"There are just so many other amazing obtainable weapons in hardmode" Orange zapinator can also require 0 mana with the meteor armor, and it can carry you to plantera if you use a crit strike build. It's 100% better than sky fracture, spirit flame, and meteor staff.
If you have the right setup and a whole lot of mana potions plus a lucky mana flower, you can even make quick work of the Moon Lord, or even faster bosses such as the Empress of Light due to the incredibly fast base projectile speed.
I remember randomly finding it super early on in the traveling merchant inventory, and just thought it was a funny Easter egg. Picked it up, and instantly fell in love with it (I’m a big magic build player so it fit perfectly). Honestly if you can get the hard mode version of the gun early enough it really holds it’s ground well into the mechanical bosses. Shame it’s incredibly rare though.
Had a huge clutch finish on Skeletron. Wasn't paying attention and it was about it hit morning. Then I got the damage multiplier and finished it's remaining 30%ish health
I like the gray zapinator but the issue I have with it is the fact that it has such a slow fire rate that it is horrible at taking pressure of yourself and for that alone I feel that although fun and powerful, isn't good enough to make it a main weapon for me. If the projectile doesn't end up hitting another enemy, then the fire rate can cause you to get into bad situations.
I love your content and even though my main language is Spanish, I just love your videos. PS: Could you talk about obsidian armor and how its stats perform on hardmode?
with no gear and just a grey or orange zapinator it technically can one shot any boss in the game, theoretically but the chances of that are near impossible
I love both the zapinators whenever they do get sold, they're like a huge progression skip if you can get them earlier (let's just say it makes pre mech fishron a whole lot easier)
I did a zapinator play through and I got all the way through the game but some bosses took a few tries. It’s purely rng but seeing it do 60% of a bosses health in a few seconds by stacking effects is always cool
The Zapinator is a really fun weapon unless you suddenly find out that the bee queen has been suddenly awoken while exploring the jungle and after firing some wasps. Yeah, that happened to me before reaching hardmode, so I was instantly deleted
This weapon is so good for prehardmode, it can carry you all the way until WoF, the only problem i've ever had was activating the queen bee's fight due to one projectile randomly hitting her nest, that was pretty unpleasant considering i was mining for armor in master mode lmao
I got zapinator veyr early when i began my adventure with this game, gotta admit thqt it carried me all the way up until hardmode where i started using many different weapons
"It's a rare weapon" Look,so there is a stat in terraria called "luck". This can be gotten by placing garden gnomes,touching ladybugs,using torches in its respective biome and drinking luck potions.
I got it when I was doing my first expert mode and it carried me through it heavily. Right as I got into hardmode, I got the orange one and then some parts of the game nearly became a cakewalk. 10/10 would recommend.
I remember my first playthrough I found the grey zapinator on my first traveling merchant and bought it. It confused the hell out of me and I killed the wall of flesh with it
I remember when i was playing mage once and mauled skeletron prime with a zapinator(idk exactly but i guess by the damage it was the orange one) that somehow dealt 28k dps by a lucky shot, wasnt so lucky for skeletrons head tho
I bought the Grey Zapinator on my 3rd day in Calamity and I hadn't used it before, didn't realise it had innate punchthrough and it melted the king slime
No, because then there wouldn't be specific chances for each projectile type. The glitches were most likely on purpose because on older versions, the zapinator was known to be very buggy. I could be wrong though
It's referencing the fact that the original zapinator was overpowered ("broken", it one-shot anything and was a developer item) so they took the pun and made it into the feature of the rereleased weapon, making it act like it doesn't work properly.
I didn’t know that Zapinator was broken until I was playing calamity, consumed rage and adrenaline, hit a crit and got the Zapinator x10 It was miraculous and I couldn’t comprehend how tf did I oneshot the Eye, 10/10 weapon I will absolutely use it every time.
