Auger Rifle





The Auger Heavy Penetrating Rifle is a Chimeran weapon held by Chimeran Steelheads.

The Auger Heavy Penetrating Rifle fires salvos of transient radiation that will tunnel through solid matter and increase in power with each object they burrow through. Hard surfaces are unaffected, but organic tissues will obtain severe burns. The Auger does have a relatively small ammunition capacity, but the salvos ignore cover so they are all potentially lethal. The Auger's secondary fire deploys a small rectangular force barrier that is impervious to all weapon fire except that from the Auger. Enemies will suffer damage if they move through the barrier.

By Resistance 2, the Chimera had developed an Auger Mark II, which featured a scope that could reveal enemies behind walls, hence reducing the guesswork with using the original Auger. It also had a notable increase in power. This made it more desirable to use than the first version. Also this version could carry only 50 ammo which was the max compared to a 100 that you could carry in Resistance: Fall of Man. However this version had 25 rounds instead of 20. The force barriers size was increased to surrond your body. The force barrier was also rounded for protection from muliple sides.