Cyanex

The Cyanex is an Amalgam autopistol produced by the that incorporates technology in its design. It fires bouncing homing projectiles that deal damage, complemented by its high status chance. Its Alternate Fire consumes the remainder of the magazine as a single automatic burst with deadly accuracy and low recoil, but without damage and the homing and bouncing properties.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily on its Primary Fire and damage on its Alternate Fire.
*Primary Fire launches homing projectiles.
**High damage – effective against Grineer.
**Innate damage – effective against Deimos Infested.
**Homes in on enemies within 15°.
**Projectiles ricochet once and can bounce off of enemies.
***This allows one to fire at a wall and kill an enemy behind cover, or kill two enemies with one shot, supplemented by its homing ability.
**Projectiles explode in 0.7 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
***Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
***Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
***Explosion can benefit from ().
***Homing ability of projectiles is hampered by a wide arc, and can often ignore close-range enemies unless aimed point-blank.
*Alternate Fire unleashes all remaining rounds in the magazine as a single full-automatic burst with increased fire rate.
**High and damage; effective against health and armor.
**Very high accuracy and low recoil.
**Innate 0.5 meter punch through and Infinite Body Punch Through.
**Benefits from magazine increasing mods to further increase the burst's damage.
==Acquisition==
The Cyanex's blueprint can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.
==Notes==
*The Alternate Fire of the Cyanex will eject all of the remaining ammunition in the magazine in a single burst.
**Base effective fire rate is 12.5 rounds per second.
**If buffed with unlimited ammo such as from the Reactant Buff, the weapon will only fire its current magazine amount at a time, with small delays between each trigger pull.
== Known Bugs ==
* is multiplicative to base damage sources on direct hits in both firing modes.
==Tips==
*Due to the pistol's tendency to run out of ammo very frequently it may be wise to use mods that increase reloading speed, such as and .
*Equipping a Riven mod with a negative Projectile Speed stat greatly improves the gun's tracking capabilities.
==Trivia==
*The weapon's name is very likely derived from Cyanide, a highly toxic chemical compound.
*The Cyanex and are the only two Energy Lab Research weapons with a 12 hour build time.
*The codex description for the Amalgam Machinist, an enemy that uses this weapon, refers to the Cyanex as a "plasma assault rifle" despite being a pistol.
*Incidentally, Cyanex is also brand name for a collection of chemicals used in extracting various metals such as Ni, Co, Mo and Li.
==Media==
Cyanex Homing Pistol - New Condition Overload Meta? (3 Forma)
Warframe - All Corpus Secondaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Corpus Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2012 - 2019)
==Patch History==
==See also==
*, the primary counterpart to this weapon.
*, another secondary with homing projectiles.
* (), and , secondaries with similar alt-fire burst abilities.
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