Glaxion Vandal

The Glaxion Vandal is a Corpus-designed freeze ray, and the Vandal Version of the standard Glaxion, featuring as its main damage type. It was released in.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:
 * Innate damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Shielded, and Infested Sinew.
 * Highest status chance of all continuous and automatic primary weapons.
 * Can reach 100% status chance with just 3 out of the dual status chance mods:, , , and.
 * Pinpoint accuracy.
 * 's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
 * High magazine size.
 * High ammo reserves.
 * Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
 * Kills create an extra corpse, synergizing with 's.

Disadvantages:
 * Innate damage – less effective against Infested Flesh and Fossilized.
 * Damage cannot be increased with, or  mods.
 * Low critical chance.
 * Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.
 * Limited range of 24 meters.

Tips

 * With three of the four dual stat mods –, , , and – the Glaxion can achieve 100% status chance.
 * Increasing the firerate will effectively increase the amount of procs applied to the enemy you are firing at.
 * Enemies that are frozen solid will take at least 1 hit of damage from any source to be destroyed regardless on how much damage it is dealt. This can block powerful enemy projectiles such as Napalm and Bombard shots.
 * Frozen corpses remain solid for 3 seconds before deteriorating which takes 5 seconds.
 * Some enemy abilities still remain in effect while deteriorating such as a Nullifier Crewman's bubble, which will start to grow back while deteriorating.

Trivia

 * The Glaxion Vandal is the second weapon to deal pure damage.
 * The revolver-style cartridges on the Glaxion's body spin during firing, though the magazine is the small (battery) box behind the trigger
 * Additionally, the Glaxion's barrel telescopes back and forth rapidly during firing, and collapses inward when holstered.
 * Enemies who die by the weapon are frozen solid, much like Frost's ability, and shatter when hit by any weapon. This effect persists even if the Glaxion's Cold damage has been changed into another element.
 * If frozen bodies are left alone for five seconds, the ice will thaw into nothingness.
 * Glaxion bears similarity to the French word glaçon, meaning "ice cube" or "icicle".

Patch History
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