Minigun (Tower)

Minigun
Description	Very fast attack speed, high damage to single targets
Price	110 coins
Available from level	3.7 (first seen in 3.6)
Strengths
Regular	100%
Fast	50%
Strong	50%
Heli	100%
Jet	50%
Armored	150%
Healer	150%
Toxic	50%
Icy	25%
Fighter	0%
Light	25%
Bosses	100%

Minigun is a tower in Infinitode 2. It fires extremely fast dealing heavy damage over time at an enemy

Unique Characteristics

Minigun has Acceleration and Magazine Size as its Unique Characteristic.

Acceleration - The rate (in %) of increasing tower's shooting spread (angle) , at 100% acceleration it reaches a maximum of 12 degrees at max acceleration

Magazine Size - The amount of ammunition the tower can fire before having to reload which will take 6 seconds after expending all of its magazine or no targets are in range

Increasing Tower experience level increases acceleration and magazine size

Acceleration = 8 + 0.5 / Tower Experience Level

Magazine Size: 100 + 2.5 / Tower Experience Level

Other Characteristics

Minigun initially focuses the enemy, every second it starts to accelerate which increases the spread of its attacks.

Although it targets an enemy, the bullets will collide the first enemy it hits.

Each bullet consumes 1 ammo from the magazine size. Once the magazine runs out, Minigun will not attack for 6 seconds due to reloading and restores its ammo based on magazine size. It will also reload automatically when no enemies are within range regardless of ammo count though it will be cancelled if there are enemies to shoot.

Minigun does not have "Projectile Speed" since its projectiles instantly hits its target.

Main characteristics:

Range		✓	✓	✓	✓
Attack speed	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Damage		✓	✓	✓	✓
Crowd Damage					✓
Agility				✓	✓

Statistics

Range	3.5
Damage	13.6
Attack speed	4.5
Rotation speed	40.0
Acceleration	15.0

Upgrade Level	Range	Damage	Attack Speed	Rotation Speed	Upgrade Cost	Cumulative Cost
0	3.5	12.2	4.5	40	42	110
1	3.65	15.8	4.7	43	60	152
2	3.8	22.7	4.95	43	115	212
3	4	27.7	4.95	48	175	327
4	4	39.7	5.2	50	280	502
5	4	50.7	5.8	55	450	782
6	4.2	70	6.3	55	740	1,232
7	4.5	90	6.7	57	1,300	1,972
8	4.8	120	7.8	60	2,000	3,272
9	5.15	168	8.2	60	3,200	5,272
10	5.5	209	9.1	60	n/a	8,472

Abilities

Ability	Description
Heavy weapons	Damage x 1.23, enemies receive +10% vulnerability debuff for 2 seconds
Heavy mechanism	Acceleration x 0.8, attack speed x 1.29, magazine size ×1.3
Foundation	Rotation speed x 1.5, LVL 10 ability "Hot Bullets" effect replaced by Poison with 5% DPS bonus
Hot bullets	At full speed, ignites enemies for 3s dealing 12% of DPS each second (unlocks at LVL 10)
Ultimate	Every 60 seconds creates a microgun on a random empty platform or road in tower's range with 30% of attack speed and 45% of range (prioritizes platforms). Max 2 microguns. (available at level 20)
Powerful	PWR x1.1 (available at level 20)

Hot Bullets - Once Minigun reaches its maximum firing speed, it will activate burning effect.

Choosing Foundation abilities changes burning effect to poison effect.

Minigun's burning effect decreases Freezing effectivenesses from towers by 33% (behaves like Flamethrower).

Ultimate - minigun will try to spawn microguns at the platforms and if no such tile are available it will be placed on roads instead.

• If an enemy steps on the microgun, it gets destroyed. In addition they do not block enemy pathing especially when Enemy walk on platforms are enabled.
• A tower can be placed on top of the microgun, destroying it. Furthermore Basic Towers Cloning Ultimate can clone towers on top of microgun as well also destroying it
• The microguns do not carry any magazine meaning they can fire indefinitely
• The microguns attack range can be seen when selecting microgun
• The microguns are not affected by modifiers or tile effects
• Selling the tower will destroy the microguns

Strategy

Minigun boasts the highest DPS for single target. Its advantage against slow enemies such as Armored and Healer. However despite this it only deals half damage to Strong enemies. It also can attack air enemies as well making it a generalist tower against Air enemies.

