Penta

Corpus Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Penta
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Launcher
Mastery Rank Requirement	6
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Active
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Max	20
Ammo Pickup	5
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●● (1.35x)
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	5
Reload Time	2.50 s
Projectile Speed	20.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Grenade Impact
75 ( 100%)
Total Damage	75 (100.00%  Impact)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	10.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (75.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Status Chance	10.00%
Projectile Speed	20.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Grenade Detonation
350 ( 100%)
Total Damage	350 (100.00%  Blast)
Crit Chance	10.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 4.0 m (50.00%)
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (350.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	4.0 m
Status Chance	10.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE, AOE, SINGLESHOT
Riven Family	Penta
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 11.3 (2013-12-12)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	7,500
Users	Penta Ranger M-W.A.M.
Variants	Carmine Penta  Penta  Secura Penta
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

The Penta Launcher fires up to five grenades that can be remotely triggered at just the right moment.

Penta is a Grenade launcher used by Penta Rangers. It launches ballistic grenades that can be manually detonated with Alternate Fire.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages :

• Innate damage - effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
  • Physical contact with grenades deal damage.
• Grenades explode in a 4 meter radius after impacting a surface or enemy.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Can use the Penta-exclusive  Tether Grenades and  Napalm Grenades, as well as the launcher-exclusive mods  Adhesive Blast mods.
• Can benefit from  Firestorm ( Primed),  Amalgam Furax Body Count, and  Cautious Shot.

Disadvantages:

• Innate damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor.
  • Explosion damage cannot be increased by , or mods.
• Grenades have slow travel time and heavy arcing.
• Low critical chance and status chance.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from central impact.
• Can only have five grenades out at once.
  • ​Extra projectiles generated by Multishot will count towards the limit of five live grenades.
• Slow reload speed.
• Grenades have a high bouncing capability which makes it hard to stack on a desired spot.
  • Can bounce off teammates or companions.
  • This can be countered with the  Adhesive Blast mod which will make the grenades stick to any surface.
• Low magazine size.
• Extremely low ammo capacity of 20; requires just 4 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
• Draws from the rare sniper ammo pool.

Comparisons:

•  Penta (Grenade Detonation), compared to  Secura Penta (Grenade Detonation):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (350.00 vs. 300.00)
    • Higher  Blast damage ( 350 vs. 300)
  • Higher total damage (350 vs. 300)
  • Lower base critical chance (10.00% vs. 26.00%)
  • Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 26.00%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (385 vs. 378)
  • Lower burst DPS (385 vs. 756)
  • Lower sustained DPS (256.66 vs. 441)
  • Closer max damage falloff distance (4.0 m vs. 6.0 m)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (50.00% vs. 60.00%)
  • Lower fire rate (1.000 attacks/sec vs. 2.000 attacks/sec)
  • Smaller magazine (5 vs. 7)
  • Less shots per magazine (5 vs. 7)
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (20 vs. 28)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 12)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))
  • No innate Sequence effect

•  Penta (Grenade Detonation), compared to  Carmine Penta (Grenade Detonation):
  • Equal base damage
  • Lower burst DPS (385 vs. 1039.5)
  • Lower sustained DPS (256.66 vs. 620.59)
  • Lower fire rate (1.000 attacks/sec vs. 2.700 attacks/sec)
  • Smaller magazine (5 vs. 10)
  • Less shots per magazine (5 vs. 10)
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (20 vs. 40)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))

Acquisition

The Penta's blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Alternatively, it can be acquired from completing the Jupiter to Saturn Junction.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
25,000	3	1,000	1,200	400	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:30,000

This weapon can be sold for 7,500 Credits 7,500.

Notes

• Detonations can be triggered while the player is performing other actions.
• The launch/flight of a grenade is silent (though the actual explosions are alarming, obviously).
• Grenades have no arming delay, and can be detonated instantly with the use of the Secondary Fire button.
• Grenades can be bounced around corners, off walls, and over low obstacles.
  • Grenades that continuously bounce into enemies will deal impact damage again and again even when already having bounced off of other enemies.
  • Grenades do not bounce when striking water, coming to a dead stop instead. This allows perfect aiming for setting traps.
• Increasing the Magazine size of the weapon does not increase the 5 grenade limit.
• Though the grenade explosion does not destroy rockets from Bombards, impacts by the grenades from very accurate (and lucky) shots can.
• With Multishot, the second grenade is usually indistinguishable from the first, as they follow the same trajectory simultaneously and bounce in the same direction. They can be "separated" with negative accuracy from a  Heavy Caliber at a reasonable rank.

