Venom talon

Venom talon

A retractable finger talon connected to a venom pump in the lower arm. The user can scratch an enemy while squirting venom into the wound. The talon is designed to be installed in the middle finger. It's fast, but poor at penetrating armor.

Base Stats

Type

Medical Items – Body Parts

Tech Level

Industrial

Market Value

355 

Melee Combat

Mode

Melee

Melee Attack 1

Venom talon
11 dmg (Toxic scratch)
15% AP
1.5 seconds cooldown

Body Part

Middle finger

Creation

Crafted At

Required Research

Poison synthesis

Skill Required

Crafting 5

Work To Make

15,000 ticks (4.17 mins)

Resources to make

40 + 7

Technical

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A venom talon gives a pawn that's been implanted with it an attack with 15% AP, 7.33 DPS, and inflicts 1.5% toxic buildup per point of damage.

Acquisition

Venom talons can be crafted at a machining table once the Poison synthesis research project has been completed. Note that this research requires a techprint. Each requires  40 Steel,  7 Components, 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins) of work modified by the general labor speed of the crafter, and a crafting skill of 5.

They can also be traded from exotic traders, and can be earned as a quest reward.

Summary

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Installation

Installing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 2x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

Removing the part requires 2,500 ticks (41.67 secs) of work, 1x medicine of herbal quality or better, and a Medical skill of 5.

If the operation fails, the part will be destroyed.

Analysis

The venom talon is a modestly powerful melee implant that can inflict the toxic buildup debuff when used. It is comparable to a normal quality steel longsword against unarmored enemies, the toxic buildup it inflicts making up for the lower DPS, however it is significantly weaker against armored foes due to its poor armor penetration. As a dedicated melee weapon it is outclassed slightly by other melee implants like the hand talon, and is massively outclassed by a power claw, plasteel longsword or uranium mace. It should not be considered as a pawn's primary offensive option.

It is generally outclassed by similar body part weapons like the hand talon in terms of melee capabilities, and it cannot be used alongside two bionic or archotech arms. Note that toxic buildup will trigger the enemy death on downed chance as of 1.5, so it cannot be used to capture raiders much better than normal.

Drawbacks

The main drawback of the venom talon is that it can not be simultaneously used with two Manipulation above 100% does not affect Shooting Accuracy, and so for a dedicated gunfighter this may not be a significant drawback. However, manipulation increases general labor speed, meaning that if they have a role within your colony beyond fighting affected by manipulation, such as crafting or constructing, they will be less effective at these roles than they otherwise could be. A pawn can still be equipped with one bionic or archotech arm, and one venom talon without it negatively affecting their melee capabilities after 1.1.2610 changed melee verb selection.

If you choose two bionic or archotech arms over one arm and a venom talon but still want venom weaponry you also have the option of the venom fangs. The venom fangs are weaker than the venom talon, but have no conflicts with any implant and so can be used without compromise.

Version history

• Royalty DLC Release - Added.
• Version ??? - Buffed from 12% AP, 4.10 DPS to 15% AP, 7.33 DPS. Toxic build up was also improved at the same time.

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Artificial body parts

Arm/Hand

Archotech arm • Bionic arm • Power claw • Prosthetic arm • Wooden hand • Drill arm • Elbow blade • Field hand • Hand talon • Venom talon • Flesh tentacle • Flesh whip

Head

Archotech eye • Bionic eye • Bionic ear • Bionic jaw • Bionic tongue • Cochlear implant • Denture • Aesthetic nose

Head implants

Joywire • Painstopper • Circadian assistant • Circadian half-cycler • Gastro-analyzer • Learning assistant • Mindscrew • Neurocalculator • Psychic harmonizer • Psychic reader • Psychic sensitizer • Venom fangs • Control sublink (Standard, High) • Mechlink • Mech gestation processor • Remote repairer • Remote shielder • Repair probe • Pilot assistant

Spine

Bionic spine • Revenant vertebrae

Stomach

Bionic stomach • Nuclear stomach • Reprocessor stomach • Sterilizing stomach • Fleshmass stomach

Heart

Bionic heart • Prosthetic heart • Heart • Adrenal heart • Corrosive heart • Metalblood heart

Lung

Lung • Detoxifier lung • Fleshmass lung

Kidney

Kidney • Detoxifier kidney • Blood warmer

Organs

Liver

Visceral implants

Death acidifier • Aesthetic shaper • Coagulator • Healing enhancer • Armorskin gland • Stoneskin gland • Toughskin gland • Immunoenhancer • Love enhancer • Ghoul plating • Ghoul barbs • Vacskin gland

Leg/Foot

Archotech leg • Bionic leg • Prosthetic leg • Peg leg • Wooden foot • Knee spike

Related

Psylink neuroformer • Xenogerm

Deprecated

Scyther blade • Psychic silencer

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Weapons

Melee | Neolithic

Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval

Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra

Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised

Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood • Alpha thrumbo horn • Mastodon tusk

Ranged | Neolithic

Greatbow (Unique) • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval

Nerve spiker

Industrial

Assault rifle (Unique) • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle (Unique) • Chain shotgun (Unique) • Heavy SMG (Unique) • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG (Unique) • Machine pistol • Minigun (Unique) • Pump shotgun • Revolver (Unique) • Sniper rifle (Unique) • Hellcat rifle (Unique) • Incinerator

Spacer

Charge lance (Unique) • Charge rifle (Unique) • Beam graser • Beam repeater (Unique)

Consumables

Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables

EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid

Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Needle launcher • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures

Auto-mortar • Autocannon • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Tactical turret gun

Drone

Scattergun

Related | Body part weapons

Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons

Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor