Thunder

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“

Heavy gun system which strikes enemies with a powerful canister charge. What it lacks in accuracy it more than makes up for in firepower. Deadly for any opponent at short range

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— in-game description

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Purchase Information
In-Game Cost	580,000
IRL Cost?	None
Experience?	7
Type
Hardpoint?	Heavy
Tier?	1
Faction?	TBA

Base Statistics		Attributes
Level	5	Kinetic
Damage	7,980 per round	Manual
Range	Optimal: 75m Maximum: 500m	Automatic
Reload	10 seconds	FWR
Capacity	Clip: 5 rounds Burst: 9 rounds
Unload	Clip: 5 seconds Burst: 9 seconds

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, and is the heavy version of the Gust and Storm.

Despite a maximum range of 500 meters, an optimal range would be about 75 meters or less, due to the wide spread of the shells. Below 100 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 RWF system (reload while firing), 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 weapons such as the Avenger perform far better.

Mark I Statistics

Purchase Information

Level	Cost	Damage	Burst Damage	Burst DPS	Continuous DPS
5	580,000	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	12 hours	9640	86760	9640	4820
8	1,500,000	16 hours	10580	95220	10580	5290
9	3,000,000	20 hours	11640	104760	11640	5820
10	5,000,000	1 day	12780	115020	12780	6390
11	8,000,000	1 day 2 hours	14060	126540	14060	7030
12	13,000,000	1 day 4 hours	15460	139140	15460	7730

	Cost	Time
Totals	31,700,000	5 days 14 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	15460	139140	15460	7730

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	250,000	3 hours	15740	141660	15740	7870
3	500,000	5 hours	16030	144270	16030	8015
4	1,000,000	8 hours	16320	146880	16320	8160
5	3,750,000	15 hours	16610	149490	16610	8305
6	3,750,000	15 hours	16900	152100	16900	8450
7	3,750,000	15 hours	17180	154620	17180	8590
8	3,750,000	15 hours	17470	157230	17470	8735
9	3,750,000	15 hours	17760	159840	17760	8880
10	3,750,000	15 hours	18050	162450	18050	9025
11	3,750,000	15 hours	18340	165060	18340	9170
12	3,750,000	15 hours	18620	167580	18620	9310

	Cost	Time
Totals	31,750,000	5 days 16 hours

• 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	85%
150 meters	48%
200 meters	27%
250 meters	19%
300 meters	15%
350 meters	11%
400 meters	8%
450 meters	8%
500 meters	4%

Update History

Version	Changes
4.8.0	Total Upgrade Time: 6 days 22 hours⟶5 days 14 hours
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.
• It works best with tanks bots with high hp pools so you can deal massive damage while taking minor damage.