UPDATE 22 OCT 26: CURRENTLY RE-DEVELOPING THE MOD; IT'S WORKING IN TESTING. EXPECT A NEW RELEASE SOON.
JAR-5 Dominator: Rechambered
Ministry of Defense — Procurement Notice
The Ministry of Defense has authorized a field conversion for the venerable JAR-5 Dominator, reconditioning the rifle's chamber to accept the explosive gyrojet cartridges originally developed for the P/40-K sidearm program. Helldivers wielding the Dominator have long prized its stopping power against armored threats but field reports consistently noted the rifle's 15×100mm ammunition lacked the terminal effect required to breach the heaviy enemy armor now encountered across the galaxy.
This conversion corrects that deficiency — and then some. The Rechambered Dominator fires the same rocket-propelled, high-explosive warhead as the P/40-K, loaded behind a hotter and larger gyrojet rocket which drives the round to 380 m/s — more than double the stock round's 180. Heavy armor penetration and explosive fragmentation on impact now with the veloctity and maximum range of a rifle.
Additionally, all JAR-5 Dominator's have been been modified by armorers and are now proper select fires (semi, burst, full automatic).
Managed Democracy demands overwhelming firepower. This conversion ensures it.
— Ministry of Defense, Office of Armaments
What this mod does: Rechambers the JAR-5 Dominator to fire the P/40-K Bolt Pistol's explosive, heavy armor-penetrating warhead on a hotter gyrojet load. Pick Regular or Realistic in the mod options.
Shared, either option:
- Damage: 500 (the Bolt Pistol's 325 impact + 175 explosive)
- Traits: Heavy Armor Penetrating · Explosive
- Toggle SAFE/UNSAFE on the weapon wheel. UNSAFE arms at 0.1 m. Inside the SAFE arming distance the round hits without detonating, so the blast does not catch you at point-blank range.
- Fully Automatic: a third firing mode, full auto
- Magazine in the gun: stock 15 rounds, unchanged
- Sound: Boltgun, Darktide, Necromunda, or Space Marine 2. Turn the sound option off for the stock report.
- Shodan Editor: now fully compatible. This mod will no longer battle Shodan over flight speed and time.
- This is a field-selective memory patch (via Bingus Shared Loader), not a whole-record copy. The older "Bolt Pistol Round" version copied the pistol's entire projectile record, which dragged in the pistol's limited range. This version copies the warhead fields (damage type + explosion) and impact visuals onto the Dominator's record, then applies the gyrojet profile to speed, flight time, arming distance and recoil, keeping the Dominator's own mass (100 g), drag and gravity.
- Speed: 380 m/s, up from 180. A flatter, faster shot.
- Range: 532 m cap. The stock round flew until it hit something. This one despawns at 532 m, the rocket motor running out of fuel.
- Arming distance: 12 m, or 0.1 m on UNSAFE
- Recoil: ~1.2× stock (new gyrojet propellant)
- Spare magazines: 6
- Spread: unchanged
- Blast: the bolt pistol's. Full damage inside 1 m, falls off by 3.5 m, still hurts at 6 m, nothing at 7 m.
- If Shodan overwrites the numbers, set them back to: Flight Speed 380 m/s, Flight Time 532 m, Recoil 1.2×
- Speed: 450 m/s at burnout. The game only stores one speed, so this is the speed after the motor finishes, not the slow crawl at the muzzle.
- Range: 360 m cap
- Arming distance: 15 m, or 0.1 m on UNSAFE
- Recoil: 0.60× stock. Most of the push happens after the round has left.
- Spare magazines: 4 (15 still in the gun)
- Spread: +1 on both cones
- Mass stays 100 g. A 178 g 15×100 mm round would be a solid slug with no room for propellant.
- Blast: a private copy. Full damage inside 1 m, nothing past 2 m. The bolt pistol keeps its own wider blast.
This is a field-selective memory patch (via Bingus Shared Loader), not a whole-record copy. The older "Bolt Pistol Round" version copied the pistol's entire projectile record, which dragged in the pistol's limited range. This version copies the warhead fields (damage type + explosion) and impact visuals onto the Dominator's record, then applies the gyrojet profile to speed, flight time, arming distance and recoil — keeping the Dominator's own mass, drag and gravity.
Requires:
Known Issues
- The Space Marine 2 bolter sound effect is 3 dB too loud.
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