It's rotation speed however makes it a poor choice when dealing with clusters of enemies since by the time it faces the enemy, the enemy already went out of Minigun's range.

Minigun struggles against fast enemies since they do less damage and also less time to focus on them

If there is a freezing tower nearby, always get Foundation to replace Hot Bullets with poison as its Exp Level 10 effect will remove freezing effect making it a nuisance for other towers to hit it.

Minigun is best against boss levels (custom maps, .8 levels) but not against all others since every wave features a group of enemies rather than just having only one enemy per wave. Like Basic, Minigun is widely used against bosses since they always deal 100% damage to them and can deal the maximum amount of dps against it. It does complement with Sniper as it is able to attack Armored and Healer enemies (both are slow enemies) at 150% damage.

Minigun weakness is its inability to attack Fighter enemies which requires other towers such as Sniper / Flamethrower to be able to remove Fighters. It might boasts extremely fast attack speed , it also comes with downside of having to reload after using all of its magazine capacity becoming useless for 6 seconds.

Minigun main strength comes from microguns which they can be placed on parts of map providing more coverage in the map and does not carry ammunition unlike the main Minigun. They also increases the MDPS of minigun itself improving spells damage. With research, up to 3 can be spawned at a time. They scale based on minigun stats meaning upgrade level 10 is generally preferred for their maximum performance. Note that the microguns deal 100% of the main damage.

Best tile placement: Damage -> Experience -> Attack Speed

Damage boosts its already impressive single target DPS. Useful alongside Heavy Weapon ability which is a core for Minigun. It should be preferred more than Attack Speed

Experience: Although not preferred, minigun does need experience level to increase its magazine size so it can fire more before reloading.

Attack Speed boosts its already impressive attack speed. It also increases firing speed as it is % of attack speed. Use Attack Speed tile if you are going to get the Heavy Mechanism ability which also increases its attack speed by 25% giving it a whopping 56.25% attack speed boost when firing at full firing speed. Be careful though this will empty the magazine much faster and overall increases the downtime then it is then attacking.

Optimal 2 Abilities: Heavy Weapon/Foundation, Heavy Weapon/Heavy Mechanism

Heavy Weapon is a must have. The 23% damage is a free stat for all Miniguns to take. It also provides 10% damage debuff which indirectly improves its damage and other towers

Heavy Mechanism: is a second-best ability since it provides attack speed boost, more magazine size and slower acceleration reducing its bullet spread so it can focus on the enemy more allows minigun to deal more dps before reloading.

Foundation: Despite being a horrible ability (with research), it is needed since it will change its Hot Bullets ability to being Poison Effect. Without foundation, Minigun will interfere with Freezing Slow effect. This poison effect will perform the same as Burning effect except it will not remove the slow effect from Freezing. Always get this if you are using Freezing Tower. Also useful in Daily challenges as researches are disabled and minigun has extremely low rotation speed making it difficult to chase enemies. It is also a viable choice to compensate for the low rotation speed.

Ultimate - Always get this upgrade then Powerful. Even if there are no platforms available on the map, they can still be placed on roads for additional damage.

Research

(Does not include endless research)

These research are exclusive to Minigun Tower Only. To see all researches, see Researches

Damage - Damage dealt to enemies

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%	+30%

Max Upgrade Level - Upgrade Level Limit

Increases the max upgrade level of the tower (Upgrade level). At level 0, the max tower upgrade level is 3.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Max Tower Upgrade Level	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10

Max Experience Level - Experience Limit in levels

Increases the max experience level of the tower (EXP level). At level, the max tower experience level is 4.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	4	5	6	7	9	10	12	14	16	18	20

Projectile Speed - Tiles per second

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%	+30%

Range - Range in tiles

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+1%	+2%	+3%	+4%	+5%	+6%	+7%	+9%	+11%	+13%

Price - Tower Price in Coins

Reduces the cost to build Minigun Tower. By default it costs 110 coins.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Minigun Tower Coins Build Cost	110	108	106	104	102	100	98	96	93	91	86

Attack Speed - Shots per second

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%	+30%

Rotation Speed - Degrees per second

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+2%	+4%	+6%	+8%	+10%	+12%	+15%	+18%	+21%	+25%

Experience Multiplier - Each XP point is multiplied by this.

