The Cycron is a 
Corpus plasma 
Radiation beam pistol with a battery that automatically regenerates ammo after the user stops firing for a second.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Radiation damage. - Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.
- Does not use ammo pickups; ammo regenerates over time.
- Has a 1 second delay after the weapon stops firing before regenerating ammo.
- Regenerates 40 ammo per second; takes 1 second to regenerate a fully depleted battery.
- Does not benefit from mods that increase maximum ammo, due to lack of an ammo pool.
- Does not benefit from reload-triggered mods such as
Pressurized Magazine.
- Has a 1 second delay after the weapon stops firing before regenerating ammo.
- Innate 1 meter punch through.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Fourth highest status chance of all continuous secondaries, behind the
Tenet Cycron, 
Embolist and 
Kuva Nukor. - Pinpoint accuracy.
- Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Above average magazine (40)
- High fire rate (12.00 attacks/sec)
- High status chance (30.00%)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Range limited to 24 meters.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average crit chance (12.00%)
- Low reload speed (2.00 s)
- Low total damage (23)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Below average crit multiplier (1.80x)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Cycron (Normal Attack), compared to Tenet Cycron (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (23.00 vs. 22.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
- Lower total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (23 vs. 35.2)
- Lower base critical chance (12.00% vs. 20.00%)
- Lower base status chance (30.00% vs. 40.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (25.20 vs. 40.83)
- Lower burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (302.49 vs. 489.98)
- Lower sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (208.61 vs. 376.91)
- Slower reload time (2.00 s vs. 1.50 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 14)
- Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●○○○ (0.70x))
Acquisition[]
The Cycron's blueprint can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 25,000 |
 Fieldron4 |
 Ferrite9,000 |
 Circuits1,500 |
 Forma1 |
Time: 1 Day(s) |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 200
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 Blueprints Price:15,000
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Energy Lab Research 3,000
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7,500 |
 Fieldron Sample90 |
Circuits 500 |
 Gallium15 |
 Nano Spores15,000 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
| Prereq: Spectra | |||||
 x1  x3  x10  x30  x100
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Notes[]
- Similar to Ramparts and all Archguns, ammo starts to automatically regenerate after 1 seconds of not firing the weapon. This regeneration delay is affected by reload speed mods like Quickdraw and Stunning Speed. The regeneration rate is 40 ammo per second.
- The reload speed can also be increased passively with
Chroma, by using a Toxin-based 
Elemental Ward or being under the effect of 
Speed or 
Penance.
- The reload speed can also be increased passively with
- The Cycron's beam has a maximum range of 24 meters.
- This makes the Cycron an excellent weapon for multiple elemental builds as its innate Radiation status and a high status chance for other elemental procs allow it to take down enemies quickly with procs alone.
- Even if equipped with Eject Magazine, the Cycron will not bypass its 1-second regeneration delay when holstered. Instead, the mod will simply accelerate the rate at which ammo is regenerated when holstered, once the delay is over.
- Because the 40 shots count as part of a single magazine rather than an ammo pool, mods like Trick Mag have no effect.
Trivia[]
- The Cycron is the first weapon to use the ammo regeneration mechanic outside of Archwing.
- Corpus script
is written on the side of the gun, spelling "BCDE KLMNO VW YZ".
Media[]
Cycron Skins
Tennobaum 2023
Patch History[]
Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
- The following weapons can now be found in their corresponding categories in the Arsenal when searching using the tag “Battery”:
- Cycron
Hotfix 32.0.2 (2022-09-08)
- Ammo Changes & Review:
When we were reviewing ammo acquisition as a whole for Update 32, we felt weapons with Ammo Regen Rate Overrides, or “Battery,” in particular, needed a place within the ecosystem of change we had established. That said, upon review of feedback, we recognize we were a bit heavy-handed with the changes we made to Battery weapons. We have restored their original values for the time being while we reassess how we can better approach these weapons.
We have restored the original values for the following weapons:
- Cycron:
- Returned ammo regen rate to 40/s from 20/s
Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)
- Ammo Changes
We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.
Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.
Secondary Weapons with Ammo Regen Rates Overrides:
- Cycron: From 40/s to 20/s
Hotfix 27.0.7 (2019-12-20)
- Fixed Cycron not recharging correctly.
Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)
- Fixed cases of Beam weapons not doing damage inside Limbo’s Stasis.
Hotfix 22.17.3 (2018-04-11)
- Fixed cases of Beam weapons not correctly damaging the Nullifier Bubble.
Update 22.15 (2018-03-07)
- Fixed misleading Status Chance over 100% for Beam weapons in the Arsenal Stats. This was due to recent Beam weapon Status Effect changes that now have a chance to Status proc for every tick of the weapon's Damage (based on Fire Rate), instead of only ticking once per second.
- Fixed Beam weapons not correctly damaging the Nullifier drones (they correctly damaged the Corpus inside and the bubble, but not drones).
Hotfix 22.14.2 (2018-03-02)
- Fixed Beam weapons not doing damage if you ran Warframe at roughly 10 FPS or less.
- Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies affected by a crowd controlled Warframe ability for Clients.
Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)
- Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain ‘crowd control’ Abilities.
- Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
- All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
- The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
- Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.
- Range increased from 20m to 24m.
- Mag size decreased from 60 to 40.
- Fixed missing Cycron ‘charge complete’ sound.
Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)
- Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
- Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.
Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)
- Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
- Mastery Rank decreased from 9 to 8.
- Damage changed from 60 Heat per sec to 23 Puncture/Slash/Radiation per tick.
- Elemental damage changed from 100% Heat to 35% Puncture, 22% Slash, and 43% Radiation.
- Fire Rate increased from 5 to 12.
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 12%.
- Critical Damage increased from 1.5x to 1.8x.
- Battery Capacity increased from 20 to 60.
- Regeneration delay reduced from 5s to 1s.
- Regeneration rate increased from 20 per sec to 40 per sec.
- Punch Through reduced from 2m to 1m.
- Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage.
- Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.8x.
Hotfix 22.3.1 (2017-11-15)
- Tweaked the charging and firing sounds of the Cycron.
Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)
- Fixed poor optimization on weapons like the Cycron.
Update 21.2 (2017-07-26)
- Fixed Trick Mag applying to your Primary weapon when equipped on the Cycron.
Hotfix 21.0.9 (2017-07-17)
- Fixed the Cycron Status lasting longer for the Host.
Update 20.4 (2017-05-04)
- Cycron battery recharge delay time is now halved when the mag is not empty.
- Fixed not being able to equip Ruinous Extension on the Cycron.
- Adjusted the Rift weight of the Cycron beams in Limbo’s Stasis to fix performance issues.
- Fixed issues with building up infinite Cycron beams in the Rift with Stasis.
Update 20.3 (2017-04-26)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)
See also[]
- Tenet Cycron, the Tenet counterpart of this weapon.
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