Scorpio
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Scorpio
Statistics
Type | Weapon – Crafting material |
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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
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 | ||
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Ingredient(s) | Amount | |
![]() | Snowman Cannon | 1 |
![]() | Nebula Fragment | 6 |
![]() | Nanites | 100 |
Result | ||
![]() | Scorpio | 1 |
Used in
Result | Ingredients | Crafting station |
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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
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.