Cortabrechas

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Cortabrechas
Detalles del equipo
Tipo	Arma pesada
Usada por:	Ingeniero
Ranura	Secundaria
Disponibilidad	Se desbloquea

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The Breach Cutter releases directional blasts of sonically-charged plasma powerful enough to deal with most any alien in your path. Originally a mining tool, it's now been frequency-tuned to crack open flesh and bone rather than the sediment deposits it was designed for - often with quite spectacular results!

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Descripción

El cortabrechas es un arma secundaria desbloqueable para el ingeniero. En principio concebida como una herramienta de minería, ha encontrado una mejor utilidad al usarse como arma. Este dispositivo carga unas baterías en la parte superior del arma, que disparará capas horizontales de plasma expansivo, enfocadas en la dirección a la que apunta la boca del arma. El cortabrechas es una de las armas más grandes del juego.

Learning how to effectively use the Breach Cutter takes some time due to the unique projectiles. When fired the plasma blade will expand and travel as a long purple line, then close up a second and a half later. The plasma blades deal damage for every tick they come into contact with an enemy. It may help to think of the plasma blades like as rockets fired from a bazooka, though instead of exploding they simply pass through enemies.

The plasma blades are infinitely piercing and can cleave though as many enemies as they like. They are best targeted against "lines" of enemies who are tightly packed together, getting the most out of the blades' two metre length. The weapon is also capable of dealing lots of damage to big targets such as Glyphid Praetorians when the beams are angled correctly – for optimal results, fire directly from the front or back of any big target. On top of that, plasma line passes through any terrain without damage losses, allowing the user to hit targets behind walls. This can most commonly be seen used for clearing out packs of enemies stacked behind unopened dirt walls and, in some scenarios, killing cave leeches from a safe place.

Asides from the tricky nature of the projectiles, the Breach Cutter itself has flaws. It can only hold four shots at once and only has twelve in reserve by default. While this is comparatively more ammo on average than the 40mm PGL, moderation must still be practiced while using this weapon without the proper Modifications or Weapon Overclocks to mitigate the low ammo problems. The weapon also suffers from a slow reload speed and a short delay before the plasma blade expands and starts dealing damage, making the weapon ineffective at close range (though these problems can also be remedied via mods).

Unlocked through an assignment.
Requires Engineer 15 Purchased for: Plantilla:Price table

Initial Stats
Daño Per Second 575 Tamaño de cargador 4 Ammo máx. 12 Cadencia de tiro (por segundo) 1.5 Tiempo de recarga 3.0s Projectile Lifetime 1.5s Plasma Beam Width 2 Plasma Expansion Delay 0.2

Mods

Hay cinco niveles de Mods para este arma, cada uno de ellos con hasta tres opciones diferentes. Recuerda que solo podrás equipar un Mod por nivel y por arma.

	Mod	Efecto	Description	Precio
Nivel 1	Prolonged Power Generation	+1.5 a la persistencia del proyectil	The projectile is able to travel for a longer period of time before collapsing.	Plantilla:Price table
	High Capacity Magazine	+2 al tamaño del cargador	The good thing about clips, magazines, ammo drums, fuel tanks ... you can always get bigger variants.	Plantilla:Price table
Tier 2 6	Expanded Ammo Bags	+8 Max Ammo	You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!Get a wider plasma line that can hit more targets at once.	Plantilla:Price table
	Plasma condensado	+175 Beam DPS	The good folk in R&D have been busy. The overall damage of your weapon is increased.	Plantilla:Price table
	Loosened Node Cohesion	+1 Plasma Beam Width	Get a significantly wider plasma line that can hit more targets at once.	Plantilla:Price table
Tier 3 10	Quick Deploy	-0.2 Plasma Expansion Delay	The line projectile opens almost immediately and can hit multiple targets at very close range.	Plantilla:Price table
	Loosened Node Cohesion	+1 Plasma Beam Width	Get a significantly wider plasma line that can hit more targets at once.	Plantilla:Price table
Tier 4 14	Armor Breaking	+200% Armor Breaking	Increases armor breaking capabilities of the plasma line.	Plantilla:Price table
	Disruptive Frequency Tuning	+100% Stun Chance +3 Stun Duration	The plasma beam will stun most of the denizens of Hoxxes on contact.	Plantilla:Price table
Tier 5 18	Explosive Goodbye	+Explosive Goodbye	The projectile explodes at the end of its lifecycle when the nodes collapse damaging anything unlucky enough to be near by and leaving a residual plasma field for a short time. You can also manually trigger the explosion by pulling the trigger a second time while the projectile is in flight.	Plantilla:Price table
	Rastro de plasma	+Plasma Trail	The beam leaves behind a residual trail of plasma that will continuously damage any enemy that gets too close.	Plantilla:Price table
	Triple Split Line	+Triple Split Line.	The plasma beam is split into 3 lines that cover a taller area making it possible to hit multiple targets at various heights.	Plantilla:Price table

