The Detron is a pistol shotgun used by Detron Crewmen that shoots 
Radiation pellets.
Characteristics[edit | edit source]
This weapon deals Radiation damage.
Advantages:
- High base damage.
- Innate
Radiation damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotics, and Infested Sinew.
- Innate
- Very high overall status chance.
- Very fast reload speed.
- Very ammo efficient.
- Innate multishot of 7 pellets.
- Fast Projectile Speed.
- Medium spread.
- Can use the Detron-exclusive Thermagnetic Shells.
Disadvantages:
- Innate Radiation damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 62.31% from 13m to 22m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
- Extremely low critical chance.
- Below average critical multiplier.
- Projectiles have travel time.
- Fairly low fire rate.
Comparisons:
- Detron, compared to Mara Detron:
- Lower critical chance (4% vs. 8%)
- Lower status chance (12.86% vs. 13.71%)
- Shorter range before damage falloff starts (13m vs. 16m)
- Shorter range before damage falloff ends (22m vs. 30m)
- Smaller max damage reduction due to falloff (62.31% vs. 62.5%)
- Smaller magazine (5 rounds vs. 8 rounds)
- Less accurate (7 vs. 13)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 9)
- Higher disposition (1.15 vs. 1)
Acquisition
Detron was one of two possible rewards for The Gradivus Dilemma event, the other being the 
Brakk. However, it was not awarded from the event as the Corpus lost the conflict.
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Since then, its blueprint and components are now dropped by the Zanuka Hunter.
| Drop | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Blueprint | 17.65% | 7 – 8 kills | 36 ± 12 kills |
| Barrel | 32.35% | ||
| Receiver | 32.35% |
Expected refers to total number of attempts a player can expect to need in order to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain a 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
For more detailed definitions and information on how these number were obtained, visit here.
Notes[edit | edit source]
- Detron or its components and blueprint are not tradable.
- The damage listed is the combination of all seven pellets' damage values, the actual damage per pellet is 40 Radiation.
Tips[edit | edit source]
- The Detron can be made into an effective anti-Grineer weapon by adding Corrosive damage and Blast damage, allowing it to deal extra damage against Ferrite Armor, Alloy Armor and Machinery.
- In a similar vein, Magnetic damage can be added to drastically improve performance vs Corpus shields, whilst Gas improves performance against Infested.
- The Detron's Index mod, Thermagnetic Shells, causes enemies killed by it to explode, dealing radial Magnetic damage to all nearby enemies.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Colloquially, a "hand cannon" often refers to an extremely powerful pistol chambered for a high caliber cartridge such as the .500 S&W Magnum or .50 Action Express.
- In Livestream 17, the developers jokingly claimed that the Detron pistols intended as rewards for the Gradivus Dilemma were "melted down and used to make MOAs." Despite being facetious, this has more or less proven to be true, as the Zanuka Hunter drops the Detron blueprint and parts.
- Like the Flux Rifle and Amprex, the Detron does not follow the Corpus weapon naming convention.
- During the reload animation, a pack of 6 energy cells is ejected from the gun, although, the Detron has only the capability of firing 5 rounds before reloading. This pack can be found on the floor after reloading.
- The ejected magazine will appear in the default colors no matter what the player has selected.
- The Detron had an entry in the Codex shortly before players could actually obtain it (at the time, the Zanuka Hunter dropped nothing upon defeat).
- The existence of the Mara Detron hints that this is actually built on a much older design, raising questions about the origins of the Corpus.
Media[edit | edit source]
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Patch History[edit | edit source]
- Cleaned up FX to improve performance with the Detron, and tweaked their projectile lifetime to 3-5 seconds.
- Greater than 100% Status having meaning
Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.
Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.
- (Undocumented) Status chance per projectile increased from 4.2857142857143% to 12.857142857143%.
- Fixed Detron projectile firing incorrectly when in Glaive+Gun mode.
- Fixed numerous projectile weapons (Detron, etc) having incorrect Status Chance calculations.
- Status chance increased from 20% to 32%.
- Critical chance increased from 2.5% to 4%.
- Damage increased from 15 to 40.
- Damage fall off added starting from 13m and ending at 26 with a minimum damage of 14.
- Status Chance increased from 10% to 20%.
- Mastery Rank 6 required.
- Detron series now available for use in Conclave.
- Fixed an issue with Detron piece drops using the incorrect item pickup model.
- Tweaked the depth cue on energy projectile's flares so they aren't so large in the distance (Detron Projectile feedback changes).
- Fixed status chance for projectile weapons that shot multiple pellets (Detron).
- Guaranteed Detron component drop upon Harvester death.
- Introduced via Harvester drop.
Last updated: Update 22.18
See also[edit | edit source]
- Detron Crewman, an enemy who uses this weapon.
- Swarmer-type Scrambus, an enemy that uses this weapon, in conjunction with power prevention.
- Datalyst, another enemy who uses this weapon, similar to the above.
- Swarmer-type Comba, an enemy who uses this weapon in conjunction with power nullification.
- Zanuka Hunter, the assassin who drops parts and the blueprint for this weapon.
- Mara Detron, a rare version sold by Baro Ki'Teer.
- Brakk, the Grineer counterpart.
