Venture Sonic Lance

2 Venture Sonic Lance
ID: 747 Prefab Name: VEN_SonicLance_411
Rarity: Rare Corporation: Venture License Grade: 2
Crafting
Fibre Plating x4 Cyclone Jet x1 Dervish Gel x1
Purchase Value 7869 ฿฿ Scrap Value 2623 ฿฿
What do these stats mean?: Health Points: 750 Mass: 3 Weapon Rotate Speed: 5 Fire Interval: 5 second(s) Firing Kickback: 5000 Projectile Velocity: 30 Projectile Spray: 0.3 Damage: 59 (Bullet)
Description
Developed by a fluidics engineer, Dr. Wren Hensgen. He was originally trying to create a new type of hydraulic trouser press, but got carried away and ended up with a sonic lance capable of launching 50 metric tons of machinery over a house.

The Venture Sonic Lance is a grade 2 weapon block manufactured by Venture. Like all Venture blocks, it can be crafted with a Venture Fabricator.

It has 13 attachment point(s) and takes up 4 cell(s).

It is a larger counterpart to the Venture Mini Sonic Lance.

Usage

The Venture Sonic Lance appears not intended to be used as a conventional weapon due to its negligible damage and lack of firing arcs. Rather, its absurd firing kickback causes it to function oddly like a booster, instantaneously providing strong impulses each time it fires. Particular care must be taken for techs equipped with sonic lances, as if unbalanced their impulses can cause erratic motion.

Unlike most weapons, sonic lances never deviate from their fixed fire interval duration, meaning all sonic lances of the same type fire simultaneously, even when the fire control is continuously applied. They also do not aim at enemy techs.

Tips

The impulse of sonic lances can be used as recoil suppressant on techs for whom weapon recoil could be problematic, such as particularly light techs or planes and hovercraft. For example, the impulse of one Venture Sonic Lance is roughly equivalent to the recoil of three Hawkeye Mk3 Battleship Cannons. To prevent erratic movement from the forces on the tech, this usage encourages periodic burst firing if the primary armament is a weapon whose reload time is different to the reload time of the counteracting sonic lance.

Trivia

• The Venture Sonic Lance was formerly an EXP Block known simply as EXP Sonic Lance.
• The introduction of Sonic Lances may recall to a technique of using the firing kickback from other weapons with high kickback such as the Venture Oozee SMG to push light techs.
• The description of the Venture Sonic Lance used to suggest it would affect allied techs. This was updated in update 1.3.9.1.
• The insane knock-back does not affect anchored techs, as they cannot be moved, and only rotated, if they were able to.
  • This is also true for all other weapons.
  • It doesn't send any rotating anchor into a spinning frenzy either, for some reason.

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