Tips

• Grenades fired from the Penta are lobbed in a heavy arc, allowing the player to kill enemies hiding behind cover much more easily, as the detonation happens upon external trigger.
• Standing at a greater height allows for the grenades to be lobbed and bounce further, allowing the user to see the grenades better, as well as eliminating the worry of stagger.
• A maxed  Firestorm increases the blast radius from the initial 5 meters up to 6.2 meters, allowing more enemies to be caught in the blast.
• It is not recommended to use Punch Through mods as grenades can often go through the floor on some tilesets, making it impossible to bounce every time.
•  Split Chamber can spawn a sixth grenade provided that the multishot procs when 4 grenades are already out
  • While multishot mods are commonly considered necessary to increase damage output, due to the Penta's mechanics of careful detonation and limited grenades active at once, it's not as much of an instant damage increase as with normal weapons. It can be useful for setting up a large number of grenades faster, however.
• Elemental mods such as  Hellfire are external from the main Blast damage, allowing the weapon to have 3 separate elemental combinations.
• Players can detonate grenades in mid-air to score headshots on targets below.
• The default color of the grenades can make it hard to see in the middle of a crowd of enemies or from their bouncing. Changing energy color can help with certain tile sets (E.g. do not use bright white for Corpus Outpost missions).
• Grenades will immediately explode when they hit Blunts, water surface, puddles from Tar-Mutalist Moa or Bulwarks.

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Trivia

• Penta derives from the Greek prefix of "five", which may refer to its magazine of 5 grenades.
  • This seems to be the first Corpus weapon to be named after Greek origin instead of Latin.
  • It could also be derived from the explosive compound PENTA.
    • Notably, PENTA does not usually detonate upon impact or ignition, but rather needs an external explosive trigger, similar to the Penta's grenades.
• The Penta (and its variants) are the first and currently only weapons for which the magazine becomes visibly larger as magazine capacity is increased. With high enough capacity the magazine will even protrude out from the bottom of the magazine feed.
• The Penta formerly used  Rifle Ammo Mutation instead of  Sniper Ammo Mutation, despite still using sniper ammo. This was fixed in Update 17.5 (2015-10-01).
• The Penta was one of the first weapons with a non-static model: The magazine feeds up to the gun upon firing and the slide around the barrel are pulled back during reloading actions.
• The Penta was the first Corpus weapon to focus on explosive weaponry, followed by the  Lenz in Update 21.3 (2017-08-02).
• The grenades are flat and rectangular, which is odd, considering their ability to bounce.
  • Prior to Update 23.2 (2018-08-02), the  Tether Grenades augment changed the grenade model to be a short cylinder with concave ends. It still used the default grenade texture, which looked strange but was normally obscured by the grenades's blue glow.
  •  Tether Grenades now causes the grenade to spin towards the enemy instead of staying flat.
• Prior to Update 18.5 (2016-03-04),  Adhesive Blast caused grenades to explode after a set amount of time.
• This was the first weapon to have the Zoom capability replaced with a different function pre-Update 17.0 (2015-07-31).
• The Arsenal interface used to label only the damage of the grenade projectile impact, but now labels the damage of the projectile as well as the base damage seperately (350 base).

Bugs

• In its Arsenal UI, it does not display its trigger function, though it functions as Semi-Auto, possibly because it deals damage on impact, unlike other Active trigger weapons.

Media

• Penta Reinforcements image
• Penta in Codex
• The default grenade of the Penta with default colours.
• The grenade of a Penta equipped with the Tether Grenades augment prior to Update 23.2.

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Patch History

Hotfix 27.3.16 (2020-04-22)

• Fixed Penta grenades becoming stuck when Napalm Grenades is equipped, thus rendering the Penta unusable. As reported here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1174244-penta-grenades-getting-stuck-causing-the-weapon-to-be-completely-useless/

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)
Reduced the following AoE weapons Radial Damage Falloff from central impact that were all previously 90%:

• Penta: 50%

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Self Damage Changes

We are getting rid of Self Damage and replacing it with something else: instead of Self Damage, it’s now ‘Stagger’. This change completely removes the chance of killing yourself, and instead now creates scenarios where you will interrupt yourself - or ‘Stagger’ - to varying degrees if you aren’t careful.

The degrees of Self-Interrupt start with a small stumble all the way to full knockdown depending on how close you are to the center of explosion. Any Mods referring to Self Damage will be converted to acknowledge Stagger.

With this Self-Interrupt system, we have added dozens of new recovery animations that harness a ninja-like recovery experience. By pressing ‘Jump’ at the correct time, you can execute a ninja-skill-based knockdown recovery to ALL in-game knockdowns. This ninja recovery window is indicated by a glowing FX on your Warframe.

