DRAK-25 Plasma Carbine
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 Unlocked through an assignment
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Requires Scout  18
Purchased for:
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| “ | The DRAK-25 is among the newest additions to the DRG arsenal and is a bit of a technological marvel. Capable of laying down a blistering hail of superheated plasma without hardly ever blowing up in your hands, AND comparatively cheap to manufacture, Management were quick to approve and sign off on this design. |
| — Item Description |
The DRAK-25 Plasma Carbine is an unlockable primary weapon for the Scout. It is a somewhat retro futuristic carbine with the stock being incorporated into the handle and attached to the magazine. The barrel and muzzle both feature distinctly different colors compared to the rest of the gun and are much more circular than the rest of the weapon.
The Plasma Carbine, similar to Gunner's "Lead Storm" Powered Minigun and Driller's Experimental Plasma Charger, feeds from a single ammo pool and has an overheating mechanic. In addition, the plasma fired by the weapon is considered a projectile, meaning that it must physically travel through the world before hitting a target.
When firing the Plasma Carbine, each shot will produce heat which is measured on the weapon's digital display. After firing for an extended period of time and completely filling the heat meter, the Plasma Carbine will jam, rendering the weapon inoperable for the overheat duration.
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 |  High-Volume Plasma Field |
+4 Rate of Fire | "We overclocked your gun. It fires faster. Don't Ask. Just Enjoy. Also probably don't tell Management, please." |
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 Heat Shield |
-25% Heat per Shot | "Less heat generated per shot." |
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 Stronger Particle Accelerator |
x2 Projectile Velocity | "Launches the plasma projectiles at a higher velocity." |
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| Tier 2 4
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 Larger Battery |
+200 Battery Capacity | "The good thing about clips, magazines, ammo drums, fuel tanks... you can always get bigger variants." |
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 Increased Caliber 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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 Custom Coil Alignment |
-70% Shot Spread | "Hand-aligned coils with a custom two phase acceleration profile improves accuracy and reduces spread." |
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Gen 2 Cooling System |
+50% Cooling Rate, -0.1 Cooling Delay | "The new and improved passive cooling system sheds heat faster when not firing." |
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 Hot Feet |
+Speed Boost During Overheat | "The burning hot gases motivate you to move faster while the weapon is overheated." |
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| Tier 4 12
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 Overcharged PCF |
+20 Chance to Electrocute on Hit | "The projectiles carry excess charge distributed across the containment field giving a small chance to electrocute the target on impact." |
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 Plasma Splash |
-5 Direct Damage, +5 Splash Damage Area | "A simple modification to the containment field causes it to rupture outward on impact damaging all things in a small radius even through heavy armor." |
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 Destructive Resonance AMP |
+200% Armor Break Bonus | "We're proud of this one. Armor shredding. Tear through that high-impact plating of those big buggers like butter. What could be finer?" |
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| Tier 5 16
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 Manual Heat Dump |
+Manual Heat Dump | "Pressing the reload button will force the DRAK-25 into overheat mode letting you quickly cool the weapon." |
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 Thermal Feedback Loop |
+Faster RoF When Hot | "Pumping excess heat back into the system results in a faster rate of fire when the weapon passes 50% heat." |
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Overclocks
Overclock calculations happen after modifiers.
 DRAK-25 Plasma Carbine [Expand/Collapse]
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Aggressive Venting
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"Directional vents burn everything around you and send enemies running when the weapon overheats. They also reduce the overheat recovery time." |
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Thermal Liquid Coolant
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"With a liquid coolant fitted to the weapons thermal system it transfers heat more efficiently, accelerating its cooling rate and reducing heat per shot." |
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Impact Deflection
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"Tinkering with the particle density makes your projectiles react on impact with armor and surfaces, making them bounce up to 2 times! However the rate of fire needs to be reduced to keep the gun from exploding in your hands." |
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Rewiring Mod
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"By rewiring the thermal systems into a secondary cell and connecting it to the primary battery, your weapon can convert the energy from overheating into ammo. However this reduces the maximum capacity of the primary battery significantly." |
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Overtuned Particle Accelerator
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"The particle accelerator has been tuned way over safety standards to push the damage output to the limit! The modifications comes with a price to overall stability of the weapon and increased heat generation." |
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Shield Battery Booster
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"Plugging your shield directly into the weapon battery boosts the plasma feed and density significantly while at full shield and improves total ammo and rate of fire at all times. However the extra energy generates more heat and overheating the weapon will short circuit your shield." |
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Thermal Exhaust Feedback
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"Feeding the thermal exhaust back into the system transfers the heat generated after a 50% threshold to the plasma, making it increasingly hot. The modifications means more heat generated and it takes longer to get rid of during overheat." |
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Stats Breakdown
Understanding the Weapon
- Base direct damage type is a composite of:
- 1st 50% Disintegrate,
- 2nd 50% Kinetic.
- Battery Capacity is the weapon's total ammo capacity.
- Overheat Duration is the amount of time in seconds that the weapon becomes inoperable when the heat meter is completely filled.
- Cooldown Delay is how long you need to wait in seconds before the weapon's heat meter begins to cool down.
