"Lead Storm" Powered Minigun
| “ | What's more effective than bullets? A whole LOT of bullets. With a fire rate of more than 3 500 rounds per minute, the Minigun remains a mainstay of any heavy engagement. |
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The "Lead Storm" Powered Minigun is one of the Gunner's primary weapons. It's a huge, triple-barreled gatling gun which shows evidence of much use, such as the straps around the upper handle. A circular gauge on the top indicates the weapon's current temperature, which gradually fills up and shifts from green to red as temperature increases. It violently pops out in the event of overheat.
The gun does not utilize a reloading system and instead draws from one pool of reserve ammo, being fed from a large drum underneath the weapon. It has a spin-up period which must be overcome before the weapon can fire, and has a built-in gyro stabilizer which causes the gun to become more accurate the longer it fires. The bullets also have a chance to stun the enemies.
Firing for extended periods will cause the gun to emit smoke and make a rattling sound, which are early warning signs of an overheat. The gun's temperature can be measured by the gauge on the top. If it fills up all the way, the mechanism will jam and remain unusable for the overheat duration.
Pressing the reload key will cause the gunner to spin the barrels with his hand. He will watch them spin freely for a moment before returning the gun to its ready position. This does not cool the gun down faster.
NOTE: Although the weapon's stats indicate that it is capable of firing 30 rounds per second, it is a common misconception that the weapon is capable of outputting as much damage as it describes. In actual gameplay, the Minigun has half the effective amount of bullets; this means that for every 2 ammo the gun uses, only 1 bullet is fired out, and only 1 bullet's worth of damage is being dealt.
Use the values with tooltips for damage calculation; values in brackets are for in-game reference.
Modifications
There are five tiers of modifications and each tier has two to three upgrades. Only one modification can be equipped per tier.
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| Tier 1 |  Magnetic Refrigeration |
+1.5 Cooling Rate -0.15 Cooling Delay |
"Increases the cooling rate and cooldown begins almost immediatly after you stop firing." |
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 Improved Motor |
+2 (+4) Rate of Fire | "Increased rate of fire and faster gyro stabilization" |
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 Improved Platform Stability |
x0.25 Base Spread | "Increased Accuracy" |
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Tier 2 4
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 Oversized Drum |
+300 (+600) Max Ammo | "Expanded Ammo Bags" |
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 High Velocity Rounds |
+2 Damage | "The good folk in R&D have been busy. The overall damage of your weapon is increased." |
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| Tier 3 8
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 Hardened Rounds |
+200% Armor Break Bonus | "Improved armor breaking" |
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 Improved Stun |
+2s Stun Duration +20% Stun Chance |
"Stun enemies more often and for a longer time!" |
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 Blowthrough Rounds |
+1 Max Penetrations | "Shaped bullets capable of passing through a target!" |
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| Tier 4 12
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Variable Chamber Pressure |
+15% Max Stabilization Damage Bonus | "Damage increase when fully stabilized" |
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 Lighter Barrel Assembly |
-0.4s Spinup Time | "Start killing things sooner with a shorter spinup time" |
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 Magnetic Bearings |
+1s Spindown Time +0.75s Max Accuracy Duration |
"Barrels keep spinning for a longer time after firing, keeping the gun stable for longer" |
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| Tier 5 16
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 Aggressive Venting |
+Critical Overheat -5s Overheat Duration |
"Burn everything around you and send enemies running when the minigun overheats. The extreme heat dumping method also helps to significantly shorten downtime." |
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Cold As The Grave |
+Heat Removed on Kill | "Every kill cools the gun" |
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 Hot Bullets |
+50% Hot Bullets | "Rounds fired when the heat meter is red will burn the target" |
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Overclocks
Overclock calculations happen after modifiers.
 "Lead Storm" Powered Minigun [Expand/Collapse]
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A Little More Oomph!
