Electric Baton Alpha
| Electric Baton Alpha | |
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| Class | Melee Weapon |
| Type | Blunt |
| Weapon | One-Handed Club |
| Location | Rancho Coronado |
Electric Baton Alpha is an electric shock stick, a one-handed blunt club that adds Electrical damage to every hit. Its wide swings can hit several enemies at once. It is better against a crowd than in a one-on-one fight. As a blunt weapon, it knocks enemies out instead of killing them. It helps in jobs where a target has to be taken alive. It is the Alpha model of the electric batons, alongside Beta and Gamma. It works well in a Body build that fights up close. Electric Baton Alpha can be bought or looted. Coach Fred sells it in Little China, and it turns up in gigs and NCPD scanner hustles.
Combat
The Alpha is a one-handed club. Its light attacks are quick, and its built-in trait lets each swing hit more than one enemy. It is useful when two or three thugs rush V at the same time. Every hit also deals Electrical damage with a chance to Shock the target. Shock adds a further burst of Electrical damage.
Blunt weapons are non-lethal by default. Enemies beaten with the baton are left unconscious. V stays out of trouble on jobs that ask for no killing, such as cyberpsycho sightings. Blunt hits also have a chance to stun.
The baton is weak against gunfire at range. Getting close is the hard part. Blocking with a blunt weapon keeps V alive on the way in.
How to Get Electric Baton Alpha Guide
- Buy Electric Baton Alpha from Coach Fred, the melee weapon vendor in Little China, Watson.
- Loot it from a doctor's body on the first floor of the psychiatric ward during the gig Cuckoo's Nest in Rancho Coronado.
- Pick it up at the Hidden Gem in Badlands East, where a camera points at a body buried up to its head.
- Loot it from enemies who carry one.
Electric Baton Alpha Map Location and Quest Guide
- Reach Street Cred Level 20 and drive around Rancho Coronado in Santo Domingo to get the gig Cuckoo's Nest from Muamar Reyes.
- Go to the psychiatric ward on Sequoia Street.
- Get inside the hospital and reach the restricted area.
- Search the rooms on the first floor for a doctor's body.
- Loot the Electric Baton Alpha from the doctor's body.
Electric Baton Alpha map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
8 weapon mods are compatible with Electric Baton Alpha.
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Airstrike | 
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Raises crit chance and crit damage for midair attacks |
| Barbarian | 
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More damage against stunned, staggered and knocked down enemies |
| Bloodbruiser | 
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Makes a blunt weapon lethal and able to cause Bleeding |
| Cyclone | 
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A sprint attack opens unlimited combos with stacking attack speed |
| K.O. | 
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More damage and knockdowns on stunned enemies, slower attacks |
| Pax | 
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Makes the weapon non-lethal, more damage outside combat |
| Severance | 
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Hits to the head or limbs of a weakened enemy can dismember and kill |
| Silencio | 
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More crit chance and crit damage when crouched and undetected |
Upgrades
A stronger Alpha comes from finding or buying it at a higher tier. Shops and loot both scale with V's level.
Character Builds
The Alpha uses the Body tree. Wrecking Ball lowers the Stamina cost of blunt attacks. Its second level lets V ram into enemies while sprinting and blocking. Fly Swatter cuts incoming ranged damage while blocking with a blunt weapon, which makes getting close far safer. Clapback adds knockdown chance to defensive attacks and stun chance to counterattacks. Quake adds attack speed and a ground slam that damages and staggers nearby enemies. Finisher: Savage Sling adds a blunt finisher that restores Health. Stunned enemies are easier to finish.
For cyberware, Microrotors raise melee attack speed. The Adrenaline Booster restores Stamina after melee takedowns, so V can keep swinging.
Its mod slots take melee and blunt mods. Barbarian adds damage against stunned, staggered and knocked-down enemies, which works well with a stun weapon. Cyclone lets a sprint attack start an unlimited combo for a few seconds. Severance, an Iconic mod, gives hits to the head or limbs of a badly hurt enemy a chance to dismember and kill. Bloodbruiser makes the baton lethal and adds a chance to cause Bleeding.
Select a Build
A one-handed club and Dashes pick off enemies one by one while Berserk is on cooldown. Once Health drops, Berserk makes the character invulnerable and melee attacks cost no Stamina. Quake slams the ground whenever it is ready and staggers every enemy nearby.
