Colette Wave Cooker

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The **Colette Wave Cooker** is an unlockable secondary weapon for the Driller. It is a hand-held microwave emitter composed of various metal parts and a series of electrical inductors. An arm brace secures the grip in the back with the trigger wired directly to the microwave generator. A single amplifying lens is positioned at the front, directing deadly microwave energy towards anything the weapon is aimed at.

The Wave Cooker, similar to Gunner's "Lead Storm" Powered Minigun and Driller's Experimental Plasma Charger, feeds from a single ammo pool and has an overheating mechanic. This means that heat will be produced for as long as the trigger is held down, which is measured on the weapon's digital display. After firing for an extended period of time and completely filling the heat meter, the Wave Cooker will jam, rendering the weapon inoperable for five seconds.

When using the Wave Cooker, a cylindrical beam area-of-effect is generated and inflicts continuous damage onto any unobstructed target that is within its path from the player's direction. The invisible beam fires in a helical pattern in 24 distinct angles, with VFX only appearing from its point of impact and also has an effective infinite range. The weapon's crosshair attempts to depict the width of the beam based on the distance between the weapon and its impact point, however after a certain amount of distance, the width of the beam appears much smaller than the crosshair due to the perspective of a cylindrical projection with a static diameter. Due to the shape of the projectile, the affected area extremely close to the player and extremely far away does not line up with the crosshair on-screen.

Enemies damaged and killed by the Wave Cooker produces a bubbling visual effect.

## Modifications

There are five tiers of modifications and each tier has two to three upgrades. Only one modification can be equipped per tier.

## Overclocks

Overclock calculations happen after modifiers.

## Stats Breakdown

### Understanding the Weapon

* Damage Type: 50% Fire, 50% Radiation
* Area Damage Behavior: Ray Tracing
* Material Flags: Frozen

### Unique Modifications

* Damage: 3.5 Heat or Cold
* Damage Radius: 2.5m
* Max Damage Radius: 1.5m
 **Wide Lens Add-On** | **Wide Lens Add-On** is a modification that when active increases the Colette Wave Cooker's shot width. It can be activated/deactivated by pressing the reload key (default [R]).
 **Power Supply Overdrive** | **Power Supply Overdrive** is a modification that when active increases the Colette Wave Cooker's rate of fire. It can be activated/deactivated by pressing the reload key (default [R]).
* 0.1x Shot Width
 **Boiler Ray** | **Boiler Ray** is a modification that gives the Colette Wave Cooker a 50% chance of triggering an explosion at the point where the weapon last hit a creature when that creature is killed.

*The explosion is not a death effect; it is an effect native to the weapon, so the effect will not be disabled by the Frozen status.*
* Damage: 100 Explosive
* Damage Radius: 2.5m
* Max Damage Radius: 1.5m
 **Exothermic Reactor** | **Exothermic Reactor** is a modification that gives the Colette Wave Cooker a 25% chance to afflict Temperature Shock on a creature afflicted with either On Fire or Frozen. The creature will take 200 Disintegrate damage and immediately drop to its dousing or unfreeze temperature and spread either Heat or Cold to nearby creatures. This spreading effect will not affect the original creature.
* Damage: 25 Heat
* Radius: 2m

Temperature Spread from Frozen:
* Damage: 50 Cold
* Maximum Damage Radius: 1.5m
* Radius: 2m
 **Contagion Transmitter** | While a creature is afflicted with Neurotoxin, Corrosion, or is currently in contact with a Goo Puddle any damage dealt by the Colette Wave Cooker's beam has a 10% chance of afflicting the creature and nearby creatures with Contagion Transmitter's Neurotoxin. If a creature is afflicted with Contagion Transmitter's Neurotoxin and another source of Neurotoxin, it will not display both status icons. but the effects will work normally.
This modification also provides a 1.3x damage multiplier for the Wave Cooker's direct damage to creatures standing on a Goo Puddle, or afflicted with Neurotoxin from either the Neurotoxin Canister or the Gunner weapons. (the bonus will not apply if the creature is only afflicted with the Corrosion DoT, or the Contagion Transmitter's neurotoxin).
* Damage: 12 Poison
* Interval: 0.75 - 1.25s
* Duration: 10s

### Unique Overclocks

**Gamma Contamination** | **Gamma Contamination** gives the Colette Wave Cooker a 25% chance to apply a Radiation DoT to any enemy that is struck directly by the weapon. The radiation DoT is split into two different effects. The first is a direct DoT applied to the irradiated enemy, and the second is a radioactive field that surrounds the irradiated enemy. The irradiated enemy is not damaged by the radioactive field, but can be damaged by the radioactive fields of other nearby irradiated enemies. If more than one radioactive field is in contact with an enemy, the fields' damage does not stack.
* Damage: 5 Radiation
* Tick Rate: 0.2-0.25s
* Duration: 7s

Radioactive Field:
* Damage: 3 Radiation
* Tick Rate: 0.2-0.25s
* Radius: 2.0m (visual field will vary by bug size)

**Blistering Necrosis** | Every time the Colette Wave Cooker deals damage directly to a creature, there is a 10% chance of creating a Blister on the body part that was damaged.
Blister properties:
- When damaged, they will transfer any damage received to the creature they are attached to, acting as a weakpoint.
- They can not inherit or gain any Status Effects.
- They have their own hitbox that is separate from the creature it is attached to, allowing some weapons to hit an afflicted creature multiple times. Creatures may also inflict self damage from their projectiles, depending on where the blister is attached.
- When its hit points reach 0, it deals a burst of damage in a very small AoE centered on its location. Popping a blister will also activate the on-kill effects of relevant modifications and overclocks.
* Health: 50 (no scaling)
* Weakpoint Multiplier: 1.5x (unless attached to a larger weakpoint)

Damage Transfer Properties:
* Damage Type: Kinetic
* Material Flags: Frozen

Blister Pop Damage:
* Damage: 80 Poison
* Damage Radius: 0.1m
* Max Damage Radius: 0.1m

## Trivia

* The Collete Wave cooker and the engineer’s Shard Diffractor both are really good anti boss weapons, because they both do damage through dreadnought’s armor / armour even though it won’t break or damage it.