Autofire and Special/Critical Successes

[KPhan2121]

When you use autofire with a weapon and score a special or critical success, do all of the attacks benefit from it?

[K Peterson]

Only the first attack/bullet. Per page 215 of the BGB:

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The gamemaster may require that all bursts or autofire occur in numbers with easy dice equivalents, such as 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, etc. The result of this die roll is the number of shots that hit the target. Only the first attack is able to achieve a special or critical success—all of the rest are normal successes.

Though, I should add: if you're doing autofire spread across a number of targets, then each target has the potential to suffer 1 crit/special.

Edited April 26, 2017 by K Peterson

[KPhan2121]

Ah, thanks. That makes way more sense.

[Atgxtg]

On 4/26/2017 at 3:00 PM, KPhan2121 said:

When you use autofire with a weapon and score a special or critical success, do all of the attacks benefit from it?

No, the official rule has always been that the first bullet in the burst is the one that impales and/or criticals. It kinda makes sense too, since it would be the shot that gets aimed and fired before the recoil sets in.