Pulsar

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Pulsar

Sinister Pulsar

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“

Energy auto-cannon for medium range with a special feature: each round has a chance to lock down the enemy

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— in-game description

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Purchase Information
In-Game Cost	10,000 or 7,500
IRL Cost?	$60
Experience?	17
Type
Hardpoint?	Medium
Tier?	IV
Faction?	TBA

Base Statistics		Attributes
Level	1	Energy
Damage	600 per energy round	Manual
Range	600 meters	Automatic
Reload	5 seconds	Magazine
Capacity	23 energy rounds	Root
Unload	5.11 seconds

Workshop Production Information
1 Day Cost	3 Day Cost
160,000	530,000
Components	Components
60	170

Introduction

The Pulsar is a mid-range (up to 600 meters, with a 550-meter optimal range) medium energy weapon.

Strategy

This energy auto-cannon has a chance to root enemies and a 600-meter range, meaning that it is well-suited to perform as a close-mid range suppressor. The Pulsar boasts a very solid DPS, with the added effect of being able to root enemy targets.

With its short 5 second reload, robots equipped with the Pulsar can be vital in guarding important beacons, stopping enemy robots and allowing teammates with more firepower to race over to help. This tactic of suppressive fire at range can be devastating on open maps such as Yamantau, Shenzhen and Canyon.

The power to temporarily immobilize enemy robots can be vital in game modes such as Beacon Rush and King of the Hill (unavailable), where capturing a beacon first can mean not only more points, but also an extra spawn point, which allows for much more intense battles.

The Pulsar has the largest effect on the Dash robots Kumiho, Strider, Haechi, Bolt , and Bulgasari. The ability to lock them down and deprive them of their mobility (one of their key strengths) can lead to their destruction or crippling. It can also effectively ground robots that are capable of jumping, in other words it prevents a locked down robot from leaving the ground. It does not prevent Descend robots (Spectre and Inquisitor) from entering stealth, but Mercury cannot activate Helldive, which means it cannot enter stealth mode and explode. It is also useful against Hellburners, as the lock down can prevent it from getting too close and activating its overload explosion.

The Haechi in particular is vulnerable, due to it having low base health to compensate for its in-built Ancile. The Strider relies heavily on its 5 Dash charges to survive, with inadequate health for brawling, it relies on mobility. Pinning a Strider down in front of heavily-armed teammates can mean its demise.

Finally, being a medium weapon, the Pulsar has heavier firepower than its light counterpart the Shredder. Also being an energy weapon, the Pulsar can be deadly to ambush robots (such as the Spectre) or robots with in-built energy shields (such as the Carnage). If pinned down, not only will the energy bolts hurt more due to these robots under-average health, but for stealth ability robots such as the Spectre and Inquisitor, they can be left vulnerable if pinned down in the open and unable to move when their stealth runs out.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Energy-based projectiles allows gun to bypass energy shielding
• Large damage within range (0m-600m)
• Quick reload
• Can lock-down enemies
• High accuracy-Bullets barely spread

Cons

• Does not have capability to lock-down an enemy down in one clip
• Ineffective against physical shields
• Ineffective at close range against specialized brawling weapons (eg. Nucleon)

Mark I Statistics

Purchase Information

Level	Cost	Damage	Cycle Damage	Burst DPS	Cycle DPS
1	10,000 or 7,500	600	13800	2701	1365

Upgrade Information

Level	Cost	Time	Damage	Cycle Damage	Burst DPS	Cycle DPS
2	100,000	2 hours	660	15180	2971	1501
3	200,000	5 hours	730	16790	3286	1661
4	400,000	14 hours	810	18630	3646	1843
5	2,000,000	1 day	890	20470	4006	2025
6	4,000,000	1 day 16 hours	980	22540	4411	2229
7	6,000,000	2 days 20 hours	1080	24840	4861	2457
8	11,000,000	3 days 14 hours	1190	27370	5356	2707
9	17,000,000	4 days 12 hours	1310	30130	5896	2980
10	32,000,000	5 days	1440	33120	6481	3276
11	43,000,000	5 days 8 hours	1590	36570	7157	3617
12	55,000,000	5 days 16 hours	1750	40250	7877	3981

	Cost	Time
Totals	170,700,000	30 days 11 hours

• The damage column shows the damage of each individual energy round (out of 23 energy rounds)

Mark II Statistics

Purchase Information

Level	Cost	Damage	Cycle Damage	Burst DPS	Cycle DPS
1	500	1750	40250	7877	3981

Note: Level 12 Mark I is required to enhance (purchase) to Mark II.

Upgrade Information

Level	Cost	Time	Damage	Cycle Damage	Burst DPS	Cycle DPS
2	2,000,000	1 day	1782	40986	8021	4054
3	4,000,000	2 days	1814	41722	8165	4127
4	8,000,000	3 days	1846	42458	8309	4200
5	19,500,000	3 days	1878	43194	8453	4272
6	19,500,000	3 days	1910	43930	8597	4345
7	19,500,000	3 days	1942	44666	8741	4418
8	19,500,000	3 days	1974	45402	8885	4491
9	19,500,000	3 days	2006	46138	9029	4564
10	19,500,000	3 days	2038	46874	9173	4636
11	19,500,000	3 days	2070	47610	9317	4709
12	19,500,000	3 days	2102	48346	9461	4782

	Cost	Time
Totals	170,000,000	30 days

• The damage column shows the damage of each individual energy round (out of 23 energy rounds)

Effect Accumulation %

The higher the percentage the more effective the weapon's projectiles are at accumulating the root effect (allows the weapon to bypass an enemy's root threshold faster).

Note: Mark II levels 1-12 does not increase accumulation values (Mark I level 12 is the highest accumulation possible).

Level	Accumulation %
1	100%
2	101%
3	101%
4	102%
5	103%
6	104%
7	105%
8	107%
9	109%
10	111%
11	113%
12	114%

Accuracy By Distance

Below is the average percentage (%) of projectiles (out of 23 energy rounds) that hit an enemy robot (if aimed directly at) at specific ranges.

Range	Accuracy %
500 meters or less	100%
550 meters	91%
600 meters	87%

Note: The numbers shown are based on an average-sized robot being targeted. Due to this, these percentages can be higher or lower depending on the size of the targeted robot.

Update History

Version	Changes
6.0.1	Now available for 7,500 gold (can still be produced via Workshop 2.0)
6.0.0	Now roots enemies after a certain number of projectile hits (rather than random activation)
5.4.0	New alternative model: Sinister Pulsar (Operation: Raging Typhoon)
5.0.0	Damage increased by 13% Rate of fire increased from 3.7 rps (rounds per second) → 4.5 rps
4.8.0	Total Upgrade Time: 37 days 30 minutes⟶30 days 11 hours
4.7.0	Total Upgrade Time: 45 days 17 hours⟶37 days 30 minutes
4.5.0	Total Upgrade Time: 58 days 17 hours⟶45 days 17 hours
4.3.0	Damage increased by 12%
4.1.0	Weapon was added to the game

Trivia

• It takes 30 Days and 34.2 Million Silver to acquire it (Producing packs of 170 taking 3 Days, using all 6 slots).
• This weapon does not possess 100% Accuracy at maximum range.
• The word "Pulsar" means a highly magnetized star that emits electromagnetic radiation. 
• Prior to Update 5.0, the firing animation is no longer synchronized with the number of projectiles being fired out of each barrel.
• When a robot gets hit by a Pulsar round, it makes an electric sizzling sound quite similar to that of when being hit by a Scourge or Spark.
• The special variant - Sinister Pulsar - has a higher pitched firing sound than the regular Pulsar.