Plasma Assault Rifle

Plasma Assault Rifle
Unique Weapon

2-Handed

A state-of-the-art assault rifle hardened for use in extreme environments.

Legendary

3780

The Plasma Assault Rifle is a tier 6 legendary assault rifle-type unique weapon that can be found (with a very low probability) in extreme-threat (tier 6) space encounters and hostile NPC ships. It cannot be found in NPC space stations or friendly NPC ships, even those orbiting fiery stars, because those are all tier 1 encounters.

The weapon's primary attack shoots a three-shot burst of unique plasma projectiles towards the cursor that leave a visible trail of blue particles in a thin line. These shots will bounce off of surfaces once or twice each, but will instantly dissipate if they hit an enemy. The primary fire has a fire time of 0.3 seconds (~3.33 shots per second on average), a burst time (time between consecutive shots in a burst) of 0.1 seconds, a drain of 30 energy per second, and a base DPS of 36.75; this produces a burst time of 0.9 seconds (~1.11 three-bursts per second), a base shot damage of 11.025, and an energy drain per burst of 27.

The weapon's secondary attack, internally called Sticky Plasma Mines, consumes 52.5 energy to shoot three balls of sticky plasma toward the cursor at a speed of 60 tiles per second. On collision with enemies (or after 4 seconds have passed), these balls explode for 17.5 base damage each. This ability is used every 1.5 seconds while the alt fire key is held down and energy is not yet depleted.

Both the primary and secondary fire's plasma rounds will illuminate dark areas. The pulsating blue line on the side of the rifle will also glow in dark areas, but emit no light itself.

Probability

The basic space treasure pool has a 40% chance of 1 draw, a 30% chance of 2 draws, and a 30% chance of 3 draws. Each draw has a 7% chance of drawing from the rare space item pool. The rare space item pool has a 2% chance of drawing from the space weapon pool, which means that each basic space treasure container has a 0.2658% chance of producing at least one space weapon. The tier 6 space weapon pool has a 1/3 chance of producing a plasma assault rifle. Therefore, a player should expect to have to search approximately 1128 tier 6 basic space treasure containers to find one plasma assault rifle.

The Industrial Storage Locker in the cockpit of each pirate ship has one guaranteed rare space item and a very small chance of more than one such item, so it has a 2.13% chance of containing a space weapon, which has a 1/3 chance of being a plasma assault rifle. Therefore, a player should expect to have to search 141 pirate ship cockpit lockers to find one plasma assault rifle. However, because pirate ships also have between two and eight basic space treasure containers, they represent the best chance for players to find the weapon.

History

• Version 1.3.0: Added
  

Data

itemName: spaceplasmarifle

File Details Spawn Command /spawnitem spaceplasmarifle File Name spaceplasmarifle.activeitem File Path assets\items\active\weapons\ranged\unrand\spaceplasmarifle