Alternate Fire (also known as Secondary Fire) is a feature of some weapons that performs a different action than their normal fire modes, or interacts with their primary fire mode in some way. As of Update 17.0, Alternate fire can be bound to a dedicated button/key (and is bound to Mouse3 on PC and R. Thumbstick on PS4 and XB1 by default). Prior to this, weapons with Alternate Fire modes used the button/key dedicated to aiming a weapon (RMB on PC,L2 on PS4 and LT on XB1), meaning that many of these weapons could not zoom or had limited zoom opportunities.
In all Sniper Rifles, Alternate Fire changes the current Zoom level while aiming, granting additional stat bonuses with greater zoom levels. Since each Sniper Rifle has its own Zoom levels and respective bonuses, they will not be listed here for the sake of convenience. Check their respective pages for more details.
Makes the beams generated by this weapon to spread outwards and sweeps back inward, as opposed to focusing inwards when holding down the Primary Fire key/button.
The beams will continuously sweep as long as the Alternate Fire key/button is held down. Releasing it will make the beams return to their original position.
Fires an grenade projectile that detonates after traveling 20 meters, dealing Blast damage in an 8 meter area of effect with a guaranteed proc.
If the shot hits an enemy before it detonates, the shot will instead deal reduced Impact damage to that enemy with a guaranteed proc, and if it hits a solid object, it will bounce off harmlessly. Both interactions cannot be overcome with Punch Through.
Throws the Ferrox up to 50 meters, dealing Electric damage in a 7 meter area of effect, chaining to any nearby enemies.
Every 5 seconds, the Ferrox generates an Electric pulse that damages enemies (with a high chance to proc) and passively pulls them closer to the Ferrox. This effect persists until the player retrieves the Ferrox.
The Ferrox will remain where it landed until its wielder moves over to pick it up, or until 20 seconds have passed where it automatically returns to the player's hands.
Throws the Javlok up to 50 meters, dealing Impact damage to any enemy it directly hits and Heat damage in a 7 meter area of effect.
The Javlok will remain where it landed until its wielder moves over to pick it up, or until 20 seconds have passed where it automatically returns to the player's hands.
While throwing the Javlok does not consume ammunition, the explosion will consume all ammo in the magazine, forcing reload on pickup.
Launches a slow-moving cuboid orb that deals Radiation damage to any enemy it makes contact with, and has a guaranteed chance to proc. It will remain in the air for 9 seconds then detonate, dealing damage in an area of effect.
The orb will bounce off surfaces and can be manipulated with melee attacks.
Fires all remaining ammunition in the magazine as a quick burst, forcing the player to reload afterwards.
Duration of the burst is affected by Magazine size and can be increased or decreased accordingly. In the event that the player gains infinite ammunition (such as the appropriate Reactant Buff), the burst will only last the Nagantaka's maximum Magazine size.
Burst has higher fire rate but is otherwise identical to the primary fire.
Launches a plasma bomb that detonates on impact, dealing Radiation and Impact damage in an area of effect.
Upon exploding, 5 plasma bomblets will be scattered into the air. These bomblets will then home into nearby targets, dealing Impact damage on direct contact with a target, and then exploding to deal Radiation damage.
The plasma bomb can be charged by holding down the Alternate Fire button, consuming additional ammunition and proportionally increasing both the damage dealt by the initial explosion and the plasma bomblets.
Consumes anywhere from 1 ammo, to the entire magazine, depending on how long the Alternate Fire button is held.
Launches a slow-moving cube that detonates on the first surface or enemy it comes in contact with, dealing Blast damage. Otherwise, it will remain in the air for 9 seconds then detonate, dealing damage in an area of effect.
The cube can be manually detonated by attacking it, making it deal extra damage.
Consumes 10 rounds of ammunition and will not function if the player has less than 10 rounds in the magazine.
Throws the Scourge up to 50 meters, dealing Impact damage to any enemy it directly hits and Corrosive damage in a 7 meter area of effect.
Every few seconds, the Scourge will generate a pulse that creates Magnetize bubbles on the heads of nearby enemies, increasing the likelihood of scoring headshots. This effect persists until the player retrieves the Scourge.
The Scourge will remain where it landed until its wielder moves over to pick it up, or until 20 seconds have passed where it automatically returns to the player's hands.
Detonates any active orb(s), dealing Electric damage in an area of effect and causing a guaranteed proc. Otherwise the orb(s) will remain in the air for 8 seconds then detonate by themselves.
