Gáe Bolg

Gáe Bolg is an equipment in Counter-Strike Online.

Overview
Gáe Bolg is categorized in equipments and is used as a primary weapon slot. It is only obtainable from Letter Collecting Event. After shooting, the spear or harpoon will explode when the user decides, inflicting knockback towards the enemy.

Advantages

 * Harpoon is able to explode
 * Harpoon can do knockback and make players jump higher
 * Very high penetration power (bodies not objects)
 * Instant kill
 * Good for destroying obstables in Scenario modes
 * Able to kill multiple targets at once
 * Moderate knock-back power
 * Can decide whether the harpoon explodes

Disadvantages

 * Harpoon does not instantly hit the target
 * Expensive price
 * Obtainable only through special events
 * Low explosion radius
 * Single shot only
 * Very heavy

Release date
This gun was released alongside Lunar New Year Weapons event on:
 * South Korea: 28 January 2014.
 * Taiwan/Hong Kong: 21 January 2014.
 * China: 22 January 2014.
 * Japan: 12 February 2014.

Events
South Korea= The players must collect 4 letters:

Taiwan/Hong Kong= The players must collect 4 letters:

China= The players must collect 4 letters:

Orginal

 * Harpoon's explosion deals only 10 damage towards enemy.

Zombie Scenario

 * Harpoons explode upon hitting bosses.
 * A shot of the Spear deals 14000 ~ 20,000 damage to bosses in any part of the body, as long as you have the firepower maxed out.
 * 30 rounds of the Spear deals 420,000 ~ 600,000 damage to bosses, provided that the firepower has been maxed.
 * Since it has a long reload time, try to avoid incoming zombies.

Zombie Mode

 * A harpoon of Gáe Bolg can deal 200 ~ 400 damage towards a zombie. Meanwhile the explosion can deal around 1000 ~ 3500 towards multiple zombies.
 * Spear deals a very high knockback to all zombie types.
 * Spear is able to knock away 2 zombies at once.

Gallery
Inserting harpoon

Drawing

Shooting sound



Trivia

 * The spear gun in real life is mostly used for underwater fishing or hunting.
 * The shooter can inflict self-damage from coming in contact with the explosion.
 * The user doesn't need to wait or force the harpoon to explode towards bosses as it explodes upon impact.
 * Gae Bulg is an Irish word meaning "Spear of Death".
 * You can see a short purple trail when a harpoon is fired.
 * The harpoon will explode 4 seconds later after hitting an object.
 * In Zombie modes, If the friendly fire is activated, you can use spear gun to  knock your teammates away too.
 * The actual name is 'Gae Bolg' even though "SPEARGUN" can be seen on the barrel.

External link

 * Spear Gun at Wikipedia.