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"Get the most out of each shot without compromising any of the gun's systems." |
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Thinned Drum Walls
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"Stuff more bullets into the ammo drum by thinning the material in non-critical areas." |
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Burning Hell
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"Turn the area just infront of the minigun into an even worse place by venting all the combustion gasses forward. However, it does overheat rather quickly." |
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Compact Feed Mechanism
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"More space left for ammo at the cost of a reduced rate of fire." |
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| Exhaust Vectoring
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"Increases damage at a cost to accuracy." |
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Bullet Hell
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"Special bullets that ricochet off all surfaces and even enemies going on to hit nearby targets. However they deal less damage and are less accurate overall." |
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| Lead Storm
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"Pushing things to the limit this overclock greatly increases damage output at the cost of consistently stunning targets and the kickback makes it almost impossible to move." |
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Stats Breakdown
Understanding the Weapon
The Minigun has multiple components to its firing sequence. When the trigger is first pulled, the barrel will spin up. The Minigun will not fire until the barrel is spinning at maximum speed. When the trigger is released, the barrel will gradually spin down to a stop.
The Minigun's accuracy will begin at the minimum accuracy, every bullet fired will increase the accuracy by a small but additive amount, up to a maximum. After 0.5 seconds of not firing, the accuracy of the Minigun will begin to decay, completely draining in 3.5 seconds.
While the trigger is held down, the Minigun will begin accumulating Heat at a rate of 1 Heat per second of sustained fire, up to a maximum of 9.5 Heat (leading to a default firing duration of 9.5 seconds). Upon reaching 9.5 Heat, it will Overheat and be disabled for 10 seconds. The Heat Meter displayed on the Minigun's model is non-linear and does not correspond to the internal linear heat gain.
'Reloading' the Minigun does not serve any function. Specifically, it does not improve cooling.
Unique Modifications
Aggressive Venting
Aggressive Venting is a tier 5 mod for the Powered Minigun. When it is equipped, the Minigun will release a blast of heat when it overheats, igniting creatures within a 10m radius of the Gunner.
- Fear: 1 000%
- Damage: 60 Heat
- Maximum Damage Radius: 6m
- Radius: 10m
- Minimum Damage: 25%
Cold as the Grave
Cold as the Grave subtracts 0.6 Heat from the Heat meter for every enemy that the Minigun gets the killing blow on. Although the visual effect displayed on the Heat Meter gauge is more pronounced at yellow and green levels, the amount of Heat removed per kill is constant, regardless of current Heat value or enemy size. Due to the linear gain of 1 Heat per second (1.5 with Burning Hell), this effectively increases the firing duration without overheating by 0.6 seconds per kill (0.4 seconds for Burning Hell).
Hot Bullets
Hot Bullets causes each bullet fired out of the Minigun, after the heat meter has turned red, to inflict an additional 50% of the weapon's damage as Heat, which can ignite enemies.
Unique Overclocks
Burning Hell
Burning Hell is a Balanced Overclock. It adds an Area of Effect damage zone that extends about 5m in front of the Minigun's muzzle. For all enemies inside that AoE, they take 5 Fire Damage per tick and 20 Heat Damage per tick, at a rate of 4 ticks/sec. Additionally, it adds +50% Heat Generation, raising it from the default 1 Heat/sec to 1.5 Heat/sec. This in turn lowers the default firing duration before overheating from 9.5 seconds down to 6.33 seconds.
Bullet Hell
Bullet Hell is an Unstable Overclock
Whenever a bullet hits a surface or creature, it has a 75% chance to ricochet, up to 6 meters, to the closest creature (non hostile creatures are ignored, with the exception of Huuli Hoarders). Bullets do full damage before a ricochet and can only ricochet once. With Blowthrough Rounds equipped when a bullet hits an enemy, if the 75% ricochet chance was successful and there is a valid target within 6 meters, it will ricochet off that first enemy hit. It will never, however, ricochet off a second enemy(or terrain) hit via Blowthrough Rounds, only the first thing the bullet hits.
Mastery
Each modification that is purchased advances a mastery bar by one unit.
Mastery unlocks:
- Three modifications – First Stripe Weapon Paintjob
- Seven modifications – Deepcore Weapon Paintjob
- All (14) modifications – The Company Special Weapon Paintjob
Skins
Full gallery of skins can be seen at Weapon Skins.
Gallery
Trivia
- Before Update 11: Dead And Gun, the Powered Minigun had an ammo clip, similarly to Autocannon, but it was still able to overheat.
- The minigun fires depleted uranium according to one of the Gunner's class selected voice lines. This material is extremely dense, twice that of lead, and as such it makes optimal munitions.
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