The Skorpios was created as an outdoor SMG to bolster the survivability of the Vanu Sovereignty's frightening Wraith squads when their cloaked Flashes were past running condition.
The Skorpios is an 'auraxium' variant of the Eridani SX5, sharing most of the same base stats and decorated with a special 'auraxium' camo. Compared to the base weapon, the Skorpios has its ammo pool converted into a heat-based one and features a built-in Vented Power Coreāin exchange for a harsher recoil angle, it does not have a long reload penalty.
Designed as a replacement for standard iron sights in close-quarters combat, the Holo-Projected Reticle sight creates and accurate dot-and-circle reticle above the top rail. More reticles for this sight available, see full article.
The revolutionary Vanu Holo-Optic reflex utilizes nanotechnology to project a circle and dot reticle. Additionally, it features a 2X magnitude zoom for better performance in urban combat scenarios. More reticles for this sight available, see full article.
Created to better suit carbines and assault rifles for support roles, the OG-4's simple crosshair allows the user to make accurate shots at a distance. It uses 4x magnification perfect for mid-range fights.
A compensator redirects gases upward, reducing vertical recoil by 30%, and increasing hipfire cone of fire by 15%. The added sound pressure causes the player to show on the minimap 35m farther away.
A hybrid suppressor reduces weapon noise, muzzle flash, and prevents the player from showing on the minimap when firing, but bullet velocity is reduced by 20%.
The rail mounted Darklight Flashlight can illuminate hostile cloaked infiltrators and dark areas but the light can give away your position. The light can be turned on and off with Toggle Attachment hotkey.
High Velocity Ammunition increases the weapon's projectile velocity by 10% and minimum damage range by 20 meters, but reduces the weapon's maximum damage range by 2 meters.
The Skorpios uses a heat-based ammunition pool, in contrast to the standard magazine system most infantry weaponry use. Heat replaces the weapon's magazines with a meter that fills while the gun is firing, and dissipates passively when it is not.
Skorpios has a heat capacity of 999 and generates 40 heat per shot, giving it an effective no-breaks magazine size of 25 rounds. It has a recovery delay of 0.28 seconds, before dissipating 286 heat per secondāthe equivalent of 5.72 rounds per second.
If overheated, the weapon must be reloaded to cool it, incurring a forced reload time of 1.74 seconds.
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Stats in yellow are with Soft Point Ammunition, and stats in orange are with High Velocity Ammunition.
It is possible to earn both Ribbons and Medals while using the Skorpios. Each ribbon is a standard reward for achieving a set amount of kills with the submachine gun. Medals are awarded upon reaching kill milestones with the weapon.
The Skorpios is likely named after 'Scorpius', a constellation visible from Earth typically depicted as a scorpion, and with the name similarly translating to 'scorpion'. Scorpius is notable for being one of the eight constellations of the zodiac, constellations that exist within the apparent path of the Sun throughout the year.
Updates to usability here bridge the gap between what felt off about the first pass, and how we'd like these weapons to perform overall. Heat weapons don't use traditional short/long reloads, and only use their overheat value for a reload (this is an unresolved issue with all heat weapons with a manual reload,) and we've brought the directive weapon overheat values in line with those weapons' short reloads.
Reload/Overheat penalty remains at 1.74sec.
Shots before overheat from 20 to 25.
Dev Note: To replace some of the built-in function of the previous Vented Power Core, it's been given minor mag size benefit despite the heat standardization, and kept the added recoil penalty from Vented Power Core in exchange.
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