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 ballistic grenades with primary fire, and detonates all active grenades with the Zoom feature.

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

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Grenades deal (450?) Blast damage, scaled by distance of explosion.
 * Firestorm increases the blast radius.
 * Default blast radius of 5 meters. 6.2 meters with a maxed Firestorm.
 * Grenades can be stacked before detonating, further increasing the damage.
 * Grenades deal Impact damage when hitting an enemy making it work 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.
 * Both launching and explosion are entirely silent to enemies.
 * Ridiculously ammo efficient.
 * Explosion can also cause procs.
 * Relatively cheap at Mastery Level 6.

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 that have stopped moving have no obvious 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.
 * Extremely deadly to the user, even more so than the Ogris, because:
 * Accidental premature detonation can cause instant death.
 * After landing, the grenade is very hard to see.
 * Grenades can bounce around and you can lose track of them, causing accidental death.
 * Inflicts full damage, including any Procs that may occur.
 * Requires Mastery Level of 6.

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 in a heavy arc, allowing the player to kill enemies hiding behind cover much more easily, as the detonation happens upon external trigger.
 * Standing at a greater height allows for the grenades to be lobbed and bounce further, allows the user to see the grenade better, as well as eliminating the worry of self-damage.

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.

Bugs

 * Rarely a detonation will cause damage to you even if the grenade is well beyond the explosion radius.