Slaught-O-Matic
| Slaught-O-Matic | |
|---|---|
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| Class | Pistol |
| Type | Power |
| Ammo | Handgun Ammo |
| Headshot | +150% |
| Armor Pen | 25% |
The Slaught-O-Matic is a Budget Arms disposable pistol, a cheap plastic gun sold from vending machines around Night City. Its in-game line says it plainly: single-use and non-reloadable, but perfect in a pinch. When its ammo runs out, the gun is finished. It is an emergency weapon, not the main gun of a build. It helps any V who is caught without a gun, and it is cheap enough to throw away once it is empty. Its second use is in crafting, because the HA-4 Grit is built from a Slaught-O-Matic. Budget Arms vending machines sell the Slaught-O-Matic from the start of the game, including one near the Afterlife in Little China.
Combat
The Slaught-O-Matic is a Power pistol that comes loaded with one magazine and nothing more. Once it is empty, the pistol is finished and gets thrown away. Until then, it shoots like any other Power pistol, and its bullets can ricochet off hard surfaces.
The gun's value is convenience. A vending machine on the street can give V a working pistol in seconds. It helps after a fight goes wrong or when V's usual guns are out of ammo. V uses it up, drops it and buys another from the next machine.
How to Get Slaught-O-Matic Guide
- Find a Budget Arms vending machine, such as the one near the Afterlife in Little China, Watson.
- Buy a Slaught-O-Matic from the machine.
Slaught-O-Matic Map Location
The map shows the Afterlife, near the Budget Arms vending machine.
Slaught-O-Matic map location:
Map credit by Map Genie.
Compatible Mods
7 scopes, 9 muzzles and 11 weapon mods are compatible with Slaught-O-Matic.
| Name | Image | Effect |
|---|---|---|
| Add-Vantage | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| CQO Kanone MINI Mk.72 | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| Handyman | 
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Adds zoom and effective range, more headshot crit chance at top tier |
| Hyakume | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| Kanetsugu | 
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Adds zoom, effective range and crit chance |
| OS-1 GimletEye | 
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Adds zoom and effective range |
| 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 Babaroga | 
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Raises ricochet chance and ricochet damage |
| RC-7 Dybbuk | 
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Lowers recoil direction |
| RC-7 Kutrub | 
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Lowers recoil, slightly lowers crit chance |
| RC-7 Liger | 
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Lowers recoil angle and direction, slightly lowers crit chance |
| RC-7 Yokai | 
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Pyro | 
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Turns part of the damage into Thermal damage with a chance to Burn |
| 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 |
| Zenith | 
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More crit chance, tighter spread and faster swap after drawing |
Character Builds
As a pistol, the Slaught-O-Matic benefits from the Cool tree. Focus removes the Stamina cost of aimed shots for a short time at full Stamina. Deadeye raises headshot and weak-spot damage. Quick Draw speeds up swapping to a pistol and restores Stamina on the swap. It helps when V pulls out the Slaught-O-Matic in an emergency. Run 'N' Gun, the top pistol perk, removes the Stamina cost of hip-fire. Long Shot removes damage drop-off at range while Deadeye is active. Head To Head resets Focus whenever an enemy dies while it is active, so quick kills keep the bonus going.
For cyberware, Clutch Padding lowers the Stamina cost of shooting. The Ballistic Coprocessor raises the chance that its Power rounds ricochet. Shock Absorber cuts recoil.
Select a Build
Headshots deal most of the damage, and Focus and Deadeye only work at full Stamina, so each fight starts with a full Stamina bar. The Sandevistan slows time so a whole group can drop one headshot at a time. A silenced pistol handles quiet kills before a fight, and a shotgun deals with enemies that get close.
Attributes: Body 20, Reflexes 18, Technical Ability 20, Intelligence 3, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| No Sweat | 
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Cool 9 | Kills cut the Stamina cost of Focus |
| Rinse And Reload | 
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Cool 9 | Faster reload after a kill 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 |
| Pull! | 
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Cool 9 | Easier to shoot grenades out of the air |
| 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 |
| High Noon | 
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Cool 15 | Fast slowed reload after a headshot kill |
| Long Shot | 
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Cool 15 | Full damage at any range during Deadeye |
| Quick Draw | 
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Cool 15 | Faster swaps to pistols and rifles |
| Nerves Of Tungsten-Steel | 
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Cool 20 | Guaranteed crits on headshots during Deadeye |
| Run 'N' Gun | 
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Cool 20 | Free hip fire and faster movement during Focus |
| Slippery | 
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Reflexes 4 | Harder to hit while moving fast |
| Muscle Memory | 
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Reflexes 4 | Reload 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 |
| Can't Touch This | 
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Reflexes 9 | Full Mitigation Chance while Dashing |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blood Pump | 
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Circulatory System | A Health item that heals over time |
| Clutch Padding | 
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Circulatory System | Cheaper shooting |
| Kiroshi The Oracle Optics | 
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Face | Scanning highlights enemies behind cover |
| Mechatronic Core | 
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Frontal Cortex | More damage against drones, robots and mechs |
| Ballistic Coprocessor | 
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Hands | More ricochets with Power weapons |
| Shock Absorber | 
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Hands | Less recoil |
| Subdermal Armor | 
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Integumentary System | More armor |
| Reinforced Tendons | 
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Legs | Double jump |
| NeoFiber | 
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Nervous System | More Mitigation Chance and Strength |
| Militech Apogee Sandevistan | Operating System | Slows time by 85% with crit bonuses | |
| Spring Joints | 
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Skeleton | Stronger Mitigation |
| Bionic Joints | 
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Skeleton | More armor |
Lore
The Slaught-O-Matic is built around one idea: a gun that anyone in Night City can buy, with no questions asked. Street vending machines sell it for a very low price. It is a single-use pistol. An empty one goes in the trash, and a new one comes out of the machine.
The developers planned it that way from the start. One of the game's concept artists described a gun picked up during a trip to the shop, used to defend a home and then thrown away.
Notes
- The HA-4 Grit, a Tech pistol, is a heavily modified Slaught-O-Matic. A Slaught-O-Matic is one of the materials needed to craft it.
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 | 
|
+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 | 
|
+85% | Dogtown | |
| Death and Taxes | 
|
+125% | Japantown | |
| Dying Night | 
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+125% | 25% | Little China |
| Genjiroh | 
|
+85% | Japantown | |
| Her Majesty | 
|
+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 | 
|
+200% | Badlands East | |
| Pride | 
|
+150% | Corpo Plaza | |
| Riskit | 
|
+150% | 25% | |
| Rook | 
|
Dogtown | ||
| Scorch | 
|
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| Second Opinion | ||||
| Seraph | 
|
Little China | ||
| Skippy | 
|
+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 | 
|
+125% | 25% | |
| Slaught-O-Matic | 
|
+150% | 25% | |
| Tamayura | 
|
+150% | 25% | |
| Ticon | 
|
50% | ||
| Unity | 
|
+150% |