is able to output more bullets over that range.

Trivia

Lascaux is a cave system in France, famous for its well-preserved palaeolithic paintings of dun horses, Aurochs, and Megaloceros. Further reference can be inferred from the effect description ('The gun of the Bulls.'): Aurochs are an extinct predecessor to the domesticated cow.

Media

Borderlands 2 Lascaux Farming Guide - Frostburn Canyon (Insane SMG)

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 *[[Gaige]] can make effective use of the Lascaux with [[Close Enough]], allowing the random firing pattern to shred targets from behind, which is useful for [[varkid]]s and [[Spiderant (Borderlands 2)|spiderants]].
 *The Lascaux is a good weapon choice for Gaige if she's focused on the [[Anarchy (skill)|Anarchy]] tree, as accuracy won't matter and the combined times for unloading and reloading magazines are relatively short.
-*The Lascaux does not scale to characters' levels in normal mode.
+*The Lascaux may be acquired at any time, but will not scale to the player's level during Normal Mode or while the vanilla plot is in progress in True Vault Hunter Mode.
+*The Lascaux and the [[Sand Hawk]] are two Unique [[SMG|SMGs]] with similar usage but a few key differences. In general, the Lascaux is more limited in its range due to its large fixed spread, but is able to output more bullets over that range.
-*The best [[Submachine Gun|SMG]] in [[Borderlands 2]] is between the Lascaux and the [[Sand Hawk]]. Sand Hawk is slightly more efficient in ammo consumption (consumes 0.375 ammo per projectile vs. 0.5 ammo per bullet for Lascaux). While the accuracy of Lascaux deteriorates dramatically beyond mid-range, Sand Hawk has no such problem. Sand Hawk can also spawn with elemental effects, while The Lascaux can only be non-elemental. However, in terms of damage per second, Lascaux can burst fire 20-26 bullets in about a second, while Sand Hawk's 3 or 4 rounds burst fire means 3 or 4 waves of 8 projectiles slowly move towards target, Sand Hawk therefore cannot match the immediate impact of Lascaux. Another point in favour of Lascaux is that it is very easy to acquire.
 ==Trivia==