Soma

Tenno Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Soma
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Rifle
Mastery Rank Requirement	6
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Auto-Spool
Utility
Accuracy	28.6
Ammo Max	540
Ammo Pickup	80
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.15x)
Fire Rate	15.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	100
Reload Time	3.00 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Spread	3.50° (2.00° min, 5.00° max)
Spool Up Rate	6 rounds
Fully Spooled
1.2 ( 10%)
4.8 ( 40%)
6 ( 50%)
Total Damage	12 (50.00%  Slash)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	30.00%
Crit Multiplier	3.00x
Fire Rate	15.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (12.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	300.0 m
Spread	3.50° (2.00° min, 5.00° max)
Status Chance	7.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Incarnon Form
0.48 ( 6%)
2.24 ( 28%)
5.28 ( 66%)
Total Damage	64 (66.00%  Slash)
Accuracy	8
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	10.00%
Crit Multiplier	3.00x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 0.0 m (100.00%)
Fire Rate	7.000 attacks/sec
Multishot	8 (8.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.8 m
Range	300.0 m
Spread	12.50° (5.00° min, 20.00° max)
Status Chance	2.50%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	ASSAULT_AMMO
Riven Family	Soma
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 10.0 (2013-09-13)
Polarities
Sell Price	7,500
Users	Rhino Specter
Variants	Soma  Soma Prime
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Tenno Weapons Slash Damage Weapons Rifle Soma Primary Weapons Auto-Spool Weapons Automatic Rhino Specter Base Alarming Weapons Spooling Weapons Hit-Scan Weapons Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

CODEX

Accuracy combined with a massive magazine make the Soma assault rifle a formidable weapon.

The Soma is a Tenno assault rifle with high accuracy, very high fire rate that is achieved after a spool-up period, large magazine capacity, and extreme critical chance and critical multiplier. Its lackluster base damage is largely supported by its incredible critical stats, making the Soma a deceivingly powerful rifle. Coupled with its high accuracy and sustainable fire rate, the Soma is suitable for any distance engagement.

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

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:

• High and damage – effective against health and armor.
• Tied with  Prisma Gorgon,  Soma Prime,  Telos Boltor, and  Tenora Prime for the second highest critical chance of all fully automatic rifles, behind  Battacor and  Acceltra.
• Tied with Soma Prime  Attica, and  Baza/ Baza Prime for the highest critical multiplier of all fully automatic rifles.
• Very high fire rate.
• High accuracy.
• Large magazine size.
• Innate two polarities.

Disadvantages:

• Tied with  Soma Prime for the second lowest base damage of all fully automatic rifles, after  Grakata; very reliant on its high critical damage potential.
  • Ill-suited against Object-based health as it nullifies any critical hits.
  • Low damage – less effective against shields.
• Requires a spool-up of 6 shots before optimal fire rate is achieved.
  • Fire rate stats at 25% of the listed value, and increases by 15% per shot.
• Low status chance.
• High fire rate generates high recoil, hindering accuracy.
• Low reload speed.
• Sub-optimal ammo efficiency.

Comparisons:

•  Soma (Fully Spooled), compared to  Soma Prime (Fully Spooled):
  • Equal base damage
  • Lower base status chance (7.00% vs. 10.00%)
  • Lower sustained DPS (198.62 vs. 235.10)
  • Smaller magazine (100 vs. 200)
  • Smaller max ammo capacity (540 vs. 800)
  • Slower spool-up (6 rounds vs. 4 rounds)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 7)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.10x))

Acquisition

The Soma's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
15,000	7	850	1,200	8,000	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 50
Market Price: 265			Blueprints Price:50,000

Notes

• This weapon can be treated like an upgraded  Grakata, due to its higher critical chance, lower recoil and a larger magazine size. Although the spin-up time, slower maximum fire rate and much lower status chance must also be taken into account.
• During Livestream 14, Digital Extremes talked about increasing the weapon's Mastery Rank to suit the effectiveness of the Soma, rather than nerfing the weapon. This was implemented in Update 10.5 (2013-10-23).
• Capable of shooting the first shot of the magazine with high accuracy, allowing decent shots to weak-points from afar.
• The Soma is able to cut enemy corpses, ideal for use with a Desecrating  Nekros or for low to medium level enemies.

Tips

•  Rifle Ammo Mutation can help regain lost ammunition if the user has ammo conservation problems or if the Soma is unranked, but leaves less room for damage mods, Alternatively, use  Rifle Scavenger or Squad Ammo Restores. Using Carrier's Ammo Case is also a viable method.
• Firing in bursts helps with ammo consumption. When well-modded, the Soma is capable of dispatching many common enemies with 1 or 2 shots.
• The Soma's critical chance can be boosted up to 75% with a maximum-rank  Point Strike mod and up to 89.4% by adding a max-rank  Critical Delay.
• With a maximum rank  Vital Sense and a  Hammer Shot mod, the Soma's critical multiplier can be increased to 8.4x.
• Once the weapon is fully-spooled, some skills (like  Iron Skin) may be activated without losing the firing speed.
• Similarly, it retains its fast firing rate if you let off the fire button for short periods. This lets the wielder change targets without wasting large amounts of ammunition in between separate enemies, as long as they do so quickly. This can also be used to keep tighter firing spreads at long ranges, essentially "bursting" rounds with quick pauses between to reduce recoil.
• The Soma's magazine is reloaded before the reload animation actually finishes, as little as halfway through the animation itself. Thus, canceling the reload animation still counts as a reload, essentially cutting the reload time by half.
• This weapon has a slight wind up time, much like the  Gorgon (only less prominent). This can be taken advantage of by tapping the fire button, making it fire single bullets at a time, which can be effective for sniping weaker units.
• The significantly tighter spread at long range gives the Soma an advantage over the Gorgon and Supra for picking off heavy units, but the latter two are more effective at clearing large groups of enemies.

