Cycron

Corpus Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Cycron
General Information
Type	Pistol
Mastery	8
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Held
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Type	Pistol
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.20x)
Fire Rate	12
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	40
Max Ammo	INF
Reload Time	2 s
Reload Delay	1 s
Reload Rate	40 rounds/s
Projectile Type	Discharge
Normal
8
5
10
Total Damage	23 (43.48%)
Ammo Cost	0.5
Crit Chance	12%
Crit Multiplier	1.8x
Fire Rate	12
Multishot	1 (23 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	1 m
Range	24 m
Status Chance	30%
Projectile Type	Discharge
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Corpus/Pistols/CrpChargeGun/CrpChargeGun
Introduced	Update 20.3 (2017-04-26)
Polarities
Variants	Tenet Cycron

CODEX

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

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

This weapon can be sold for 5,000 Credits 5,000.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  Radiation damage.

Advantages:

• Innate  Radiation damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
• High  Puncture damage – effective against armor.
• Fourth highest status chance of all continuous secondaries, behind the  Tenet Cycron,  Embolist and  Kuva Nukor.
  • Innate  Radiation confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Innate 1 meter punch through.
• Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
• 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.

Disadvantages:

• Innate  Radiation damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
• Low  Slash and no  Impact damage – less effective against health and shields.
• 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.
• Below average critical multiplier.
• Range limited to 24 meters.
• 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  Pressurized Magazine.

Acquisition

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

Manufacturing Requirements
25,000	4	9,000	1,500	1	Time: 24 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 200			Blueprints Price:15,000
Energy Lab Research 3,000
7,500	90	500	15	15,000	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Spectra
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Notes

• Similar to Ramparts and all Arch-guns, ammo starts to automatically regenerate after 1 seconds of not firing the weapon. This regeneration delay is affected by reload speed mods like  Quickdraw and  Stunning Speed. The regeneration rate is 40 ammo per second.
  • The reload speed can also be increased passively with  Chroma, by using a Toxin-based  Elemental Ward or being under the effect of  Speed or  Penance.
• 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  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  Trick Mag have no effect.

Trivia

• The Cycron is the first weapon to use the ammo regeneration mechanic outside of Archwing.
• Corpus script           is written on the side of the gun, spelling "BCDE KLMNO VW YZ".

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Warframe - All Corpus Secondaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)

Patch History

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

•  Tenet Cycron, the Tenet counterpart of this weapon.