Cryo Cannon

Cryo Cannon
Equipment Details
Type	Heavy Weapon
Used by	Driller
Slot	Primary
Hitscan	No
Availability	Unlock

Unlocked through an assignment
Requires Driller 10 Purchased for: 7600 Credits 80 Enor Pearl 120 Bismor

Initial Stats
Damage 6 Frost Max Ammo 500 Rate of Fire (per second) 8 Cold Stream Reach 10m Freezing Power 8 Cold Chargeup Time 0.5s Re-Pressurization Time 1s Maximum Pressure 4.5 Pressure Drop (per second) 0.7 Pressure Gain (per second) 0.9

“	Mad geniuses have tried perfecting this implement for as long as anyone can remember, but our lads at R&D seem to have perfected it! Handily portable (for a dwarf, anyway), it does exactly what you think: It's a friggin' freeze ray. Let 'em have it.
	— Item Description

The Cryo Cannon is an unlockable primary weapon for the Driller. It is a huge, barely-portable freeze ray constructed out of various alloys. The drums on the front of the weapon rotate when it is firing.

The Cryo Cannon ejects a freezing cold stream which deals damage and decreases the temperature of enemies, eventually causing them to freeze. Frozen enemies will receive triple (x2.5 for Dreadnoughts) damage (but lose any weak-points they had before) and are completely immobilized. Being frozen also prevents several enemies from performing unique abilities; for example frozen Glyphid Exploders and Glyphid Bulk Detonators cannot detonate. Flying enemies like Mactera will drop to the floor and shatter instantly when frozen. Enemies in the Glacial Strata are also more resistant to this weapon's freezing effect. More information about the frozen status here.

The Cryo Cannon does not utilize a reloading system and instead draws from one pool of reserve ammo. Upon pressing the fire button the weapon has a brief "charge-up" period before it spews its stream of icy mixture. The stream is affected by a pressure gauge; prolonged firing will eventually empty this meter and require a "repressurization" phase before it can start firing again.

Modifications

There are five tiers of modifications and each tier has two to three upgrades. Only one modification can be equipped per tier.

Cryo Cannon Modifications
	Mod	Effect	Description	Price
Tier 1	Larger Pressure Chamber	x0.33 Pressure Drop Rate	Lets you shoot for a longer time before needing to refill the pressure chamber.	1200 Credits 25 Croppa
	Faster Turbine Spinup	-0.4s Chargeup Time	Start freezing things as soon as you pull the trigger with a near-instant turbine response.	1200 Credits 25 Enor Pearl
	Stronger Cooling Unit	+1 Freezing Power	Freeze things at a faster rate.	1200 Credits 25 Bismor
Tier 2 4	Larger Reserve Tank	+75 Tank Size	You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!	2000 Credits 24 Jadiz 15 Enor Pearl
	Overclocked Ejection Turbine	+5m Cold Stream Reach	Increases the effective range of the weapon.	2000 Credits 24 Magnite 15 Enor Pearl
	Bypassed Integrity Check	-1s Repressurization Time	If you completely empty the pressure chamber, the weapon will immediately start repressurizing, safety be dammed!	2000 Credits 24 Croppa 15 Bismor
Tier 3 8	Improved Pump	x1.75 Pressure Gain Rate	Refill the pressure chamber faster.	2800 Credits 50 Croppa 35 Jadiz
	Increased Flow Volume	+1.6 Flow Rate	We overclocked your gun. It fires faster. Don't ask. Just enjoy. Also probably don't tell Management, please.	2800 Credits 35 Umanite 50 Bismor
Tier 4 12	Hard Mixture	+3 Damage	Promotes Ice-crystal formation in the stream resulting in more direct damage.	4800 Credits 48 Croppa 50 Enor Pearl 72 Bismor
	Supercooling Mixture	+1 Freezing Power	Improves the heat capacity of the stream so you can freeze things at a faster rate.	4800 Credits 72 Jadiz 48 Magnite 50 Enor Pearl
	Larger Reserve Tank	+150 Tank Size	You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!	4800 Credits 72 Jadiz 50 Magnite 48 Umanite
Tier 5 16	Fragile	+Frozen Targets can Shatter	There is a chance that frozen targets will spontaneously shatter!	5600 Credits 70 Croppa 140 Magnite 64 Bismor
	Cold Radiance	+Area Cold Damage	Any enemy that strays within 5m of you while you are firing the Cryo Cannon will start to freeze.	5600 Credits 70 Jadiz 64 Umanite 140 Enor Pearl

Overclocks

Overclock calculations happen after modifiers.

