It fires dark blue extremely high-intensity interweaving swarms of photons capable of covering a broad area. When supercharged, swarms will glow red and provide a boost to firepower. It's hard to control. Until ⚡5, the automatic firerate is slower than the manual one, so to increase damage in these cases, fire the weapon manually.
It's available from Chapter 4.
In Universe, it's unlocked from Tier 4.
Pros
Decent manual firerate.
Decent focused damage.
Low overheat with automatic fire at low power levels.
High DPS of 12,000/s.
Cons
Slow automatic firerate at lower power levels.
Somewhat weak projectiles.
Produces a lot of heat with automatic fire at higher power levels.
Terrible accuracy - one of the worst weapons for single target enemies
Weighs a lot.
It's a member of the Nuclear group, so it has its weaknesses and strengths.
Like other weapons, the Photon Swarm exists as an item that can be bought either in the galactic shop or at Heroware stores. Its price in the galactic shop is 281 , and upgrades cost 90 , with the total expenditure being 1,001 . Without upgrading, it weighs 250kg and uses up 195 KW of energy. After fully upgrading, it weighs 1,025kg and uses up 395 KW of energy.
Power Levels
This weapon has 12 power levels.
Image
Name
Description
Level 0 (⚡0)
This is the power level you start with. Every power level from now on except for the last one will be identical, except they will have different automatic firerates.
Projectiles: Four Photons from the weapon pods Base damage per volley: 400 (4x100) Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 4/s
Level 1 (⚡1)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 4.34/s
Level 2 (⚡2)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 4.76/s
Level 3 (⚡3)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 5.26/s
Level 4 (⚡4)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 5.88/s
Level 5 (⚡5)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 6.66/s
Level 6 (⚡6)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 7.69/s
Level 7 (⚡7)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 9.09/s
Level 8 (⚡8)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 11.11/s
Level 9 (⚡9)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 14.28/s
Level 10 (⚡10)
Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 20/s
Level 11 (⚡20)
Projectiles: Four Supercharged Photons from the weapon pods
Base damage per volley: 600 (4x150) Firerate (max/automatic): 6.5/s / 20/s
Projectiles
This weapon has two types of projectiles.
Image
Name
Damage
Description
Photon
100
Used in: all power levels (except for the last)
Behavior: goes on a complex curly path then straightens later
Supercharged Photon
150
Used in: last power level
Behavior: goes on a complex curly path then straightens later
Trivia
This weapon has two different colors.
This is the only weapon that still works on negative firepower (⚡-1). It behaves like it does at ⚡0 in this case.
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Ion Blaster Gift • Neutron Gun Gift • Laser Cannon Gift • Vulcan Chaingun Gift • Lightning Fryer Gift • Plasma Rifle Gift • Utensil Poker Gift • Boron Railgun Gift • Photon Swarm Gift • Positron Stream Gift • Atomic Powerup