| “ | What's more effective than bullets? A whole LOT of bullets. With a fire rate of 3500 rounds per minute, the Minigun remains a mainstay of any heavy engagement. |
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About
The Powered Minigun is one of the Gunner's primary weapons. With excellent accuracy, firerate, and consistency, the Minigun is crucial to Gunner's role. Unlike many other weapons, the Minigun is capable of firing continuously from a large, single drum of ammo, which does not require it to be reloaded. However, it will overheat if fired for too long, similarly to Driller's Reinforced Power Drills.
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Although the weapon's stats indicate that it is capable of firing 30 rounds per second, it is a common misconception that the weapon is capable of outputting as much damage as it describes. In actual game play, the Minigun has half the effective amount of bullets; this means that for every 2 bullets the gun fires, only 1 of those bullets is doing damage.
Firing Sequence
The Minigun has multiple components to its firing sequence. When the trigger is first pulled, the barrel will spin up. The Minigun will not fire until the barrel is spinning at maximum speed. When the trigger is released, the barrel will gradually spin down to a stop.
The Minigun's accuracy will begin at the minimum accuracy, every bullet fired will increase the accuracy by a small but additive amount, up to a maximum. After 0.5 seconds of not firing, the accuracy of the Minigun will begin to decay, completely draining in 3.5 seconds.
Every bullet fired increases the heat of the Minigun by a small amount. It takes 8 seconds of sustained fire for the Minigun to overheat. Cooling will begin once the trigger is released. Cooling is non-linear, cooling faster over time. Firing while the weapon is still cooling will generate a burst of heat, meaning firing in rapid short bursts will cause the weapon to overheat faster.
If the Minigun overheats, it will be disabled for 10 seconds.
Modifications
There are five tiers and each tier has two to three upgrades, only one upgrade can be equipped per tier.
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| Tier 1 |  Magnetic Refrigeration |
+1.5 Cooling Rate | Increases the cooling Rate |  1200 Credits
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 Improved Motor |
+4 Rate of Fire | Increased rate of fire and faster gyro stabilization | 1200 Credits
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 Improved Platform Stability |
x0.2 Base Spread | Increased Accuracy | 1200 Credits
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Tier 2 4
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 Oversized Drum |
+600 Max Ammo | Expanded Ammo Bags | 2000 Credits
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 High Velocity Rounds |
+2 Damage | The good folk in R&D have been busy. The overall damage of your weapon is increased. | 2000 Credits
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| Tier 3 8
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 Hardened Rounds |
+200% Armor Break Bonus | Improved armor breaking | 2800 Credits
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 Stun Duration |
+1 Stun Duration | Stunned enemies are incapacitated for a longer period of time. | 2800 Credits
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 Blowthrough Rounds |
+1 Max Penetrations | Shaped bullets capable of passing through a target! | 2800 Credits
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| Tier 4 12
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Variable Chamber Pressure |
+15% Max Stabilization Damage Bonus | Damage increase when fully stabilized | 4800 Credits
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 Lighter Barrel Assembly |
-0.4 Spinup Time | Start killing things sooner with a shorter spinup time. | 4800 Credits
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 Magnetic Bearings |
+3 Spindown Time | Barrels keep spinning for a longer time after firing, keeping the gun stable for longer. | 4800 Credits
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| Tier 5 16
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 Aggressive Venting |
+Critical Overheat | Burn and Fear everything in a radius when the minigun overheats | 5600 Credits
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Cold As The Grave |
+Heat Removed on Kill | Every kill cools the gun | 5600 Credits
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 Hot Bullets |
+50% Hot Bullets | Rounds fired when the heat meter is red will burn the target | 5600 Credits
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Unique Modifications
Aggressive Venting
Aggressive Venting is a tier 5 mod for the Powered Minigun. When it is equipped, the Minigun will release a blast of heat when it overheats, igniting creatures within a 3m radius of the Gunner. While Aggressive Venting is useful for eliminating lots of smaller creatures, such as Glyphid Swarmers, it puts the Gunner at a disadvantage against his foes during the cooldown process. The Gunner's secondary weapon and Shield Generator is useful in the event of an overheat.
Hot Bullets
Hot Bullets causes each bullet fired out of the Minigun, after the heat meter has turned red, to burn the enemy. After an enemy has been burned enough, they will ignite, taking damage over time. Hot Bullets itself will not cause bonus damage directly, but from the burn effect instead.
Overclocks
 "Lead Storm" Powered Minigun [Expand/Collapse]
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A Little More Oomph!
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"Get the most out of each shot without compromising any of the gun's systems." |
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Thinned Drum Walls
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"Stuff more bullets into the ammo drum by thinning the material in non-critical areas." |
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Burning Hell
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"Turn the area just infront of the minigun into an even worse place by venting all the combustion gasses forward. However, it does overheat rather quickly." |
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Compact Feed Mechanism
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"More space left for ammo at the cost of a reduced rate of fire." |
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| Exhaust Vectoring
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"Increases damage at a cost to accuracy." |
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Bullet Hell
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"Special bullets that ricochet off all surfaces and even enemies going on to hit nearby targets. However they deal less damage and are less accurate overall." |
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| Lead Storm
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"Pushing things to the limit this overclock greatly increases damage output at the cost of consistently stunning targets and the kickback makes it almost impossible to move." |
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Trivia
- Before Update 11: Dead And Gun, the Powered Minigun had an ammo clip, similarly to Autocannon, but it was still able to overheat.
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