Thunder

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“

One of the most effective weapons at close range. What it lacks in accuracy it more than makes up in firepower.

”

— in-game description

Thunder
Purchasing
In-Game Cost	580,000 Silver
Real Value (USD)	None
Required Player Level	7
Base Stats
Level	5
Damage	7,980 per round
Type
Hardpoint	Heavy
Damage	Kinetic
Details
Reload	Per round: 2 seconds Full: 10 seconds
Reload While Firing	Yes
Unload	Clip: 5 seconds Burst: 9 seconds
Capacity	5 rounds 16 particles per round
Range	Effective: 75m Maximum: 500m

Introduction

The Thunder is a close to mid-range (up to 500 meters, with a 75-meter optimal range) heavy kinetic weapon.

Strategy

This weapon is essentially a massive shotgun and is best used in close range combat. Despite a maximum range of 500 meters, an optimum range would be about 200 meters or less, due to the spread of the bullets. Below 200 meters a Thunder can quickly eliminate or at the least maim a heavy robot. The Thunder is especially effective against heavy robots due to their large hit area, which allows more of the shell fragments to hit.

Even at low levels, the Thunder is a force to be reckoned with, but when upgraded to higher levels it can do appreciable damage from even 300 meters. With a fire rate of 1 RPS and the ability to reload while firing, it can do very heavy damage in a brief amount of time. Due to its FWR system (Fire while reload), it can continuously fire significantly more rounds than its full magazine.

However, because the robot must get close to an enemy to do significant damage, it will be vulnerable to enemy fire at longer distances. Therefore, it is vital to take advantage of cover as much as possible to minimize damage while getting into a good engagement range (about 200 meters and under if possible.) 

Because the Thunder is a close-range gun, it is most commonly seen on fast moving medium robots since they can quickly close range. Commonly seen setups are the Thunder Schutze, Thunder/Orkan Boa, and Pinata/Thunder Vityaz. However, Carnage and Lancelot possibly are the best bots for Thunder, due to their power and rush abilities. Thunders can also be seen on Raijins, due to its Bastion ability and large health pool.

It is not uncommon to see Thunders equipped on heavy robots like the Leo or Natasha for use as heavily armored shotgun platforms which have the staying power to hold off multiple enemy robots. Even though heavier robots generally have more HP and power, they also tend to have much lower movement speeds. This makes closing distances to actually do damage a problem, although this is somewhat negated (in the case of the Leo) by their very high HP, and with more than one heavy slot, moderate damage.

The Thunder is also an effective shield-breaker. This is because it can damage energy shields even at 400-500 meters due to bullet spread, and does double damage to physical shields as it is a kinetic weapon.

However, the Thunder is quite a rare sight in higher leagues (Diamond and above) due to it significantly underperforming for its weapon class and role. While it remains effective in lower leagues, it isn’t advised to use Thunders beyond Diamond, as other weapon such as the Avenger perform far better.

Mark I Statistics

Purchase Information

Level	Cost	Damage	Burst Damage	Burst DPS	Continuous DPS
5	580,000 Ag	7980	71820	7980	3990

Upgrade Information

Level	Cost	Time	Damage	Burst Damage	Burst DPS	Continuous DPS
6	400,000	8 hours	8770	78930	8770	4385
7	800,000	16 hours	9643	86787	9643	4822
8	1,500,000	20 hours	10601	95409	10601	5301
9	3,000,000	1 day	11642	104778	11642	5821
10	5,000,000	1 day 6 hours	12802	115218	12802	6401
11	8,000,000	1 day 8 hours	14062	126558	14062	7031
12	13,000,000	1 day 12 hours	15456	139104	15456	7728

	Cost	Time
Totals	31,700,000	6 days 22 hours

• The damage column shows the damage from all 16 particles (combined) fired from each round (out of 9 rounds)

Mark II Statistics

Purchase Information

Level	Cost	Damage	Burst Damage	Burst DPS	Continuous DPS
1	500 Au	6569	59121	6569	3285

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

Upgrade Information

Level	Cost	Time	Damage	Burst Damage	Burst DPS	Continuous DPS
2	10,000	5 minutes	7207	64863	7207	3604
3	40,000	30 minutes	7930	71370	7930	3965
4	80,000	1 hour	8719	78471	8719	4360
5	200,000	4 hours	9576	86184	9576	4788
6	400,000	8 hours	10517	94653	10517	5259
7	800,000	16 hours	11558	104022	11558	5779
8	1,500,000	20 hours	12718	114462	12718	6359
9	3,000,000	1 day	13961	125649	13961	6981
10	5,000,000	1 day 6 hours	15355	138195	15355	7678
11	8,000,000	1 day 8 hours	16867	151803	16867	8434
12	13,000,000	1 day 12 hours	18547	166923	18547	9274

	Cost	Time
Totals	31,970,000	7 days 3 hours 35 minutes

• The damage column shows the damage from all 16 particles (combined) fired from each round (out of 9 rounds)

Accuracy By Distance

Range	Accuracy %
50 meters or less	100%
100 meters	81%
150 meters	49%
200 meters	26%
250 meters	21%
300 meters	10%
350 meters	9%
400 meters	8%
450 meters	8%
500 meters	8%

Update History

Version	Changes
4.7.0	Damage increased by 5%
	Total Upgrade Time: 8 days 9 hours⟶6 days 22 hours
4.5	Economy Changes:
	Total Upgrade Cost: 63,400,000 Ag⟶31,700,000 Ag
	Total Upgrade Time: 16 days 15 hours 48 minutes⟶8 days 15 hours
4.0	Economy Changes (July 5):
	Total Upgrade Time: 16 days 16 hours⟶16 days 15 hours 48 minutes
3.2.0	Damage reduced by 5%
3.1	Damage reduced by 5%
	Now does double damage to physical shields, along with kinetic weapons
2.5	Name shortened
1.3.0	Sound effects when shooting and reloading added/changed
0.9.1	Accuracy decreased by 29%
0.9.0	Damage increased by 11.5%
0.6.3	Price changed from Au to Ag
	Effective range from 300 meters to 200 meters
0.6.1	Accuracy increased by 15%
0.3.0	Weapon was added to the game

Trivia

• This weapon can fire while reloading, similar to the Orkan, Gekko, Pinata, Pin, Trident, Exodus, Flux, and Tulumbas.
• The name Thunder may refer to the booming noise it makes when fired.
• Despite having a 5-round capacity, the Thunder can fire up to 9 rounds in succession when fully loaded without more than a 1-second delay. This is due to the Thunder's ability to fire while reloading.
• There is a cylinder in the back of the Thunder that spins while reloading. This is probably a pan magazine.
• The Thunder ejects in and out of its slot while firing- occasionally a robot will become destroyed in the middle of this phenomenon, leading to an entertaining robot corpse with a Thunder partially ejected.
• The Thunder used to have a prefix 'ECC' until it was removed in Update 2.5
• Some players have been angered by several damage nerfs to the Thunder in recent updates. Despite this, it has gained the ability (along with other kinetic weapons e.g. Punisher) to do double damage to physical shields (e.g. Ecu)
• This is the only heavy weapon to be weaker than one of its smaller counterparts (Storm)
• A single shot from Thunder consists of 16 individual projectiles. Unlike other weapons with multiple projectiles, they are not considered separately in the damage table.