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About this mod
Iconic Senkoh LX: 3x mod slots, increased headshot damage, electrocute chance, hip-fire charge, no cooldown between charged shots, increased fire rate.
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The chrome the mods and the playstyle
As the name suggests, this SMG can be many things based on what mods are attached, what worked well for me was the combination of Wallpuncher, Spinetickler and Ready Steady combined with the Immovable Force iconic cyberware, which turns the conditional bonus of Ready Steady into a permanent one (together with its own bonus, basically there is no recoil). Tech weapon perks make a huge difference, full automatic bolt shots (more on that later) are OP: I'm not saying the Chimera was a pushover, but... the Chimera was a pushover (so were drones, turrets and mechs). Sasquatch just pissed her... whatever is she wearing, you get the idea. An otherwise situational and underutilized cyberware turns into a useful one with this weapon, the Feedback Circuit (3.5% heal on charged shots), as almost all of our shots are full auto charged shots, and the frequency is much higher than for instance with a Satara. The iconic variant regenerates a bit more (and stamina as well), but I don't think the hefty capacity cost of 40 is worth it. In my playthrough I used Dynalar Sandevistan (I found 50% slow to be the sweet spot for Hengeyokai's firerate, but you do you if you find it ok with the Militech Falcon or Apogee, their capacity cost is substantially higher though), I've mostly activated it only when I was out of healing charges to let "Borrowed Time" kick in more easily, or in boss fights, so probably it can be substituted with a Kerenzikov to use Berserk (for an invincible hybrid melee build) or Chrome Compressor instead of a Sandevistan (Chrome Compressor would enable a tankier build by affording Rara Avis and Second Heart on top of Epimorphic Skeleton and the other mandatory cyberware). If you aim for high crit hit chance with Sandevistan and/or Kiroshi "Cockatrice" Optics make sure to have 20 cool regardless of the build and equip the Deep-Field Visual Interface iconic cyberware. We don't care much about its main effect (the longer the distance the higher the crit chance, though not negligible at medium long distances), but with its Cool attunement we gain 20% crit damage in addition to the 25% crit damage from the 20 Cool. If you want 20 reflex (the capstone perks are not really useful, but still), you can have18 cool with Phantom Liberty, and that is still a substantial crit damage increase, and still have 20 Strength (survivability) and 20 Tech (simply mandatory for this weapon). Make sure to reach Engineer skill 60, many milestone rewards of the Engineer are simply too good to be ignored, using the tech SMG will constantly progress Engineer, to accelerate it use grenades liberally as well.
Hengeyokai can be charged from hip-fire, and while theoretically you can follow the charge level on the weapon itself (on its display under the fingerprint scanner), that is too far away from the crosshair to be practical while hip-firing, therefore the weapon uses the hex crosshair from Satara, which has charge indication. Not that relevant if you use the "In Charge" perk, crucial if you don't.
Automatic Bolt shots (general vanilla game aspects)
Since there aren't that many tech weapons capable of full auto firing mode (basically the Senkoh LX and Quasar + their iconic variants), it is not widely known how they behave with bolt shots, and the confusing description of the relevant perks does not help either, so here is what I learned/experienced in my playthrough: sticking to the regular auto bolt shots mechanic can be finicky at best, and takes a lot of getting-used-to to reliably pull it off with the short charge time of Hengeyokai (0.75s, or 0.6s with T5 Supercharger mod), the solution is to take the "In Charge" Tech perk. While counterintuitive (considering the perk description), in reality it simplifies firing automatic bolt shots significantly: just charge the weapon to full charge, and most of the time it will result in bolt shots. Occasionally it won't, but in that case just stop and start a new charge (same way, fully charged).The easiest way to recognize bolt shots is from the dense spark cloud at the impact area, it is rather hard to miss.
The vanilla Senkoh SMG (technically all Tech SMGs, but Senkoh LX and Raiju are the only ones) has an annoying cooldown on charged shots, the charge meter drains, and has to do so completely before the next charge can start. While this might have been an attempt to balance automatic charged shots, in practice it completely castrates them, so this cooldown has been removed from Hengeyokai. Go Brrrrr as frequently as you want.
Avoid using Supercharger tech mod AND the Lightning Storm perk (increases charge speed with consecutive bolts stacking 3 times) together, this combination results in reaching the minimum charge time (maybe even trying to go lower than) the game engine allows (0.5s), which for some reason prohibits bolt shots entirely. 0.6s seems to be the minimum stable charge time to achieve automatic bolt shots reliably.
Additional mods to consider
Possibly an oversight from CDPR (since very few weapons are affected): the duration of full auto bolt shots is just 2s, meaning in full auto mode the original Senkoh LX will run out of it, switching to regular shots only halfway through it's mag size (considering the fire rate). Hengeyokai is quite powerful even with this limitation (at full weapon potential most enemy will perish if showered in bolt shots for 2s), but if it bothers you, here is a mod addressing the issue: Bug Fix - Full-Auto Tech Weapons Bolt Duration. Otherwise you can just start a new charge when the bolt duration runs out.
How to obtain?
Finish the Bullets side-job, then once you and Zane Jagger gave testimony to the Max-Tac lieutenant (Melisa Rory), Hengeyokai will be added to your inventory (at uncommon Tier). If you attempt this at lower level, try using the Fenrir SMG in the fight against the cyberpsycho, Fenrir is a good stepping stone to rely on before Hengeyokai in general.
