Vortex Beater

Vortex Beater

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	50
Knockback	2 (Very weak)
Use time	20 (Very Fast)
Velocity	20
Tooltip	66% chance to not consume ammo 'The catastrophic mixture of pew pew and boom boom.'
Rarity	10
Sell	10

• Internal Item ID: 3475

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The Vortex Beater is an automatic gun that fires both bullets and explosives in a cone similar to the Gatligator, but within approximately a 25 degree angle rather than the Gatligator's 45 degree firing pattern.

A curving explosive from the Vortex Beater.

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Acceleration of the Vortex Beater.

The explosives are fired at random and do not hurt the player using it. This makes it an ideal gun for close quarters as it has a high DPS and the explosions knock enemies back. In addition, the explosives will guide themselves towards enemies, allowing it to be used semi-accurately.

Bullets fired by the Vortex Beater are shot in an inaccurate manner. Use of Chlorophyte Bullets - which home on enemies - will help improve accuracy. Due to the inaccuracy of the bullets, the Vortex Beater is somewhat better suited against larger enemies and bosses (which may be immune to the knockback effect of explosives). A better ranged weapon for single target damage would be Phantasm.

The Vortex Beater has a 66% chance not to consume ammo.

The best modifier is "Unreal".

Crafting

Recipe

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Notes

• While this weapon launches both bullets and explosives, it consumes only bullets as ammunition. It cannot use any form of rocket or explosive.
• Because of its high DPS and ammo reduction, this weapon can be extremely effective against the Moon Lord if you use Chlorophyte Bullets. This is reinforced by the fact that you can craft it right after defeating the Vortex Pillar.
• It has an animation of acceleration, but it seems it doesn't actually accelerate the rate of fire.
• If you click fast enough to fire 1 bullet. you'll hear the sound if you shot 2 bullets.

Trivia

• This weapon was formerly called the "Blackhole Beater" as seen in one of the spoilers.
• The weapon could be based on the M41A Pulse Rifle from Aliens as the Vortex Event mainly focuses on Aliens and both weapons fire bullets and explosives.
• This is the only firearm in the game to feature an operating secondary weapon (grenade launcher)

History

• 1.3.0.5: Reduced damage from 70 to 50.

• 1.3.0.4:
  • Increased Damage from 63 to 70.

• 1.3.0.1: Introduced.

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