DB-4 Igla
| DB-4 Igla | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Class | Shotgun |
| Type | Power |
| Ammo | Shotgun Ammo |
| Headshot | +85% |
| Armor Pen | 25% |
| Attack Speed | 5 |
| Range | 18 m |
| Projectiles | 6 |
| Weight | 9.6 |
| Location | Northside |
The DB-4 Igla is the old workhorse of Rostović's shotgun range. It is a Power double-barrel, and later Rostović guns were built from it. It is cheap, loud and common, and it hits hard at close range. It comes in the lowest tier, so a new Body build can pick one up in the opening hours. It also has two hidden extras. A cyberpsycho carries a variant with a scope. The Iconic Sovereign is crafted from a spec looted in Japantown. The DB-4 Igla is an early-game shotgun. Most weapon vendors in Night City sell it, and enemies carry it from the first jobs.
Combat
The Igla is a Power shotgun with a shell in each barrel. Every blast fires a spread of heavy pellets that can knock an enemy flat. Power pellets can also bounce off walls and hit an enemy just around a corner.
Two shells means a reload after every second shot. The Igla works best in short bursts. V can start a fight with both barrels, then reload while the target is down. In a crowded room this is hard to keep up, so a faster backup gun helps.
Like every shotgun, it is weak at range. The Igla works best indoors. It is at its best in corridors, stairwells and cramped gang hideouts.
How to Get DB-4 Igla Guide
- Buy the DB-4 Igla from weapon vendors, such as Robert Wilson in Little China or the shops in Northside, Japantown and Rancho Coronado.
- Buy the military variant from the Aldecaldos vendor in Rocky Ridge or Marty Jenklow in Biotechnica Flats.
- Loot a variant with a short scope from Lely Hein during the cyberpsycho sighting Six Feet Under.
- Loot its crafting spec from Rufus McBride at a Suspected Organized Crime Activity in the Badlands, then craft it.
DB-4 Igla Map Location and Quest Guide
- Take Regina Jones's call about Cyberpsycho Sighting: Six Feet Under while driving through Northside in Watson.
- Go to the train tracks in Northside marked on the map.
- Move quietly along the tracks past the dead Maelstrom gangers.
- Find the cyberpsycho Lely Hein near the servers.
- Neutralize Lely Hein. A takedown from behind keeps him alive.
- Loot the DB-4 Igla with a short scope from Lely's body.
DB-4 Igla map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
11 weapon mods are compatible with DB-4 Igla.
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Better Half | 
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Raises crit chance with the second half of the magazine |
| Condenser | 
|
Tighter pellet spread, less damage per pellet |
| Critochet | 
|
Raises crit chance with ricochets |
| Equalizer | 
|
More damage against Elite enemies |
| Firecracker | 
|
Shoots explosive rounds |
| Kneel! | 
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Leg shots can dismember and kill instantly |
| Pax | 
|
Makes the weapon non-lethal, more damage outside combat |
| Pyro | 
|
Turns part of the damage into Thermal damage with a chance to Burn |
| Shuffler | 
|
Drawing the weapon refills part of the magazine |
| Swiss Cheese | 
|
More armor penetration, higher Stamina cost per bullet |
| Vivisector | 
|
More dismemberment, then more torso damage for a short time |
Crafting Spec
Rufus McBride drops the DB-4 Igla spec at the Suspected Organized Crime Activity in Jackson Plains. The spec lets V craft DB-4 Igla in the crafting menu. Every spec in the game is listed on the Crafting Specs page.
The table shows what crafting DB-4 Igla costs at each tier.
| Tier | Components |
|---|---|
| Tier 1 | 30 Tier 1 components |
| Tier 2 | 30 Tier 2 components |
| Tier 3 | 30 Tier 3 components |
| Tier 4 | 30 Tier 4 components |
| Tier 5 | 30 Tier 5 components |
Upgrades
A stronger Igla comes from buying or crafting a higher tier. Its crafting spec drops from Rufus McBride, the boss of a Suspected Organized Crime Activity in the Badlands south of the city. With the spec and enough components, V can craft the shotgun at a better quality.
Character Builds
The Igla is a Body weapon. Like A Feather removes the movement penalty that comes with a shotgun. Bullet Ballet reduces the spread while V is moving. Die! Die! Die! adds crit chance as Stamina runs low. It also improves fire rate and handling at the same time. Close-Quarters Carnage and Spontaneous Obliteration add a chance to Obliterate a weakened enemy at close range. Rush Of Blood speeds up reloads after a dismemberment, which helps a gun with only two shells.
For cyberware, Kiroshi Cockatrice Optics raise crit chance. A Sandevistan gives V time to walk up to an enemy and fire both barrels.
Its mod slots take Power and shotgun mods. Vivisector raises the chance to dismember and boosts torso damage afterwards. Kneel! adds a chance to dismember and kill on a leg shot. Swiss Cheese adds armor penetration, but each shot costs more Stamina. Pyro adds Thermal damage and a chance to Burn. Better Half adds crit chance to the second half of the magazine, and Critochet adds crit chance to ricochets.
Select a Build
Dashes close the gap so the shotgun can blast enemies at point-blank range. A quick melee hit after a shot boosts the next one through Rip and Tear. The shotgun and LMG perks grow stronger at low Stamina, so the build keeps shooting and dashing without a pause.
