Night Hawkin is a legendary submachine gun in Borderlands 3 manufactured by Dahl.
It is obtained randomly from any suitable loot source, but has an increased chance to drop from Demoskaggon located in The Droughts and from I'm Rakkman located in Carnivora, both on Pandora.
Special Weapon Effects[]
Stranger than things.
- Changes element depending on the local time: Cryo during day time (8:00-20:00 normally), incendiary at night (20:00-8:00 normally).
- Fires more or less projectiles depending on the time of day: Fires +1 projectile after 19:00, which increases to +2 after 23:00, then decreases to +1 at 9:00, and return to +0 at 10:00.
- Increases elemental effect chance for each hit.
- No delay between firing bursts; However, unlike most Dahl weapons, the user need to release the trigger between firing bursts. Rapidly clicking firing button makes it fire faster than fully-automatic mode.
Usage & Description[]
This weapon is recommended to use as a incendiary SMG at night and morning. Its effectiveness is also affected by the location across the galaxy.
Fully automatic versions tend to have higher recoil than semi-automatic versions as well as a much lower fire rate. The lack of delay on the burst fire can empty an entire magazine in a very short time, dealing high damage per second.
Notes[]
- The weapon card will always display the cryo stats for the weapon regardless of time of day.
- Due to level restrictions on cryo weapons, low level variants of the weapon will not have elemental accessory (which means that they don't have damage penalty of elemental weapon) but the special effect is still applied.
- The projectiles per shot shown on weapon card can be misreading, as it doesn't change by the time.
- Due to a bug or limitation, any multiplier will only display on the weapon if either the game is loaded or the weapon is first picked up while it is the appropriate time of day and the gun can change modes. Guns stored on Sanctuary III never display this multiplier when the game is reloaded, even if they do when freshly stored.
- Comparing to Pandora, The hour goes slower on Promethea and Eden-6, and faster on Nekrotafeyo.
- In area without local time like Sanctuary III, Night Hawkin will always be cryo without firing extra projectiles.
- In certain area with local time like The Slaughter Shaft, Night Hawkin will also always be cryo no matter what time it is. The projectile modifying effect may work or not.
- Moze has a watch that shows the local time, which can help to check the effectiveness of this weapon.
- On the PS4, the DualShock 4 controller's backlight color will change depending on the element of the currently equipped weapon. This can be used to easily tell which of the Night Hawkin's elements is active (light blue for cryo and red-orange for incendiary).
Trivia[]
- The flavor text and name are a reference to the 2016 web television series Stranger Things.
- Night Hawkin shares the same painting with Warlord, Omniloader, Brashi's Dedication and Kaos.
| |||||||||||