Soma

"Accuracy combined with a massive clip make the SOMA assault rifle a formidable weapon."

- In-Game Description.

The Soma is a Tenno designed high caliber assault rifle with high accuracy and critical ratio. It uses an enormous magazine to sustain fire but must wind up briefly to achieve its maximum feed rate.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Very high base magazine size (tied with Flux Rifle/Ignis/Synapse).
 * High fire rate.
 * High accuracy.
 * Second highest critical chance of any primary weapon.(Second to the Synapse)
 * Benefits greatly from elemental mods, as elements are amplified by critical damage.
 * Two polarity slots.

Disadvantages:
 * Low base damage (close to Grakata).
 * Inefficient ammo economy (but better than the Grakata).
 * Requires quite a large amount of uncommon and rare resources to craft.
 * Longer reload than some other rifles (Not as long as the Gorgon or Supra).

Acquisition
The Soma can be purchased for 265 in the market and the blueprint for  50,000.

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

Tips

 * It is Highly Recommended to use ammo replenishing items to counter the ammo inefficiency on this weapon. Rifle Ammo Mutation works but leaves less room for damage mods, Ammo Restore consumables are a better option. Alternatively, use the aura mod Rifle Scavenger.
 * With a maximum-rank Point Strike mod, the Soma's crit rate can be boosted up to 87.5%. The Soma's crit rate can now be boosted to over 100% with Critical Delay.
 * With a maximum-rank Vital Sense and a Hammer Shot mod, the Soma's crit damage multiplier can be increased to 840%.
 * Once the weapon enters the fast-firing stage, some skills (like Iron Skin) may be activated without losing the firing speed.
 * Similarly, it retains its fast firing rate if you let off the fire button for short periods. This lets the weilder change targets without wasting amunition in between them as long as they do so quickly. This can also be used to keep tighter firing spreads at long ranges, essentially "bursting" rounds with quick pauses between to reduce recoil.

Trivia

 * The magazine will curl up into the Soma when firing, and eject when ammo is depleted. It has a mild resemblance to older submachine guns with unusual magazine orientations such as the Japanese Type 100 SMG or Type 99 LMG when the magazine has gone through. The spent magazine can be seen on the ground for a short time before disappearing.
 * The Soma's magazine feed also subsequently resembles the Bastard Gun from Metro 2033.
 * Also, the Soma featured in the store/blueprint has the mag halfway depleted.
 * Regardless of how many rounds are left, manually reloading the Soma will eject the magazine. Repeatedly reload-cancelling can leave a pile of Soma magazines on the floor.
 * The Soma is described in the market carousel as a deadly and elegant high caliber Tenno assault rifle. Despite allegedly high caliber rounds, its damage is second to worst, and its magazine capacity is high. Judging from the physical size of other weapons' magazines, it may be a relatively high caliber.
 * The Soma's Design seems to be based on the Chauchat
 * With proper modding, the Soma can achieve possibly the highest DPS in the game due to its high critical chance, pushing over twenty-five thousand per second with puncture.