Platform Gun

Platform Gun
Equipment Details
Type	Support Tool
Used by	Engineer
Slot	Mobility
Availability	Default

“	It does what it says on the box. By firing a combination of highly volatile chemicals at a nearby wall, the result is a rapidly solidifying concrete-like foam that can support several tons of weight. Do not ingest!
	— Item Description

About

The Platform Gun is a Support Tool used by the Engineer. It is a massive, long-barrelled cannon that fires a unique material composite called "Plascrete", which is fired as a spherical shape and morphs into a semi-oval shape with a flat top upon landing. During the reload animation, the Engineer is presumably mixing the chemicals by spinning the cylinder. The platforms themselves are bright yellow and vulnerable to destruction, via Pickaxes or explosives.

While the Platform Gun is simple in funcionality, its usefulness cannot be understated. Platforms are applicable to a huge number of situations. The most prominent is to fire them underneath mineral veins that are too high up on the walls to be accessed. The Engineer can team up with the Scout to access these minerals; the former uses his Platform Gun to place a platform underneath the resource, then the latter uses his grappling hook to ascend to the resource and stand comfortably on the platform while extracting it. This is often necessary in gamemodes such as Mining Expedition and Point Extraction, where mission-critical resources such as Morkite and Aquarq are not always easy to aquire.

The Platform Gun has many other uses too. It can be used to seal up hazardous terrain, such as molten slurry in the Magma Core or fissures in the Glacial Strata. It can cover up holes in terrain that enemies could exploit to gain a flanking position on one's team. Veteran Engineers can often be seen using platforms to shape the defensive areas of Salvage Operation missions to provide tactical advantages for himself and his team. Finally, it is possible to create platform staircases to ascend walls or cross gaps - however, this is a very easy way to quickly burn through one's available platform supply, which is already limited. These kinds of tasks are better achieved by the Driller's Titanium Powerdrills or the Gunner's Zipline Launcher respectively.

Initial Stats
Magazine Size 4 Max Ammo 16 Rate of Fire (per second) 1.0 Reload Time 2.0s

Modifications

There are three tiers and each tier has up to three upgrades, only one upgrade can be equipped per tier.

	Mod	Effect	Description	Price
Tier 1	Supercharged Feed Mechanism	+1.0 Rate of Fire	We overclocked your gun. It fires faster. Don't ask, just enjoy. Also probably don't tell Management, please.	420 Credits 10 Bismor
	Expanded Ammo Bags	+8 Max Ammo	You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!	420 Credits 10 Jadiz
	High Capacity Magazine	+4 Magazine Size	The good thing about clips, magazines, ammo drums, fuel tanks... you can always get bigger variants.	420 Credits 10 Croppa
Tier 2 4	Plastcrete MKII	90 less fall damage (after resistances)	Shock-absorbing compound reduces fall damage	780 Credits 22 Enor Pearl
Tier 3 8	Expanded Ammo Bags	+8 Max Ammo	You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!	960 Credits 16 Croppa 12 Umanite
	Repellent Additive	+Bug repellant	Enemies will avoid walking on the Plastcrete Foam whenever possible.	960 Credits 16 Jadiz 12 Magnite

Gallery

Trivia

• In an earlier version of the Update 21 Experimental Branch, there was an experimental modification which would cause the gun to fire cubic platforms. It was removed before release for unknown reasons.
• Sticky Flames can melt Platform Gun platforms.