Revolver

What it is

Epic-rarity bullet-tag homing weapon that fires a rapid burst of hitscan micro beams on each cooldown end. The weapon locks onto the closest in-range enemy for the duration of the burst and re-aims with a small jitter on every sub-shot. Each sub-shot resolves as a beam-trace hit with a splash radius applied at the point of impact.

Identification

Field	Value
Family	homing
Damage tag	bullet
Rarity	epic
Target mode	closest
Collision mode	first_hit
Behavior	burst_fire
Hits destructibles	yes
Warmup	0.25 s
Scaling curve	exponential
Area mode	splash

See concept-target-modes, concept-damage-tags, concept-collision-modes, and concept-scaling-curves for the shared definitions.

Stats by level

Raw spec values, before the global damage multiplier and horizontal modifiers.

Stat	L1	L10	L20
Raw damage (per sub-shot)	90	256.95	1,170.05
Damage multiplier	1.30x	2.50x	7.50x
Effective damage (per sub-shot)	117.00	642.37	8,775.41
Fire rate (bursts/sec)	0.768	1.157	3.287
Cooldown (sec/burst)	1.302	0.864	0.304
Projectile speed	170	178.81	227.00
Projectile lifetime (sec)	2.245	2.244	2.243
Homing strength	16.00	21.94	54.40
Splash radius (px)	18.00	24.68	61.19
Acquire range (px)	190.80	200.67	254.64
Travel range multiplier	2.0x	2.0x	2.0x
Beam length multiplier	1.7x	1.7x	1.7x
Warmup (sec)	0.25	0.25	0.25
Stagger between sub-shots (sec)	0.06	0.06	0.06

Sub-shots per burst

Stepped — value applies at the listed level and above until the next step.

Level	Sub-shots per burst
1	6
5	8
10	12
15	18
20	24

Seeker count

Stepped — separate from sub-shots-per-burst.

Level	Seekers
1	8
5	10
10	16
15	28
20	40

Behavior

1. Cooldown end. Spawns an invisible coordinator that follows the ship.
2. Target lock. The coordinator picks the closest in-range enemy and holds that target for the full burst.
3. Sub-shots. Every 0.06 s the coordinator spawns a hitscan beam-trace at the locked target. Each sub-shot re-aims with +/-1.5 degrees random jitter. Beam range is the distance to the target plus a small buffer, so the line always passes through the enemy. The locked target is replaced if it dies or is removed mid-burst.
4. Damage application. Each sub-shot resolves as first_hit collision. Splash radius applies an area effect at the impact point.
5. Despawn. Coordinator is removed shortly after the last sub-shot resolves.

The burst plays a fixed cadence pattern [1, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0] at 0.06 s per step for the on-fire audio/visual chime.

Scaling

• Damage, fire rate, projectile speed, homing strength, splash radius, and acquire range all use the base + scaling * (level - 1) linear formula remapped through the weapon’s exponential scaling curve. See concept-scaling-curves for the curve definition.
• Sub-shots per burst and seeker count are stepped — see tables above.
• Warmup, travel range multiplier, beam length multiplier, and inter-shot stagger are constant across all levels.
• Raw damage is multiplied by the global damage multiplier curve (and the early-level damage buff that ends at L7). See concept-damage-multiplier-curve.

Horizontal modifiers

Modifier	Rate per +1H
Damage (dmgPerH)	+4%
Rate (ratePerH)	+10%
Area	scales splash radius (areaMode = splash)

See concept-horizontal-modifiers for the shared H-stat system.

Related

• Weapons overview
• Combat