Scorpio

Scorpio

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Statistics

Type	Weapon – Crafting material
Damage	40 Ranged
Knockback	6.5 (Strong)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	13 Fast
Velocity	20
Tooltip	Press Right Click to fire a nuke Rockets will destroy tiles with tile-destroying ammo 'BOOM'
Rarity
Sell	20
Research	1 required

Projectiles created

Big Nuke

Mini Rocket

Sounds

Use

Explosion

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 Manipulator
Ingredient(s)		Amount
	Snowman Cannon	1
	Nebula Fragment	6
	Nanites	100
Result
	Scorpio	1

Used in

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
The Pack	Scorpio Smooth Marble Block (50) Armored Shell (4) Cosmilite Bar (8) Endothermic Energy (20)	Cosmic Anvil

total: 1 row(s)

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

• The weapon is a reference to the Scorpion Launcher in Turok 2: Seeds of Evil.

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.

• 2.0.3.005: 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.

• 1.4.3.001: Adjusted holdout offset.

• 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.

• 1.4.2.102: Changed its tooltip.

• 1.4.2.001: Explosions now deal ranged damage.

• 1.3.3.001:
  • Buffed damage from 90 to 95.
  • Resprited.

• 1.2.1.001: Nerfed damage from 103 to 90.

• 1.2.0.001: Now uses 20 Vortex Fragments in its recipe instead of 10.

• 1.1.7.859: Optimized alt fire code.

• 1.1.7.803: Rockets no longer have knockback.

• 1.1.7.5: Re-introduced right click ability.

• 1.1.6.16: Changed tooltip from “Fires rapid-fire mini rockets” to “Rockets”.

• 1.1.5.0947: Removed right click ability.

• 1.1.5.08: Introduced.