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 |
| Comeback Kid | 
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Body 4 | Faster Health regeneration at low Health |
| Dorph-Head | 
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Body 4 | Brief full Mitigation after using a Health item |
| Wrecking Ball | 
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Body 9 | Cheaper Blunt attacks and a blocking charge |
| Fly Swatter | 
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Body 9 | Less ranged damage while blocking with a Blunt weapon |
| Breakthrough | 
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Body 9 | Strong attacks strip enemy armor |
| Quake | 
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Body 15 | Faster Blunt attacks and a ground slam that staggers |
| Aftershock | 
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Body 15 | Stamina back for each enemy hit by Quake |
| Epicenter | 
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Body 15 | Quake from midair grows with the fall |
| Ripple Effect | 
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Body 15 | Health back for each enemy hit by Quake |
| 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 |
| Calm Mind | 
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Body 15 | Adrenaline lasts longer before it decays |
| Finisher: Savage Sling | 
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Body 20 | A Blunt Finisher that heals |
| Pain To Gain | 
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Body 20 | Kills recharge Health items during Adrenaline Rush |
| Dash | 
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Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Mad Dash | 
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Reflexes 9 | Double Dash range toward enemies |
| Air Dash | 
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Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Glutton For War | 
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Technical Ability 4 | Kills recharge Health items and grenades |
| 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 |
| Edgerunner | Technical Ability 20 | Cyberware past the capacity limit for a small Health cost |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projectile Launch System | 
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Arms | Arm launcher that fires explosive shots |
| Biomonitor | 
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Circulatory System | Uses a Health item when Health runs low |
| Newton Module | 
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Frontal Cortex | Kills cut cyberware cooldowns |
| Mechatronic Core | 
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Frontal Cortex | More damage against drones, robots and mechs |
| NeoFiber | 
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Nervous System | More Mitigation Chance and Strength |
| Reflex Tuner | 
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Nervous System | Slows time at low Health |
| Adrenaline Converter | 
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Nervous System | Faster movement when combat starts |
| Militech Berserk | 
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Operating System | Invulnerable melee mode |
| Dense Marrow | 
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Skeleton | More melee damage |
Lore
The in-game line pitches it with a grin: perfect for crowd control, or for just one unlucky person. The joke works because the baton really can do both. It can hit a whole group or knock out one person.
The Alpha has sister models. Beta and Gamma share its electric charge and its wide swing, and each has its own look and its own in-game line.
Notes
- Electric Baton Beta and Electric Baton Gamma are its sister models.
Weapon Categories
All Melee Weapons
Every melee weapon is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Melee Weapons
| Name | Image | Weapon | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agaou | 
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Axe | +125% | 25% | Dogtown |
| BFC 9000 | 
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One-Handed Club | Rancho Coronado | ||
| Baby Boomer | 
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Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Baseball Bat x-MOD2 | 
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Two-Handed Club | Dogtown | ||
| Black Unicorn | 
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Katana | 25% | ||
| Blue Fang | 
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Knife | +150% | Badlands South | |
| Butcher's Cleaver | 
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Knife | 25% | Coastview | |
| Byakko | 
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Katana | 25% | Little China | |
| Caretaker's Spade | 
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Hammer | 25% | Corpo Plaza | |
| Claw x-MOD2 | 
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Axe | |||
| Cocktail Stick | 
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Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Cottonmouth | 
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One-Handed Club | 25% | Japantown | |
| Crowbar | 
|
One-Handed Club | |||
| Cut-o-Matic x-MOD2 | 
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Chainsword | Dogtown | ||
| Errata | 
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Katana | 25% | Arroyo | |
| Fang | 
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Knife | +50% | ||
| Gold-Plated Baseball Bat | 
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Two-Handed Club | 25% | North Oak | |
| Gwynbleidd | 
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Sword | |||
| Headhunter | 
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Knife | +150% | West Wind Estate | |
| Jinchu-Maru | 
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Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Murphy's Law | 
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One-handed Club | 50% | Dogtown | |
| Nehan | 
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Knife | +150% | Arasaka Waterfront | |
| Sasquatch's Hammer | 
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Hammer | 75% | Coastview | |
| Satori | 
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Katana | 25% | Arasaka Waterfront | |
| Scalpel | 
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Katana | 25% | Northside | |
| Sir John Phallustiff | 
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Blunt | 25% | Kabuki | |
| Stinger | 
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Knife | +150% | Badlands East | |
| Tinker Bell | 
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One-Handed Club | 50% | Badlands East | |
| Tsumetogi | 
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Katana | 25% | Japantown | |
| Volkodav | 
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Machete | 25% | Dogtown |
Standard Melee Weapons
| Name | Image | Weapon | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baseball Bat | 
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Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Chef's Knife | 
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Knife | +150% | ||
| Claw | 
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Axe | +125% | 25% | |
| Cut-O-Matic | 
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Chainsword | 50% | ||
| Electric Baton Alpha | 
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One-Handed Club | Rancho Coronado | ||
| Electric Baton Beta | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | ||
| Electric Baton Gamma | 
|
One-Handed Club | 50% | ||
| Hammer | 
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Hammer | 25% | ||
| Kaiken | 
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Knife | +150% | ||
| Kanabo | 
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Two-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Katana | 
|
Katana | 25% | ||
| Knife | 
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Knife | +200% | ||
| Kukri | 
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Machete | 25% | ||
| Machete | 
|
Machete | 25% | ||
| Neurotoxin Knife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Punknife | 
|
Knife | +150% | ||
| Razor | 
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Machete | 25% | ||
| Steel Pipe | 
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One-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Tire Iron | 
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One-Handed Club | 25% | ||
| Tomahawk | 
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Axe | +125% | 25% |