Penta

"The Penta Launcher fires up to five grenades that can be remotely triggered at just the right moment."

- In-Game Description

 is a Corpus Grenade launcher. It launches bouncy grenades with primary fire, and detonates all active grenades with the secondary fire.

Damage listed ingame is damage from physical grenade impact with a target. The explosion is significantly more powerful.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Grenades deal (350?) Blast damage, scaled by distance of explosion.
 * Firestorm increases the blast radius.
 * Grenades can be stacked before detonating, further increasing the damage.
 * Deals purely impact damage. Good for taking out shields, and works well with Rupture.
 * Grenades have no arming delay, and can be detonated instantly with the use of the Zoom button.
 * Grenades can be bounced around corners, off walls, and over low obstacles.
 * Clever use of grenade bounces can be utilized by skilled players to land trick shots similarly to the Glaive and Kestrel weapons
 * Grenade explosions have AoE damage that can be used for crowd control.
 * Both launching and explosion are entirely silent.
 * Insanely efficient ammunition economy

Disadvantages:
 * No polarities
 * Can only have five grenades out at once.
 * When using the Split Chamber mod, the extra projectiles count toward the limit of five live grenades.
 * Grenades can harm the user.
 * Grenades that have stopped moving have no visual or audio cue, and can be hard to spot.
 * Relatively slow launching rate makes this weapon ill-suited for close range, and the user-splash damage further adds to this disadvantage.
 * Grenades have travel time and heavy arcing.

Acquisition
The can be purchased for  and the blueprints for.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Grenades fired from the Penta are lobbed, allowing to shoot on an arc in order to deal with cover much easily, as the detonation happens upon external trigger.

Trivia

 * This is the first weapon to ever had the Zoom capability replaced with a different function.
 * Penta derives from the Greek prefix of "five", which makes sense as the grenade launcher composes a clip of 5 grenades.