What if I want it 'here and now'?
The console command to get it:
As the name suggests, this SMG can be many things based on what mods are attached, what worked well for me was the combination of Wallpuncher, Spinetickler and Ready Steady combined with the Immovable Force iconic cyberware, which turns the conditional bonus of Ready Steady into a permanent one (together with its own bonus, basically there is no recoil). Tech weapon perks make a huge difference, full automatic bolt shots (more on that later) are OP: I'm not saying the Chimera was a pushover, but... the Chimera was a pushover (so were drones, turrets and mechs). Sasquatch just pissed her... whatever is she wearing, you get the idea. An otherwise situational and underutilized cyberware turns into a useful one with this weapon, the Feedback Circuit (3.5% heal on charged shots), as almost all of our shots are full auto charged shots, and the frequency is much higher than for instance with a Satara. The iconic variant regenerates a bit more (and stamina as well), but I don't think the hefty capacity cost of 40 is worth it. In my playthrough I used Dynalar Sandevistan (I found 50% slow to be the sweet spot for Hengeyokai's firerate, but you do you if you find it ok with the Militech Falcon or Apogee, their capacity cost is substantially higher though), I've mostly activated it only when I was out of healing charges to let "Borrowed Time" kick in more easily, or in boss fights, so probably it can be substituted with a Kerenzikov to use Berserk (for an invincible hybrid melee build) or Chrome Compressor instead of a Sandevistan (Chrome Compressor would enable a tankier build by affording Rara Avis and Second Heart on top of Epimorphic Skeleton and the other mandatory cyberware). If you aim for high crit hit chance with Sandevistan and/or Kiroshi "Cockatrice" Optics make sure to have 20 cool regardless of the build and equip the Deep-Field Visual Interface iconic cyberware. We don't care much about its main effect (the longer the distance the higher the crit chance, though not negligible at medium long distances), but with its Cool attunement we gain 20% crit damage in addition to the 25% crit damage from the 20 Cool. If you want 20 reflex (the capstone perks are not really useful, but still), you can have18 cool with Phantom Liberty, and that is still a substantial crit damage increase, and still have 20 Strength (survivability) and 20 Tech (simply mandatory for this weapon). Make sure to reach Engineer skill 60, many milestone rewards of the Engineer are simply too good to be ignored, using the tech SMG will constantly progress Engineer, to accelerate it use grenades liberally as well.
Hengeyokai can be charged from hip-fire, and while theoretically you can follow the charge level on the weapon itself (on its display under the fingerprint scanner), that is too far away from the crosshair to be practical while hip-firing, therefore the weapon uses the hex crosshair from Satara, which has charge indication. Not that relevant if you use the "In Charge" perk, crucial if you don't.
Automatic Bolt shots (general vanilla game aspects)
Since there aren't that many tech weapons capable of full auto firing mode (basically the Senkoh LX and Quasar + their iconic variants), it is not widely known how they behave with bolt shots, and the confusing description of the relevant perks does not help either, so here is what I learned/experienced in my playthrough: sticking to the regular auto bolt shots mechanic can be finicky at best, and takes a lot of getting-used-to to reliably pull it off with the short charge time of Hengeyokai (0.75s, or 0.6s with T5 Supercharger mod), the solution is to take the "In Charge" Tech perk. While counterintuitive (considering the perk description), in reality it simplifies firing automatic bolt shots significantly: just charge the weapon to full charge, and most of the time it will result in bolt shots. Occasionally it won't, but in that case just stop and start a new charge (same way, fully charged).The easiest way to recognize bolt shots is from the dense spark cloud at the impact area, it is rather hard to miss.
The vanilla Senkoh SMG (technically all Tech SMGs, but Senkoh LX and Raiju are the only ones) has an annoying cooldown on charged shots, the charge meter drains, and has to do so completely before the next charge can start. While this might have been an attempt to balance automatic charged shots, in practice it completely castrates them, so this cooldown has been removed from Hengeyokai. Go Brrrrr as frequently as you want.
Avoid using Supercharger tech mod AND the Lightning Storm perk (increases charge speed with consecutive bolts stacking 3 times) together, this combination results in reaching the minimum charge time (maybe even trying to go lower than) the game engine allows (0.5s), which for some reason prohibits bolt shots entirely. 0.6s seems to be the minimum stable charge time to achieve automatic bolt shots reliably.
Additional mods to consider
Possibly an oversight from CDPR (since very few weapons are affected): the duration of full auto bolt shots is just 2s, meaning in full auto mode the original Senkoh LX will run out of it, switching to regular shots only halfway through it's mag size (considering the fire rate). Hengeyokai is quite powerful even with this limitation (at full weapon potential most enemy will perish if showered in bolt shots for 2s), but if it bothers you, here is a mod addressing the issue: Bug Fix - Full-Auto Tech Weapons Bolt Duration. Otherwise you can just start a new charge when the bolt duration runs out.
How to obtain?
Finish the Bullets side-job, then once you and Zane Jagger gave testimony to the Max-Tac lieutenant (Melisa Rory), Hengeyokai will be added to your inventory (at uncommon Tier). If you attempt this at lower level, try using the Fenrir SMG in the fight against the cyberpsycho, Fenrir is a good stepping stone to rely on before Hengeyokai in general.
What if I want it 'here and now'?
The console command to get it:
Game.AddToInventory("Items.m1klos_Hengeyokai",1)