HA-4 Grit
| HA-4 Grit | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Pistol |
| Type | Tech |
| Ammo | Handgun Ammo |
| Headshot | +125% |
The HA-4 Grit is a Tech pistol from Hansen Armory, the gunsmiths of Kurt Hansen's BARGHEST militia in Dogtown. It works as two guns in one. A tap fires single charged shots like any Tech pistol. Held at full charge, it switches to full auto and empties its long magazine like a small machine pistol. It is a handy Phantom Liberty sidearm for a Technical Ability build. The BARGHEST Iconic Catahoula is built on it. The HA-4 Grit is a Phantom Liberty pistol from Dogtown's own gunsmiths. Weapon vendors sell it once the expansion is installed.
Combat
The Grit is a Tech weapon. Its rounds are fired by an electromagnetic charge, and a charged shot can pass through cover and thin walls. An uncharged shot behaves like a normal pistol round.
The pistol's trait is what makes it special. Once the charge is full, the Grit fires in full auto for as long as the trigger stays down. Its magazine is large for a pistol, so the burst lasts a while. The same gun can hit a guard behind a crate with a charged shot. It can then spray bullets at the guard's friends who come running.
Pistols are dependable sidearms that give up raw firepower for handling. The Grit does that job well. Its full-auto mode gives it enough damage to stop a rush at close range. At long range, a scoped revolver or rifle does the job better.
How to Get HA-4 Grit Guide
- With Phantom Liberty, buy the HA-4 Grit from a weapon vendor.
- Loot it from enemies who carry one.
HA-4 Grit Map Location
The map shows the 2nd Amendment weapon shop in Little China, one of the weapon vendors that sell it.
HA-4 Grit map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
11 weapon mods are compatible with HA-4 Grit.
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Better Half | 
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Raises crit chance with the second half of the magazine |
| C-Thru | 
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Charged shots pierce cover sooner and lose less damage |
| Equalizer | 
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More damage against Elite enemies |
| Parallax | 
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Longer range and less sway when aiming, Stamina stops regenerating |
| Pax | 
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Makes the weapon non-lethal, more damage outside combat |
| Pinpoint | 
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Tighter bullet spread after each headshot, stacking |
| Shuffler | 
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Drawing the weapon refills part of the magazine |
| Spinetickler | 
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Fully charged hits can cause an EMP blast |
| Supercharger | 
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Faster charge and lower Stamina cost, less armor penetration |
| Wallpuncher | 
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Charges to 200%, full armor penetration, no cover penalty |
| Zenith | 
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More crit chance, tighter spread and faster swap after drawing |
Upgrades
A stronger Grit comes from buying one at a higher tier, because weapon quality follows V's level.
Character Builds
The Grit uses perks from two attribute trees, Cool and Technical Ability. In Cool, Focus adds headshot and weakspot damage and unlocks Focus mode at full Stamina. Head To Head resets Focus with each ranged kill. Run 'N' Gun removes the Stamina cost of hip-fire and adds movement speed during Focus. It helps a pistol that sprays from the hip.
In Technical Ability, Bolt speeds up the charge. It also makes a shot count as fully charged if the trigger is released just before full charge. In Charge stops a Tech weapon from firing on its own at full charge, so V can keep the full-auto mode ready. Internal Clock widens the timing window for a Bolt. Chain Lightning makes Bolts deal Electrical damage that spreads to nearby enemies.
For cyberware, Feedback Circuit and Electromag Recycler restore Health when a fully charged Tech shot lands. Kiroshi Stalker Optics reveal enemies behind cover, so V can shoot them through the wall. Its mod slots take Tech and handgun mods. C-Thru makes it easier to shoot through cover. Supercharger speeds up the charge but lowers armor penetration a little. Spinetickler adds an EMP chance on fully charged hits. Zenith adds crit chance for a few seconds after drawing, and Parallax cuts sway while aiming.
Select a Build
Ping reveals enemies behind walls, and Tech weapon shots pierce the cover between them. A charged shot released at the click of Bolt deals the most damage. With a Militech Sandevistan, the charge starts first and time slows at half charge so the Bolt shot lands as a headshot.
