| A six-barreled machine gun with a high rate of fire making it effective in large scale battles. But the weapons warm-up to fire and weight can leave users vulnerable to quick battles. - Weapon description |
Gatling Gun is a machine gun that featured in CrossFire.
Overview[]
Gatling Gun takes the form of the M134 Minigun that's fed with 7.62x51mm NATO round, giving it good firepower. This weapon has the largest magazine capacity among the MG family with a 150-round belt (on pair with Reibel MG's pan magazine) with 150 rounds in reserve, however, it's incredibly fast firing speed means ammo will deplete very quickly. Gatling Gun is also very heavy, slowing down its users a lot when firing while moving, and the recoil is also very high - however, with proper burst fire, this gun can be very accurate at mid to long distance. This gun also suffers from a delay firing start as the barrel needs to spin before spitting out ammo - players need to take caution of pre-spinning the barrel while waiting for opponents so they can fire the gun faster.
Advantages[]
- Moderate-high damage dealing.
- Moderate accuracy.
- Fast rate of fire.
- High magazine capacity.
Disadvantages[]
- Loses accuracy when sprayed for a long time.
- Long spin-up time.
- Hard to move when firing or spinning-up.
- Slow reloading speed.
- High recoil.
- Very heavyweight.
Availability[]
Available in all CrossFire versions
Variants[]
Note:
- (*) Gatling Gun-AP is only obtainable in Challenge Mode.
Challenge Mode[]
Crater and Crater 2[]
The Gatling Gun appears in Crater map as a mounted weapon. Each player has 500 rounds to use it (Shared with both guns, unfortunately), and this can be refilled by visiting the ammo supply station. It has higher accuracy due to a fixed position, but limited rotating angle.
Devastated City, Boss Arena, Defense Mode and Trial Challenge Mode[]
- Main article: AP Gatling Gun
AP Gatling Gun
There is a special variant called Gatling Gun-AP that appears in special supply crates (Devastated City, Boss Arena, Defense Mode, and Fatal Canyon). This one is much lighter and has lower recoil, shorter barrel spinning time, and does not need to reload. Comes with 350 rounds and automatically disappears after 30 seconds.
Trivia[]
- Actually, the real Gatling Gun was invented in 1862 by Dr. Richard J. Gatling. It also is a generic term that refers to any cyclic multi-barrel design, which allows a very high rate of fire. Most of these weapons are high-caliber cannons mounted on fighter and attack aircraft to engage their targets, like the M61 Vulcan 20mm, GAU-8/A Avenger 30mm, or the M134 Minigun 7.62x51mm, the last being a machine gun (due to its smaller caliber) and the actual weapon shown in-game.
- All CF Servers used to feature a unique firing sound for the Gatling Gun and all of its variant except VVIP, compared to CF China who used a quieter firing sound. Recent updates have synchronized CF China's firing sound to other servers, so the Gatling Gun and its variant now have CF China's firing sound.
- Due to its incredibly fast firing rate, using this gun often results in 14_2 client error code, which is supposed to detect automatic firing (For sniper rifles). Tapping LMB makes this gun fires faster than it can normally, so players are bound to get hit with this error. So tapping should only be done for a very short time to avoid this error.
- After 2.0 update, this error seems to have been eliminated.
- The first person view and third-person view of the character holding this gun is inconsistency. In the first-person view, the character holds the upper handle with his right hand but in a third-person view, the character holds it with their left hand. This is similar to KAC ChainSAW's case.
- The reloading sound in actual gameplay is shorter than when watching someone with this gun.
- After some patches, Gatling Gun in CF Russia and CF Vietnam triggers a strange sound when the barrel stops moving - this also happens if players tap LMB in rhythm without firing the gun. Whether or not this is intentional is questionable.
- Despite getting less and less used these days due to the release of many other superior MGs such as MG3, KAC ChainSAW, etc., the Gatling Gun continues to receive a new variant now and then. It even received a VVIP variant.
- Gatling Gun is the first machine gun to receive a second model, followed by RPK.
- Also, both Gatling Gun and RPK are currently the only machine guns to receive a VVIP variant. Both guns share the same skin, which is the Infernal Dragon.
- In CF Vietnam, similar to XM8, this gun is often called "Six Barrels" by Vietnamese players. This nickname is even more popular and well-known than the actual name.
- Recently, Gatling Gun is one of 11 weapons available in the New Newbie Weapon System.
- In CF Indonesia, although this weapon is granted as a default weapon from New Newbie Weapon System, it's still available in Item Shop for a price of 1000 KOIN per day (around $0.3 if convert from IDR).
- Similar to CF Indonesia, CF Vietnam also still sold this gun in Item Shop by Vcoin despite that this weapon can be granted from the same system and nobody even bought this gun anymore.
- In CF Philippines, this weapon can also be obtained via Supply Crates from Mutation Mode. Following an update, this weapon is no longer obtainable via Supply Crate, most likely because soldiers who accidentally run into Supply Box with Mutants chasing them and pick up this gun, they'll be slowed down to a stop almost instantly, leaving them vulnerable to mutants' attack.
- Nowadays, Gatling Gun and its variants are heavily abused in Mutation Mode and variants by "tap-firing", as the gun features pinpoint accuracy on first bullet. Players either use a macro to tap-fire Gatling Gun at an insane rate or use two fingers to roll on LMB to achieve the same result (Vary depending on shooter's skill), making this gun super accurate at any range.
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