 2 Venture Cluster Missile Launcher
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| ID: 704 Prefab Name: VEN_MicroMissile_112 |
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Purchase Value 9456 ฿฿ Scrap Value
3152 ฿฿ |
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| Description |
| This battery launches six micro-missiles into a swarming cluster that will home-in on any nearby targets. Fly my pretties! Fly! |
The Venture Cluster Missile Launcher is a grade 2 weapon block manufactured by Venture. Like all Venture blocks, it can be crafted with a Venture Fabricator.
It has 6 attachment point(s) and takes up 4 cell(s).
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This weapon is rather versatile. Burst-firing six missiles with low damage, these missiles are shot in the orientation of the launcher's opening (enough to clear 3 blocks vertically). There's a brief period of non-functionality where they will be affected by gravity and will not chase anything, but still receive thrust.
The rockets will require a clearance of more than 8 cells from the ground to be launched from a side-position, so most of the time the launcher should only be oriented facing upwards, ensuring that the missiles can hit their target easily. The launch trajectory is also somewhat wide, and can be easily obstructed or blocked.
The missiles are not very impressive damage-wise, and the launcher is fragile and requires extensive protection. The upside of this block is the extremely high accuracy, superior to any other homing weapon available in the entire game. This effectively limits its targets to fast, agile enemies without strong shields, but since light targets have little battery capacity that is not a really big concern.
Hawkeye BMB is a heavier variant of this weapon that provides more damage, including slightly bigger splash radius.
Trivia[ | ]
- This is perhaps the only explosive weapon that deploys multiple projectiles simultaneously.
- Six missiles are launched when it's fired, effectively causing it to deal 600 damage if all of them connect.
- The description is a reference to an infamously misquoted sentence (Fly, my pretties! Fly!) in the 1939 film Wizard of Oz when the wicked witch launches flying monkeys. The actual quote is simply "Fly, Fly, Fly!"
