The Baza is a silenced, rapid-fire Tenno submachine gun with a high critical chance and damage multiplier while maintaining extreme accuracy at the cost of medium range damage falloff.
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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20,000 |
3,500 |
4,300 |
575 |
1 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush: 25 | |||||
Market Price: 240 | Blueprints Price:15,000 | ||||
Tenno Lab Research3,000 | |||||
10,000 |
1,500 |
5 |
1,750 |
300 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
Prereq: Akstiletto | |||||
x1 x3 x10 x30 x100 |
Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Advantages:
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against armor and shields.
- Third highest critical chance of all automatic rifles, behind Tenora and Soma/Soma Prime.
- Tied with Soma/Soma Prime, Rubico, and Attica for the second highest critical multiplier of all primary weapons, behind semi-auto Tiberon Prime, and tied with Soma/Soma Prime and Attica for the highest critical multiplier of all fully automatic rifles.
- Extremely high accuracy per shot, even at full auto.
- Minimal recoil.
- Silent.
- Large ammo reserve.
- High reload speed.
- High fire rate.
- Low zoom when aiming, good for mods that require zooming in for bonuses.
Disadvantages:
- Fourth lowest base damage of all rifles, behind Prisma Grakata, Soma/Soma Prime, and Grakata; very reliant on its good critical damage potential.
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against health.
- Low status chance.
- Linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from 22m to 34m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
- Cannot equip Terminal Velocity.
- Poor ammo economy.
- Fairly low magazine size in contrast to its high fire rate.
- Low zoom when aiming can make ranged shooting more difficult.
Notes
- The weapon's firing sounds increases in pitch when 15 or less rounds are remaining in the magazine, indicating that the weapon's magazine is almost empty.
- The weapon has minimal zoom when aiming, helpful for mods that add bonuses while aiming like Argon Scope.
Tips
- The Baza's high accuracy allows it to land headshots consistently compared to other automatic weapons, which along with its good critical hit chance makes it ideal for builds using Argon Scope.
- Its lower status chance compared to some other automatic rifles can be alleviated with the Hunter Munitions mod, allowing the weapon to spread Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. procs rapidly to enemies, which helps the weapon a lot versus heavy armor.
- Its silenced nature makes it synergize well with Ivara, as firing the weapon will not interrupt her Prowl ability.
- Since the Baza has very high accuracy, it can use Heavy Caliber with almost no drawback and increasing the weapon's overall damage output.
Trivia
- The Baza are a genus of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.
- Physically, the weapon bears a strong resemblance to the real-life PP-19 Bizon SMG. Mainly due to Baza's underbarrel, horizontal magazine, and it's overall appearance.
- The name Baza may be derived from the PP-19's nickname, Bizon.
Media
Patch History
Hotfix 23.1.2 (2018-07-24)
- Fixed audio crackling when firing the Baza with Ivara's Prowl ability.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Critical damage increased from 2.8x to 3x
Update 22.7 (2017-12-12)
- Fixed sounds not playing properly when firing the Baza.
Update 22.5 (2017-11-30)
- Reduced the camera rotation of the Baza's recoil from the hip.
- Reduced the delay before auto reloading an empty mag while using the Baza.
- Fixed clicking sounds when firing the Baza at fast Fire Rates while under audio stealth effects.
- Fixed a very high pitched noise when reloading the Baza.
- Fixed an issue with the Baza not having icons and pickup behaviors when being disarmed.
Update 22.4 (2017-11-23)
- Introduced.
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