Overloaded Blaster

Overloaded Blaster

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Damage	19 Ranged
Knockback	1.5 (Extremely Weak)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	28 Slow
Velocity	5
Tooltip	Converts gel into a spread of energized slime pearls that overload when they come to a stop Overloaded slime pearls deal 60% more damage but no longer pierce Slime pearls bounce off of walls at very high speed Uses gel for ammo 25% chance to save ammo
Inflicts Debuff	Slime 100% chance
Debuff duration	3 seconds
Debuff tooltip	You are dripping goo
Rarity
Sell	2  40
Research	1 required

Projectile created

Slime Bolt

Sounds

Use

Dropped by
Entity	Quantity	Rate
The Slime God	1	25%
Treasure Bag (The Slime God)	1	33.33%

The Overloaded Blaster is a Pre-Hardmode flamethrower that is dropped by The Slime God. When used, it fires a spread of 3 piercing slime pearls that eventually slow down and stop traveling after reaching a moderate distance, after which the slime pearls will stop in place and become overloaded. Slime pearls lose 15% damage per hit but restore to full damage when they become overloaded. When overloaded, slime pearls deal 160% of the weapon's damage and do not pierce. If a slime pearl hits a tile, it will bounce off at high speed but reduces its velocity on each bounce.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Notes

• The Overloaded Blaster noticeably differs from other flamethrowers, lacking a well-defined stream or the typical sound effect. However, it is alike them in that it consumes gel as ammo.

Trivia

• The weapon's design is similar to that of the Splattershot type weapon from the Splatoon franchise.

History

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These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.

• 2.0.4.001:
  • Nerfed use time from 22 to 28, but it now has slightly less spread when firing.
  • Slime bolts now have slightly less bounce velocity, and each bounce reduces the effectiveness of the bounce velocity. Slime bolts now lose 15% damage on each hit, but are restored to full damage when becoming overloaded.
  • Fixed its backpack sprite sometimes drawing with an incorrect offset.

• 2.0.3.008: Overloaded slime bolts now deal 175% base damage instead of 200%.

• 2.0.3.007:
  • Reworked:
    • Buffed damage from 16 to 19, but nerfed use time from 16 to 22 and shot speed from 6.5 to 5. It now fires 3 bolts per use instead of 5, and now has a 25% chance to not consume ammo instead of 33%.
    • No longer fires slow, piercing slime bolts.
    • Now shoots piercing slime bolts which eventually slow down and stop after traveling a medium distance, becoming overloaded. When overloaded, slime bolts deal 200% base damage but no longer pierce.
    • If a bolt hits a tile, it will bounce off at high speed.

• 1.4.3.002: Can no longer be crafted.

• 1.4.3.001:
  • Added tank behind player.
  • Adjusted holdout offset.
  • Resprited.

• 1.4.2.106: Can now be crafted with 30 Gel, 5 Hellstone Bars, and 15 Purified Gel at an Anvil.

• 1.4.2.105: Resprited.

• 1.4.2.102:
  • Decreased Slimed duration from 3.33 seconds to 3.
  • Changed its tooltip.

• 1.3.2.001: Now uses the rarity instead of .

• 1.1.7.901: Removed tooltip "Fires a storm of magic slime at enemies".

• 1.1.5.08:
  • Nerfed damage from 22 to 16, and use time from 11 to 16.
  • Projectiles now pierce 2 times instead of 3.
  • Now has a 33% chance to not consume Gel.

• 1.1.5:
  • Resprited.
  • Fixed projectiles dealing magic damage instead of ranged damage.

• 1.1.4.44: Nerfed damage from 30 to 22.

• 1.1.4.42: Fixed it not dropping from Slime God.

• 1.1.4.3: Projectiles now produce light.

• 1.0: Introduced.