Shard Diffractor

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The **Shard Diffractor** is an unlockable secondary weapon for the Engineer. It is an intricately designed laser cannon consisting of various electrical and mechanical components. A shard of Ommoran Heartstone rests in a central chamber and is surrounded by three plasma torches rigged with wiring. Upon using the weapon, the shard becomes superheated, emitting a beam of destructive energy that incinerates enemies.

In addition to having infinite range, the Shard Diffractor inflicts continuous damage onto any target impacted by the beam along with anything surrounding the impact point. The beam will also cause an enemy's temperature to rise, eventually resulting in them being ignited. As the weapon description claims, slain enemies will be reduced to a rapidly-dispersing cloud of ash, preventing some on-death effects (such as the Praetorian's gas cloud) from occurring.

The Shard Diffractor also features a battery with a maximum charge capacity rather than a conventional magazine; firing the weapon drains the battery while releasing the trigger will automatically recharge the battery, which draws from the weapon's total capacity. Furthermore, the battery must be fully charged in between uses and there is a brief spinup delay before the weapon can begin firing.

## Overclocks

Overclock calculations happen after modifiers.

## Stats Breakdown

### Understanding the Weapon

* **Damage** is how much damage is dealt upon direct impact of the beam.
	+ Damage Type: 25% Fire, 75% Disintegrate
	+ Material Flags: Weakpoint, Frozen
* **Area Damage** is how much damage is dealt in addition to the direct damage within the damage radius around the impact.
	+ Damage Type: 25% Fire, 75% Disintegrate
	+ Area Damage Behavior: Radial
	+ Material Flags: none
* Charge Up Time: 0.2s
* Recharge Time: 1.6 seconds
	+ Recharge Time is reduced by a % relative to the charge capacity left when the trigger is released.
* Movement Speed While Using: 50%

### Unique Modifications

#### Bio-mass Converter

Bio-mass Converter is a tier 5 modification that refunds 3 ammo to the Charge Capacity each time an enemy is killed. This allows the weapon to be fired for longer before recharging when enemies are killed.

Cooldown: 0.25s

Excluded enemies include:

* Glyphid Swarmers

### Unique Overclocks

#### Feedback Loop

**Feedback Loop** is a balanced overclock. For every second that the beam is continuously held, the weapon will gain a stack that grants:

* +1 Area Damage
* +0.3m Radius

There is no limit to the amount of stacks that can accrue over time and all stacks will reset once the Shard Diffractor stops firing.

#### Volatile Impact Reactor

**Volatile Impact Reactor** is a balanced overclock. Whenever the beam touches the ground, it will be turned into hot magma for 7 seconds in a 0.3m radius. The magma deals 5 Fire and 5 Heat damage every 0.1-0.15 seconds, equating to 40 DPS + 15 DPS from the On Fire status effect. The magma also slows any enemy in its radius by 0.7x (30%).

#### Plastcrete Catalyst

**Plastcrete Catalyst** is an unstable overclock. When shooting any platforms, the splash damage and radius of the Shard Diffractor's beam is doubled. After shooting at platform material for one uninterrupted second the beam will trigger an explosion centered on the point of contact that deals tremendous damage and carves a small amount of terrain.

Explosion Damage:

* Damage: 300 Explosive
* Damage Radius: 5m
* Max Damage Radius: 3.5m
* Minimum Damage: 25%
* Fear Factor: 100%
* Armor Damage: 50%
* Friendly Fire Multiplier: 25%
* Self Damage Multiplier: 25%

#### Overdrive Booster

**Overdrive Booster** is an unstable overclock. Pressing the reload button while firing will activate Overdrive Booster, which will do the following:

* Set movement speed to 0
* Increase ammo consumption by 1
* Multiply damage output by x2.5
* Cause the beam to continuously fire
* Require an extra 1.5s to recharge

Similar to Automated Beam Controller, manually stopping the beam by swapping to another weapon or using the pickaxe will consume 50% of the remaining charge.

## Trivia

* Teaser trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta4F6k3MnhY
* The Shard Diffractor's weapon prototype used the Cryo Cannon model.