Gatling Gun

* Item
* HUD

As it looks when dropped.

As it looks when equipped.

144 (Bulk + Bulk)

Extremely Fast (Firestorm + Firestorm)

10d3 Bullet Damage (Power + Power)

Minimum (Agility + Agility / Sniper)

Perfect Accuracy (Sniper + Sniper)

## Class Perks

**Ammochain (Marine)**75% less ammo consumed

**Scavenger (Technician)**Convert weapon into a Mod Pack

## In-Game Description

*The Gatling Gun remains one of he oldest types of rapid-fire weapon but this UAC-developed model boasts a level of portability, accuracy and reliability that the original inventors could never have envisioned.*

### Assembly Description

*A chaingun type weapon with an increase to all stats.*

*Damage, mag, accuracy are all increased, but windup and down is as well.*

## Tactical Analysis

The Gatling Gun is a basic assembly weapon, creates by combining the **Chaingun** with 2 Bulk Modpacks. It is one of the first upgrade for the Chaingun available to the player and remains a solid choice well into the late game.

Just as it is says in the assembly description, The Gatling Gun is an overall upgrade of the Chaingun. While the alternative upgrade, the **High-Power Chaingun** isfocusing on high damage and low magazine,the main selling point of the Gatling Gun is efficiency. It's accuracy is unmatched by any unmodded rotary cannon weapon in the game, so accurate that it can even be use as an alternative rapid-fire sniping weapon in place of the **Battle Rifle**. It's fire rate sits on the perfect spot between fast and slow, fast enough to lay down a consistant pain and stunlocking most enemies but slow enough to be easily controlled and avoid wasting shots. It has reasonably high damage and magazine size, making it one of the Chaingun variant that any classes other than the Marine can comfortably use.

The Gatling Gun also has a single and greatest flaw : The windup time, which delays the gun for around half a second before it can start firing. While not sound like much, but in an ambush or an encounter with big monsters with no cover, half a second late can spells doom to the player. This can be somewhat remedied by start firing the gun before enter a room or potential ambush. Be aware that the windup part will alert monsters in the vicinity even before the first shot come out.

With all these traits combined, The Gatling Gun truly is a multi-dimensional weapon. It can be use for sniping, it can pinpointing and suppressing single target, it can controls a chokepoint, it can sweeps a room of small fries, and it can be use in a situation where damage is required but no cells or rockets to spare.

Like all rapid-fire weapons The **Marine** and his **Ammochain** perk synergised with the Gatling Gun very well, allowing him to fires 360 (90 x 4) shots before having to reload. A Marine player will have a much easier time controlling the battlefield at their own pace, using the Gatling Gun to lay down an impressive wall of leads that can both prevent enemies from return firing and stunlock a distant target on demand, even in a prolonged battle with lots of enemies.

The Gatling gun is a Basic Assembly weapon and allows for another 2 modpack to be installed. However, it cannot be upgrade further into another variant, for example, a **High Power Gatling Gun** is not possible.

## Modpack Analysis

### Bulk

Each **Bulk** modpack increases the magazine size by 27, raising the already impressive number of 90 up to 117 and 144 with 2 Bulk. The **Marine** class gets the most out of it, letting him fires 468 rounds with 1 Bulk or 576 rounds with 2 before having to reload.

### Power

Each **Power** modpack increases minimum damage by 1 point per modpack, up to 10 with 2 Power modpack. A Marine Player can also use this instead of Bulk as his Perk already mitigate the shortcoming of the magazine size and the Gatling Gun by itself has high base damage and will benefits more from Power Modpack.

### Agility

Each **Agility** modpack decreases both horizontal and vertical spread by 0.5 point each. One Agility paired with another modpack is recommended but 2 Agility packs is a waste of slot.

### Firestorm

One **Firestorm** modpack can turn the Gatling Gun into a much better **Minigun,** More controllable, more damage, more ammo efficiency. Two Firestorm modpacks is not recommend however.

### Sniper

One **Sniper** modpack is more than enough as it reduces the spread by 90% and also remove vertical spread. having two installed is highly rebundant but makes the Gatling Gun pin-point accurate.

## Summary

### Pros

* Very high accuracy for a chaingun class.
* Good damage.
* Very good fire rate.
* Good magazine size, doubled and 10 more the size of the Chaingun.
* Relevant all the way to the lategame.
* Great firing sound.

### Cons

* Still not perfectly accurate, lose effectiveness at very long to extreme range.
* Long windup time, taking half a second to spin before starts firing.

## Trivia

* The Gatling gun is a type of weapon which is an automatic firearm or cannon with rotating barrel. The Minigun or the Vulcan is a Gatling Gun. The real Gatling Gun however, was a 19th century era weapon and the first of it's kind, designed by Doctor Richard Jordan Gatling in 1861. The original Gatling Gun is also not considered a true automatic firearm as it must be manually operate with a handcrank to feed and cycle the bullets.
* The Gatling Gun's sprite seems to resemble the XM301 20mm Gatling gun by General Dynamics due to the elongated and distincted triple barrels. The XM301 was designed to be mounted on vehicles such as a Comanche attack helicopter.