The Pool Ball is an improvised melee weapon featured in the World of Assassination Trilogy. It is one of the quiet throwables, producing very little sound when making contact with NPCs.
Description[]
Acquisition[]
- Multiple - Found in several missions.
Perks[]
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Non-Lethal Melee | Knocks targets unconscious in close combat. |
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Non-Lethal Throw | Knocks targets unconscious at range. |
Description[]
Acquisition[]
- Multiple - Found in several missions.
Perks[]
|
Non-Lethal Melee | Knocks targets unconscious in close combat. |
|
Non-Lethal Throw | Knocks targets unconscious at range. |
Description[]
Acquisition[]
- Multiple - Found in several missions.
Perks[]
|
Non-Lethal Melee | Knocks targets unconscious in close combat. |
|
Non-Lethal Throw | Knocks targets unconscious at range. |
Applications[]
Thrown. Like its variants, the pool ball has a very quiet throwing animation, making it useful for taking an NPC down before a guard knows to react. With a briefcase in the other hand, 47 can quickly pacify two armed enemies from the front without alerting anyone else. Pool balls and its variants are useful for taking out cameras, as they can be quickly recovered before NPCs will investigate the noise.
Pacification. The pool ball uses a shorter melee animation than most improvised weapons, and is almost completely silent.
Safety. The pool ball boasts one under-appreciated advantage over its primary variant found in the Freelancer mansion, the baseball. Although both items can be found in loot crates, pool balls do not have an explosive counterpart. The chances that you have just confused your explosive baseball for a regular baseball is low, but never zero. Of all the quiet throwables, the pool ball's inventory icon is the easiest to distinguish from impact explosives (i.e. cricket balls look like baseballs, and pearls look like explosive golf balls), which rewards habit-forming behavior during high-stress situations.
Variants[]
- Baseball (costs 2 slots)
- Chennai Cricket Ball
- Pearl
Trivia[]
- Despite their shape, pool balls do not roll or bounce further than other thrown objects. They also spend exactly 1.25 seconds in the air at maximum range, like all other throwables.
- Pool balls produce a variety of sounds when struck against wood, metal, ceramic, stone, and people's skulls. However, the audible range of the ball appears to remain static.
- Conversely, the chances of throwing a regular baseball when you meant to throw the explosive variety are so high they are factually incalculable.
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