Cycron

The Cycron is a Corpus plasma beam pistol that regenerates ammo. The blueprint is unlockable through the Energy Lab in the Dojo.

Characteristics
This weapon deals damage, and has the ability to regenerate its own ammo.

Advantages:
 * Innate damage – effective against Infested and Cloned Flesh.
 * High status chance for a beam weapon.
 * Guaranteed proc.
 * Does not need ammo; regenerates over time.
 * Has innate punch through of 2 meters.

Disadvantages:
 * Low crit chance and crit damage.
 * Small magazine size.
 * Increasing the magazine results in a slightly longer time to fully recharge ammo.
 * Has a 2.5 second delay before recharging ammo if the weapon still has ammo left when given the chance to reload.
 * Long total reload delay of 5 seconds if the weapon is allowed to run completely dry.
 * Very limited attack range.

Tips

 * The time it takes to reload can be decreased further with Mesa as her passive reduces the reload in single pistols, and/or a Chroma with a Toxic Elemental Ward with high power strength. Although due to how reload mods work, it will not feel significantly faster with either.


 * With the new dual wielding feature from Update 21, the Cycron pairs significantly well with a Condition Overload Glaive weapon. Being capable of triggering much more status effects with 2 weapons in hand and the convenience of reloading the Cycron while attacking with your melee.

Trivia

 * The Cycron is the first weapon to use the ammo regeneration mechanic outside of Archwing.

Bugs

 * Currently, the Cycron can use the Fatal Acceleration mod, despite not being a projectile-firing weapon.

Patch History
Cycron