Piercer Bolt

The ballista's anti-vehicle bolt, built to punch through armour. Load it when something with an engine is coming your way, not for shooting at people.

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Characteristics

Category: Ammunition

Stack size: 3

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 30 Scrap

Damage: 80

Bullet speed: 100 m/s

Overview

In-game description

A piercing bolt for a ballista, capable of penetrating armored vehicles.

Somebody keeps driving a car built from armored cockpit modules past your base, and your rifle only chips away at it. That is the fight the piercer bolt is for. It goes into a ballista and is made to get through vehicle armour that normal bolts and bullets struggle with.

It is a specialist round, and the price says so. Each one takes high quality metal, the same HQM you need early in a wipe for armored doors and gun bodies. So you do not waste piercers on players walking in the open. A pitchfork bolt handles people far more cheaply, and the hammerhead eats the same HQM, so save it for doors.

If your base sits by the ring road, keep a stack of piercers next to the ballista. Car crews pass there all the time, and you want to answer them the first time they roll by, not after you have run to the box.