Carmen
| Carmen | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Assault Rifle |
| Type | Power |
| Ammo | Heavy Ammo |
| Tier | Iconic |
| Headshot | +100% |
| Armor Pen | 50% |
| Attack Speed | 13 |
| Range | 30 m |
| Weight | 7.2 |
| Location | Dogtown |
Carmen is the personal assault rifle of Paco Torres, a BARGHEST recruit in deep trouble. It is a rifle for shooting on the move. Its handling improves while V runs, jumps or slides. The same movement adds damage and Bleeding chance. Shots to arms and legs have a higher crit chance, as its description jokes: arms and legs, who needs them. It works best in a Reflexes build that keeps moving. Carmen is a Phantom Liberty reward from the side job Balls to the Wall in Dogtown. It only comes when V helps Paco get away.
Combat
Carmen is a fast-firing assault rifle that works best while V is moving. While V runs, jumps or slides, handling improves sharply and damage rises with movement speed. Bleeding chance rises at the same time. Standing still loses most of that bonus. The rifle works best when V keeps moving between cover.
Its crit chance bonus on limbs changes where to aim. Shots to the arms and legs crit more often, and they can also cause Bleeding. The BARGHEST armor penetration helps against armoured targets.
How to Get Carmen Guide
- Find Paco Torres at the BARGHEST tents outside the Black Sapphire in Dogtown.
- Listen to his story and take the deep dives.
- Tell Paco to leave Dogtown, then drive him out in the trunk of his car.
- Wait two days for Paco's message.
- Meet him outside the Afterlife and take Carmen from the chair beside him.
Carmen Map Location and Quest Guide
- Meet Paco Torres and Babs Okoye in Dogtown to start the side job Balls to the Wall.
- Sit down with them and take the first Deep Dive into Paco's story.
- As Kurt Hansen, talk to Yuri and beat Paco in a fistfight.
- Take the second Deep Dive and fight off the Scavengers who attack the convoy.
- Tell Paco and Babs to leave Dogtown. Framing Yuri ends with Paco dead and loses Carmen.
- Follow Paco to his car, hide him in the trunk and drive him out of Dogtown.
- Let Paco out at the marked spot, then wait for his message.
- Meet Paco outside the Afterlife and take Carmen, his parting gift.
Carmen map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
9 muzzles are compatible with Carmen.
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| CS-1 Taipan | 
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Silences shots and raises stealth damage, lowers base damage |
| RC-7 Aswang | 
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Lowers recoil angle and direction, slightly lowers crit chance |
| RC-7 Ifrit | 
|
Lowers recoil, slightly lowers crit chance |
| RC-7 Strigoi | 
|
Lowers recoil |
| RC-7 Varkolak | 
|
Raises ricochet chance and ricochet angle |
| RC-7 Zaar | 
|
Lowers recoil angle, slightly lowers crit chance |
| TSX Tocororo | 
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Raises stealth damage, lowers base damage |
| XC-10 Cetus | 
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Raises stealth damage, lowers base damage |
| XC-10 Strix | 
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Raises stealth damage, lowers base damage |
Upgrades
Like every Iconic weapon, Carmen can be upgraded through the tiers in the Upgrades section of the crafting menu, paid for with crafting components.
The table shows what each tier step of Carmen costs.
| Upgrade | Components | Requirement |
|---|---|---|
| Tier 1 to Tier 1+ | 75 Tier 1 components | - |
| Tier 1+ to Tier 2 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 2 to Tier 2+ | 75 Tier 2 components | - |
| Tier 2+ to Tier 3 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 3 to Tier 3+ | 75 Tier 3 components | - |
| Tier 3+ to Tier 4 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 4 to Tier 4+ | 75 Tier 4 components | - |
| Tier 4+ to Tier 5 | 40 components | - |
| Tier 5 to Tier 5+ | 75 Tier 5 components | - |
| Tier 5+ to Tier 5++ | 200 Tier 5 components | Phantom Liberty |
Character Builds
Carmen works best with the assault rifle perks in the Reflexes tree. Gundancer removes the slowdown while aiming and lets V shoot while vaulting. Multitasker allows shooting while sprinting, sliding and vaulting, so the movement bonus stays active while firing. Sharpshooter improves weapon control and gains a Stamina bonus stack with each hit. Salt In The Wound adds bonus damage after hitting the same target seven times in a row with an assault rifle. Air Kerenzikov keeps V hanging in the air during Kerenzikov.
