The Kuva Chakkhurr is a unique Kuva flintlock-styled rifle. It fires explosive rounds that deal immense damage, even more so on headshots, at the expense of a low fire rate, slow reload speed, and limited ammo reserves.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Impact damage. - Direct shots deals 50% more headshot damage.
- Shots explode in a 2.9 meter radius after impacting a surface or enemy.
- Both initial hit and explosion have guaranteed Impact proc.
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Can benefit from Firestorm ( Primed) and Cautious Shot.
- Both initial hit and explosion have guaranteed
- Innate two polarities.
- Comes with an additional bonus Impact, Heat, Cold, Electricity, Toxin, Magnetic, or Radiation damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.
- Valence Fusion can optionally change the resulting output damage type, and can upgrade the bonus increase (up to 60%).
- Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
- Listed Mastery Rank requirement is not enforced - the weapon may theoretically be obtained at any mastery rank by acquiring and vanquishing a Kuva Lich that has this weapon equipped.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Highest base damage of all semi-automatic rifles.
- Highest critical chance of semi-automatic rifles, and tied with Nataruk , Dread and Lenz for highest critical chance of all weapons.
- Pinpoint accuracy when aiming.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high crit chance (50.00%)
- High total damage (260)
- Above average status chance (27.00%)
- Above average crit multiplier (2.30x)
- Explosion (wiki attack index 2)
- Very high crit chance (50.00%)
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Slowest fire rate of all semi-automatic rifles.
- Projectiles have travel time with slight arcing.
- Inaccurate beyond short range when fired from the hip.
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion has a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
- Explosion has linear Damage Falloff from 100% to 70% from central impact.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low reload speed (3.30 s)
- Below average magazine (11)
- Low ammo max (55)
- Very low fire rate (1.17 attacks/sec)
- Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.85x))
- Explosion (wiki attack index 2)
- Low active falloff slope (9.7m/%)
- Very low maximum falloff distance (2.9 m)
- Very low reload speed (3.30 s)
- Low magazine (11)
- Low fire rate (1.17 attacks/sec)
- Low ammo max (55)
- Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.85x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Acquisition[]
Kuva Chakkhurr is obtained by vanquishing a Kuva Lich who generated with one equipped. After the Lich is vanquished it will be in the player's Foundry ready to claim.
While the weapon itself is not tradeable, a converted Kuva Lich generated with the weapon can be traded to another player. The trade is performed inside a Clan Dojo's Crimson Branch room, and the recipient must not have any active Lich. Once traded, the recipient must fight and vanquish the Lich to claim its weapon.
Notes[]
- The +50% bonus damage on headshots is additive to other sources of +bonus damage on headshot such as Primary Deadhead and Prowl.
Kuva/Tenet Notes[]
- For weapons obtained from vanquishing the Kuva Lich or Sister:
- The player does not have to meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon. It can simply be claimed from the foundry after the Lich/Sister carrying it has been vanquished.
- The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Lich/Sister it was acquired from (e.g. a Kuva Kohm might be called "Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm").
- Refraining from Mercy killing an Adversary candidate will remove their weapon from the pool of potential Adversary weapons until each has been refused, but only if the mission is completed. Weapons rejected from aborted missions will remain in the current cycle.
- For weapons obtained from Ergo Glast's shop:
- The player must meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon, as it is claimed from an NPC shop rather than the foundry.
- The weapon's max rank caps at 40 after 5 polarizations (max rank increases by 2 per Forma added).
- Additional polarizations can be added when the weapon reaches its new max rank at that polarization level.
- Each additional rank also gives 100 Mastery Rank experience, giving 4,000 points in total at level 40.
- Mod capacity scales with the additional ranks, and can reach a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Catalyst installed.
- Without an Orokin Catalyst, the max is 40. Combined with the five polarized mod slots required to reach that point, an Orokin Catalyst might not be required for some beginner-friendly builds as they typically use less mod capacity.
- After polarizing a weapon, any additional mod capacity above 30 (60 with an Orokin Catalyst) will not take effect until the weapon's rank reaches 31 and above.
- Legendary Mastery Rank increases the minimum mod capacity for such weapons, without the weapon needing to be rank 31 and above. For example, Legendary 1 increases the minimum capacity to 31 (62 with an Orokin Catalyst).
- Comes with an additional damage stat.
- For Lich/Sister-obtained weapons this is dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
- For Ergo Glast shop a random bonus stat will be offered for each weapon and changed every 4 days (96 hours).
- This damage stat randomly ranges between 25%-60%. It can be upgraded up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
- This bonus stat is considered a base damage type and will be applied after all elemental mods for the purposes of elemental combinations.
- Weapons with an innate primary element and a different primary element provided by the progenitor both behave as innate elements and combine with each other. They will also recombine with modded elements in the following order:
- Mod slot 1 → Mod slot 2 → ... → Mod slot 8 → Innate Heat → Innate Cold → Innate Electricity → Innate Toxin
- Mod slot 1 → Mod slot 2 → ... → Mod slot 8 → Innate
*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element
Tips[]
- Harrow is particularly well-suited for this weapon; Condemn can be used to hold enemies in place, Penance can mitigate the Kuva Chakkurr's slow fire rate and reload speed, and the bonus critical chance from Covenant, particularity the quadrupled bonus on headshots, can make easy work of clustered enemies.
- Sevagoth is also well-suited for the rifle, as Gloom will slow enemies down and will allow him to easily compensate for the projectile's lead time and land an easy headshot.
