Guillotine
| Guillotine | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Smg |
| Type | Power |
| Ammo | Handgun Ammo |
| Headshot | +100% |
The Guillotine is Budget Arms' plastic submachine gun, a cheap way to spray a room with bullets in Night City. Its own description admits it is only slightly better than bringing a knife to a gunfight. In practice, it is a fast-firing Power SMG that tears through gang members at close range. It takes a muzzle attachment and has two mod slots. It can be set up as a quiet ambush gun or a loud room-clearer. The Phantom Liberty Iconic Guillotine x-MOD2 is built on it. The Guillotine is an early buy at the 2nd Amendment shop in Megabuilding H10, Little China. Every 2nd Amendment store keeps it in stock.
Combat
The Guillotine fires in full auto at a high rate. Submachine guns have the lowest damage per shot of any gun type, but they make up for it with fire rate. The Guillotine is the same, so it wins by firing many bullets rather than by single hits.
Its Power rounds can ricochet off walls. In a tight room, ricochets help a burst hit enemies hiding behind furniture. The muzzle attachment changes how the Guillotine works. A silencer lets V start a fight from the shadows and take out a guard or two before anyone reacts. A muzzle brake cuts recoil for longer sprays. Either way, the Guillotine is a close-range gun. It is best used when enemies push forward.
How to Get Guillotine Guide
- Buy the Guillotine at the 2nd Amendment shop in Megabuilding H10, Little China, run by Robert Wilson.
- Buy it from other weapon vendors around Night City.
- Loot it from enemies who carry one, or craft it from its spec.
Guillotine Map Location
The map shows Robert Wilson's 2nd Amendment shop in Little China.
Guillotine map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
9 muzzles and 11 weapon mods are compatible with Guillotine.
| 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 | 
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Lowers recoil, slightly lowers crit chance |
| RC-7 Strigoi | 
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Lowers recoil |
| RC-7 Varkolak | 
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Raises ricochet chance and ricochet angle |
| RC-7 Zaar | 
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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 |
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Better Half | 
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Raises crit chance with the second half of the magazine |
| Big Mag | 
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Bigger magazine, slower reload |
| Critochet | 
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Raises crit chance with ricochets |
| Equalizer | 
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More damage against Elite enemies |
| Firecracker | 
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Shoots explosive rounds |
| Focus Fire | 
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Tighter hipfire spread, shorter effective range |
| Pax | 
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Makes the weapon non-lethal, more damage outside combat |
| Pyro | 
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Turns part of the damage into Thermal damage with a chance to Burn |
| Ready Steady | 
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Lowers recoil, more so when aiming from cover |
| Shuffler | 
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Drawing the weapon refills part of the magazine |
| Swiss Cheese | 
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More armor penetration, higher Stamina cost per bullet |
Crafting Spec
The spec lets V craft Guillotine in the crafting menu. Every spec in the game is listed on the Crafting Specs page.
The table shows what crafting Guillotine 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 Guillotine comes from buying or crafting a higher tier. With its crafting spec, components can be turned into a better-quality gun in the crafting menu.
Character Builds
The Guillotine uses the Reflexes tree. Mind Over Matter lowers recoil while aiming. Ready, Rested, Reloaded lowers the Stamina cost of shooting and speeds up reloads. Sharpshooter gains a stack with each hit. Shoot To Chill adds armor penetration for each stack. Practice Makes Perfect adds crit chance and crit damage for each stack. Submachine Fun makes the swap to an SMG faster and reloads the gun on the swap. It also adds fire rate for a short time.
For cyberware, Immovable Force and Shock Absorber reduce recoil. The Ballistic Coprocessor raises the ricochet chance of Power weapons. A gun that fires this fast gets the most out of it.
Its mod slots take Power and SMG mods. Swiss Cheese adds armor penetration, but each shot costs more Stamina. Pyro turns part of the damage into Thermal damage with a chance to Burn. Critochet adds crit chance to ricochets. Ready Steady cuts recoil, and more so from cover. Better Half adds crit chance for the second half of the magazine.
Select a Build
The build plays as run and gun, shooting while sprinting, sliding and dashing. Air Dashes and Tailwind keep the character moving through a fight. Kerenzikov slows time when aiming during a Dash, so the shots stay precise on the move.
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 |
| Muscle Memory | 
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Reflexes 4 | Reload while sprinting, sliding and vaulting |
| Multitasker | 
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Reflexes 4 | Shoot while sprinting, sliding and vaulting |
| Dash | 
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Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Steady Grip | 
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Reflexes 9 | Shoot while Dashing |
| Air Dash | 
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Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Aerial Acrobat | 
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Reflexes 15 | Better control in midair |
| Gundancer | 
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Reflexes 15 | No slowdown while aiming |
| Air Kerenzikov | 
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Reflexes 15 | Kerenzikov in midair holds the character in the air |
| Submachine Fun | 
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Reflexes 20 | SMG swaps reload and raise fire rate |
| Tailwind | 
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Reflexes 20 | Stamina back from Air Dashes and double jumps |
| Extended Warranty | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Cyberware effects last longer |
| Ambidextrous | 
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Technical Ability 15 | A second Hands cyberware slot |
| Cyborg | Technical Ability 15 | Shorter cyberware cooldowns with every slot filled |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kerenzikov Boost System | 
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Frontal Cortex | Stronger Kerenzikov with free shooting Stamina |
| Immovable Force | 
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Hands | Less recoil and tighter spread |
| Defenzikov | 
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Integumentary System | Mitigation after Kerenzikov ends |
| Kerenzikov | 
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Nervous System | Slows time when aiming during a slide or dodge |
Lore
Budget Arms runs the 2nd Amendment chain of gun shops and shooting ranges. The Guillotine is one of its main products, sold in those shops alongside the Carnage shotgun. The Little China branch in Megabuilding H10 is run by Robert Wilson.
The Iconic Guillotine x-MOD2 lies in the Longshore Stacks of Dogtown, on a stack of shipping containers next to an old mining truck. It keeps the base gun's full-auto fire and adds two guaranteed mod slots and better handling.
Notes
- Guillotine x-MOD2 is the Iconic variant of the Guillotine.
Weapon Categories
All SMGs
Every SMG is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic SMGs
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buzzsaw | 
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+100% | 25% | Northside |
| Chesapeake | 
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| Erebus | 
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| Fenrir | 
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+100% | Northside | |
| Guillotine x-MOD2 | 
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Dogtown | ||
| Pizdets | 
|
+85% | ||
| Problem Solver | 
|
+100% | Badlands East | |
| Prototype: Shingen Mark V | 
|
+50% | Arroyo | |
| Raiju | 
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West Wind Estate | ||
| Yinglong | 
|
+50% | Wellsprings |
Standard SMGs
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DS1 Pulsar | 
|
+100% | ||
| G-58 Dian | 
|
+50% | ||
| Guillotine | 
|
+100% | ||
| HA-7 Warden | 
|
+50% | ||
| M221 Saratoga | 
|
+100% | ||
| Senkoh LX | 
|
+100% | Arroyo | |
| Shigure | 
|
+100% | ||
| TKI-20 Shingen | 
|
+50% |