Simulor

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Update 27.4 (2020-05-01) buffs and changes

Simaris Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Simulor
Untradeable
📝 Update Infobox Data
General Information
Type	Rifle
Mastery Rank Requirement	5
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Active
Utility
Accuracy	28.6
Ammo Max	72
Ammo Pickup	15
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.25x)
Fire Rate	3.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	8
Reload Time	3.00 s
Projectile Speed	80.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Spread	3.50° (0.00° min, 7.00° max)
Orb Launch
0 ( %)
Total Damage	0 (-nan%  Impact)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	12.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	3.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (0.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	12.0 m
Spread	3.50° (0.00° min, 7.00° max)
Status Chance	30.00%
Projectile Speed	80.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Orb Merging Damage
100 ( 100%)
Total Damage	100 (100.00%  Magnetic)
Crit Chance	12.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	3.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (100.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	12.0 m
Status Chance	30.00%
Orb Explosion
200 ( 100%)
Total Damage	200 (100.00%  Magnetic)
Crit Chance	12.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 5.0 m (40.00%)
Fire Rate	3.000 attacks/sec
Forced Procs	Electricity
Multishot	1 (200.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	5.0 m
Status Chance	30.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	ASSAULT_AMMO, AOE, PROJECTILE
Riven Family	Simulor
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 16.10 (2015-06-25)
Polarities
Sell Price	7,500
Variants	Simulor  Synoid Simulor
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

Creates miniature gravitational singularities that can be used for scientific study or self-defense.

The Simulor is a Cephalon-designed weapon obtainable from Cephalon Simaris that launches orbs of gravitational force. These orbs can be manipulated to produce either explosions or implosions.

Characteristics

This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:

• Innate damage – effective against Shielded and Proto Shields.
  • Stacking orbs deals per stack damage of 50 , increasing to 150?^{Confirmation needed} as additional stacks are added.
    • Each time an orb is combined it staggers enemies away from the blast zone and deals area of effect damage to them.
• Orbs can be manually detonated to inflict an area of effect with a guaranteed proc, dealing 100 damage at base and 400?^{Confirmation needed} at a full stack.
• Decent critical chance.
• Very high status chance.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
• Can use the  Terminal Velocity mod.
• Can benefit from  Firestorm ( Primed), and  Cautious Shot.
• Innate and polarities.

Disadvantages:

• Innate – less effective against Alloy Armor.
• Very slow reload speed.
• Relatively short firing range.
• Direct impacts with the orbs with enemies do not deal any damage, they must be combined at least once to deal any damage.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 40% from central impact.
• Explosion range cannot be increased with  Amalgam Furax Body Count.
• Extremely ammo inefficient; requires just 6 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.

Comparisons:

•  Simulor (Orb Explosion), compared to  Synoid Simulor (Orb Explosion):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (200.00 vs. 240.00)
    • Lower  Magnetic damage ( 200 vs. 240)
  • Lower total damage (200 vs. 240)
  • Lower base critical chance (12.00% vs. 14.00%)
  • Lower base status chance (30.00% vs. 35.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (224 vs. 273.6)
  • Lower burst DPS (672 vs. 911.08)
  • Lower sustained DPS (316.23 vs. 643.31)
  • Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (60.00% vs. 100.00%)
  • Lower fire rate (3.000 attacks/sec vs. 3.330 attacks/sec)
  • Smaller magazine (8 vs. 16)
  • Less shots per magazine (8 vs. 16)
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (72 vs. 96)
  • Slower reload time (3.00 s vs. 2.00 s)
  • Less polarities ( vs. )
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (5 vs. 12)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.20x))
  • No innate Entropy effect

Acquisition

The Simulor's blueprint can be purchased from Cephalon Simaris for 75,000 Standing 75,000.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	1,200	850	1	1	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 210			Blueprints Price:75,000