Cryo Cannon [Expand/Collapse]
Overclock	Effect	In Game Description	Price
Improved Thermal Efficiency	+25 Tank Capacity x0.75 Pressure Drop Rate	"Get all you can from your fuel and lose pressure slower from the main chamber."	8350 Credits 125 Croppa 110 Magnite 70 Enor Pearl
Tuned Cooler	+1 Freezing Power +0.8 Flow Rate +0.2 Chargeup Time x0.5 Pressure Gain Rate	"Freeze things faster at the cost of a slower pump and turbine."	8750 Credits 65 Magnite 130 Umanite 110 Bismor
Flow Rate Expansion	x2.7 Pressure Gain Rate +0.8 Flow Rate x2.25 Pressure Drop Rate	"A low volume high pressure chamber paired with a high power pump increase the flow rate and repressurization speed but lower the max duration of sustained flow."	8900 Credits 100 Jadiz 125 Magnite 70 Enor Pearl
Ice Spear	+ Ice Spear +1s Repressurization Delay	"Pressing the reload button dumps all the fluid in the chamber directly into the turbine, flash freezing it and launching an ice projectile. Side effects include an increased recharge delay and of course the large amount of fuel used."	8950 Credits 130 Jadiz 110 Umanite 60 Enor Pearl
Ice Storm	x2 Damage x2 Damage to Frozen Targets -3 Freezing Power -75 Tank Capacity x1.5 Pressure Drop Rate	"A change in the fuel mixture along with some heavy cooler unit tweaks means a lot more damage especially to frozen targets. However, freezing takes longer and the capacity of the pressure chamber is reduced."	7200 Credits 105 Magnite 75 Umanite 130 Enor Pearl
Snowball	+Snowball -100 Tank Capacity +1s Repressurization Delay	"Pressing the reload button shoots all the cryofuel in the chamber at once as an AoE cryo-projectile. Besides the very large amount of fuel consumed, the operation overloads the whole system resulting in a much longer delay before regaining pressure and the modifications restrict the total amount of fuel you can carry."	8400 Credits 90 Jadiz 70 Magnite 130 Umanite

Stats Breakdown

Understanding the weapon

• Chargeup Time is the time needed before the weapon starts shooting.
• Flow Rate is the equivalent of fire rate for other weapons. The weapon will deal 8 instances of damage per second with the base flow rate.
• Pressure Drop Rate is the equivalent of the magazine size for other weapons. It represent how long you can fire before you need to 'reload' your weapon by repressurizing it. The lower the better.
• Freezing Power is what will allow you to freeze the enemies. It won’t do any damage by itself. 1 point in freezing power will lower the temperature of an enemy by 1° for each instance of damage done. Once you reach an enemy's freeze temperature it’ll be frozen solid.
• Tank Size is the equivalent of max ammo for other weapons.
• Repressurization Time is how long you need to wait in seconds after you reached the minimum pressure before you can fire again.
• Pressure Gain Rate is the equivalent of reload for other weapon, except that you can stop midway in case you need to fire early. It represents how fast the pressure will go up after the repressurization time.

Ice Path

In the same manner as the CRSPR Flamethrower, the Cryo Cannon will leave behind a trail of ice that’ll linger for a few seconds. It won’t do any damage but it can potentially freeze enemies.

• Cold per tick: +8°
• Tick Interval: 0.5s
• Maximum Damage Radius: 0.5m
• Radius: 0.5m
• Duration: 3s (visual effect last for 5s)

Unique Modifications

Cold Radiance

Cold Radiance will cool things down in a radius around you, eventually freezing any creature close to you.

The effect is only active while firing and will activate once per second.

• Cold Radiance Effects
  • Area Damage: 60 Cold
  • Maximum Damage Radius: 3m
  • Radius: 4m
  • Minimum Damage: 25%

Fragile

Fragile gives a chance to deal extra damage to low health, frozen enemies. The chance and damage dealt are dependent on the enemy's remaining HP, the hazard level, and for Large enemies, the number of players.

Each hit on a Normal or Large, frozen enemy that has less than 100 base HP remaining (i.e. before any Resistance Scaling is factored in) has a chance to proc Fragile. The percent chance is equal to $100 - RemainingBaseHP$ and is calculated after the damage from the Cryo Cannon has been dealt. For example, a frozen grunt with 25 base HP remaining after being hit by the Cryo Cannon has a 75% chance of procing Fragile. When Fragile does proc, it immediately deals 100% of that enemy's remaining base HP as damage (25 in the previous example). This damage (like all damage) is affected by the appropriate Resistance Scaling modifier for the current hazard level and number of players. This means any enemy with a scaling modifier of greater than 1 can't be directly killed by Fragile. The short of it is this: Normal-sized enemies cannot be directly killed by Fragile on hazard level 3 and above while Large-sized enemies cannot be directly killed on 4-player hazard 3, or anything above 2-player hazard 4. Fragile can still proc and deal significant damage but it cannot outright kill in these scenarios.

Unique Overclocks

Ice Spear

Ice spear is a Balanced Overclock that has 2 damage components, one single target and one in a small AoE; both can hit the same target.

It’ll use up to 50 fuel to fire the projectile. If you don’t have enough fuel available in the chamber, it’ll use all the fuel available and the damage for both components of the projectile will scale down linearly with the amount of fuel that was used.

• Fuel cost: 50 max
• Single target:
  • Damage: 350 Kinetic
• AoE:
  • Damage: 150 Explosive
  • Maximum Damage Radius: 0.8 m
  • Radius: 1.4 m
  • Minimum Damage: 20 %
  • Stun: 100% Chance ; 3s Duration
• Friendly Fire: 50%

Snowball

Snowball is an Unstable Overclock that shoots ranged AoE cryo-projectiles that flash-cool everything in the impact zone at the cost of significantly decreased tank capacity and decreased repressurization delay.

• Fuel cost: 35 max
• Damage: 200 Cold
• Maximum Damage Radius: 2m
• Radius: 4m
• Minimum Damage: 50%

Mastery

Each modification that is purchased advances a mastery bar by one unit.

Mastery unlocks:

• Three modifications – First Stripe Weapon Paintjob
• Seven modifications – Deepcore Weapon Paintjob
• All (13) modifications – The Company Special Weapon Paintjob

Skins

Full gallery of skins can be seen at Weapon Skins.

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