This Terraria weapon gets easily overlooked…
Late game terraria typically has quite a meta selection of weapons people use generally range of players will gravitate towards weapons which can be obtained from the post on tower dungeon like the sniper rifle on the tactical shotgun today we’re going gonna be looking at a less popular ranged weapon
Which in my opinion might just be the best pre-cultist range weapon in the game the xenopopper the xenopopper is a hard mode post-golem gun which has a one in nine chance of being dropped from a martian saucer which can be found during the martian madness event in order to
Trigger a martian madness event you need to be detected by a martian probe motion probes are surprisingly easy to encounter if you use the right strategy head to the left or right outer third of your map and fly up to the space biome place a small platform along with a
Water candle this is crucial as it will triple the sperm of the probe in particular in no time you should have one pop-up just make sure you do not kill it on impulse now that you’ve got the event buff and running i must tell you that this is one of the most
Brutally difficult events in the whole game i’d highly advise staying indoors to deal with the ground enemies so you keep yourself covered now when you get around to 30 completion a martian saucer should spawn this is an incredibly difficult fight even with good gear so make sure you grab a fast mount and
Fight it in an open space its first stage is pretty easy keep some distance and you should be fine however its second phase can seem impossible if you don’t know how to fight it correctly to avoid this the martian saucer actually has a very simple pattern it simply
Moves from left to right using its laser in the opposite direction to counter this you need to move ahead of it making sure you time your movement well once you crack this they’re actually dead easy to take out although that one in nine chance can be frustrating it took
Me loads to have it drop now let’s see how it performs the xena popper fires a small cloud of bubbles then pop after a short delay firing bullets in the kisses direction this means that at full fire rate you’d expect to see an average of 12 bullets per second this result deals
A quite nice dps but as this type of fire is similar to a shotgun you’re best to use this on single targets rather than crowd control as its dps does not increase however pairing this weapon with high velocity bullets is a fantastic synergy allowing you to pierce
Enemies and reach them far quicker also like any bullet weapon in terraria glorified bullets is another great option increasing work damage and having the ability to home against high hp targets the xenophobic performs greatly taking out a mimic in about four shots even the tanks which are by mimics fall
To their knees with this weapon assuming that you can hit every shot now you may be thinking its weakness must be long range targets which is true to an extent but we can overcome this by using chlorophyte bullets and positioning our casts that nearly enemy want to hit even
Though duke fish one can be fought with earlier gear this fight demonstrates how well the xenophobic can hit fast moving targets you pretty much can’t miss with this thing in summary the xena popper is a fantastic pre-cultist weapon which will help you through the early stages
Of the pillars of course though as soon as you get one vortex pillar down you’ll be replacing it i think this is why this weapon is so overlooked it can be right pain to obtain and it’s only relevant for a very short period of time it’s you
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This Terraria weapon gets easily overlooked… Xenopopper. In this video, I take a look at the Xenopopper ranged weapon which shoots out bubbles of bullets! This can be obtained in Hardmode from the Martian madness event, which is quite possibly one of the most challenging events in the game and takes some serious strategy.
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That Martian Saucer at the end was one of the most cursed things I've ever seen…
I just got one recently and it's so much better than the Onyx Blaster I was using before
The problem for it is there's nothing really to do in your world between golem and cultist unless you choose to. You may have duke and empress though, and of course the pillars themselves, so it's not a bad drop if you get it. There's too many weapon dropping at this stage though and the martian event is kind of out of the way. If it spawned naturally like pirates or goblins I think it would be a lot more common.
they should buff lunatic cultist so theres a wall in progression that requires you to get the best gear for that stage. A lot of weapons like basically every one in the halloween, christmas, and alien event and some duke fishron drops would become very valuable.
imo vilethorns more underrated for its effectiveness comparitive to its availability in pre boss
Been using this with chlorophyte bullets and must say it is insanely good. Going to upgrade to chain gun once Santa decides to stop being a little bitch and give it to me
I beat the moon lord with this weapon thinking it was the strongest gun in the game
Video "The xenopopper performs greatly…"
Captions "The xenophobic performs greatly…"
Martian saucer gets destroyed with a dash for people struggling
The last ranger run I did made heavy use of the Xenopopper with chlorophyte bullets for roaming and crystal bullets for bosses.
actually, similar to the eventide, all shots fired from the bubbles converge on the crosshair, meaning both that it isn’t technically a shotgun, and that if you put your cursor inside the bubble swarm, you can shoot ing a lot of directions
Nah, i use it everytime I go ranger.
