The Twin Vipers are akimbo 
Viper machine pistols of Grineer design, featuring a very high rate of fire, but poor accuracy and extremely poor ammo efficiency. Vipers are the smallest firearms manufactured by the Grineer and boast a simplified magazine design.
Can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Impact damage. - Innate polarity.
Advantages:
- Tied with Twin Vipers Wraith for fastest fire rate of all secondaries.
- Normal Attack
- Highest effective fire rate
- Above average magazine
- High max ammo
- High disposition
Disadvantages:
- Low accuracy at anything past close range.
- Extremely ammo inefficient. Very fast fire rate results in frequent reloading.
- Normal Attack
- Below average crit chance
- Very low damage
- Low reload speed
- Below average status chance
- Very low crit multiplier
Comparisons:
- Twin Vipers (Normal Attack), compared to Viper (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage, but different composition:
- Higher burst DPS (456.87 vs. 262.79)
- Higher sustained DPS (164.00 vs. 152.87)
- Higher fire rate (25 vs. 14.38)
- Larger magazine (28 vs. 14)
- Slower reload time (2 vs. 0.7)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (5 vs. 4)
- Twin Vipers (Normal Attack), compared to Twin Vipers Wraith (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (17 vs. 18)
- Lower total damage (17 vs. 18)
- Lower base critical chance (15.00% vs. 19.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 2.0x)
- Higher base status chance (11.00% vs. 9.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (18.27 vs. 21.42)
- Lower burst DPS (456.87 vs. 535.5)
- Lower sustained DPS (164.00 vs. 238)
- Smaller magazine (28 vs. 40)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (420 vs. 440)
- More accurate (15.4 vs. 11.1)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (5 vs. 7)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.45x) vs. ●●●●● (1.41x))
Acquisition[]
The Twin Vipers's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
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 20,000 |
 1 |
1 |
 1 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: 225
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 Blueprints Price: 15,000
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Tips[]
- Using the Pistol Ammo Mutation mod can help regain lost ammo when needed. Alternatively, use Pistol Scavenger aura or bring along Squad Ammo Restore.
- Using short bursts of fire greatly improves accuracy and makes the weapon viable at medium medium-long distances, although it is still advised to be used at close quarters.
Trivia[]
- The Twin Vipers were released on April 12, 2013 with Hotfix 7.7.3 (2013-04-12).
Media[]
Twin Vipers
WARFRAME Twin vipers vs all bosses Full HD U8
Warframe - All Grineer Secondaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Grineer Weapon Reloads in 2 minutes (2012 - 2019)
Twin Vipers Skins
Patch History[]
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 5.
- Damage increased from 16 to 17.
- Status chance increased from 1% to 11%.
- Ammo capacity increased to 420.
Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)
- Fixed hips of Warframes stretching when using Agile Akimbo idle animation.
Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)
Update 16.0 (2015-03-19)
- Visual and Audio overhaul.
Hotfix 10.2.1 (2013-10-04)
- Fixed redundant flashlight.
Update 9.6 (2013-08-16)
- Tweaked sounds.
Hotfix 7.7.3 (2013-04-12)
- Introduced.
See also[]
- Viper, the single counterpart.
- Viper Wraith, the Wraith single counterpart.
- Twin Vipers Wraith, the Wraith counterpart.
