Hawk
| Hawk | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Assault Rifle |
| Type | Power |
| Ammo | Heavy Ammo |
| Tier | Iconic |
| Headshot | +175% |
| Armor Pen | 25% |
| Attack Speed | 5 |
| Weight | 7.2 |
| Location | Dogtown |
Hawk is President Rosalind Myers' own rifle, an Iconic assault rifle from Phantom Liberty that she leaves behind in V's Dogtown hideout. It is a semi-automatic marksman's gun built on the Tsunami Kyubi. Its special effect weakens enemies. Every headshot weakens and marks the target. A weakened enemy moves slower, deals less damage, loses balance more easily and cannot use its abilities. Hawk helps in two ways. It deals heavy damage, and it also takes away the enemy's best abilities. Hawk is a Phantom Liberty reward from the main job Lucretia My Reflection. It is picked up in the Kress Street Hideout in Dogtown.
Combat
Hawk fires one round per trigger pull, like the Kyubi it is based on. It is a rifle for careful aim rather than spraying. Every headshot weakens and marks the target for a short time. The mark also makes the target easy to follow while the fight moves around.
The weaken effect is the main reason to carry Hawk. Enemies that rely on cyberware abilities lose them while marked. A weakened enemy also hits softer and staggers more easily. Against a boss or an elite with dangerous abilities, an early headshot takes those abilities away while the mark lasts. The rifle's high headshot bonus means those same headshots also do most of the damage. Body shots still hurt, but they do not weaken the target. Hawk takes a scope and a muzzle attachment.
How to Get Hawk Guide
- Play Phantom Liberty up to the main job Lucretia My Reflection.
- Lead Myers through the subway tunnels to the Kress Street Hideout on the eighth floor of the Rindo Hotel.
- Find Solomon Reed and bring him back to the hideout.
- After Myers and Reed leave, look by the hideout entrance.
- Pick up Hawk where it leans against the wall.
Hawk Map Location and Quest Guide
- Play Phantom Liberty to the main job Lucretia My Reflection.
- Find an entrance to the subway tunnels and lead Myers through them.
- Take the elevator to the 8th floor with Myers and enter the hideout.
- Restore power to the hideout, then talk to Myers.
- Deal with Taylor and Jacob, by a fight or by an agreement.
- Find Solomon Reed and bring him back to the hideout.
- After Myers and Reed leave, pick up Hawk where it leans against the wall by the entrance.
Hawk map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
13 scopes and 9 muzzles are compatible with Hawk.
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Add-Vantage | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| CQO Kanone MINI Mk.72 | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| ClearVue Mk.8 | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| E255 Percipient | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| Handyman | 
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Adds zoom and effective range, more headshot crit chance at top tier |
| Hyakume | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| Jue | 
|
Adds zoom and effective range |
| Kairo SA-1 | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| Kanetsugu | 
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Adds zoom, effective range and crit chance |
| Mk.2x Grandstand | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| OS-1 GimletEye | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| SO-21 Saika | 
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Adds zoom, effective range and crit chance |
| Type 2067 | 
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Adds zoom and effective range, lowers bullet spread |
| 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 |
Upgrades
Myers' rifle can be improved in the Upgrades tab of the crafting menu. Each tier costs crafting components, the same materials V collects from loot and from disassembled weapons. Hawk only shows on that tab while it is in V's inventory.
The table shows what each tier step of Hawk 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
Assault rifles use the Reflexes tree. Sharpshooter adds aim speed and weapon control, and each successful shot adds a Sharpshooter stack. Practice Makes Perfect gives extra crit chance and crit damage for every stack. Salt In The Wound adds bonus damage when the same target takes seven shots in a row. A steady semi-automatic rifle can do that easily. Tunnel Vision adds range and accuracy, and Mind Over Matter cuts recoil while aiming.
Cyberware should improve headshots and crits. The Militech Apogee Sandevistan raises headshot damage and crit stats while time slows. The slowed time helps V aim at the next head. Tyrosine Injector adds headshot damage after a takedown. Visual Cortex Support raises crit chance the further V is from the enemy, which helps a rifle used at range. Hawk is a Power weapon, so the Ballistic Coprocessor also improves its ricochets.
Select a Build
Attributes: Body 20, Reflexes 20, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 9, Cool 12.
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 |
| Calm Mind | 
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Body 15 | Adrenaline lasts longer before it decays |
| Juggernaut | 
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Body 15 | More speed and damage during Adrenaline Rush |
| Unstoppable Force | 
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Body 15 | Immunity to knockdown and blinding during Adrenaline Rush |
| Pain To Gain | 
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Body 20 | Kills recharge Health items during Adrenaline Rush |
| 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 |
| Spray And Pray | 
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Reflexes 15 | Cheaper hip fire |
| 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 |
| All Things Cyber | 
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Technical Ability 9 | Stronger cyberware stats |
| Chrome Constitution | 
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Technical Ability 9 | Less damage taken with full Skeleton and Integumentary slots |
| Cyborg | Technical Ability 15 | Shorter cyberware cooldowns with every slot filled | |
| Extended Warranty | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Cyberware effects last longer |
| License To Chrome | 
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Technical Ability 15 | Stronger cyberware, more armor and a Skeleton slot |
| Name | Image | Slot | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Pump | 
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Circulatory System | A Health item that heals over time |
| Heal-On-Kill | 
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Circulatory System | Health on each kill |
| Behavioral Imprint-Synced Faceplate | 
|
Face | A disguise that escapes the police |
| 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 |
| Reinforced Tendons | 
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Legs | Double jump |
| Kerenzikov | 
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Nervous System | Slows time when aiming during a slide or dodge |
| NeoFiber | 
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Nervous System | More mitigation chance and strength |
| Bionic Joints | 
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Skeleton | More armor |
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Handyman | 
|
Short scope with headshot crit chance |
| XC-10 Cetus | 
|
Silencer |
Lore
Rosalind Myers is the President of the New United States of America, a former Marine and a former CEO of Militech. Hawk is her personal weapon. The item text calls it a masterpiece of military craftsmanship.
Lucretia My Reflection follows the crash of Space Force One in Dogtown and the fight with the Chimera. V leads Myers through the old subway tunnels to a hideout on the eighth floor of the abandoned Rindo Hotel on Kress Street. The power is out, so V finds a battery and restarts the generator. Two bounty hunters then turn up for the price on the President's head, and V has to deal with them.
The next day Myers sends V to find Solomon Reed, a sleeper agent who once worked with Songbird. V calls him from an old telephone hidden in the Capitán Caliente restaurant and meets him at a basketball court. Reed then drives V back to the hideout, fighting through Hansen's soldiers on the way. After a tense talk, Myers and Reed leave together. Myers does not take her rifle with her.
Notes
- Hawk is easy to miss, so check the wall by the entrance before leaving the hideout.
- Hawk is the Iconic variant of the Tsunami Kyubi.
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 | 
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+100% | 25% | Little China |
| Psalm 11:6 | 
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+100% | 25% | Northside |
| Umbra x-MOD2 | 
|
+100% | 25% | Dogtown |
Standard Assault Rifles
| Name | Image | Headshot | Armor Pen | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| D5 Copperhead | 
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+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% |