PFT Weapon: Difference between revisions
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''Settings Two through Four'': stun settings.
''Shock mode'': the weapon fired pulses that discharge in flight, rather than upon striking a solid target. This setting releases the concussive force across a wider area of effect to strike multiple targets. Concussive charges fired in this manner make a distinctive, albeit explosive sound that immediately identifies the weapon. In the [[Daylight]] [[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]] fic ''[[Baked Alaska]]'', t is revealed that Kodiak bears (and by extension, other large animals) can be ''instantly'' incapacitated by a single hit from a PFT weapon in 'shock mode'.
''Skip mode'': The weapon fires an instantaneous three-pulse burst (at Setting Five) with the second pulse firing in 'shock mode'. The resulting blast is capable of downing multiple groups of persons or animals, almost any medium- or large-sized animal, as well as making a loud, distinctive sound that will frighten animals away (when the weapon is fired into the air over their heads). This was added to production model PFTs after tests showed that animals (and crowds during mob actions) were not immediately intimidated by the effects of the PFT, even though it was effective in stopping them.
''Kill mode'': Density Setting zero/Power Setting Seven. This setting will kill any normal human (without metahuman resistances
PFTs can fire single pulses – as fast as the user depresses the firing button – or can be set it to fire in 'burst-mode' (three, ten, twenty, thirty-five and fifty pulses) with a rate of fire equal to 800 PPM (pulses per minute).
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