Characteristics
- Category
- Weapon
- Stack size
- 1
- Durability
- 100
- Craftable
- No
- Researchable
- No
- Damage
- 40
- Fire rate
- 533 shots/min
- Magazine
- 18
- Reload
- 2.9 s
Overview
A protype pistol with a built-in 3 round burst fire mode. Strong in close quarters. Swap between single shot and burst with [+firemode]
You will not find this in a tech tree. Prototype 17 cannot be researched or crafted, so every one comes from loot: airdrops, elite crates (the Underwater Lab ones too), helicopter and Bradley crates, and heavy scientists. Treat it as a bonus that lands in your inventory rather than a gun you build a kit around.
Think of it as a semi-automatic pistol that can also fire short bursts. Press the fire-mode key, usually M, to flip between single shots and bursts. In a doorway or a stairwell the burst is nasty, and it eats normal, HV and incendiary pistol rounds, so HV pistol ammo pays off when the target is sprinting across a gap.
Tip
Before you take it on a roam, check what you have. Recycling a Prototype 17 reliably gives a Burst Module, which otherwise turns up mostly in locked, Bradley and helicopter crates. The module goes on a semi-automatic rifle, an M39 or an M92, and the SAR at least is a gun you will keep crafting long after this pistol breaks.
If your main gun already has burst, carry it as a sidearm and spend it in the next monument fight. Saving a gun you cannot replace in a box only means someone loots it from that box later.
Damage
| Ammo | Close | Far | Per second |
|---|---|---|---|
|
40 | 32 | 356 |
|
44.8 | 35.8 | 398 |
|
40 | 32 | 356 |
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
