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Initial Stats
Magazine Size 4
Max Ammo 16
Rate of Fire
(per second)
1.0
Reload Time 2.0s
It does what it says on the box. By firing a combination of highly volatile chemicals at a nearby wall, the result is a rapidly solidifying concrete-like foam that can support several tons of weight. Do not ingest!

The Platform Gun is a Support Tool used by the Engineer. It is a massive, long-barrelled cannon that fires a unique material composite called Plastcrete. During the reload animation, the Engineer is presumably mixing the chemicals by spinning the cylinder.

The Platform Gun fires Plascrete as a spherical shape and morphs into a semi-oval shape with a flat top upon impact against terrain, creating a makeshift piece of terrain that has many potential applications. Plastcrete is bright yellow and vulnerable to destruction such as mining and flame. While the Platform Gun remains consistent in firing accuracy, the accuracy will become significantly skewed to the left or right when a player or object is too close to the front of the player.

Using the Laser Pointer on a Platform will display if it is equipped with the Plastcrete MKII mod (fall damage reduction). A Platform without the mod will have "PLASCRETE FOAM" written, while a Platform with the mod will show "PLASCRETE FOAM MKII".


Modifications[]

There are three tiers of modifications and each tier has one to three upgrades. Only one modification can be equipped per tier.

Engineer Upgrades
Mod Effect In Game Description Price
Tier 1 Icon Upgrade FireRate
Supercharged Feed Mechanism
+1 Rate of Fire "We overclocked your gun. It fires faster. Don't ask. Just enjoy. Also probably don't tell Management, please."
Credit 420 Credits
Bismor 10 Bismor
Icon Upgrade Ammo
Expanded Ammo Bags
+8 Max Ammo "You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!"
Credit 420 Credits
Jadiz 10 Jadiz
Icon Upgrade ClipSize
High Capacity Magazine
+4 Magazine Size "The good thing about clips, magazines, ammo drums, fuel tanks ...you can always get bigger variants."
Credit 420 Credits
Croppa 10 Croppa
Tier 2
Level 4
Icon Upgrade FallDamage Resistance
Plastcrete MKII
Reduces the amount of Fall Damage

taken when landing on Platforms

"Shock-absorbing compound reduces fall damage"
Credit 780 Credits
Enor Pearl 22 Enor Pearl
Tier 3
Level 8
Icon Upgrade Ammo
Expanded Ammo Bags
+8 Max Ammo "You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!"
Credit 960 Credits
Croppa 16 Croppa
Umanite 12 Umanite
Icon Upgrade Special
Repellant Additive
+Bug repellant "Enemies will avoid walking on the Plastcrete Foam whenever possible."
Credit 960 Credits
Jadiz 16 Jadiz
Magnite 12 Magnite
Icon Upgrade ProjectileSpeed
Disabled Inertia Inhibitor
+Disabled Inertia Inhibitor "This tweak ensures that the user's velocity is transferred to the projectile. Useful in high-speed applications but it requires doing more math in your head."
Credit 960 Credits
Umanite 12 Umanite
Enor Pearl 16 Enor Pearl

Modification ideas[]

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Engineer Upgrades
Mod Effect In Game Description Price
Tier 1 Icon Upgrade FireRate
Supercharged Feed Mechanism
+1 Rate of Fire "We overclocked your gun. It fires faster. Don't ask. Just enjoy. Also probably don't tell Management, please."
Credit 420 Credits
Bismor 10 Bismor
Icon Upgrade Ammo
Expanded Ammo Bags
+8 Max Ammo "You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!"
Credit 420 Credits
Jadiz 10 Jadiz
Icon Upgrade ClipSize
High Capacity Magazine
+4 Magazine Size "The good thing about clips, magazines, ammo drums, fuel tanks ...you can always get bigger variants."
Credit 420 Credits
Croppa 10 Croppa
Tier 2
Level 4
Icon Upgrade FallDamage Resistance
Plastcrete MKII
Reduces the amount of Fall Damage

