Corvas

The Corvas flak cannon is a heavy shotgun designed for exclusive use with the Archwing flight system, introduced in. It can be rapidly fired to saturate an area with pellets, or charged to release a more powerful scattershot.

Corvas Components are dropped as an Archwing Defense reward on Salacia, Neptune or as an Archwing Interception reward on Caelus, Uranus rotation C (every 4 rounds).

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High base damage.
 * High damage makes it effective against shields.
 * Pellet spread can hit multiple targets per shot.
 * Comes with a polarity slot.

Disadvantages:
 * Short maximum effective range even with charged shot.
 * Slow fire rate.
 * Relatively small magazine.

Tips

 * As a shotgun-like weapon, the Corvas is best used when engaging enemies at close range, where its scattershot spread can be used to deliver massive damage against enemy units.
 * As the Corvas shoots multiple pellets in a wide area at once, it is more effective at shooting down enemy missile volleys from Hellion Dargyns and Shield-Hellion Dargyns.

Trivia

 * Corvas is derived from corvus, the Latin term for crow, a bird commonly viewed as a harbinger of death and destruction on battlefields in many northern European cultures.
 * Prior to, the charged mode was not working. Firing at objects at various ranges yielded no difference in the shot spread pattern and damage regardless of whether one charged the weapon or not.

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