Drakgoon

"The Drakgoon Flak Cannon sends volleys of intensely hot shrapnel ricocheting around the room. Can be fired in wide or concentrated bursts."

- In-Game Description

The Drakgoon is a powerful 'flak cannon' that fires a spray of superheated metal shards; concept art of it was first seen in Livestream 17. It is a deadly short and long range weapon thanks to its high damage, variable accuracy based on charge time, and innate target penetration when charged up.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Slash damage, making it most effective against Infested.

Advantages:
 * Very high damage, most of which is Slash type
 * Innate Punch Through on charge, can decimate tightly-clustered enemies as they approach
 * Shots ricochet once

Disadvantages:
 * Slow fire rate and charge speed
 * No polarity slots
 * Shrapnel projectiles have travel time and travel at an arc.

Acquisition
The Drakgoon can be purchased for or its blueprints for.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Shrapnel spread upon fire will narrow as the charge is held. Using Accelerated Blast and Shotgun Spazz will decease the charge time.
 * Charge can be held while sprinting, sliding, wall running, and wall clinging, allowing for mobility and closing in on enemy targets.

Trivia

 * The term Flak is derived from the German Flugzeugabwehrkanone, literally "air defence cannon". This is a cannon that fires a shell that bursts in the air, sending a spray of shrapnel towards the target: the idea being that a spread of shrapnel will have a greater chance of hitting a moving target by covering a large area, as opposed to a single shell, which can only cover its impact point.
 * "Drakgoon" is a play mix of words from both Drake and Dragoon into one.
 * The word Drake refers to simply a male duck.
 * The word Drake also refers to a type of European Dragon.
 * The word Dragoon refers to mounted infantry trained to deliver tremendous damage against a squad of unmounted infantry. Thus relating the weapon's capability of spreading massive damage against a crowd of enemies.
 * The "Drak" part of the name could also be a simple change to Flak, so it sounds like Dragoon.
 * This is the first shotgun to gain a Charge feature.
 * The Drakgoon is the second weapon to be referenced under the Unreal Tournament series, which is the Flak Cannon. It is also poses an even more striking resemblance to it than the Stug.