The Kerenzikov itself slows time when V aims during a slide, dodge or Dash. Cyberware that raises movement speed, such as the Leeroy Ligament System, makes the rifle's damage bonus stronger.
Select a Build
Attributes: Body 18, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, Cool 20.
The perks, cyberware and weapon mods for this build are listed below.
| Name | Image | Level | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Painkiller | 
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Body 4 | Slow Health regeneration in combat |
| Mind Over Matter | 
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Reflexes 9 | Less recoil while aiming |
| Ready, Rested, Reloaded | 
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Reflexes 9 | Cheaper rifle and SMG fire and faster reloads |
| Steady Grip | 
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Reflexes 9 | Shooting while dashing |
| Tunnel Vision | 
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Reflexes 9 | More range and accuracy |
| Dash | 
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Reflexes 9 | Dash replaces the dodge |
| Gundancer | 
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Reflexes 15 | Full speed while aiming and shooting while vaulting |
| Practice Makes Perfect | Reflexes 15 | Crit chance and crit damage per Sharpshooter stack | |
| Sharpshooter | 
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Reflexes 15 | Faster aim and Stamina stacks on hits |
| Shoot To Chill | 
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Reflexes 15 | Armor penetration per Sharpshooter stack |
| Air Dash | 
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Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Salt In The Wound | 
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Reflexes 20 | Bonus damage after 7 hits on one target |
| Tailwind | 
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Reflexes 20 | Stamina from air dashes and double jumps |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerenzikov Boost System | 
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Frontal Cortex | Stronger Kerenzikov with free shooting Stamina |
| Shock Absorber | 
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Hands | Less recoil |
| Defenzikov | 
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Integumentary System | Damage mitigation after Kerenzikov ends |
| Kerenzikov | 
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Nervous System | Slows time when aiming during a slide or dodge |
| Epimorphic Skeleton | 
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Skeleton | More max Health |
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| XC-10 Cetus | 
|
Silencer |
Lore
Carmen is the Iconic variant of the Darra Polytechnic DA8 Umbra. Like every BARGHEST weapon, it has extra armor penetration. Its owner, Paco Torres, wanted to join BARGHEST, and now the militia is hunting him. V finds him drinking with his friend Babs Okoye at the BARGHEST tents outside the Black Sapphire.
Paco tells his story through a drug-fuelled deep dive, and V lives it through Kurt Hansen's eyes. First comes a fistfight with Paco and his welcome into the pack. Then a convoy run turns into a gunfight with Scavengers, and Hansen fights back with Bald Eagle and Fang. Back in the present, Paco admits he stole the convoy's generators and sold them. V then has to advise him. Framing his fellow soldier Yuri ends badly for Paco. Telling him to leave Dogtown smuggles him out in the trunk of a car. A couple of days later he waits outside the Afterlife and gives V his rifle as a parting gift.
Notes
- Framing Yuri leads to Paco's death, and the rifle is lost.
- Killing Paco before the job starts also gives V Carmen.
- Herold Lowe at the EBM Petrochem Stadium sells Carmen if it was missed.
Weapon Categories
All Assault Rifles
Every assault rifle is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Assault Rifles
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carmen | 
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+100% | 50% | Dogtown |
| Chinook | 
|
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| Divided We Stand | 
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+50% | Rancho Coronado | |
| Hawk | 
|
+175% | 25% | Dogtown |
| Hercules 3AX | 
|
+50% | 25% | Dogtown |
| Kyubi x-MOD2 | 
|
+150% | 25% | Dogtown |
| Moron Labe | 
|
+85% | 25% | Badlands South |
| Pit Bull | 
|
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| Prejudice | 
|
+100% | 25% | Little China |
| Psalm 11:6 | 
|
+100% | 25% | Northside |
| Umbra x-MOD2 | 
|
+100% | 25% | Dogtown |
Standard Assault Rifles
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D5 Copperhead | 
|
+100% | 25% | |
| D5 Sidewinder | 
|
+50% | ||
| DA8 Umbra | 
|
+100% | 25% | |
| HJSH-18 Masamune | 
|
+125% | 25% | |
| Kyubi | 
|
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| M251s Ajax | 
|
+100% | 25% | |
| Nowaki | 
|
+150% |