Catabolyst

Infested

Weapons

Catabolyst

Statistics

Utility

Primary

Damage Falloff

Full damage up to 9.0 m
Min damage at 19.0 m
20.00% max reduction

Partial Reload Impact

Reload From Empty Explosion

Damage Falloff

Full damage up to 0.0 m
Min damage at 7.0 m
50.00% max reduction

Reload From Empty Impact

Trigger Type

Held

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update 29.5

CODEX

Splatter enemies with a short-range stream of corrosive bile and then toss the ammo bladder as a grenade when reloading. The emptier the pistol's ammo bladder, the more potent its damage. A fully empty bladder packs the biggest punch.

Catabolyst is an Infested sidearm that fires short-ranged Corrosive beam. When reloading the Catabolyst's clip is thrown like a grenade, with greatly increased potency if reloading from an empty clip.

Characteristics[edit | edit source]

This weapon primarily deals Corrosive damage.

Advantages:

Innate Corrosive damage – effective against Ferrite Armor and Fossilized.
Very high critical multiplier.
Extremely high status chance.
High fire rate.
Fairly fast reload speed.
Innate 0.9 meter Punch Through.
Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
Reload throws a grenade at the reticle that explodes on impact with a surface or enemy.
- Damage, critical chance, status chance, and explosion range increase when reloading with no ammo in the magazine.
Innate polarity.

Disadvantages:

Innate Corrosive damage – less effective against Proto Shields.
Primary beam:
- Low critical chance.
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 80% from 9m to 19m target distance. Distances are affected by Projectile Speed but do not increase the maximum range of the beam.
- Damage ramps up from ?% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to ?% over 2 seconds.
- Limited range of 19 meters.
Reload grenade:
- Low base critical chance.
- Has travel time.
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from central impact.

Acquisition[edit | edit source]

The Catabolyst's blueprint can be researched from the Bio Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	5	4	7	10	Time: 24 hrs
30,000	5	4	7	10	Rush: 35
Market Price: 190			Blueprints Price:50,000
Bio Lab Research 3,000
5,000	40	650	3,750	4,250	Time: 72 hrs
5,000	40	650	3,750	4,250	Prereq: Embolist
x1 x3 x10 x30 x100

Notes[edit | edit source]

Will not reload automatically on an empty magazine, preserving the grenade. The player must manually reload the weapon or attempt to shoot again to throw the grenade.
If reload is interrupted after throwing an empty clip, reloading again will throw a weaker grenade.
The grenade throwing animation speed is affected by reload speed.
Synth Charge increases the grenade damage.
Increasing magazine capacity has no effect on grenade damage.
Adding additional Punch Through affects the reload grenade, causing it to deal miniscule damage and pass through the floor without causing an explosion.