Incendiary Pistol Bullet

Pistol and SMG rounds with added fire damage and a slower flight. Worth it in a corridor fight, a liability once the target is more than a few metres off.

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Characteristics

Category: Ammunition

Stack size: 128

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 60 Scrap

Damage: 56

Bullet speed: 225 m/s

Overview

In-game description

Slower moving ammunition that deals fire damage. There's a small chance it will start a fire.

Use them up close, inside something. In a tight monument corridor or a base you have just breached, the fire damage stacks on top of an ordinary hit and the target has nowhere to step out of the flames.

Pros

Cons

Extra fire damage in fights that end within a few metres
Same guns as regular rounds, so no new weapon to carry

Slower bullet, so more lead and more drop at range
Every round costs sulfur you could put into raiding

Anything that fires the plain pistol bullet takes these, from the semi-automatic pistol to the Thompson. But most players keep normal rounds in the mag and only run incendiary after finding a pile in a crate. Honestly that is the right call. A shot that drops short loses you more fights than a bit of burn damage wins.

Damage

Weapon	Close	Far	Per second
Custom SMG	33.6	26.9	336
Handmade SMG	22.4	17.9	160
M92 Pistol	50.4	40.3	336
MP5A4	42	33.6	420
Prototype 17	44.8	35.8	398
Python Revolver	61.6	49.3	411
Revolver	39.2	31.4	224
Semi-Automatic Pistol	44.8	35.8	299
Thompson	42	33.6	323