Backdraft Cindershot
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Grenade launcher-like hardlight projector[3][1] |
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107 centimeters (42.1 in)[1] |
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6 explosive bolts[1] |
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Semi-automatic[1] | |
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No magnification[1] |
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The Backdraft Cindershot is a modified variant of the Cindershot, a hardlight grenade launcher designed and created for use by the Forerunners.[3][6]
Overview[edit]
Design details[edit]
- Main article: Cindershot
The Backdraft Cindershot is variant of the standard Cindershot. In addition to having a white chassis, it employs a modified firing core with three-phase sequential detonation.[1][5][6] Subsequently, the Backdraft Cindershot fires projectiles that splinter into multiple projectiles which then detonate at their next point of impact.[4]
Usage[edit]
As the Forerunner Ecumene Council prepared to declare war on ancient humanity, Bitterness-of-the-Vanquished requisitioned a Backdraft Cindershot from the Ferrarius Assembler Vats for Ur-Didact's personal use, correctly predicting Ur-Didact would be interested in testing out the weapon when he first heard about the Cindershot.[2] Millennia later, one such weapon entered the possession of Myriad, a pair of Mgalekgolo in the Banished during the campaign on Installation 07 in 2559-2560.[7] During the campaign, they protected the weapon until their deaths at the hands of John-117.[8]
In-game information[edit]
The Backdraft Cindershot is a legendary weapon awarded to the player after defeating the High Value Targets, Myriad. The weapon can be acquired at any Forward Operating Base within the campaign. It fires projectiles that splinter into multiple projectile which then detonate at their next point of impact.[4] The Backdraft Cindershot can also be acquired in the open world; one can be found in a Forerunner armory near a Mjolnir Armory locker (which contains the Olympic Stance), west of Ransom Keep, with the armory entrance facing the edge of the ring fragment. Another location in the open world is on the island base of HVT Writh Kul in a cave containing a Forerunner armory.
Gallery[edit]
Backdraft Cindershot icon in the HVT dossier menu.
HUD of the Backdraft Cindershot.
First-person view of the Backdraft Cindershot's explosion.
Location of open world vault of the Backdraft Cindershot, west of Ransom Keep.
The Backdraft Cindershot in a vault on Installation 07.
Marked location of the Backdraft Cindershot near HVT Writh Kul.
The Backdraft Cindershot in the Forerunner armory in a cave behind Writh Kul's base.