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

Notes

• The Simulor fires small orbs of energy that will harmlessly bounce off enemies, allies, and environmental objects before floating to a stop mid-air. These floating orbs can be fired at each other, causing them to merge into a single larger orb. Each orb has a short pull radius that will attract any passing orbs to facilitate growth.
  • The act of merging orbs will cause them to explosively deal damage with a guaranteed status.
  • Each added stack will also increase the orb's pull radius, allowing the larger orbs to pull other orbs from farther away.
  • Stacking will increase the damage dealt by the recipient orb, both when merging with another orb and when manually detonated. The minimum base damage starts at 50 on the first stack, and maxes out at 150?^{Confirmation needed} after 4 stacks.
  • Without obstructions, the orbs will travel a distance of 12 meters before floating.
  • Max number of active vortexes is 3.
    • When the maximum number of active vortexes is reached, Simulor will default to single-shot orbs with reduced lifetime.
  • Energy orb travel distance is affected by abilities that influence Projectile Speed, such as  Zephyr's  Jet Stream augment. Faster Projectile Speed will result in a longer travel distance before stopping.
• Stacking 3 orbs together will create a gravitational singularity that will deal damage-over-time to enemies that pass through it, with no chance to inflict status effects. The singularity will also pull any pickups and corpses toward it.
  • The singularity will block any enemy fire that crosses through its center. However, this has no effect on its damage or duration.
• Pressing the secondary fire button (default MMB ) will detonate any active orbs, causing them to explode and inflict a guaranteed status to enemies in range. Any orbs that expire will also explode in a similar fashion.
  • The status is unaffected by any other elements added to the weapon.
• Each orb will float in mid-air for 20 seconds. Stacking orbs will reset the timer on the recipient orb, thus an orb or singularity can be kept active as long as orbs are fed into them. Orbs will only disappear if their timer expires, or if they are manually detonated using secondary fire.
•  Split Chamber will create duplicate orbs, however, due to the Simulor's perfect accuracy the second orb will be merged with the original orb.
• Punch Through mods will make the orbs penetrate through enemies and objects within their listed depth. If the object is thicker than the punch through's depth, the orbs will simply bounce off the object on contact.
• Shots fired through the orb receive certain buffs and effects. Firing through more than one orb will accumulate some of these effects.
  • Fired through an unstacked orb will grant +100% damage, a double-stacked orb will grant +300% damage, a triple stacked orb will grant +400% damage, and a fully stacked orb will grant +500% damage.
    • Buff stacks with multiple orbs.
    • Electricity granted by shooting through orb will not fuse with other elements.
  • Shots fired through orbs will gain additional +25% × n flat critical chance, unaffected by critical chance mods (with n being the number of orbs the shot passes through).
  • Shots fired through the orb will also receive a 25% increase to critical damage, additive to critical damage mods. This will not apply more than once with multiple orbs.
  •  Volt's  Electric Shield does not not stack with the critical damage buff. The entity that the bullet first passes through is the only thing that will buff the bullet's critical damage.
  • Shots fired through the orb deal 66%ⁿ (with n being the number of orbs the shot passes through) of their base damage, effectively reducing damage.

Tips

• Increasing projectile travel distance using  Jet Stream can be used to shoot orbs further out, allowing singularities to be set up at longer distances. This may be counterproductive however, as it causes singularities to become increasingly less controllable, potentially overshooting their intended targets or bouncing out of reach. Depending on how the Simulor is intended to be used, consider using  Overextended to adjust Jet Stream's Projectile Speed bonus to a manageable level.
• Combining projectiles have a larger blast radius (~5m vs ~7m) and deal significantly more damage (~60 vs ~170) than detonating orbs, making orb combination a primary source of damage.
• Detonating orbs manually can be used for crowd control, as their guaranteed status can stun enemies even if they don't deal enough damage to kill them.
• When used in tandem with , projectiles fired by holograms can combine with each other and the original projectile from  Mirage. When the ability is fully ranked, three projectiles are fired at once and, provided that they do not bounce off of obstacles, they will often immediately combine to form a singularity and deal the merge damage several times.
  • Attempting to create a second singularity this way usually results in the destruction of the first.
  • Any projectiles that were fired by a hologram will explode when the hologram expires.

