Talk:Kestrel/@comment-24.74.4.230-20140907021442

a couple points about this weapon people should be aware of.

1) it will not bounce to additional enemies. it hits one enemy then bounces off walls or whatever is around then returns. i mistakenly thought when it said bounces 3 times, that meant to 3 enemies. no. it just means it likes to bounce off the environment before it returns. this is a single target weapon. you might be able to use the punch-through mod and hit more than one if they are perfectly in a line, but it also adds an explosion that you can kill yourself with if it happens to make the last bounce near you.

2) it can, and will, get stuck in the environment leaving you unable to use the weapon or any melee attacks for the rest of the mission. this can happen in the first few throws if you are unlucky and you get to play the entire mission with what amounts to an empty melee weapon slot. i can only assume this is a bug, but it is what it is.

3) the only positive thing about this weapon, at all: it can ragdoll heavies. that napalm that does so much damage? you can keep him knocked down from 100% to 0. so if you dont need a real melee weapon and you refrain from using it very much so it doesnt get stuck in the environment, you can cheese the crap out of the some harder enemies the game throws at you.