Mutalist Quanta

The Mutalist Quanta is a rapid-fire Corpus plasma rifle infused with infested growth. In place of zoom, Mutalist Quanta has a secondary fire function which projects floating masses of infested tissues, that irradiate enemies and bullets on contact. It is also the first weapon to possess a separate secondary fire mode that is not engaged via charging.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Deals high damage as well as moderate  damage, making it effective against both heavy and light armored Grineer.
 * Its high fire rate and area of effect allows it to dispatch groups of Infested with ease.
 * Good status chance.
 * Perfect accuracy, identical to the Dera and Flux Rifle.
 * Has a polarity.
 * Secondary Fire:
 * Shots fired through the orb deal additional damage(and also increased critical chance and damage, with 6.3%chance and 4.2x damage at base you get ~20% chance and 5-6x damage through the orb.)
 * Causes instant hit-scan damage to target on initial fire.

Disadvantages:
 * Very low critical chance.
 * Inability to zoom.
 * Normal shots have slight travel time.
 * Secondary Fire:
 * Fires a slow-moving projectile that moves at speeds similar to Napalm shots.
 * Consumes 15 rounds; will not function with less than 15 rounds.
 * Long delay until explosion (9 sec).
 * Damages player on explosion.
 * Bounces off environment and occasionally enemies.
 * Can only have a default total of two orbs active.
 * Long reload time.

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

Bugs

 * Due to the secondary fire mode's distinctive ability to bounce on environment and walls, it has a small tendency to bounce off from enemies as well, as enemies have a physical collision mesh that allows players to physically interact with them.
 * Damage boost currently does not work for clients as all projectiles are blocked by it. The orbs also will sometimes detonate prematurely when forced into objects, enemies, players, or other orbs. Hosts are unaffected by both bugs, and can shoot through the orb like normal.

Trivia

 * The word mutalist may refer to Mutualism, which is a sector in biology which refers to how two different species interact with each other where each individual benefits. Alternatively, it may simply be derived from mutate.
 * "muta" is a form of the latin verb mūtāre, which means "to alter/to change".
 * The word Quanta is the plural for Quantum, used in Physics as a measure of the smallest minimum constituent of any object, ex. a Photon is the smallest quantity of light.
 * The weapon has a non-static model, the weapon will rotate when firing and the Infested growth moves at all times as well.
 * This is the first weapon to repurpose the Zoom key into a separate Alternate Fire key that results in a completely different attack.
 * This weapon is the third hybrid weapon added in the game (incorporating both Corpus and Infested characteristics), preceded by the Orokin/Grineer Seer and the Infested/Grineer Torid.
 * The projectiles appear to fire from the infested growth. Since the weapon rotates, the projectiles converge in a spiraling pattern toward the player's crosshair.