hand claws and the other weponised body parts what do they do?

[Breakingzap]

what are they incompatable with how good are they ect

[HunterSilver]

Hand Talons, Elbow Blades, Knee Spikes, Venom Fangs, and Venom Talon all require a natural body part and cannot be built into a bionic or artificial equivalent body part. So if you have a Bionic Arm you cannot also install a Hand Talon.

Weaponized body parts are made at the Machining Table instead of the Fabrication Bench, reducing the necessary research to begin production of them. They're also dirt cheap to produce, costing just some steel and components.

Their damage output compared to bionic parts is slightly higher not counting the manipulation bonuses that bionics add to weapons. A bionic arm deals 18 armor penetration and 6 dps. Compact Weapons deal 22 armor penetration and 7.5 dps. Venom parts have 12 armor penetration and 4.1 dps but supposedly inflict venom, which I know nothing about and I have no idea if/why it is better than raw damage.

In short they're a cheap, early way to improve melee combat on colonists, especially colonists who are otherwise shooting but have been forced into melee. Once you have bionics it's basically exclusively better to just install bionic parts.

[Breakingzap]

Originally posted by HunterSilver:

Hand Talons, Elbow Blades, Knee Spikes, Venom Fangs, and Venom Talon all require a natural body part and cannot be built into a bionic or artificial equivalent body part. So if you have a Bionic Arm you cannot also install a Hand Talon.

Weaponized body parts are made at the Machining Table instead of the Fabrication Bench, reducing the necessary research to begin production of them. They're also dirt cheap to produce, costing just some steel and components.

Their damage output compared to bionic parts is slightly higher not counting the manipulation bonuses that bionics add to weapons. A bionic arm deals 18 armor penetration and 6 dps. Compact Weapons deal 22 armor penetration and 7.5 dps. Venom parts have 12 armor penetration and 4.1 dps but supposedly inflict venom, which I know nothing about and I have no idea if/why it is better than raw damage.

In short they're a cheap, early way to improve melee combat on colonists, especially colonists who are otherwise shooting but have been forced into melee. Once you have bionics it's basically exclusively better to just install bionic parts.

so they are just inferior bionics?

[HunterSilver]

Yeah, basically.

[I HATE PEOPLE]

A bionic arm will do blunt damage, claws do sharp damage which is far more dangerous.