Penetrator

Penetrator
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Manufacturer:	Dahl
Type:	Semi-Automatic Sniper Rifle
Model:	Penetrator
Rarity:	Legendary
Element:	Any ×2-3
Damage:	97 – 1025
Accuracy:	94.0 – 95.6
Fire Rate:	3.0 – 5.6
Magazine Capacity:	8 – 10
Special Part(s): barrel1_Dahl_Penetrator

The Penetrator is a Sniper Rifle manufactured by Dahl.

Examples are on the talk page.

Special Weapon Effects

Sniper Killer... Qu'est que c'est - Fully automatic. Increased rate of fire, recoil reduction and ammo capacity.

Usage & Description

The Penetrator is a fully automatic Sniper Rifle. It can unload its entire magazine in less than two to three seconds. Alongside the Hyperion Invader, it sports some of the highest long range damage per second in Borderlands. It consumes ammo at a more than alarming rate. It's recommended that the player either use this weapon sparingly, or be equipped with a COM that regenerates sniper rifle ammo. The Penetrator can be seen as a hybrid between a Combat Rifle and a Sniper Rifle, possessing the high damage and small clip size of a Sniper, while maintaining a high rate of fire of a Combat Rifle. The accuracy & recoil stats falls in between the two archetypes, it's more accurate and features more recoil than a Combat Rifle, but less accurate than high quality snipers and presents less recoil than a sniper rifle firing at this fire rate should have. It also has a tendency to spawn with scope_1, further suggesting that this weapon should be used for medium-range encounters.

Although the Penetrator gives the player a sense of spray-and-pray styled gameplay, if all shots land, it will outdamage most other single shot Sniper Rifles. It is especially effective against bosses/enemies with difficult to hit critical hit locations and is not particularly weak to any element. Such as Devastators, Crawmerax the Invincible, and Spiderants.

Notes

• The Penetrator's rarity is always green, blue or purple - it is a weapon of glitched rarity due to the rarity settings on the weapon's title not being set to +50 like a normal legendary gun, instead the rarity value is +5.
• Very useful to shave off Bloodwing cooldown with Mordecai's Carrion Call skill.
• When combined with a means of regenerating ammo, the Penetrator is exceptionally useful against Crawmerax the Invincible. The high fire rate, decent normal damage, and additional damage for critical hits (only critical hits deal damage to Crawmerax) make quick work of his weak points.
• The only legitimate prefixes are Liquid (if no "D" model suffix) and Desert (if "D" model suffix).

Trivia

• The red text is a reference to the song "Psycho Killer" by the Talking Heads, with a line from the chorus: "Psycho Killer... Qu'est que c'est?"
• The band Cage the Elephant, who wrote the intro song Ain't no rest for the wicked also did a cover of Psycho Killer
• The phrase "Qu'est-ce que c'est" itself is French, meaning "What is that/it".

Mechanics

The Penetrator gets its effect from the barrel1_Dahl_Penetrator, which is heavily modified from the generic barrel1 part. Penetrators are never exceptionally accurate or powerful, as barrel1 is one of the worst barrels available on Sniper Rifles. When compared to a barrel5, the Penetrator is less accurate and damaging, but has better recoil reduction. Furthermore, when combined with the recoil reducing Dahl materials, it will provide enough stability for sustained automatic fire over medium ranges.

barrel1_Dahl_Penetrator	barrel1	barrel5
Recoil: -150% Fire Rate: +150% Clip Size: +3 Tech Level: +2	Damage: -4%	Recoil: -50% Damage: +15% Accuracy Maximum: -40% Accuracy Minimum: -150% Spread: -130%