Soldering Fingers

Soldering Fingers
Half shot, half slug, all fragmentation hazard.
Details
Bot
Effects	Pellets are replaced with a slug that fragments on impact
Rarity	Breakthrough
Max Stack	1

Induction Barrel is a Breakthrough Upgrade, enhancing the Steeltoe's primary fire, Shotgun Blast.

Effects

• The shotgun's standard pellet spread is replaced with one slug that breaks into fragments on impact.
  • The slug deals 36 base damage, and this damage is increased to 59.4 if it is boosted with the Resonance Hammer.
    • If the player also has Induction Barrel, the slug will become a Molten Slug, which acts identically to a normal slug except that it deals 10% less damage than normal and overheats Aphids instead of damaging them.
  • When the slug comes into contact with an enemy or wall, it will fragment into 9 additional pellets that deal the same damage as a normal pellet would.
    • If an enemy is shot with a boosted slug, the pellets will spread out in a focused cone in the original direction the slug was shot instead of spreading out in a circle.
    • Ammo Conservation increases the amount of fragments released by 1.5 for each stack of the upgrade (rounded down).
  • Stacked Shells adds an extra slug with each reload.

Tips

• While the slug by itself deals less damage than a normal shotgun blast, the altered trajectory of boosted shrapnel makes Nail Drivers deal incredible damage, enough to one-shot even Deadlifts.
• As an effect of the Scattershot, the slug explodes early, allowing proper spacing of the shot to do as much damage as a Nail Driver shot can do with less recoil, applicable as both a failsafe in missed timing as well as reducing the recoil when you don't want it.
• Has incredible synergy with Induction Barrel and Ricochet Shells, turning Steeltoe into a monster of AOE damage.

Trivia

• Despite the fragments from a boosted slug having increased damage and velocity, they are still colored blue.