taken when landing on Platforms

"Shock-absorbing compound reduces fall damage"
Credit 780 Credits
Enor Pearl 22 Enor Pearl
Tier 3
Level 8
Icon Upgrade Ammo
Expanded Ammo Bags
+8 Max Ammo "You had to give up some sandwich-storage, but your total ammo capacity is increased!"
Credit 960 Credits
Croppa 16 Croppa
Umanite 12 Umanite
Icon Upgrade Special
Repellant Additive
+Bug repellant "Enemies will avoid walking on the Plastcrete Foam whenever possible."
Credit 960 Credits
Jadiz 16 Jadiz
Magnite 12 Magnite
Icon Upgrade ProjectileSpeed
Disabled Inertia Inhibitor
+Disabled Inertia Inhibitor "This tweak ensures that the user's velocity is transferred to the projectile. Useful in high-speed applications but it requires doing more math in your head."
Credit 960 Credits
Umanite 12 Umanite
Enor Pearl 16 Enor Pearl
Tier 4 Icon Upgrade Ammo
Expanded Ammo Bags
+64 Max Ammo "Expanded ammo bags!"
Credit 1200 Credits
Jadiz 30 Jadiz
Enor Pearl 50 Enor Pearl
Bismor 25 Bismor
Icon Upgrade Area
Wider Foam
+3.9 platform radius "Platform deploys more surface area for wider use and space!"
Credit 1000 Credits
Croppa 75 Croppa
Magnite 90 Magnite
Umanite 80 Umanite
Icon Upgrade MovementSpeed
Treadmill
+75 Movement Speed "Faster movement speed when walking on the platform."
Credit 1500 Credits
Jadiz 40 Jadiz
Umanite 75 Umanite
Enor Pearl 30 Enor Pearl

Unique Modifications[]

Unique Modifications
Icon Upgrade FallDamage Resistance
Plastcrete MkII
Technically, this upgrade increases Plastcrete's velocity threshold for Fall Damage from 10 m/sec to 15 m/sec (See Fall Damage), which increases the safe jump height from 5.1m to 11.48m and effectively negates up to 87.5 damage that would otherwise be dealt normally.
Icon Upgrade Special
Repellant Additive
Repellant Additive will force all Glyphid enemy types (including Dreadnoughts) to path around platforms, Rival Tech is unaffected by the repellant. Repellant Additive causes the enemy AI to consider the platform surface area (Including a small invisible aura around the platform) as 2x the amount of space they have to path through, causing them to go around it as if it were a natural terrain obstacle.


There are certain scenarios where glyphids will ignore the repellant: Such as, if a dwarf is touching a repellant platform (or standing very closely next to them), this will cause enemies to path straight towards them, but, platforms placed away from that dwarf will still cause glyphids to avoid them only if those platforms are outside an estimated area of 10-15 meters of that dwarf and platform. Also, too many platforms in one area will cause enemies to ignore them, this is because the AI has calculated that pathing over the platforms was either the only way to it's destination (e.g. standing on a tower of platforms), or, the platforms have taken up too much surface area, leaving the AI no choice but to walk over them to reach their target. To avoid these scenarios placing platforms with, at the maximum, around 1 meter of space between them, and keeping the amount to approximately around 4 to 10 in one area will not trigger enemies to walk over them in most cases. Leaving strategic gaps wide enough for enemies to walk through will solve this as well.

Repellant additive is very useful for creating kill-zones by forcing swarms of enemies to funnel together into a group for AOE attacks to finish them off. Platforms can also be strategically placed to cut off blind spots when defending an objective and therefore forcing flanking enemies to attack you head on. In open spaces, placing a line of platforms together is useful for kiting enemies, as they will constantly re-path around the platforms as long as you maintain a distance. The M.U.L.E. will also path around platforms just like a glyphid would, you can use her to test your platform setup to see how enemies would path around it.

Gallery[]

Trivia[]

  • In an earlier version of the Update 21 Experimental Branch, there were two experimental modifications, one of which would cause the gun to fire cubic platforms, the other doubled the radius of the platforms. Both were removed before release for unknown reasons. Relatedly, the Plastcrete MKII platform modification made the platforms very similar to Deep Snow in function, with snow particles and being melted by fire in the neighboring experimental update.
  • You can use platforms to see through the world to find buried Cargo Crates, Machine Events, and more by shooting a platform at eye height while in a pit or wall. More platforms added above or below can increase the size of the window and it can even make you fall out of the world in which you teleport back up or somewhere else with varying amounts of fall damage.
  • Sticky Flames can melt Plastcrete MKII platforms with a heavy amount of smoke. This is likely due to their similarity to snow piles. It is unclear if the melting is intended or if it is a side effect of inheriting the properties of Deep Snow.
  • Platforms can be used to mine terrain that requires more than 1 hit faster, such as the Ommoran Heartstone Beamers.


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