Boltor Prime

The Boltor Prime is the prime variant of the Boltor rifle. Like its classic version, its bolts' flight time require compensation, making this weapon more difficult to use at longer ranges, and requiring the user to lead targets for effectiveness. Despite this, the Boltor Prime can easily punish close-range targets with its high damage.

On February 9th, 2016, it was announced that Boltor Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on February 16th, 2016. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High base damage.
 * Deals high damage – effective against armor.
 * High rate of fire.
 * Knocks targets back on kill and damages other targets in the path.
 * Low Recoil.
 * High accuracy.
 * Comes with and  polarities.

Disadvantages:
 * Bolts have a small amount of travel time.
 * Low  and no damage – less effective against shields and health.
 * Low critical chance.
 * Below-average ammo efficiency in general, especially when used with Speed Trigger.
 * Long reload time.

Comparisons:
 * Boltor Prime, compared to the Boltor:
 * Higher base damage (55.0 vs. 25.0).
 * Higher damage (5.5 vs. 2.5).
 * Higher damage (49.5 vs. 20.0).
 * Does not have damage (0.0 vs. 2.5).
 * Higher critical damage (2.0x vs. 1.5x).
 * Faster rate of fire (10.0 rounds/sec vs. 8.8 rounds/sec).
 * Slightly faster reload time (2.4s vs. 2.6s).
 * Slightly faster projectile speed (70.0 m/s vs. 65.0 m/s).
 * Higher accuracy (50.0 vs. 25.0).
 * Has an extra polarity.
 * Boltor Prime, compared to the Telos Boltor.
 * Slightly higher base damage (55.0 vs. 50.0).
 * Slightly higher  damage (5.5 vs. 5.0).
 * Higher  damage (49.5 vs. 45.0).
 * Higher status chance (10.0 % vs. 7.5%).
 * Smaller magazine size (60 vs. 90).
 * Slightly faster rate of fire (10.0 rounds/sec vs. 9.33 rounds/sec).
 * Slightly faster projectile speed (70.0 m/s vs. 65.0 m/s).
 * Higher accuracy (50.0 vs. 25.0).
 * No innate Truth effect.

Tips

 * Since it has medium ammo economy, mods like Rifle Ammo Mutation or Ammo Drum can be used to gain extra ammo if needed, or alternatively, a Team Ammo Restore can be used.
 * The Boltor Prime has a knockback effect on kill that can be used instead of Punch Through to save an additional mod slot.
 * The knockback works with Punch Through mods, making a Boltor Prime with Shred or Metal Auger devastating when fired against lines of enemies as it both punches through them and knocks any killed enemies back into the line.

Trivia

 * Boltor Prime is the sixth primed Primary weapon ever released.
 * Compared to previous Prime weapons, the Boltor and the Boltor Prime have a much closer resemblance to each other.
 * A possible explanation is the manufacturing faction. The Boltor is a Tenno produced weapon, unlike, for example, the Braton.
 * The Boltor Prime's gold parts can be recolored as of.