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+3%	+6%	+9%	+12%	+16%	+20%	+24%	+28%	+33%	+40%

Upgrade Price - Price of tower upgrades in coins

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	-0%	-1%	-2%	-3%	-4%	-5%	-6%	-8%	-10%	-12%	-15%

Acceleration (Unique Characteristics) - Weapons acceleration speed

Acceleration is multiplied by this value. This increases Acceleration from 15%/s - 32.1%/s to 17.7%/s - 37.88% (Based on Tower EXP level)

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Amount	+0%	+1.5%	+3.0%	+4.5%	+6.0%	+7.5%	+9.0%	+11.0%	+13.0%	+15.0%	+18.0%

Starting Level - Initial Tower Level

When purchased, Minigun Tower will immediately start at that EXP Level. At Max level, Minigun Towers will start at EXP Level 4 with 1 Ability Unlocked.

Level	0	1	2	3
Initial Tower EXP Level	1	2	3	4

Passive XP at max upgrade level - Amount of tower gets per second on max upgrade level.

If not at max level, the formula of XP/second goes by (XP rate / 10 * tower upgrade level)

Level	0	1	2	3	4	5
Experience Gain per second	+0.00/s	+0.10/s	+0.20/s	+0.30/s	+0.40/s	+0.50/s

Rotation speed - Foundation - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Rotation speed - Foundation and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Rotation speed - Foundation	1.50x	1.52x	1.55x	1.60x

Hot bullet bonus DPS - Foundation - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Hot bullet bonus DPS - Foundation and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Hot bullet bonus DPS - Foundation	5.0%	5.2%	5.5%	6.0%

Acceleration - Heavy Mechanism - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Acceleration - Heavy Mechanism and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Acceleration - Heavy Mechanism	0.80x	0.81x	0.83x	0.86x

Attack Speed - Heavy mechanism - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Attack Speed - Heavy mechanism and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Attack Speed - Heavy mechanism	1.3x	1.32x	1.355x	1.4x

Duration - Hot bullets - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Duration - Hot bullets and adds it per level. (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Duration - Hot bullets	5.0s	5.2s	5.5s	6.0s

Damage - Hot bullets - Tower ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Damage - Hot bullets and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Damage - Hot bullets	15%	16%	17.5%	20%

Attack speed - Ultimate - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Attack speed - Ultimate and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Attack speed - Ultimate	18%	19%	22%	25%

Build interval - Ultimate - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Build interval - Ultimate and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2	3
Build interval - Ultimate	60s	58s	54.5s	50s

Range - Ultimate - Tower Ability Upgrade

This uses the base value of Range - Ultimate and adds it per level (Additive)

Level	0	1	2
Range - Ultimate	45%	51%	60%

First Generation - Significant Increase of Characteristics

-Rotation Speed + 5% / Damage +7%

Second Generation - Significant increase of Characteristics

-Attack Speed + 10%

Third Generation - Significant increase of Characteristics

-Upgrade price - 2%, Damage + 10%

Advinas

3.7

Advinas: Meet the new weapon for your arsenal - Minigun tower.

Advinas: Its attack speed gradually increases while it attacks an enemy and quickly loses speed when not attacking

Advinas: It also has low rotation speed and attacks only one target, but can reach air enemies as well.

Trivia

• Minigun is one of the two towers that appears one level earlier - Level 3.6 that is automatically built at the beginning of the Level with Random Target. However the player cannot build miniguns unless they have access to Level 3.7. The other is Laser.