Glaxion

Corpus Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Glaxion
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Rifle
Mastery Rank Requirement	8
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Held
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Max	720
Ammo Pickup	80
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.30x)
Fire Rate	12.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	80
Reload Time	2.20 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Normal Attack
26 ( 100%)
Total Damage	26 (100.00%  Cold)
Ammo Cost	0.5
Crit Chance	8.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	12.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (26.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	24.0 m
Status Chance	34.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	BEAM, ASSAULT_AMMO
Riven Family	Glaxion
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	7,500
Users	Corpus Target Armis Ulta Dru Pesfor Rana Del M-W.A.M.
Variants	Glaxion  Glaxion Vandal
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CODEX

Fires a photon beam that halts molecular vibrations, causing instant and painful freezing.

The Glaxion is a Corpus freeze ray which is the first and currently the only primary weapon to feature as its main damage type. It can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.

This weapon can be sold for 7,500 Credits 7,500.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	1	550	2,500	1	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 175			Blueprints Price:15,000
Energy Lab Research3,000
5,000	5	100	2,500	1	Time: 3 Day(s)
					Prereq: Amprex
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Characteristics

This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:

• Innate damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Shielded, and Infested Sinew.
• Tied with  Boltor Prime for the third highest status chance of all continuous and automatic primary weapons, behind  Phantasma and  Glaxion Vandal.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
  •  Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• High magazine size.
• High ammo reserves.
• Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
• Kills create an extra corpse, synergizing with  Nekros'  Desecrate.

Disadvantages:

• Innate damage – less effective against Infested Flesh and Fossilized.
  • Damage cannot be increased with , or mods.
• Very low critical chance.
• Damage ramps up from 20% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 20% over 2 seconds.
• Fairly low reload speed.
• Limited range of 24 meters.

Comparisons:

•  Glaxion (Normal Attack), compared to  Glaxion Vandal (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (26.00 vs. 29.00)
    • Lower  Cold damage ( 26 vs. 29)
  • Lower total damage (26 vs. 29)
  • Lower base critical chance (8.00% vs. 14.00%)
  • Lower base status chance (34.00% vs. 38.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (28.08 vs. 33.06)
  • Lower burst DPS (336.96 vs. 396.72)
  • Lower sustained DPS (289.23 vs. 358.05)
  • Smaller magazine (80 vs. 100)
  • Less shots per magazine (160 vs. 200)
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (720 vs. 1,000)
  • Slower reload time (2.20 s vs. 1.80 s)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 12)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.30x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))

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Notes

• The Glaxion is capable of freezing enemies solid with sustained fire if it kills them. Enemies will progressively turn icy blue (spreading from the point of contact), and eventually become completely solid upon death. Frozen enemies can then be shattered by other attacks. This only applies to normal enemies such as Lancers, Crewmen, and MOAs - Ospreys will simply explode upon death.
  • Even if the weapon is modified to have a non- damage type (such as damage), the Glaxion will still freeze foes solid if it kills them.
  • Amusingly, it can freeze enemies with  damage effects upon death, this effect is merely visual.
  • Whether or not they display frozen visuals, enemies killed by the Glaxion create two corpses due to the "shatter" death animation (though the extra corpse may not be visible.)
• When combining elemental mods, the Glaxion's innate damage is added last.
• The weapon requires a fair amount of Cryotic, obtained from Excavation missions, to build. This is probably due to the fact that the weapon fires an icy beam, with the Cryotic possibly fueling its ammunition.

Tips

• Enemies that are frozen solid will take at least 1 hit of damage from any source to be destroyed regardless on how much damage it is dealt. This can block powerful enemy projectiles such as Napalm and Bombard shots.
  • Frozen corpses remain solid for 3 seconds before deteriorating which takes 5 seconds.
  • Some enemy abilities still remain in effect while deteriorating such as a Nullifier Crewman's bubble, which will start to grow back while deteriorating.

Trivia

• The Glaxion is the first weapon to deal pure damage.
• Concept art for the Glaxion was first seen in Devstream 22 alongside concepts for what would eventually become the  Grinlok,  Marelok, and  Attica.
• The revolver-style cartridges on the Glaxion's body spin during firing, though the magazine is the small (battery) box behind the trigger
  • Additionally, the Glaxion's barrel telescopes back and forth rapidly during firing, and collapses inward when holstered.
• Enemies who die by the weapon are frozen solid, much like Frost's  Avalanche ability, and shatter when hit by any weapon. This effect persists even if the Glaxion's Cold damage has been changed into another element.
  • If frozen bodies are left alone for five seconds, the ice will thaw into nothingness.
• Glaxion bears similarity to the French word glaçon, meaning "ice cube" or "icicle".
• Corpus Targets sometimes use this weapon, along with a  Snow Globe shield from Arctic Eximus enemies.
• The Glaxion's energy-syphoning beam is visually similar to the Proton Pack's proton stream from the Ghostbusters film series.

Media

• Glaxion in Codex.
• A Corpus Crewman frozen solid using the Glaxion
• Glaxion in Arsenal

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Patch History

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.

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 increased from 6 to 8
• Damage increased from 16.6 Cold per sec to 26 Cold per tick
• Fire Rate decreased from 20 to 12
• Status Chance changed from 35% per sec to 34% per tick of damage
• Critical chance increased from 5% to 8%
• Reload Time decreased from 1.5 secs to 2.2 secs
• Magazine size decreased from 300 to 80
• Max ammo lowered from 1500 to 720
• Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage
• Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.8x

Hotfix 20.7.2 (2017-06-15)

• Adjusted the force feedback when firing with a controller.

Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)

• Introduced.

See also

•  Glaxion Vandal, the Vandal counterpart.