Synoid Simulor

The Synoid Simulor is a Cephalon Suda-specific version of the Simulor, which launches orbs of gravitational force. These orbs can be manipulated to produce either explosions or implosions. Featuring improved stats, the Synoid Simulor also features innate Entropy effect.

Characteristics
This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:
 * Innate damage – effective against shields.
 * Stacking orbs deals per stack damage of 20, increasing to 50 as additional stacks are added.
 * Each time an orb is combined it staggers enemies away from the blast zone and deals AoE damage to them.
 * Orbs can be manually detonated to inflict an AoE proc, dealing 75  damage at base and 300 at a full stack.
 * Explosion has a max range of 8m.
 * Primary or secondary fire explosions will not damage user.
 * Has a, , and polarity slot.
 * Has an innate Entropy effect, see Syndicate Radial Effects for more details.

Disadvantages:
 * Relatively short travel range of around 12m.
 * deals 50% less damage to Alloy Armor.
 * Its proc is also only effective versus shields, so once shields are gone the base magnetic damage falls off in damage compared to other damage types.
 * Direct impacts with the orbs with enemies do not deal any damage, they must be combined at least once to deal any damage.
 * Currently incompatible with and . It is unknown whether this is an oversight.

Comparisons:
 * Compared to the Simulor:
 * Faster Projectile Speed; Further effective range.
 * Higher Crit Chance (5% vs. 2%)
 * Higher Status Chance (35% vs. 30%)
 * Higher maximum stack damage (40 vs. 50).
 * Larger explosion radius.
 * Higher vortex threshold (3 merges vs. 4 merges).
 * Faster reload speed (2.0s vs. 3.0s).
 * Faster fire rate (2.67/sec vs. 2.0/sec).
 * Larger magazine size (15 rounds vs. 10 rounds).
 * Larger ammo capacity (75 rounds vs. 60 rounds).
 * Additional polarity.
 * Innate Entropy.

Acquisition

 * The Synoid Simulor can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Genius with Cephalon Suda, and spending to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Synoid Simulor cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Genius rank.
 * Syndicate weapons can also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
 * Your Mastery Rank must be at least 12 to acquire any Syndicate primary weapon, either through trading or through the Syndicates themselves.

Tips

 * Increasing projectile travel distance using can be used to shoot orbs further out, allowing singularities to be set up at longer distances. This may not always be desirable however, as it causes singularities to become increasingly less controllable, potentially overshooting their intended targets or bouncing out of reach. Depending on how the Synoid Simulor is intended to be used, consider using  to adjust Jet Stream's projectile speed bonus to a manageable level.
 * Gravitational singularities (or stacks) have a larger blast radius and deal significantly more damage than detonating individual orbs.
 * Detonating orbs manually can be used for crowd control, as their guaranteed status can stun enemies even if they don't deal enough damage to kill them.
 * When used in tandem with Hall of Mirrors, projectiles fired by holograms can combine with each other and the original projectile from Mirage. When the ability is fully ranked, three projectiles are fired at once and, provided that they do not bounce off of obstacles, they will often immediately combine to form a singularity and deal the merge damage several times.
 * Attempting to create a second singularity this way usually results in the destruction of the first.
 * Any projectiles that were fired by a hologram will explode when the hologram expires.
 * Orbs will immediately explode when impacting the following surfaces, allowing instant high damage to enemies:
 * Blunt, Bulwark, Rampart.

Trivia

 * Being a weapon created by Cephalons, the Synoid Simulor has a similar design aesthetic to the Gammacor, with both being research devices that also double as weapons.
 * The Synoid version replaces the holographic orb formed in its center with the Cephalon Suda emblem.
 * The word 'Synoid' is likely a corruption of the word 'synod', which is an assembly of the clergy under a church, a reference to the word 'synapse', a biological term defining the gap between two neurons, or a shortening of 'sinusoid', an important concept in mathematics and science referring to a shape like a sine-wave.

Bugs

 * currently cannot be equipped on the Synoid Simulor. 1 2