- Heat Generated per Shot: 0.045
- Maximum Heat Capacity: 2
- Heat Lost Per Second: 1.1
- Delay Before Cooling: 0.3 seconds
- The heat-percentage bar on the gun is non-linear. It takes 18 shots to reach "50% heat", and 45 to reach 100%.
- These values change based on mods and overclocks, from up to 69 shots at most to overheat, to as few as 29 based on build.
- These values change based on mods and overclocks, from up to 69 shots at most to overheat, to as few as 29 based on build.
Unique Modifications
Hot Feet
Hot Feet provides a speed boost during overheat. The speed boost lasts for the entire overheat duration, plus an additional ~2s. Thus, the longer the overheat duration, the longer the speed boost.
Overcharged PCF
Overcharged PCF adds a chance to electrocute target on hit, causing damage over time and slowing.
- Actually has a 15% chance, not 20%
- Duration: 6 seconds
- Damage: 22.5 electric per second, 135 total
- Slow: 80%
Plasma Splash
Plasma Splash reduces direct damage and adds area splash damage. Area Damage scaling applies only to the damage part of type Fire, since it's the base area damage type, while the Disintegrate part is a result of 50% conversion from it.
- Damage: 5
- Base area damage type is a composite of:
- 1st 50% Disintegrate,
- 2nd 50% Fire.
- Maximum Damage Radius: 0.5m
- Radius: 1m
- Minimum Damage: 50%
Manual Heat Dump
Manual Heat Dump, when activated, provides a significant reduction in the base overheat duration along with a second overheat reduction scaler based on the current Weapon Heat percentage. Thus, its much faster to dump the heat by manually overheating at <99% heat, rather than automatically at 100% (35% less overheat time), also bypasses the "Cooldown delay".
Manual Overheat Duration: (Overheat Time * 0.65) * (Current Weapon Heat / Maximum Weapon Heat)
Thermal Feedback Loop
Thermal Feedback Loop Gives +5 rate of fire above 50% heat, up to a total RoF of 20
Unique Overclocks
Aggressive Venting
Aggressive Venting is a clean overclock. Upon overheating, deals up to 6 Fire+Heat damage, 60 heat, and 500 fear within a 5 meter radius. These values all scale with %heat at overheat, so at 50% heat, all of them will be halved.
Fire AoE:
- Damage: 6 Fire + Heat
- Damage Radius: 5m
- Max Damage Radius: 5m
- Minimum Damage: 100%
Heat AoE:
- Damage 60 Heat
- Damage Radius: 5m
- Max Damage Radius: 1.5m
- Minimum Damage: 25%
- Fear Factor: 500%
Additionally, this overclock reduces the base overheat time by 0.5 seconds. As a result overheating at 50% heat with Manual Heat Dump will give an approximately 0.65 second overheat duration.
Impact Deflection
Impact Deflection is a balanced overclock. The bounce angle depends on the surface angle, like the reflection of a beam of light.
If the "Plasma Splash" mod is equipped, the projectile deals splash damage when bouncing off terrain; making it possible to deal x2 splash if you shoot the floor in front of enemies (splashing on contact with floor, then bouncing into the enemy, dealing direct + splash damage again).
Rewiring Mod
Rewiring Mod is a balanced overclock. Rewiring Mod will refill 31.44 shots given a full overheat of 45 shots, 69.86% of ammunition used. This means a full 45-shot overheat will only consume 13.56 shots.
Using "Manual Heat Dump" to overheat early mod will refill around 47-70% of ammunition used. A minimum of 18 shots are needed to reach "50% heat" to manually overheat, and consumes ~9.5 shots (only refilling 47.2% of the 18 used).
Shield Battery Booster
Shield Battery Booster is an unstable overclock that grants +5.5 direct damage, and x2 projectile speed while at full shield.
At all times, the player's shield will recharge 5 seconds sooner after taking damage, meaning that the player's base Shield Regeneration Delay is effectively 2 seconds. The Improved Generator mod will reduce the recharge delay to just 1 second, and with Boosted Converter the player's shield will regenerate 4 seconds after taking damage (although much more rapidly).
When the weapon overheats the player's shield will be set to zero, and cannot recharge above zero capacity until the overheat duration is over. Overheating does not trigger the shield's recharge delay, so if the player takes no damage while overheated then the shield will begin to recharge immediately. If the player takes damage by any other means while overheated or just before overheating, their shields will begin to charge after both the overheat duration and recharge delay are finished. For example, should a player with a shield modded with Boosted Converter (4 second delay) take damage and overheat their weapon one second later (2.5 second overheat duration), then shield will begin to recharge 1.5 seconds after the overheat ends (4 seconds from the time of taking damage).
Does not function in missions with the Shield Disruption modifier.
Thermal Exhaust Feedback
Thermal Exhaust Feedback is an unstable overclock. Adds 3 fire and 3 heat damage for every 10% heat over 50%, up to a total of +12 fire and +12 heat damage.
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 (13) modifications – The Company Special Weapon Paintjob
Skins
Full gallery of skins can be seen at Weapon Skins.
Gallery
Trivia
- The DRAK-25 Plasma Carbine's weapon prototype used the Deepcore 40mm PGL model.
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