Cindershot
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| Cindershot | |
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| Production overview | |
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Type: | Grenade launcher-likehardlight projector[1][3] |
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| Specifications | |
Length: | 107 centimeters (42.1 in)[1] |
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Capacity: | 6 explosive bolts[1] |
Semi-automatic | |
Optics: | No magnification[1] |
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| “ | The Cindershot fires hard light projectiles with an embedded metastable energy charge that detonates when it hits vehicle or humanoid targets, while the main projectile continues on its path.[4] | ” |
TheCindershot is ahardlightgrenade launcher designed and created for use by theForerunners.[3][5][6]
Overview[edit]
Design details[edit]
The Cindershot fires ionized particle grenades consisting of "hyper-charged splinter cores", which explode seconds after launching, damaging anything caught in its explosion.[3] When fired while the optics are engaged, the weapon is able to guide the projectile with its aim, allowing the operator to manually guide the projectile onto a target.[1]
When reloading, the front of the Cindershot is pulled back, allowing more hard-light grenades to move to the front of the barrel, before it snaps back to its original position.[5]
Variants[edit]
- Backdraft Cindershot: A white-painted Cindershot variant which employs a modified firing core with three-phase sequential detonation.[1] It deals significantly more damage per shot than its standard counterpart. Carried byMyriad during theBattle for Zeta Halo, though it's unknown how theMgalekgolo pair used it in combat.
Backdraft Cindershot
In-game information[edit]
| “ | Hardlight grenade launcher with a deadly, implosive blast. Can control projectile mid-flight while zoomed in.[7] | ” |
The Cindershot is a hardlight grenade launcher that serves a similar role to that of theTufasumo-pattern plasma caster, but its explosion pulls in targets in close proximity. The projectile must ricochet from a surface once before detonating at the next point of impact. The Cindershot has an alt-fire mode that allows the projectile to follow the wielder's direction. The projectiles are capable of killing a Spartan in two direct explosions.
Gallery[edit]
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Concept art[edit]
Early concept art of the Cindershot.
Concept art nearing the final design.
Concept art focusing on the weapon's display.
Finalized concept art of the Cindershot.
Screenshots[edit]
First-person view of the Cindershot.
Zoom with the Cindershot.
ASpartan-IV holding the Cindershot.
The Cindershot firing.
The Cindershot being reloaded.
A close-up of the Cindershot's projectile.
A Cindershot, held byJohn-117.
List of appearances[edit]
- Halo Infinite(First appearance)
- Halo: Flashpoint
Sources[edit]
- ^abcdefghHalo Encyclopedia (2022 edition), page 392
- ^Halo Waypoint, Canon Fodder - Didact's Delight(Retrieved on May 18, 2023)[local archive][external archive]
- ^abcTwitter, Halo (@Halo):"Effectively a hard light grenade launcher, the Cindershot’s hyper-charged packets of splinter cores and their subsequent detonation is deadly in close and long-range engagements. When zoomed in, splinter cores can manually track targets too. #FictionFriday"(Retrieved on Sep 2, 2022)[archive]
- ^Halo Infinite,Forge - Cindershot description:"The Cindershot fires hard light projectiles with an embedded metastable energy charge that detonates when it hits vehicle or humanoid targets, while the main projectile continues on its path."
- ^abHalo Infinite, Cindershot in-game weapon
- ^Halo Support, Halo Infinite Weapon, Equipment, and Vehicle Inventory(Retrieved on May 5, 2023)[archive]
- ^Halo Infinite, Academy - Weapon Drills - Cindershot description