Attributes: Body 20, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, Cool 18.
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 |
| Dorph-Head | 
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Body 4 | Brief full Mitigation after using a Health item |
| Speed Junkie | 
|
Body 4 | Faster Health regeneration while sprinting |
| Die! Die! Die! | 
|
Body 9 | Higher crit chance and fire rate at low Stamina |
| Bullet Ballet | 
|
Body 9 | Less bullet spread while moving |
| Like A Feather | 
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Body 9 | No speed penalty with Shotguns and machine guns |
| Don't Stop Me Now | 
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Body 9 | Mitigation at low Stamina |
| Adrenaline Rush | 
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Body 15 | More Health and the Adrenaline Rush mode |
| Juggernaut | 
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Body 15 | More speed and damage during Adrenaline Rush |
| Unstoppable Force | 
|
Body 15 | Immunity to knockdown and other status effects during Adrenaline Rush |
| Calm Mind | 
|
Body 15 | Adrenaline lasts longer before it decays |
| Spontaneous Obliteration | 
|
Body 15 | Chance to instantly kill enemies at low Health |
| Close-Quarters Carnage | 
|
Body 15 | Higher Obliterate chance at close range |
| Skullcracker | 
|
Body 15 | Quick melee hits harder at low Stamina |
| Dread | 
|
Body 15 | Ranged attacks strip enemy armor |
| Rush Of Blood | 
|
Body 15 | Faster reload after a dismemberment |
| Bloodlust | 
|
Body 15 | Dismemberments refill Adrenaline |
| Rip And Tear | 
|
Body 20 | Shotgun shots and quick melee attacks boost each other |
| Onslaught | 
|
Body 20 | Light Machine Gun kills refill ammo |
| Pain To Gain | 
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Body 20 | Kills recharge Health items during Adrenaline Rush |
| Dash | 
|
Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Air Dash | 
|
Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Tailwind | 
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Reflexes 20 | Stamina back from Air Dashes and double jumps |
| Health Freak | 
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Technical Ability 9 | One more Health item charge and faster recharge |
| All Things Cyber | 
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Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| License To Chrome | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Stronger cyberware, more armor and a Skeleton slot |
| Ambidextrous | 
|
Technical Ability 15 | A second Hands cyberware slot |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| ThreatEvac | 
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Circulatory System | Faster movement at low Health |
| Mechatronic Core | 
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Frontal Cortex | More damage against drones, robots and mechs |
| Self-ICE | 
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Frontal Cortex | Blocks an enemy quickhack |
| Microgenerator | 
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Hands | Reloading an empty gun charges an electroshock shot |
| Painducer | 
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Integumentary System | Turns part of damage taken into damage over time |
| Reinforced Tendons | 
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Legs | Double jump |
| NeoFiber | 
|
Nervous System | More Mitigation Chance and Strength |
| Militech Apogee Sandevistan | Operating System | Slows time by 85% with crit bonuses | |
| Epimorphic Skeleton | 
|
Skeleton | More max Health |
| Spring Joints | 
|
Skeleton | Stronger Mitigation |
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Kneel! | 
|
Leg shots can dismember and kill instantly |
| Firecracker | 
|
Explosive rounds |
Lore
The Igla's in-game line promises devastating power at an affordable price. Its database entry tells a less flattering story. The gun began life as a duck-hunting weapon for the swamplands of Serbia. In Night City it is seen as an antique, and even the city's poorest residents look down on it. Many say it makes more noise than damage.
Rostović kept coming back to it all the same. The Testera is sold as an improved Igla, and the smart Palica is built on the same old model. Sovereign is the Iconic variant, and it rewards shots fired from point-blank range.
Notes
- Sovereign is the Iconic variant of the DB-4 Igla.
- The DB-2 Testera and DB-4 Palica are later Rostović shotguns based on the Igla.
Weapon Categories
All Shotguns
Every shotgun is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Shotguns
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabai | 
|
+85% | 25% | Dogtown |
| Amstaff | 
|
+150% | 25% | |
| Ba Xing Chong | 
|
Northside | ||
| Bloody Maria | 
|
+85% | 25% | Little China |
| Dezerter | 
|
+85% | 75% | Dogtown |
| Guts | 
|
+85% | 75% | Corpo Plaza |
| Mox | 
|
+85% | 25% | Kabuki |
| Order | 
|
+50% | 100% | Dogtown |
| Pozhar x-MOD2 | 
|
+85% | 25% | Dogtown |
| Sovereign | 
|
+85% | 75% | Japantown |
| The Headsman | 
|
25% | North Oak |
Standard Shotguns
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carnage | 
|
+85% | 50% | Downtown |
| Crusher | 
|
+135% | ||
| DB-2 Satara | 
|
+85% | 50% | |
| DB-2 Testera | 
|
+85% | 50% | |
| DB-4 Igla | 
|
+85% | 25% | Northside |
| DB-4 Palica | 
|
+35% | ||
| L-69 Zhuo | 
|
+35% | 25% | |
| M2038 Tactician | 
|
+85% | 25% | |
| VST-37 Pozhar | 
|
+85% | 25% |