Carmine Penta

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Corpus Weapons

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The Carmine Penta is a special variant of the Penta grenade launcher, featuring a higher fire rate and doubled magazine size. This weapon is currently only obtainable in WARFRAME (China) through a rebate program after purchasing at least ¥1 worth of Platinum.

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals primarily Blast damage.

Advantages :

• Innate Blast damage - effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
  • Physical contact with grenades deal Impact damage.
• Grenades have a blast radius of 5.5 meters.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  • Heavy Caliber does not significantly reduce accuracy.^{[citation needed]}
• Less explosion damage results in less damage dealt to self in comparison to the Ogris.
• Can use Adhesive Blast and the Penta-exclusive Tether Grenades mods.

Disadvantages:

• Innate Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor.
  • Explosion damage cannot be increased by mods that add Slash, Impact or Puncture damage.
• Can only have five grenades out at once.
  • Multishot mod's extra projectiles count towards the limit of five live grenades.
• Low critical chance.
• Low status chance.
• Low reload speed.
• Grenades that have stopped moving have no obvious visual or audio cue (but with "PhysX" enabled they have some sparks when come to complete rest).
• Grenades have slow travel time and heavy arcing.
• Grenades have a high bouncing capability which makes it hard to stack on a desired spot.
  • This can be countered with the Adhesive Blast mod which will make the grenades stick to any surface.
  • Can bounce off (stick to with Adhesive Blast) teammates or companions, potentially having lethal results.
• Low maximum ammo capacity.
• Draws from the rare sniper ammo pool.
• Grenades deal self-damage if they explode too close to the player, injuring or potentially killing the player if they're not careful with their shots.

Comparisons: Comparisons:

• Carmine Penta, compared to Penta:
  • Higher fire rate (2.7 rounds/sec vs. 1 round/sec)
  • Larger magazine (10 rounds vs. 5 rounds)

Comparisons:

• Carmine Penta, compared to Secura Penta:
  • Higher base damage (425.0 vs. 375.0)
  • Higher secondary attack damage (350.0 vs. 300.0)
  • Lower critical chance (10% vs. 26%)
  • Lower status chance (10% vs. 26%)
  • Higher fire rate (2.7 rounds/sec vs. 2 rounds/sec)
  • Larger magazine (10 rounds vs. 7 rounds)
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (20 rounds vs. 28 rounds)
  • Lack of an innate Sequence effect
  • Different polarities (None vs. )
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 12)

Weapon LoadoutsEdit

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

NotesEdit

• Although it features twice the magazine size of the regular Penta, only a maximum of five grenades can be active.
• Grenades will immediately explode when they hit Blunts, water surface, puddles from Tar Mutalist MOA or Bulwarks

TriviaEdit

• Carmine refers to a bright red pigment derived from various insects.

Carmine Penta Skins

Shock Camo

Patch HistoryEdit

“I was expecting... I don't know. More.” No patch history is available for this item (none documented in patch notes).

See alsoEdit

• Penta, the original version.
• Secura Penta, the Perrin Sequence custom version.