Glaxion

The Glaxion is a Corpus-designed freeze gun researched from the Energy Lab in the Dojo, which is the first weapon to feature as its main damage type. It was released in Update 14.5.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * damage makes it effective against Shields.
 * Cold damage can be combined with other elements to form damage effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh,  damage for increased effectiveness against Shields, and  damage effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
 * Largest magazine size of any weapon ingame.
 * Largest max ammo of any weapon ingame.
 * Highest rate-of-fire of any weapon ingame.
 * Good critical damage.

Disadvantages:
 * Base damage is less effective against Infested.
 * Low base damage.
 * Extremely low ammo efficiency.
 * Extremely low critical chance.
 * Limited range of around 35 meters.

Tips

 * Critical Delay can help slow down the firerate of the weapon to allow better ammo efficiency, although the critical chance increase is minimal.

Trivia

 * The Glaxion is the first weapon to deal pure damage.
 * Concept art for the Glaxion was first seen in Devstream 22 alongside concepts for what would eventually become the Grinlok, Marelok, and Attica.