Exergis

Exergis is a Corpus shotgun that shatters a crystal onto enemies, puncturing them with devastating radioactive shards. Its extremely high damage output makes up for its single round, quick reload times, and poor critical chance and critical multiplier.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily  damage.

Advantages
 * Highest base damage of all non-Archwing weapons.
 * High and good  damage – effective against health and armor.
 * Innate damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
 * Very high status chance.
 * Can achieve 100% status per pellet with, , , and.
 * Innate confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
 * Fairly fast reload speed.
 * Innate 0.5 meter Punch Through.

Disadvantages
 * Innate damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
 * Low damage – less effective against shields.
 * Linear damage falloff from 100% to ? from ? to ? target distance (distances are affected Projectile Speed).
 * Very low critical chance.
 * Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one pellet will proc a status; the actual base status chance per pellet is ~?%.
 * Extremely low magazine size of just one round; requires frequent reloading.