In the original Dev Workshop, we said:
As a result of this overall systemic change, Weapons with Stagger will be getting approximately a 20% buff in Damage, with any weapons with AOE receiving a 50% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact.

This is no longer accurate after continued testing. What we are doing now is:

No damage buffs have been added, but any weapons with AOE are receiving ~20% increase in Radius. Additionally, AOE weapons are receiving a 90% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact. This means on the very outer section of the explosion Radius 10% of the Damage will be dealt. Tactics will be deadly - aim true, Tenno.

Why: Several players brought up the history of the Tonkor and we want to make sure we ship this change in a place that’s conservative in its starting point from a balance perspective. The complete removal of Self Damage does change the pace of destruction with some of the game’s most powerful weapons, so we want to make sure we can iterate upwardly instead of releasing a bonanza of explosions with no other choices.

Hotfix 25.7.3 (2019-09-03)

• Fixed an issue where some projectiles wouldn't come to a complete stop and would slowly float away (noticed on some bouncing Penta grenades).

Update 23.2 (2018-08-02)

• Fixed viewing the Penta in the marketplace (specifically the Penta Shock-Camo Skin) resulting in the ammo in the gun taking a second to load upon viewing it everytime.
• Fixed the Tether Grenades Mod distorting the look of grenades

Update 22.3 (2017-11-15)

• Penta grenades will now bounce off the Blunt. It has a similar behavior as hitting a Grineer.

Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)

• Fixed an issue with the Penta grenades not detonating in succession while switching weapons with Adhesive Blast equipped.

Update 20.0 (2017-03-24)

• Penta Alt-Fire mode now has stats in the Arsenal.
• To improve performance, added a small delay between each explosion when activating the alt-fire on certain weapons (e.g. Penta).
• Fixed the Tether Grenade Mod for the Penta cancelling Self Damage.

Update 19.10 (2017-02-09)

• Fixed unintentional DoT from Adhesive Blast on the Penta.

Hotfix 19.0.5 (2016-11-18)

• Fixed Adhesive Blast causing the Penta projectile sound to not play.

Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)

• Penta series damage increased in Conclave.

Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)

• Increased AoE damage of the Penta in Conclave.
• Increased the ammo pool of Penta series in Conclave.
• Penta explosions visual FX have been updated, and will now be based on the player’s energy color.
• Fixed the Adhesive Blast Mod causing Penta weapons to detonate after a certain amount of time.

Hotfix 18.4.10 (2016-02-11)

• Removed the headshot multiplier from the Penta series in Conclave.
• The Penta series' explosive damage no longer ignores cover in Conclave.

Hotfix 18.1.3 (2015-12-18)

• Increased damage and ammo pool of Penta series in Conclave.

Update 18.0 (2015-12-03)

• Increased blast radius of Penta series in PvP.

Update 17.10 (2015-11-04)

• Fixed Penta Grenades falling through the floor instead of bouncing.

Update 17.5 (2015-10-01)

• Penta series damage increased in PvP.

Update 17.4 (2015-09-09)

• Reduced the damage radius of the Penta series in PvP.

Hotfix 17.3.1 (2015-09-04)

• Reduced the damage of the Penta series in PvP.

Update 17.3 (2015-09-02)

• The Penta can now be used in PvP.

Hotfix 16.4.5 (2015-05-06)

• Fixed the Penta not being affected by Volt’s Electric Shield.

Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)

• Fixed issues with blank “Trigger” types in the UI for Penta.

Update 14.2 (2014-08-13)

• Penta ammo capacity reduced from 540 to 20.

Hotfix 14.1.3 (2014-08-02)

• Penta shots fired from Hall of Mirror clones will no longer display weapon trails.

Update 13.7 (2014-06-11)

• Improved the performance of the Penta on low end computers.

Hotfix 12.0.5 (2014-02-10)

• Changes to Penta's sounds.

Update 11.6 (2014-01-08)

• Fixed Penta energy color not always applying to grenades.

Hotfix 11.5.3 (2013-12-21)

• Fixed elemental damage upgrade mods not applying to the splash & embed damage from projectiles.

Update 11.5 (2013-12-19)

• Fixed Arsenal stats for weapons that have projectiles with complex damage.

Hotfix 11.3.3 (2013-12-13)

• Changes to Penta aiming reticle – firing trajectory should better align with reticle.

Hotfix 11.3.2 (2013-12-13)

• Tweaks to Penta 2D sounds.
• Lens flare added to Penta projectiles.
• Penta now supports energy color customization.

Update 11.3 (2013-12-12)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.4 (2018-12-10)

See also

•  Torid, an Infested grenade launcher.
•  Tonkor, a Grineer grenade launcher.
•  Secura Penta, the Perrin Sequence custom version.
•  Carmine Penta, a special version of the Penta.