Scorpio

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Scorpio
  • Scorpio.png
Auto-use
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Statistics
TypeWeaponCrafting material
Damage40 Ranged
Knockback6.5 (Strong)
Critical chance4%
Use time13 Fast
Velocity20
TooltipPress Right Click to fire a nuke
Rockets will destroy tiles with tile-destroying ammo
'BOOM'
RarityRarity Level: 10
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Research1 required
Projectiles created
Big Nuke
Big Nuke
Mini Rocket
Mini Rocket
Sounds

The Scorpio is a craftable Hardmode launcher with extraordinary area-of-effect capabilities. Its two firing modes both consume a single rocket of any kind upon firing.

Left-click gives a fully automatic rapid-fire stream of homing rockets that inflict the weapon's normal damage. Right-click is also automatic, slowly firing seeker rockets that inflict 1.25x the weapon's normal damage and double the knockback, in a ludicrously large area of effect (square radius of 22.5 tiles). Despite its lower fire rate, the right-click function gives a similar DPS on every enemy within a large area without consuming any additional ammunition.

Its best modifier is Unreal.

Crafting

Recipe

Crafting Station
Ancient ManipulatorAncient Manipulator
Ingredient(s)Amount
Snowman CannonSnowman Cannon1
Nebula FragmentNebula Fragment6
NanitesNanites100
Result
ScorpioScorpio1

Used in

Tips

  • Against worm enemies like Astrum Deus, the Scorpio is spectacularly effective, often requiring no other equipment aside from reasonable armor.
  • The obscenely large area of effect can be a pain in certain circumstances, as it may kill benign creatures the player wanted to capture.
  • The left-click rapid fire functionality can be useful against hard to hit enemies, as you can put more rockets in the air faster. However, right-click has superior damage-per-money spent on ammo.

Trivia

History

These history sections are still a work-in-progress, and may not yet contain changes relevant to the current version of the Calamity Mod.
  • 2.0.3.005: Nerfed damage from 80 to 40, but right click rockets now deal 185% base damage instead of 125%.
  • 2.0.2.001: Now uses 100 Nanites and 6 Nebula Fragments in its recipe instead of Grenade Launcher, Rocket Launcher, and 20 Vortex Fragments.
  • 2.0.1.003: Fixed functions of Honey Rocket and Lava Rocket being swapped for its rockets.
  • 2.0.1.002: Now requires an Ancient Manipulator to craft instead of a Hardmode Anvil.
  • 1.5.1.001: Rockets can now explode tiles when using Rocket IIs or Rocket IVs.
  • 1.5.0.001:
    • Buffed damage from 60 to 80, but nerfed use animation from 13 to 39.
    • Alt fire rocket projectiles now deal 2x knockback to enemies.
    • Resprited it and its rockets.
  • 1.4.5.006:
    • Buffed alt fire projectile damage from 115% base damage to 125%.
    • Resprited rockets.
  • 1.4.3.002:
    • Nerfed damage from 95 to 60, primary fire's use time from 13 to 14, and alt fire's use time from 39 to 42.
    • Alt fire rockets now deal 229.99% base damage instead of 300%.
    • Alt fire rockets now deal 50% less damage when they explode.
    • Increased the explosion radius of primary fire's rockets.
  • 1.4.2.105:
    • Rocket explosions now pierce infinitely and grant 10 local immunity frames.
    • Decreased the size of primary fire explosions, and increased the size of alt fire explosions.
  • 1.4.2.104: Projectiles now make sounds upon hitting blocks.
  • 1.4.2.001: Explosions now deal ranged damage.
  • 1.3.3.001:
    • Buffed damage from 90 to 95.
    • Resprited.
  • 1.2.0.001: Now uses 20 Vortex Fragments in its recipe instead of 10.
  • 1.1.7.5: Re-introduced right click ability.
  • 1.1.6.16: Changed tooltip from “Fires rapid-fire mini rockets” to “Rockets”.