Attributes: Body 17, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 4, 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 |
| 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 |
| Focus | 
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Cool 9 | More headshot damage and free shots while aiming |
| Head To Head | 
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Cool 9 | Kills reset Focus |
| Deep Breath | 
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Cool 9 | Time slows while Focus is active |
| Rinse And Reload | 
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Cool 9 | Faster reload after a kill while aiming |
| Deadeye | Cool 15 | More headshot damage and no spread at high Stamina | |
| California Reaper | 
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Cool 15 | Stamina back after a headshot kill |
| Long Shot | 
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Cool 15 | Full damage at any range during Deadeye |
| High Noon | 
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Cool 15 | Fast slowed reload after a headshot kill |
| Nerves Of Tungsten-Steel | 
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Cool 20 | Guaranteed crits on headshots during Deadeye |
| Slippery | 
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Reflexes 4 | Harder to hit while moving fast |
| Dash | 
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Reflexes 9 | Unlocks the Dash and makes it cheaper |
| Ready, Rested, Reloaded | 
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Reflexes 9 | Cheaper rifle and SMG fire and faster reloads |
| Air Dash | 
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Reflexes 15 | Dash in midair |
| Sharpshooter | 
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Reflexes 15 | Faster aim and stacks that ease Stamina use |
| Gundancer | 
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Reflexes 15 | No slowdown while aiming |
| Glutton For War | 
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Technical Ability 4 | Kills recharge Health items and grenades |
| All Things Cyber | 
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Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| Bolt | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Faster charge and Bolt shots that hit harder |
| In Charge | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Tech weapons hold a full charge |
| Shock Value | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Bolt shots ignore armor |
| Lightning Storm | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Faster charge after each Bolt |
| Internal Clock | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Wider timing window for a Bolt shot |
| License To Chrome | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Stronger cyberware, more armor and a Skeleton slot |
| Chain Lightning | 
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Technical Ability 20 | Bolt shots arc Electrical damage to 3 nearby enemies |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heal-On-Kill | 
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Circulatory System | Health back from each kill |
| Kiroshi Cockatrice Optics | 
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Face | More crit chance |
| Microgenerator | 
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Hands | Reloading an empty gun charges an electroshock shot |
| Immovable Force | 
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Hands | Less recoil and tighter spread |
| Cellular Adapter | 
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Integumentary System | Tech weapon damage and resistances from Technical Ability |
| Optical Camo | 
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Integumentary System | Near invisibility for a few seconds |
| Reinforced Tendons | 
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Legs | Double jump |
| Para Bellum | 
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Skeleton | More armor |
Lore
The in-game line is blunt about the gun's ambitions: made by Dogtown's own Hansen Armory, dependable, but that's all it is. Hansen Armory equips BARGHEST, the militia that holds Dogtown under Kurt Hansen. The caption presents the Grit as a working gun rather than a showpiece.
Its Iconic variant, Catahoula, is one of the BARGHEST Iconics that fall from the Dogtown airdrops. Each kill or dismemberment makes V faster, and the extra speed adds damage.
Notes
- Catahoula is the Iconic variant of the HA-4 Grit.
Weapon Categories
All Pistols
Every pistol is listed below. The Iconic weapons come first, then the standard ones.
Iconic Pistols
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ambition | 
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+150% | 25% | |
| Apparition | 
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+150% | 50% | Kabuki |
| Catahoula | 
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| Chaos | 
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+150% | 50% | Kabuki |
| Cheetah | 
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+150% | Dogtown | |
| Crimestopper | 
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+85% | Dogtown | |
| Death and Taxes | 
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+125% | Japantown | |
| Dying Night | 
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+125% | 25% | Little China |
| Genjiroh | 
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+85% | Japantown | |
| Her Majesty | 
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+150% | ||
| Kappa x-MOD2 | 
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| Kongou | 
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+150% | Arasaka Waterfront | |
| La Chingona Dorada | 
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+100% | 25% | The Glen |
| Lexington x-MOD2 | 
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+175% | Little China | |
| Lizzie | 
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+150% | Kabuki | |
| Malorian Arms 3516 | 
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+150% | Northside | |
| Ogou | 
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+50% | 25% | |
| Pariah | 
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| Plan B | 
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+200% | Badlands East | |
| Pride | 
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+150% | Corpo Plaza | |
| Riskit | 
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+150% | 25% | |
| Rook | 
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Dogtown | ||
| Scorch | 
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| Second Opinion | ||||
| Seraph | 
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Little China | ||
| Skippy | 
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+85% | Vista Del Rey |
Standard Pistols
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A-22B Chao | 
|
+85% | ||
| AR Raygun Supreme 9000 | 
|
Badlands East | ||
| HA-4 Grit | 
|
+125% | ||
| HJKE-11 Yukimura | 
|
+85% | ||
| JKE-X2 Kenshin | 
|
50% | ||
| Kappa | 
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| Liberty | 
|
+150% | ||
| M-10AF Lexington | 
|
+125% | ||
| M-76e Omaha | 
|
50% | ||
| Nue | 
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+125% | 25% | |
| Slaught-O-Matic | 
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+150% | 25% | |
| Tamayura | 
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+150% | 25% | |
| Ticon | 
|
50% | ||
| Unity | 
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+150% |