Bronco

The Bronco is a small-scale shotgun that can be wielded with one hand. Only effective at close range, it has a limited clip size.

The Bronco functions like a cross between a shotgun and handgun, that comes in a handy package to complement long range primary weapons.

This weapon can be sold for 5,000‍5,000; it is also a requisite ingredient for Akbronco (x2).

Manufacturing Requirements
20,000	2	1,200	700	800	Time: 12 hrs
20,000	2	1,200	700	800	Rush: 25
Market Price: 190			Blueprints Price:15,000

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.

Advantages:

High base damage.
- High Impact damage – effective against shields.
High status chance.
Good fire rate.
High reload speed.
Very ammo efficient.

Disadvantages:

Low Puncture and Slash damage – less effective against armor and health.
Very low critical chance.
Linear damage falloff from 100% to 75% from 7m to 14m target distance (distances are affected by projectile flight speed).
Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one pellet will proc a status; the actual base status chance per pellet is ~3.49%.
Extremely small magazine size of just 2 rounds; requires frequent reloading.
Wide pellet spread cone makes the weapon ineffective beyond medium range.

Comparisons:

Bronco, compared to Akbronco:
- Lower fire rate (5 rounds/sec vs. 8.33 rounds/sec)
- Smaller magazine (2 rounds vs. 4 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (1.05 s vs. 2.25 s)
- Different polarities (None vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 2)

Bronco, compared to Bronco Prime:
- Lower base damage (280.0 vs. 350.0)
  - Lower Impact damage (224.0 vs. 280.0)
  - Lower Puncture damage (28.0 vs. 35.0)
  - Lower Slash damage (28.0 vs. 35.0)
- Lower status chance (22% vs. 30%)
- Higher fire rate (5 rounds/sec vs. 4.17 rounds/sec)
- Shorter range before damage falloff starts (7m vs. 9m)
- Shorter range before damage falloff ends (14m vs. 18m)
- Larger max damage reduction due to falloff (75% vs. 74%)
- Smaller magazine (2 rounds vs. 4 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (1.05 s vs. 2 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 4)

Weapon LoadoutsEdit

See Category:Bronco Build to see how players mod this weapon.
See Category:Bronco Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.

TipsEdit

The weapon's spread cone can be shrunken by zooming in.
It is surprisingly effective at dealing damage over groups of enemies, in close to mid range fights.
- Using maxed Seeker is recommended to upgrade its crowd controlling capability, making it the best scatter-damaging sidearm.

NotesEdit

The damage listed is actually the combination of all seven pellets' damage values. The actual damage per pellet is 12 impact, 1.5 puncture, and 1.5 slash

TriviaEdit

The word Bronco is a term in a Spanish Dialect meaning "rough".
- It is also a common term for wild horse in Western culture.

Its appearance is similar to the Mauler shotgun-pistol from Halo.

MediaEdit

Patch HistoryEdit

Update 22.12

Damage increased from 38 to 40 (per pellet).
Status chance increased from 20% to 22%.
Critical chance increased from 2.5% to 6%.

Update 21.0

Damage increased from 15 to 38.
Damage fall off added starting from 7m and ending at 14 with a minimum damage of 10.
Status Chance increased from 14% to 20%.

Update 18.0

Bronco series are available for use in Conclave.

Hotfix 8.3.1

Sound tweak to Bronco.

Update 8.3

Sound changes.

Update 7.11

Market changes: was 35,000 credits, now blueprint and 190 platinum.

Update 7.x Weapon Balance

Tweaks to Recoil feel and Accuracy, generally sharper Rotation and Translation Springs, added Noise & better spread control when firing while aimed. Added force feedback to all firing sounds.
Total number of pellets now 7, was 8.
Reload time now 1.05, was 1.
Crit Chance now 2.5%, was 5%.

Vanilla

Introduced with game release.

Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5

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