Starfield:Jake's Hangover Cure

Jake's Hangover Cure
Base Damage	32 + 94
Fire Rate	14
DPS	29.4
Ammo	Heavy Fuse
Mag Capacity	8
Accuracy	54.6%
Range	20
Mass	7.0
Mod Slots	0/7
Base Value	12870
Type	Particle Beam Shotgun
Item ID	002BD871
Variants	Big Bang

The Jake's Hangover Cure is a particle beam shotgun, it's a unique variant of the Big Bang in Starfield. It uses Heavy Particle Fuse ammo. Despite the unique weapon having no legendary effects, this is the only early guaranteed spawn location for the particle beam shotgun in Starfield. It is also one of the best weapons to get early in the game due to it's exstreamly high damage.

Weapon Effects

While Jake's Hangover Cure is unique it has a common weapon tier level and therefore has no Weapon Effects.

Name	Tier	Effect	Description
-	-	No Effect	-

Location

• To find Jake’s Hangover Cure location early you must travel to The Well in New Atlantis on Planet Jemison in the Alpha Centauri System. Once you reach the Well you can find Jake’s bar, the unique shotgun is located behind the bar, but taking it counts as stealing.

• It's difficult to steal Jakes Hangover Cure from behind Jake's bar without being spotted by all the NPC's in the area. The best method is to steal the weapon and then quickly open the menu and fast travel to your ship to avoid being arrested. Alternatively you can also steal the weapon and then drop it outside the bar before you get arrested, after you can return and kick the weapon into a dark corner where you can pick up while being hidden (see video example).

• You can remove the stolen tag from the weapon to stop it getting confiscated each time you get arrested in the future by heading to the Wolf System (north east from Alpha Centauri) and selling the weapon to them and then going to be buy back menu to buy it back for the exact same price you sold it for. This will remove the stolen tag from the weapon.

Weapon Modification

Pre-Attached

Category	Available Mods	Effect
Muzzles	Focus Nozzle	Increases Damage, Headshot Damage and Range
Optic	Reflex Sight	Reflex sights for quicker target acquisition and visibility

Compatible Mods

Category	Available Mods	Effect
Barrels	Extended Barrel	Vastly increases Accuracy, Recoil Control and Range at the cost of Aim Down Sight speed
Barrels	Long Barrel	Increases Accuracy, Recoil Control and Range at the cost of Aim Down Sight speed
Barrels	Standard Barrel	Standard issue barrel
Batteries	Annihilator Rounds	Banned by almost every government, these rounds produce a disease-like effect that spread to any target that gets too close
Internal	Amplifier	Amplifies power output, increasing damage
Internal	Overclocked	Increases Rate of Fire
Lasers	Laser Sight	Laser Sight attachment to help with target acquisition and increase Accuracy
Lasers	Recon Laser Sight	Marks enemies while Aiming and greatly increases Accuracy
Magazines	Standard Magazine	Standard issue magazine
Muzzles	Double Barrel Muzzle	Changes rounds fired to go through a two-barreled attachment for different spread shots
Muzzles	Focal Lens	Specialized lenses vastly increase accuracy
Muzzles	Focus Nozzle	Increases Damage, Headshot Damage and Range
Optic	Iron Sights	Standard issue iron sights
Optic	Reflex Sight	Reflex sights for quicker target acquisition and visibility

Weapon Tier Level

Starfield has four weapon tier levels: Base, Calibrated, Refined, Advanced (in ascending order). The higher the tier, the better the damage of the weapon. As you level up, your chances of finding higher tier weapons increase, defeating higher level enemies will also increase the drop chance of best weapons. Note that superior weapons do exist, but they are incorrectly named as advanced weapons despite dealing more damage.

Unique Weapons in Starfield scale in base damage depending on their weapon tier level (Base, Calibrated, Refined, Advanced), but they keep the same unique name without any prefixes being added. You can find out more information on how to get the best version of each unique weapon you come across on the unique weapon tier system page.

Below you can find the stats for each tier level of this unique weapon.

Tier	Loot Level	Damage Change	Damage	Fire Rate	DPS	Tier ID
Base	0	0.0%	94+32	14	29.4	00131D48
Calibrated	33	41.3%	133+45	14	41.5	00131D49
Refined	43	47.6%	139+47	14	61.3	00131D4A
Advanced	53	55.6%	146+50	14	95.4	00131D4B

Weapon Categories

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  Pistols

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  Rifles

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  Shotguns

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  Heavy Weapons

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  Melee Weapons

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  Explosives

Unique Shotguns

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Shotguns in Starfield are one of the best weapons to use early game since they deal high damage at close range with very little combat skills investment. To get the most damage out of a shotgun you must ensure that all the pellets fired hit the target. The better the accuracy of a shotgun the tighter the spread of pellets will be.

There are a number of unique shotguns to collect. unique weapons range from; rare, epic, legendary and come with pre-defined rarity modifiers that increase your damage output.

Using the science skill: weapon engineering you can modify your Shotguns with the best mods for your playstyle. This will affect the damage, fire rate, magazine capacity, range, mass and accuracy of the weapon. Each gun has a limited number of mod slots to utilise.

Below you will find a list of all the common and unique Shotgun locations in Starfield along with the weapon ID which can be used to add the weapon to your inventory using console commands.

Name	Image	Damage	Fire Rate	DPS	Ammo	Mag Capacity	Accuracy	Range	Mass	Mod Slots	Value	Item ID
Boom Boom		50	60	50	Caseless Shotgun Shell	20	44.1%	24	3.75	3/8	18113	001AC6BB
Brute Force		68	20	22.6	15x25 CLL Shotgun Shell	7	57.1%	20	4.4	5/6	15146	001AC6E0
Experiment A-7		119	10	19.83	15x25 CLL Shotgun Shell	6	50.6%	20	6.9	3/8	19662	0031F257
Jake's Hangover Cure		32 + 94	14	29.4	Heavy Fuse	8	54.6%	20	7.0	0/7	12870	002BD871
Rapidshot		99	18	29.7	15x25 CLL Shotgun Shell	6	56.9%	24	7.45	6/8	23730	0016CFA
Riot Shotgun		25	10	19.83	15x25 CLL Shotgun Shell	6	50.6%	20	6.9	7/8	14965	0031F257
The Cursed Shotgun		73	6	7.3	12G Shotgun Shell	6	67.9%	24	4.8	4/5	10391	001AC6E7