Weapons & Loadouts:
Build Roles, Slots and Upgrade Logic

Start with a weapon role, not a weapon name

The Steam store itself describes three broad build shapes: a light mobile sniper, a rounded missile + automatic-rifle setup, and a tankier laser-blade + shotgun setup. Those are useful because they define jobs that remain understandable even when individual weapon balance shifts.

How slot-specific upgrades change the decision

The current tutorial demonstrates selecting a weapon slot before choosing an upgrade, allowing the upgrade to target that slot. This matters because “good augment” is not enough — it must land on the weapon doing the job you care about.

September 23 patch: gun accuracy and doubled bullet speed

The September 23, 2026 update is the biggest change to how guns feel since launch. Three things matter when you are aiming:

• Projectile velocity doubled on player gun-type weapons. You need noticeably less lead on a moving target than you did during launch week. If you trained yourself to aim well ahead of a strafing enemy, you will start overshooting — re-check your lead distance before blaming the weapon.
• Non-patterned enemy guns shoot faster too. Projectile velocity also went up for enemy gun-type weapons that do not use attack patterns, so dodging their fire takes slightly earlier inputs.
• The high-frame-rate accuracy bug is fixed. An enemy/gun tick-rate optimization was making shots less accurate at higher frame rates; the developer removed it and shipped further under-the-hood accuracy work. If your shots drifted off-target on a high-refresh setup, that was the bug, not your aim.

Two upgrade-flow fixes came with the same patch: rerolling weapon augments with fewer than six options unbanned no longer crashes the run, and handheld launchers now show the launcher icon when they appear as an upgrade instead of a generic box. The patch lists no damage changes, so existing damage plans keep working — this pass changes where shots land and how fast they arrive. One naming fix worth knowing: the "For Safekeeping" achievement had been calling the Cannon Ball the Energy Revolver, and now matches the real weapon.

September 26 patch: weapon size mods were wrong by roughly 100x

The September 26, 2026 patch fixed how weapon size part mods apply, and the numbers behind it are large enough to change a build decision.

• Weapon size multipliers were wildly higher than their stated values. The developer's own example is the Showoff part mod, which was having "around 100x the intended effect" — funny in isolation, a real balance problem in practice.
• As compensation, the base value of weapon size part mods was doubled so they remain worth a slot after the correction.
• Practical effect: a RIG built around an oversized weapon before September 26 was leaning on a bug. Re-check the real size change in the garage after updating rather than trusting a pre-September-26 number or a video recorded in that window — the direction of the mod is unchanged, the magnitude is not.

The same patch added the game's credits and the arena/perception fixes listed on the raid flow page.

The two-weapon coherence test

• Do both weapons want roughly the same engagement distance?
• Can one cover the other’s downtime, ammo pressure or weak target type?
• Do your Volatile Mods trigger from both, or at least from the weapon you use most?
• Does your RIG have the load/energy/weapon capacity to carry the plan without gutting movement?

Why this is not a launch-day tier list

Full-game unlocks, rare effects and live balance are not sufficiently evidenced before Steam unlock. The useful answer right now is role + synergy + slot logic. Absolute S/A/B rankings would be theatre.