Soda Popper has also the ability to make L turn bullets because the bullets you shoot are directed where your cursor is.
You missed the most important part. You can control the spread of the weapon by aiming your cursor closer or farther away. When you shoot, the bubbles pop and the bullets all converge on your cursor. This means despite being a shotgun, you can hit every bullet if you simply aim the cursor at the enemy, versus any other shotgun where it would have spread no matter what you do with it.
This gun needs homing bullets it it's useless
Always found it irritating to use as there's a delay to aim your shots and if the enemy is fast, it means holding the cursor over them the entire time rather than aiming in the general direction.
I always get the xenopopper, i didn't know it was so unpopular.
Ah yes. The 'this gun is overlooked because it's only really viable with expensive cholorphyte bullets" Gun 😀
Lmao, I remember farming Martian events… Didn't know you were meant to be detected. I killed them and wondered why I wasnt getting the event to happen
All Martian madness weapons are slept on. They’re all great and honestly the best pre cultist weapons. The magic machine gun is amazing. The zenoblade is arguably better than the terrablade. The summon is probably the best pre daytime EoL. Everyone sleeps on the event.
sorry I'm mage
yeah. i just got this it really isn't that bad
Why tf are these videos always so fucking loud man xD Like theyre good videos but why are they always just 5 times louder than any other video on this damn plattform lmao
It's 1 in 6 chance now, isn't it? Not even as of 1.4.4, the shot from the wiki you showed at 1:44 (while you're saying it's 1 in 9 I might add) shows how it's 1 in 6 except on 1.3 Tmod.
Wait what? This gun's overlooked? Man, this thing carried me so hard in my first playthrough of the game. I'm surprised more people don't use it.
the laser machine gun/charged blaster are also super good for mages. The Charged blaster is basically the first prism(it shoots a beam kinda)
you can see his muscle memory dying at about 2:55
I love the Xenopopper but the way you acquire it plus the fact I always farm for a Wisp in a bottle after Plantera I've usually got the Sniper and or the Tactical shotgun by the time I'm finished, making Xenopopper a bit pointless.
Vortex popper is so good in terraria, I love being able to use the gun for longer.
Best? Pretty sure its equal to tsunami but issue is ufo is way harder to kill compared to duke imo
Influx Waver is better tbh
I loved using this gun when i played ranger before the 1.4.4 update it js fun to use specially with chlorophyte bullets
The razorblade typhoon absolutely rips through flying saucers to the point where the whole event is too easy
i tought i was crazy for using this agensed duke fishron and golem i think its that good but thats my opnion i used it all the way up to moonlord i got lucky getting it to drop in hard mode and i used it cause of the event and its not to bad
I remember playing with a group of 3, we were about to fight Duke Fishron, and I was the ranger at the time, I remember staying in one spot with Shroomite armor, the Xeno popper and some chrolophyte bullets, I absolutely shredded Duke lol
it carried me through cultist and vortex pillar, vortex beater took care of the rest
1:11 "Even with good gear."
Zenith: 🗿🍷
Nah I ain't ever gonna use a gun that's called the xenopooper 💀
My problem with the Xenopopper is that it isn't great at dealing with the end game things, which is when you'd get it… It was nearly unusable on Cultist, as it hit the wrong one way too often, it wasn't fast enough or didn't do enough damage to Moonlord and while it was usable to fight Empress, I would have much rather used a machine gun to beat her with cholorophyte bullets. It does okay against the pillars, but it doesn't feel like a great weapon for how hard the martian invasion is.
Xenopopper is a tactical shotgun on steroids
Broken Saucers spawn when the Mob Cap is exhausted
Um I had no problem with this event I didn't even die
Clorophite bullets are for those too lazy to aim
never knew it was underrated, i actually used it all the time on my first playthrough
Through my testing I found that the xeno popper had the highest single target dps of any gun I could find before the cultists, along with the tsunami for multi target dps
Fun trick with it: put your cursor in the middle of the cloud of bubbles. It makes the bullets go in every direction and it’s fun to use
Maybe bc martian madness is hard af.
1:57 WYSI