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Trivia

• The magazine curls up into the weapon while firing, and ejects when ammo is depleted.
  • If reloaded with an amount other than a full magazine in reserve, the magazine will snap to the ammunition remaining within the magazine as soon as the reload animation is finished.
• The Soma's design seems to be based on the French Chauchat.
  • Its unusual magazine shape resembles the Japanese Type 100 SMG, or the Type 99 LMG when the magazine has gone through.
  • The rigid moving magazine/clip is almost unique to fictional firearms. The Type 92's rigid feed strips and belt feeding closely resemble the Soma. Stripper clips, namely "en bloc clips" like in the M1 Garand, are perhaps the closest in terms of magazine/clip design.
• The weapon's name is shared with the Hinduistic god, Soma, who is a being attributed with the Moon. The shape of its magazine could also be thought to share a resemblance to a moon's crescent.
  • It also shares it's name with the Ancient Greek word for body (σῶμα), which might be related to the rifle's large size.
• The Soma's icon and its blueprint shows the magazine halfway depleted.
• Reloading the Soma will eject the magazine. Repeatedly reload-cancelling can leave a pile of Soma magazines on the floor.
• The Soma was described in the market as a "deadly and elegant high caliber Tenno assault rifle." Despite allegedly high caliber rounds, its damage is second to worst, and its magazine capacity is high compared with other weapons. Judging from the physical size of other weapons' magazines, it may be a relatively high caliber.
• The Soma initially had a Mastery Rank requirement of 3. This was increased to 6 in Update 10.5.
• In The Profit, Volt is seen using the Soma but instead of the magazine curling up as it usually would, it curls downwards.
• Prior to Update 11, the Soma had a critical chance of 35%, allowing for a 100% critical chance with maxed  Point Strike and  Critical Delay mods. After Update 11 launched, the Soma's critical chance was decreased to 25%, then subsequently increased to 30%. Also, while the figures have officially not changed, anecdotal evidence from players holds that the Soma's spread was loosened and recoil increased in Update 11, though it is still one of the most accurate assault rifles in the game.

Bugs

• The colored magazine removed from the Soma will return to its original color.
• There are several appearance bugs associated with the Soma's magazine. The magazine may get "stuck" if reload-cancelled right before the reload completes, leaving the Soma free for use without a magazine loaded.
• Occasionally, the user can find the Soma ejecting multiple magazines on a single reload.

• Sometimes the clip may be loaded backwards, with the bottom of the clip getting jammed into the barrel and cycling through the weapon counter-clockwise.

Media

• Soma in Codex.
• Mag Prime with Soma (Prime style using Fire Color Pack for gold colors, Smoke Color Pack for white)
• The colour customization options for the Soma
• The colour customization options for the Day Of The Dead Soma skin.
• Day Of The Dead Skin - White

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Soma Skins

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Conclave

Day of the Dead
Seasonal

Forest-Camo

Huntsman

Oscira

Soaktron

Patch History

Hotfix 24.5.2 (2019-03-18)

• Fixed Soma and Soma Forest-Camo Skin not feeding the clip through the gun as you fire.

Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)

• Damage increased from 10 to 12.

Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)

• Fixed skins on the Soma not previewing on its clip in the Arsenal.

Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)

• Fixed Soma skins not applying to the clip when previewed.

Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)

• Reduced Magazine Size: 100 to 50 in Conclave.

Update 19.4.2 (2016-12-20)

• Riven disposition reduced.

Update: The Index Preview (2016-10-20)

• Reduced weapon damage in Conclave.

Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)

• Conclave Weapon Skin added.
• Increased weapon damage in Conclave.

Update 18.13 (2016-05-27)

• Fixed clips lingering during Mirage's Hall of Mirrors.

Hotfix 18.8.2 (2016-04-13)

• Fixed hearing firing sound throughout the level even when fired by another player.

Hotfix 18.6.2 (2016-03-22)

• Reduced series damage in Conclave.

Hotfix 18.4.6 (2016-02-01)

• Reduced series damage in Conclave.

Hotfix 16.3.2 (2015-04-14)

• Slightly reduced damage in Conclave.

Update 16.3 (2015-04-09)

• Added to the Supreme Soma Set.
• Updated audio.
• Fixed an issue where clip would sit in the wrong position.

Hotfix 16.0.2 (2015-03-21)

• Fixed additional ammo clips showing.

Hotfix 16.0.1 (2015-03-20)

• Fixed skins not properly applying.

Hotfix 15.14.1 (2015-02-14)

• Fixed an issue caused by purchasing in the Market.

Update 15.0 (2014-10-24)

• Soma Huntsman Skin added.

Update 14.0 (2014-07-18)

• Limited max instances of fire sound effects.

Hotfix 11.0.3 (2013-11-22)

• Crit rate buffed and increased Proc/Status chance.

Update 10.5 (2013-10-23)

• Mastery Rank increased from 3 to 6.
• Turned non-player Soma down.

Update 10.3 (2013-10-09)

• Fixed issue where clip mesh was rendered black during reloading.

Hotfix 10.0.1 (2013-09-14)

• Added proper icons.

Update 10.0 (2013-09-13)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 25.3 (2019-07-06)

See Also

•  Soma Prime, the Prime counterpart of this gun.
•  Gorgon, the Grineer equivalent of this weapon.
•  Supra, the Corpus equivalent of this weapon.
•  Aksomati, the machine pistol counterparts of this weapon.
•  Dual Raza, battle-hatchets inspired by Soma's design.
•  Phaedra, Archwing rifle described as the Soma's big-sister.