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Creates and focuses a high-frequency field of microwaves, literally cooking the target from within.

The Nukor is a IconGrineerOn Grineer sidearm that fires a microwave-like frequency beam that inflicts DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation damage, boasting an extreme critical multiplier is heavily offset by its almost nonexistent critical chance.

Characteristics[]

  • This weapon deals DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation damage.
  • Damage ramps up from 30% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 30% over 2 seconds.

Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Second highest critical multiplier of all weapons in the game, behind KuvaNukor Kuva Nukor.
  • Pinpoint accuracy.
  • Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • High magazine (50)
    • Above average ammo max (210)
    • High fire rate (10.000 attacks/sec)
    • High status chance (29.00%)
    • High disposition (●●●●● (1.45x))
    • Very high crit multiplier (4.00x)

Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Limited range of 25 meters.
  • Pulsing weapon effect blocks the reticle, making it harder to make consistent headshots with the weapon shooting at moving targets.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • Very low crit chance (3.00%)
    • Low reload speed (2.00 s)
    • Low total damage (22)

Comparisons:

Acquisition[]

The Nukor's blueprint can be researched from the Chem Lab in the dojo.


Manufacturing Requirements
📝 Edit blueprint requirements
Credits
30,000
DetoniteInjector
2
Morphics
2
Salvage
5,500
Forma
1
Time: 1 Day(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 35
MarketIcon Market Price: PlatinumLarge 150 Blueprint2 Blueprints Price:Credits15,000
Chem Lab ResearchClanAffinity643,000
Credits
5,000
DetoniteAmpule
10
Salvage
550
Morphics
2
Rubedo
115
Time: 84 Hour(s)
Prereq: Detonite Injector
Ghost Clan x1   Shadow Clan x3   Storm Clan x10   Mountain Clan x30   Moon Clan x100

Notes[]

Tips[]

  • There are several ways to make use of the Nukor's high critical damage by adding flat critical chance bonuses:
    • An Adarza Kavat with Mod TT 20px Cat's Eye can give your weapons an additive 60% boost to critical chance.
    • Likewise, Smeeta Kavat's Mod TT 20px Charm can guarantee orange crits as one of its possible effects.
    • Using the Secondary Fire of the MutalistQuanta Mutalist Quanta and afterwards firing the Nukor through the orb adds a flat +25% critical chance, in addition to +25% critical damage and extra DmgElectricitySmall64 Electricity.
    • HarrowIcon272 Harrow's Covenant130xWhite Covenant can add up to +50% additive crit chance, or +200% on headshots, after absorbing enough damage.
    • A fully ranked ArcaneAvenger Arcane Avenger has a 21% chance upon receiving damage to grant +45% flat critical chance.
  • With a maxed Mod TT 20px Primed Target Cracker and Mod TT 20px Hollow Point, the Nukor can achieve a critical damage multiplier of 10.8x, the highest critical damage multiplier value achievable outside of red crits.
    • It is however ill-advised to use Hollow Point if attempting a critical damage build due to the Nukor's extremely low critical chance.
  • The Nukor's short range, high accuracy and cone of fire means that Mod TT 20px Magnum Force can be used to provide additional damage without severe penalty.
  • The Nukor can be made into an effective anti-Grineer weapon by adding DmgCorrosiveSmall64 Corrosive damage which, in combination with its innate DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation damage, allows the Nukor to deal extra damage against Ferrite Armor and Alloy Armor while being able to strip said armor due to the weapon's high innate Status Chance.
    • Should the enemy armor be completely removed due to the entire squad equipping Mod TT 20px Corrosive Projection, one should mod the Nukor with DmgViralSmall64 Viral and/or DmgFireSmall64 Heat to combat Cloned Flesh.

Trivia[]

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A Heavy Gunner trapped in VaubanIcon272 Vauban's Bastille130xWhite Bastille, with her head expanded by a Nukor.