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Trivia

• The Simulor is the first Syndicate weapon to be sold from its affiliated Syndicate with a blueprint, not the weapon itself. Second being  Heliocor.
  • It is the first primary Syndicate weapon to be released.
  • It is also the first weapon to be released for Cephalon Simaris.
  • It is also the only Syndicate weapon that may be purchased from the Market for Platinum.
  • It is also the first Syndicate weapon to be improved by another Syndicate, resulting in the  Synoid Simulor.
• Being a weapon created by Cephalons, the Simulor has a similar design aesthetic to the  Gammacor, with both being research devices that also double as weapons.
• The Simulor cannot damage the player using it, making it a great close range explosive weapon.

Media

• Simulor in Codex.
• As seen in Tenno Reinforcements.
• As originally showcased in Devstream 54

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Tenno Reinforcements - Simulor

Simulor Skins

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Day of the Dead
Seasonal

Patch History

Hotfix 27.4.1 (2020-05-01)

• Returned Simulor vortex lifetime to 5 second duration in Conclave.

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

• We have made the following changes to the Simulor:
  • Increased per stack damage for stacked orbs:
    • Simulor: 20 to 50
  • Increased damage of exploding vortexes:
    • Simulor: 75 to 100
• Increased the duration of active vortexes to 20 seconds before they explode (unless done so manually).
• Reduced the lifetime duration of a single Orb before it explodes.
  • This allows single projectiles to be used offensively as they now detonate quickly and have had their damage increased significantly.
  • Creating vortexes now happens rather quickly. Shoot 4 orbs in quick succession to create a fully powered vortex. With this we also added a max number of active Orbs to 4.
• Added a max number of active vortexes at a time to 3 and increased the orb stack count to reach a fully powered vortex from 3 to 4.
  • With the significant increase in damage and lifetime of active vortexes, and with the added bonus of individual orbs providing more utility, adding a cap to the number of active vortexes and increasing the orb count for maxed vortexes felt appropriate to strike balance with the changes.
  • Once 3 fully maxed vortexes are active, the Simulor will now default to single-shot orbs - with the reduced lifetime of a single orb, there are now more ways to use the Simulor against enemies!
• Removed the initial stagger on enemies that would occur on vortex creation.
  • We removed this effect so that enemies aren’t pushed out of range of the vortex as much.
• Updated Simulor's FX!

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)
Reduced the following AoE weapons Radial Damage Falloff from central impact that were all previously 90%:

• Simulor: 60%

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:

• Simulor

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.

Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)

October 2019 Riven Disposition Change

• Simulor: 1->1.1

Hotfix 25.0.8 (2019-05-31)

• Fixed the Simulor Energy color persisting as default.

Hotfix 24.2.5 (2018-12-20)

• Terminal Velocity Mods can now be equipped.
• Firestorm mod bug, not equippable.

Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)

• Simulor series changes:
  • Changed from semi-auto to automatic.
  • Added a small amount of recoil for feedback when firing.
  • Now has proper accuracy stats so mods will effect it.
  • Firestorm and Terminal Velocity Mods can now be equipped.
  • Reduced Aim Zoom from 2.23 to 1.6x.
  • Damage-over-time damage is now affected by damage mods.
  • Updated the overall FX.

• Simulor
  • Fire Rate increased from 2 to 3.
  • Ammo capacity increased from 60 to 72.
  • Clip size decreased from 10 to 8.

Update 18.8 (2016-04-06)

• Tweaked the Stug and Simulor projectiles to properly appear stacked instead of hovering over each other. This also improves the projectiles landing position on objects.

Update 16.10 (2015-06-25)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Synoid Simulor, the Cephalon Suda custom version.