Mods únicos

Explosive Goodbye

Explosive Goodbye causes the Breach Cutter's shots to explode at the end of their life span, dealing 40 damage to the target. The explosion occurs once the beam has fully retracted into its epicenter or can be manually triggered by firing again, which will leave a plasma field that periodically damages any enemy that comes into contact.

Rastro de plasma

Plasma Trail causes the Breach Cutter's shot to temporarily leave a trail of plasma as it travels along in any direction, which will periodically damage any enemy that comes into contact.

Triple Split Line

Triple Split Line causes two extra beams to appear in parallel with every shot. Triple Split Line itself will not cause more damage to be dealt, however will increase the surface area for contact of each shot. Increased surface area means each shot can potentially deal the maximum number of damage because of how long the beam stays in contact with each creature. Increased surface area also means more contact for the shot to destroy armor.

Pirateos

Breach Cutter
Type	Overclock	Effect	Description	Price
Clean	Light-Weight Cases	+4 Max Ammo -0.2 Reload Time	Bring more ammo with you and slam those cases in faster!	8700 Credits 130 Bismor 80 Jadiz 100 Croppa
	Roll Control	+Roll Control	A few tweaks to the launcher cause it to add roll to the projectile as it is ejected. Holding down the trigger after the line leaves the gun activates a remote connection with on the release of the trigger causes the line to stop rolling.	8150 Credits 135 Umanite 80 Magnite 95 Croppa
	Stronger Plasma Current	+1 Damage +0.5 Projectile Lifetime	By improving the node's efficiency you can up the raw damage without too much fuss and it lasts a bit longer too!	8650 Credits 140 Jadiz 75 Magnite 100 Croppa
Balanced	Return to Sender	+Return to Sender ----- -3 Damage -4 Max Ammo	Holding down the trigger after line leaves the gun activates a remote connection with on the release of the trigger causes the line to change direction and move back towards the gun.	7950 Credits 140 Bismor 80 Umanite 100 Enor Pearl
	Yaw Man	+Yaw Man ----- -2 Rate of Fire	Through a bias of the release energy the line is released with a yaw spin. Due to repeat intersections, the spinning line will on average cause more damage than a static beam, especially to larger targets. However the tweaks have a negative impact on the weapons rate of fire.	7300 Credits 120 Umanite 75 Bismor 95 Croppa
Unstable	High Voltage Crossover	+High Voltage Crossover ----- -3 Damage -1 Magazine Size	By passing an electric current through the plasma, the beam electrocutes anything it touches but at the cost of raw damage and the bulky hardware limits magazine capacity.	8250 Credits 120 Bismor 80 Enor Pearl 100 Magnite
	Inferno	+Inferno ----- -4 Max Ammo -2 Rate of Fire x0.5 Armor Breaking	Turn your Breach Cutter into a tool of burning death and destruction at the cost of ammo, fire rate, and armor breaking.	7550 Credits 135 Magnite 70 Croppa 90 Jadiz

Skins

Full gallery of skins can be seen at Weapon Skins.

Gallery

Trivia

• According to the Breach Cutter's description, it was originally a mining tool used to clear sediment deposits before eventually being converted into a weapon. Mission Control remarks upon this when the weapon is unlocked, joking that Planet Hoxxes "sure does breed innovation".

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