Beam

Stock Beam gun

Beam icon

Beam is a type of Chassis in Loadout. Weapon made with Beam deals continous damage with pinpoint accuracy indicated by the straight line. Beam weapons are not limited by magazines and instead operates on the basis of a "Heat meter". Firing heats up the weapon while not firing cools it down. Once the heat meter on the hud reaches 100%, the weapon enters overheated state and ceases to function for a few seconds while the weapon is cooling down.

Statistics

Damage	41.99	Range	125.00
Rate of Fire	15.02	Hip Acc.	100.00%
Reload Time	0.77s	Aim Acc.	100.00%
Capacity	35	Stability	42.26

Parts

Stock	Standard	Dampening	Aluminum	Shock-Absorbing	Compact
Scope	Iron Sights	Recon Scope	Optical Zoom	Bio-Scanner	Long-Range Scope	X-Ray
Barrel	Assault	Sniper	Light Assault	Headhunter	Gatling	Silencer
Trigger	Full Auto	Semi-Auto	2-Round Burst	3-Round Burst	Spooling	Charged
Cooling	Standard	Heatsink	Liquid Cooling
Payload	Slug	Health	The Juice	Tesla	Pyro

Notes

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  What's Your Loadout How to Improve with the Beam Chassis

  Holding down the reload button no longer speeds up cooling since v3.0
• Careful heat juggling is the key to effective use of Beam Weapons as overheating renders the player unable to fire.
• A standard magazine assault rifle type beam is one of the four starting weapons available to new players.
• If the player is on fire the beam gains heat at a faster rate.
• Since v3.0 beams have a sweet spot which does the most damage. This sweet spot is based on distance from target.