Consumes 10 rounds of ammunition and requires a brief charging period before it can fire and will not function if the player has less than 10 rounds in the magazine.
Toggles between Burst, Semi-Automatic, and Automatic firing modes in that order.
While the damage stays unchanged across all three firing modes, their critical chance, critical multiplier, and status chance stats are changed accordingly: Burst-Fire is balanced, Semi-Automatic is geared towards critical stats, and Automatic is geared towards status chance.
By default, the Tiberon Prime starts any given mission as a Burst-Fire.
Cannon mode fires an explosive projectile in an arc that explodes on impact, dealing Blast damage in an area of effect and splitting into 6 projectiles that spread from point of impact, each dealing additional Blast damage.
Barrage mode works like a shotgun, shooting 6 pellets in a wide spread, each dealing 1/3 of the Zarr's base damage as Physical Damage. There is no damage fall-off with distance; but pellets will deal no damage at all if target is further than ~15 in-game meters away.
By default, the Zarr starts any given mission in Cannon Mode.
Launches the Zenith's disc, where upon landing it will make any enemy visible through walls, provided the enemy is within a ~20 in-game meter radius of the disc.
The disc itself will last for ~20 seconds, though players can cancel the disc and its bonuses early via the Alternate Fire button.
While the disc is out, the Zenith switches from automatic fire to semi-automatic fire and gains infinite Punch Through for the duration of the disc, effectively allowing the player to shoot through walls.
Toggles between two different Zoom levels (2.0x and 4.0x), much like a Sniper Rifle.
Zooming in regardless of Zoom levels will show the current amount of Target Analysis stacks active (up to a maximum of 5), and the 2-second duration of the overall buff. If the duration expires, one stack is lost.
Ejects its magazine, where after it comes to a rest it hovers above the ground and acts as a turret, firing in a cross-shaped pattern that rotates clockwise until all ammunition is expended.
Multiple instances of the magazine-turret can be active simultaneously.
Once the turret expends all its ammunition it explodes, dealing Blast damage in an area of effect.
Consumes all ammunition in the Azima's magazine, forcing the player to reload afterwards.
Detonates any active charge(s), dealing Electric damage in an area of effect and causing a guaranteed proc.
Only 6 charges can be active at any given time. Throwing a charge when 6 charges are already out will cause the earliest-thrown charge to detonate prematurely.
Fires a spread of projectiles, as opposed to the primary fire's focused shot.
By comparison, the secondary fire primarily deals Slash damage with a high status chance, whereas its primary fire shoots a focused shot that primarily deals Impact damage and has a high Critical Chance.
Each knife deals the same base damage as the primary fire, but has reduced Fire Rate and drastically reduced Critical Chance.
Although the Arsenal display shows an increase to status chance, this is actually spread across all 3 knives, thus the status chanceper knife is lower than it appears.
Consumes 3 rounds of ammunition and will not function if the player has less than 3 rounds in the magazine.
Cycles between Toxin, Heat, Electricity, or Cold elemental quills in that order. Quills apply a guaranteed proc of the selected element.
Critical stats and Status Chance across all four quill types are unchanged, though the Heat and Electricity quills deal slightly more physical damage.
The selected elemental quill will not combine with any elemental damage mods to create secondary elemental damage types (for example, using Toxin quills with Deep Freeze equipped will not generate Viral damage). However, the quill's damage is enhanced with an elemental damage mod of the same type, even if it's combined with another elemental damage mod (using the above example, equipping Pistol Pestilence, allowing the Hystrix to deal Viral damage as is, will increase the damage of the Toxin quills).
By default, the Hystrix starts any given mission using Toxin Quills.
Manually detonates any airborne torpedoes, dealing Blast damage in an area of effect and launching 3 bomblets that spread from the point of detonation.
Will only function if there are any torpedoes airborne.
Fires all remaining ammunition in the magazine as a quick burst, forcing the player to reload afterwards.
Duration of the burst is affected by Magazine size and can be increased or decreased accordingly. In the event that the player gains infinite ammunition (such as the appropriate Reactant Buff), the burst will only last the Pandero's maximum Magazine size.
Damage, Critical stats, and status chance from the burst is identical compared to the primary fire but it suffers from high recoil and reduced accuracy, and the player cannot zoom in while burst-firing.
Detonates any active charge(s), dealing Blast damage in an area of effect and causing a guaranteed Puncture proc.
Only 8 charges can be active at any given time. Throwing a charge when 8 charges are already out will cause the earliest-thrown charge to detonate prematurely.
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