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Forgo ammunition with the regenerating energy disc in this plasma throwing pistol.

The Cycron is a IconCorpusOn Corpus plasma DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation beam pistol with a battery that automatically regenerates ammo after the user stops firing for a second.

This weapon can be sold for Credits64 5,000.

Characteristics[]

  • This weapon deals primarily DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation damage.
  • Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.
  • Does not use ammo pickups; ammo regenerates over time.
    • Has a 1 second delay after the weapon stops firing before regenerating ammo.
      • Regenerates 40 ammo per second; takes 1 second to regenerate a fully depleted battery.
    • Does not benefit from mods that increase maximum ammo, due to lack of an ammo pool.
    • Does not benefit from reload-triggered mods such as Mod TT 20px Pressurized Magazine.
  • Innate 1 meter punch through.

Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Fourth highest status chance of all continuous secondaries, behind the TenetCycron Tenet Cycron, Embolist Embolist and KuvaNukor Kuva Nukor.
  • Pinpoint accuracy.
  • Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • Above average magazine (40)
    • High fire rate (12.000 attacks/sec)
    • High status chance (30.00%)

Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Range limited to 24 meters.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • Below average crit chance (12.00%)
    • Low reload speed (2.00 s)
    • Low total damage (23)
    • Very low ammo max (0)
    • Below average crit multiplier (1.80x)

Comparisons:

Acquisition[]

The Cycron's blueprint can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.


Manufacturing Requirements
📝 Edit blueprint requirements
Credits
25,000
Fieldron
4
Ferrite
9,000
Circuits
1,500
Forma
1
Time: 1 Day(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 35
MarketIcon Market Price: PlatinumLarge 200 Blueprint2 Blueprints Price:Credits15,000
Energy Lab ResearchClanAffinity643,000
Credits
7,500
FieldronSample
90
Circuits
500
Gallium
15
NanoSpores
15,000
Time: 3 Day(s)
Prereq: Spectra
Ghost Clan x1   Shadow Clan x3   Storm Clan x10   Mountain Clan x30   Moon Clan x100

Notes[]

  • Similar to Ramparts and all Archguns, ammo starts to automatically regenerate after 1 seconds of not firing the weapon. This regeneration delay is affected by reload speed mods like Mod TT 20px Quickdraw and Mod TT 20px Stunning Speed. The regeneration rate is 40 ammo per second.
  • The Cycron's beam has a maximum range of 24 meters.
    • This makes the Cycron an excellent weapon for multiple elemental builds as its innate Radiation status and a high status chance for other elemental procs allow it to take down enemies quickly with procs alone.
  • Even if equipped with Mod TT 20px Eject Magazine, the Cycron will not bypass its 1-second regeneration delay when holstered. Instead, the mod will simply accelerate the rate at which ammo is regenerated when holstered, once the delay is over.
  • Because the 40 shots count as part of a single magazine rather than an ammo pool, mods like Mod TT 20px Trick Mag have no effect.

Trivia[]

  • The Cycron is the first weapon to use the ammo regeneration mechanic outside of Archwing.
  • Corpus script Corpus BCorpus CCorpus DCorpus E   Corpus KCorpus LCorpus MCorpus NCorpus O   Corpus VCorpus W   Corpus YCorpus Z is written on the side of the gun, spelling "BCDE KLMNO VW YZ".

Media[]

Cycron Skins

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Patch History[]

Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)

  • The following weapons can now be found in their corresponding categories in the Arsenal when searching using the tag “Battery”:
    • Cycron

Hotfix 32.0.2 (2022-09-08)

Ammo Changes & Review:

When we were reviewing ammo acquisition as a whole for Update 32, we felt weapons with Ammo Regen Rate Overrides, or “Battery,” in particular, needed a place within the ecosystem of change we had established. That said, upon review of feedback, we recognize we were a bit heavy-handed with the changes we made to Battery weapons. We have restored their original values for the time being while we reassess how we can better approach these weapons.

We have restored the original values for the following weapons:

  • Cycron:
    • Returned ammo regen rate to 40/s from 20/s

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

Ammo Changes

We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.

Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.

Secondary Weapons with Ammo Regen Rates Overrides:

  • Cycron: From 40/s to 20/s

Hotfix 27.0.7 (2019-12-20)

  • Fixed Cycron not recharging correctly.

Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)

  • Fixed cases of Beam weapons not doing damage inside Limbo’s Stasis.

Hotfix 22.17.3 (2018-04-11)

  • Fixed cases of Beam weapons not correctly damaging the Nullifier Bubble.

Update 22.15 (2018-03-07)

  • Fixed misleading Status Chance over 100% for Beam weapons in the Arsenal Stats. This was due to recent Beam weapon Status Effect changes that now have a chance to Status proc for every tick of the weapon's Damage (based on Fire Rate), instead of only ticking once per second.
  • Fixed Beam weapons not correctly damaging the Nullifier drones (they correctly damaged the Corpus inside and the bubble, but not drones).

Hotfix 22.14.2 (2018-03-02)

  • Fixed Beam weapons not doing damage if you ran Warframe at roughly 10 FPS or less.
  • Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies affected by a crowd controlled Warframe ability for Clients.

Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)

  • Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain ‘crowd control’ Abilities.
  • Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
  • All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
  • The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
  • Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.
  • Range increased from 20m to 24m.
  • Mag size decreased from 60 to 40.
  • Fixed missing Cycron ‘charge complete’ sound.

Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)

  • Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
  • Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.

Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)

  • Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
  • Mastery Rank decreased from 9 to 8.
  • Damage changed from 60 Heat per sec to 23 Puncture/Slash/Radiation per tick.
  • Elemental damage changed from 100% Heat to 35% Puncture, 22% Slash, and 43% Radiation.
  • Fire Rate increased from 5 to 12.
  • Critical chance increased from 5% to 12%.
  • Critical Damage increased from 1.5x to 1.8x.
  • Battery Capacity increased from 20 to 60.
    • Regeneration delay reduced from 5s to 1s.
    • Regeneration rate increased from 20 per sec to 40 per sec.
  • Punch Through reduced from 2m to 1m.
  • Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage.
  • Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.8x.

Hotfix 22.3.1 (2017-11-15)

  • Tweaked the charging and firing sounds of the Cycron.

Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)

  • Fixed poor optimization on weapons like the Cycron.

Update 21.2 (2017-07-26)

  • Fixed Trick Mag applying to your Primary weapon when equipped on the Cycron.

Hotfix 21.0.9 (2017-07-17)

  • Fixed the Cycron Status lasting longer for the Host.

Update 20.4 (2017-05-04)

  • Cycron battery recharge delay time is now halved when the mag is not empty.
  • Fixed not being able to equip Ruinous Extension on the Cycron.
  • Adjusted the Rift weight of the Cycron beams in Limbo’s Stasis to fix performance issues.
  • Fixed issues with building up infinite Cycron beams in the Rift with Stasis.

Update 20.3 (2017-04-26)

  • Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)

See also[]

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