  • This is the first known manufactured Grineer energy weapon and the second gun to deal pure radiation damage, the first being the Detron Detron.
    • The Seer Seer is technically the first Grineer energy weapon, as its projectiles appear to be energy; as well when reloading the magazine, an energy-like substance appears to discharge. Though there is the possibility that these projectiles could be superheated materials.
    • The Seer is also composed of Orokin technology, and not actually made by the Grineer entirely; this can bring to question whether or not the Grineer possessed the technology and/or know how to create an energy source or if it was simply salvaged from the Orokin tech.
  • As a microwave beam weapon, the Nukor could be considered a maser - such devices work similar to lasers, but using lower frequency microwave radiation.
    • The name itself is likely a nod to 'nuking', a term used to refer to cooking/reheating food or drink using a microwave oven.
  • As the Nukor is being fired, its magazine will rotate and its front encasing will slowly open up. This can be assumed to be a method of cooling the weapon as it heats up during operation. 
  • The aimed body part of the target inflates in size as the target is damaged, as demonstrated by the picture above, identical to the effect of Mod TT 20px Peculiar Growth. This also works on bosses and other Warframes in PvP.
  • Enemies killed by the Nukor dissolve in a fashion similar to NovaIcon272 Nova's MolecularPrime130xWhite Molecular Prime, however this effect is purely visual and corpses can still be Desecrate130xWhite Desecrated.
    • If said enemies had been killed by Nukor damage and sliced in half, the corpses will reappear.
  • Oddly, the Nukor has two separate energy colors when used with its default palette, being orange for the weapon energy colors themselves and blue for its radioactive beam and warped circles.
    • This however changes when the user is applying their own energy color and will apply the single color to both.
  • Previously, the Nukor's beam was treated as a source of AoE damage (such as an explosion) from point of contact of the Nukor's beam, allowing it to penetrate Shield Lancer's shields (not to be confused with Punch Through).

Media[]

 

Nukor Skins

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Patch History[]

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

  • Fixed weird behavior with the Nukor’s enlarging effect on enemy limbs.

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

Ammo Changes

We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.

Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.

Secondary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides

20 Ammo per Pick Up:

  • Nukor

Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)

  • Fixed Beam weapons not being able to damage enemies (alive but in a ragdolled state) when being affected by certain 'crowd control' Abilities.
  • Damage now ramps up over 0.6 seconds and after moving off target there is a delay of 0.8 seconds before it starts to decay over 2 seconds.
  • All Beam weapons now start their Damage ramp up at 20% (instead of 10%).
  • The Multishot chance should now apply more consistently with Beam weapons.
  • Fixed Beam weapons continuously firing when quick Meleeing.
  • Nukor ammo capacity reduced to 60 in Conclave.

Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)

  • Increased the Beam weapon Damage ramp up time from 0.8 to 1 second.
  • Fixed Beam weapon Damage ramp up not happening per target.

Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)

  • Perfect accuracy and high fire rate is balanced by limited range and damage ramping up from 10% to 100% over 0.8 seconds when firing and decays back to 10% over 1 second after stopping.
  • Damage changed from 32 Radiation per sec to 22 Radiation per tick.
  • Fire Rate increased from 5 to 10.
  • Status chance increased from 20% per sec to 29% per tick of damage.
  • Critical chance increased from 1% to 3%.
  • Range increased from 20m to 25m.
  • Ammo consumption decreased from 1.0 to 0.5 per tick of damage.
  • Aimed Zoom reduced from 2.23x to 1.7x.

Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)

  • Fixed poor optimization on weapons like the Nukor.

Hotfix 21.0.7 (2017-07-13)

  • Fixed the Nukor creating a ton of FX if it kills something while it's been paused by Harrow's Condemn ability.

Update 20.0 (2017-03-24)

  • Fixed a rare script error with the Nukor.

Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)

  • Nukor's magazine capacity reduced from 50 to 35 in the Conclave.

Update: The Index Preview (2016-10-20)

  • Nukor is now available for use in the Conclave!

Update 17.1 (2015-08-12)

  • Nightwatch skin added.

Hotfix 16.5.6 (2015-05-19)

  • Fixed coloring on Nukor.

Update 14.8 (2014-09-24)

  • Fixed an issue where Orokin Shield Drones would rotate onto their sides when shot by the Nukor.

Update 14.6 (2014-09-11)

  • Tweaked the sound effects of the Nukor pistol.
  • Improved the performance of the Nukor on low end computers.

Hotfix 14.5.2 (2014-09-03)

  • Fixed the magazine drop animation not playing properly on the Nukor.

Hotfix 14.5.0.2 (2014-08-28)

  • Tweaked Nukor's sound effects.

Update 14.5 (2014-08-28)

  • Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.1 (2018-10-12)

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