- Freeze Ray

Duke Nukem Forever Freeze Ray details: damage, range, ammo, and how it works in campaign and multiplayer. Recharges when not in use.

First Appearance:

• Campaign: The Shrunk Machine (Part 3)
• DLC (downloadable content — extra missions or items released after launch): Magic Carpet Ride

Damage (Per second):

• Campaign: Easy 150/sec., Normal 120/sec., Hard 90/sec., DiG 60/sec.
• Multiplayer: 320/sec.

Maximum Range:

• Campaign: 256
• Multiplayer: 900

Maximum Ammo Carried: 200

Rate of Fire (Avg.): 0.03125 seconds (per unit / 6.25 sec. for all 200 units); Campaign: 0.03222 seconds (per unit, 6.44 sec. for all 200 units)

Melee Cooldown Time: 0.87 seconds

Enemy Drop: No

Multiplayer Respawn (be brought back to life at a checkpoint after death) Time: 20 seconds

Advantages:

• Recharges when not in use, meaning you will never run out of ammo.

Drawbacks:

• Shortest range of all range weapons (Campaign version; the multiplayer version 'slightly' outranges the Shotgun).
• Requires a lot of ammunition to effectively freeze a target on DiG difficulty, limiting its effectiveness in a sustained conflict.
• Weapon does not actually kill a target unless it falls from mid-air, requiring a different attack or execution to finish it off.

The Freeze Ray is a mixed-blessing weapon. Its ability to recharge when not in use allows it to return to full charge quickly. However, time is often a problem when engaging multiple targets.

The Freeze Ray will not kill a target, but it will set them up for an execution, resulting in an Ego (a measure of Duke's confidence) recharge, unless the frozen target is hit by a different weapon.

When frozen, Duke's HP (health points) will not recover. It only starts to recover along with the Ego bar after Duke becomes unfrozen.

Campaign Specifics:

• The Freeze Ray only has 'just' enough ammo to freeze four Pigcops (as a DiG difficulty example) before it must completely recharge.
• Not all enemies can be executed (Pregnators, for example), so you will need to use a regular melee attack to finish them off.
• The Freeze Ray does not work properly underwater. When used, it will freeze Duke (removing his Ego, too). However, this can be exploited as a glitch during the Energy Leech boss battle (unpatched version, only).
• You can reload a Freeze Ray at an Ammo Crate.

Multiplayer Specifics:

• The Freeze Ray is far more lethal in multiplayer, having greatly increased range and damage per second (DPS).

Fun Facts:

• A total discharge of the campaign Freeze Ray does anywhere from 746.19 up to 791.34 damage to a single target.