- A Kuva Chakkhurr with bonus Radiation or Cold is a good choice for Eidolon Teralyst hunts, though the slow fire rate will have to be compensated for via modding and/or Arcane Acceleration.
- Because of its guaranteed Impact procs and slow fire rate, the Kuva Chakkhurr is well-suited to use Internal Bleeding.
Trivia[]
- As mentioned above, the Kuva Chakkhurr is modeled after flintlock firearms, which operated by striking a piece of flint on a steel plate, generating sparks that ignite gunpowder covered by the steel plate and discharging the round. Aspects of the Chakkhurr's design allude to this;
- The most obvious instances are two levers on the Chakkhurr's receiver that swing forward every time it is fired, analogous to a flintlock's hammer, which held the flint. The use of gunpowder is also reflected with copious amounts of smoke created every time the Chakkhurr is fired.
- The hook at the bottom of the barrel, which is largely ornamental, is based on the ramrod, which was used during reloading to compress both the round and the gunpowder to improve the likelihood of a successful discharge. Reloading a flintlock was also a time-consuming process; the gunpowder and round were loaded from the muzzle then the ramrod was pushed up the barrel. This serves as the basis of the Chakkhurr's slow reload speed.
- Some armies used paper cartridges, which had pre-measured amounts of gunpowder and had portions tied off with thread to speed up reloading, and these portions would be untied to first use the gunpowder. The Chakkhurr's reload animation consists of pulling the string to release the old magazine and pulling it again to secure the fresh magazine.
- Whenever the Kuva Chakkhurr is fired into a large enough space, such as a Landscape mission, the shot will be followed by the sound of a bullet cutting through the air; a feature currently unique to the Chakkhurr [citation needed].
- "Chakkhurr" is an onomatopoeia for flintlock rifles. "Chak" for the flint knapped striker striking the steel frizzen (steel downward part of a flintlock rifle, to create a spark), and the "khurr" for the resulting fiery, slow gunpowder explosion.
Bugs[]
- If a shot is fired off at the same time when using Mesa's Peacemaker, then it will make the Kuva Chakkhurr automatically hit one target without having to aim. [citation needed]
Media[]
Patch History[]
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.
Primary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides
15 Ammo per Pick Up:
- Kuva Chakkhurr
- Headshot Damage Changes
During playtesting, the ammo changes alone weren’t enough to significantly change things for AoE weapons. So instead of tightening these values to be overly restrictive, we chose to address other factors that make these weapons so strong, such as headshot damage.
Our approach here is two-fold, to reduce the impact of headshots for AOE weapons, but to also make precision headshots pack a larger punch overall.
- Radial damage no longer gains extra headshot damage or triggers headshot conditions.
- This is primarily targeted at the Ignis Wraith - as a “flamethrower” weapon, it’s hard to imagine a blanket of elements being precise enough to target weak points specifically. Explosive projectiles themselves can still land headshots, so there is still a reason to aim with most weapons for maximum damage.
Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)
Reduced the following AoE weapons Radial Damage Falloff from central impact that were all previously 90%:
- Kuva Chakkhurr: 30%
Hotfix 27.2.1 (2020-03-05)
- Decreased the distance to point of impact that Self Stagger is inflicted with the Shedu due to having a large AoE range.
Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
- Self Damage Changes:
We are getting rid of Self Damage and replacing it with something else: instead of Self Damage, it’s now ‘Stagger’. This change completely removes the chance of killing yourself, and instead now creates scenarios where you will interrupt yourself - or ‘Stagger’ - to varying degrees if you aren’t careful.
The degrees of Self-Interrupt start with a small stumble all the way to full knockdown depending on how close you are to the center of explosion. Any Mods referring to Self Damage will be converted to acknowledge Stagger.
With this Self-Interrupt system, we have added dozens of new recovery animations that harness a ninja-like recovery experience. By pressing ‘Jump’ at the correct time, you can execute a ninja-skill-based knockdown recovery to ALL in-game knockdowns. This ninja recovery window is indicated by a glowing FX on your Warframe.
In addition to Self Damage being removed, some of the more powerful AOE weapons without Self Damage presently will have the Stagger added, but it should only be noticeable in cases of extreme inaccuracy on the player’s part. The Weapons include:
- Kuva Chakkhurr
In the original Dev Workshop, we said:
As a result of this overall systemic change, Weapons with Stagger will be getting approximately a 20% buff in Damage, with any weapons with AOE receiving a 50% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact.
This is no longer accurate after continued testing. What we are doing now is:
No damage buffs have been added, but any weapons with AOE are receiving ~20% increase in Radius. Additionally, AOE weapons are receiving a 90% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact. This means on the very outer section of the explosion Radius 10% of the Damage will be dealt. Tactics will be deadly - aim true, Tenno.
Why: Several players brought up the history of the Tonkor and we want to make sure we ship this change in a place that’s conservative in its starting point from a balance perspective. The complete removal of Self Damage does change the pace of destruction with some of the game’s most powerful weapons, so we want to make sure we can iterate upwardly instead of releasing a bonanza of explosions with no other choices.
Hotfix 26.0.7 (2019-11-14)
- Explosion damage changed from 106 Blast to 106 (50 Puncture, 36 Slash, and 20 Blast) (undocumented).
- Fixed Kuva Lich weapons that do damage on both impact and explosion (Kuva Ogris, Kuva Ayanga, etc) doing significantly less overall damage than expected. This was due to the Elemental bonus only being applied to the "on impact" of the projectile itself and not the explosion.
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Introduced.
