New Weapon Suggestion: Block-buster

BLOCK T WEAPON
T-piece at weapon FP10


Weapon description

A weapon originally developed in the 20th century, which was discontinued due to patent issues. However, an ongoing poultry invasion has lead to its renewed development. A four-squared polyomino is spawned at the front of your spacecraft, rotating periodically and dealing contact damage to enemies. Press the fire button again to release the piece, launching it instantly forward. The launched piece inflicts twice the damage as the held one and deals area-of-effect (AOE) damage for enemies around the target. Both piece damage and AOE width scale the further away your spacecraft is from your enemies.


Weapon parameters

Price: 150 keys
Has Overdrive: Yes
Damage type: Special
Gift color: Blue violet w/ sky blue ribbon
Base bullet damage: 220 (hold) / (440 release)
Max bullet damage: 3220 (hold) / (6440 release)
Max distance damage multiplier: 1.2
Base AOE multiplier: 1.10
Max AOE multiplier: 2.00
AOE damage multiplier: 0.15
Bullet speed: Instantaneous
Firing interval: 0.2
Overheat time: 10 seconds
Assigned color blind mode letter: BB / T


How this weapon works

Weapon has 2 firing phases: (a) hold phase and (b) release phase, which will loop under normal circumstances.

Hold phase:

  1. Pressing the fire button spawns a four-squared polyomino (tetromino) directly in front of your spacecraft.
  2. The spawned tetromino remains “attached” to your spacecraft until either one of the following occurs:
    a. The weapon is fired again, which releases the tetromino.
    b. The tetromino makes contact with an enemy or a barrier.
    c. The spacecraft collects a power-up or changes its weapon (the held tetromino will simply vanish).
    d. The spacecraft is destroyed (the held tetromino will also vanish).
  3. The held tetromino will not vanish or be released upon weapon overheat.
  4. The held tetromino rotates either clockwise or counterclockwise every 0.5 seconds.
  5. No recoil is applied to the spacecraft when the fire button is pressed to spawn the tetromino.
  6. Pressing the fire button again releases the held tetromino.

Release phase:

  1. Once released, the tetromino launces instantly forward until it collides with an enemy or a barrier.
  2. The released tetromino inflicts twice the damage to enemies, since it requires two fire button presses per release cycle.
  3. The released tetromino’s damage increases with distance, in which the farther it travels before impact, the greater the damage dealt.
  4. Upon impact, the tetromino triggers an area-of-effect (AOE) explosion, with its blast radius expanding based on how faw away a target is.
  5. Recoil is applied normally to the spacecraft when releasing the tetromino.

Additional Notes:

  1. Your spacecraft will spawn a random four-squared polyomino from one of its seven variants. Once this variant has appeared, it will not spawn again until all other variants have been used.
  2. See gallery below for how each tetromino variant will position at the front of your spacecraft.
  3. The maximum damage and AOE multiplier is the distance between your spacecraft and the Supernova Core facing directly at each other.
  4. Sound effects when firing the weapon: “koushite koushite”
  5. Not recommended on Comet Chae missions.

Weapon data

Weapon data can be downloaded from this link, but here’s the summary below:

Power
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 20
Firing Interval
Block 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
BlockMaxDist 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Block+AoE 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
BlockMaxDist+AoE 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
OverheatTime
Block 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5
BlockMaxDist 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5
Block+AoE 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5
BlockMaxDist+AoE 9 8.5 8 7.5 7 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5 6.5
Volley
Block 220 440 660 880 1100 1360 1620 1880 2140 2440 2740 3220
BlockMaxDist 264 528 792 1056 1320 1632 1944 2256 2568 2928 3288 3864
Block+AoE 253 506 759 1012 1265 1564 1863 2162 2461 2806 3151 3703
BlockMaxDist+AoE 304 607 911 1214 1518 1877 2236 2594 2953 3367 3781 4444
DPS
Block 1100 2200 3300 4400 5500 6800 8100 9400 10700 12200 13700 16100
BlockMaxDist 1320 2640 3960 5280 6600 8160 9720 11280 12840 14640 16440 19320
Block+AoE 1265 2530 3795 5060 6325 7820 9315 10810 12305 14030 15755 18515
BlockMaxDist+AoE 1518 3036 4554 6072 7590 9384 11178 12972 14766 16836 18906 22218
DamageUntilOverheat
Block 9900 18700 26400 33000 38500 44200 52650 61100 69550 79300 89050 104650
BlockMaxDist 11880 22440 31680 39600 46200 53040 63180 73320 83460 95160 106860 125580
Block+AoE 11385 21505 30360 37950 44275 50830 60548 70265 79983 91195 102408 120348
BlockMaxDist+AoE 13662 25806 36432 45540 53130 60996 72657 84318 95979 109434 122889 144417

Gallery

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Shop icon

Sample gift

All tetromino variants

Tetromino position variants
The “+” sign represents your spacecraft’s (non-BX variant) frontmost weapon pylon.

AOE effect
Min (left) and Max (right)

Damage and AOE scale

Sample tetromino piece cycle

Tetromino size per FP level

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You Watch Too Much Vtubers… But This Is One Of The Best Ideas I’ve Seen

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I Hope IA Sees This…

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It looks like block puzzle and great idea!

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I’m mauling over this off-set

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tetr.io ahh suggestion

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So much for aligning at the center of the spacecraft.
I’ll probably rework this during weekend.

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This one doesnt look like it ngl

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Updated some stuff
also added this that’s definitely not copied from a wiki

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T piece must be strongest because t-spin

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Oyes the fanmade blocks weapon

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Now this is tetris shotgun

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This is a great idea, I just wish that CIU actually received updates with meaningful changes like these since ideas like these aren’t really being added much anymore. but I would sure as hell use this against the alien mothership

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A weapon to clean sweep perfect clear all waves

pic unrelated

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Point Proved.

You Do Watch Too Much VTubers

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would be COOL!! if the pieces’ skin changed to [ ] in the retro missions (totally not a shirase reference)

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Weapon skins can already cover this:

nah
oraora

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