I remember preparing for WoF as mage with the Zapinator, and I literally fired one shot, and suddenly, the battle was over. This thing is nuts, and gets even more crazy when you get the Orange Zapinator
Ah the good ol' gray zapinator. I love this thing and can literally ONE SHOT THE WALL OF FLESH WITH IT, and I'm not exaggeration. On my third shot, the WoF just suddenly died.
the first time i saw the Grey Zapinator being used was when a friend (known for their bad internet) got one in earrrrly pre-hardmode and i thought the random projectiles were because of connection issues
I was going summoner in my drunk world playthrough and a traveling merchant was selling the grey zapinator and I was like : SCREW BEING A SUMMONER, WHERES THE METEORITE?
I love your content man, i really do. The amount of effort you put into this is amazing. Vid idea: Can you talk about the 5 most unusual/underrated items in terraria? Kinda like the top 5 worst items
I saw a video about zapinator and they're nuts, after that I started visiting any TM for a zapinator, and I got lucky with the TM rng and got the orange one in a few terraria days I finally beat my first mech boss with orange zapinator, The Twins
The zapinator is always an unusual item in terraria. At first it was removed from the game then later added with 2 versions. It has those random ways of doing things that when using it you may get lucky and it does a lot of damage or unlucky and do little damage.
The orange zapinator carried me through hardmode up until my first battle against the Moon Lord, and I got it before beating Skeletron Prime and the Destroyer
I am doing a magic gun only playthrough and got the Orange Zapinator as soon as I entered hardmode. It is so good, it easily took down all 3 Mechs and Plantera. Some of if no the easiest fights I've ever had.
I found one of these my first time getting a travelling merchant and passed it up, saw this video, regretted it. And the very next merchant I get. Low and behold the grey zapinator again.
I accidentally summoned the wall of flash while building the bridge in for the worthy master mode and then I one shot it with the gray zapinator. I shat a brick in disbelief of what just happened and also because it turned into a blood moon in hardmode where all of my stupid npcs jumped out of the wraith proof house except for the zoologist.
The DPS is a bit overstated. Yes, it's definitely stronger than the space gun on single targets, but it's not twice as strong. The DPS meter doesn't show very accurate numbers on very slow weapons since it stops tracking DPS after a fraction of a second. That means that part of the time you're not hitting the target isn't considered for the calculation of the DPS, which leads to inflated DPS numbers.
The gray zapinator SHREDS the wof I was playing master mode with a friend (on drunk seed if that even matters) AND IT JUST DECIMATES the poor thing! Edit: Also I love the new profile picture sockrteez and keep up with the amazing content!
These weapons are fantastic and I always like to use them if given the chance. I got the orange zapinator in a recent playthrough and although I haven't used it against any bosses I like to occasionally use it against enemies just because it's a fun bit of chaos and a weapon unlike any other(well, except for the gray zapinator of course.).
And the pew-matic gun from deerclops, it fires random projectiles each time you shoot and depending what it shoots results in varying damage each shot, its super fun you should try it out
I was lucky enough to get a grey zapinator fairly early in a master mode "get fixed boi" world I'm playing through with my friend. Has carried so far, and I don't know I'll be switching to anything else any time soon
I lagged while taking down Skeletron with this thing with my buddies and all the projectiles gathered in one spot and he hit it, after my connection got better it did 30,000 damage in a second. So if your struggling to kill a boss grab one of these and switch to century link
I used it againts the destroyer (orange one) because i didnt have anymore holy arrows left, so i had no choice but to use it, IT DE-STROYED THE DESTROYER.
I use the orange zapinator to execute mi friends when they're afk sometimes, since it's so random they might die or might not you never know what would happen, they might get sent to the backrooms if they are unlucky
I recently started my first master mode world and got soo lucky the TM had it in stock! Once i was farming King Slime and only shot 3 shots and the 3rd one killed it instantly!
i got the orange one as soon as i entered hard mode like the same day that i killed the wof and before that i got the grey one on my 5 or 6 day on terraria and fun fact this is my first playthrough so it helped a lot and btw my highest crit was about 10 to 11k and i hit it 2 times it straight up sent skeletron prime to half ish hp
You should’ve mentioned the origins of it. For people who want to quickly know it was a overpowered developer weapon that was used to test Terraria on the 3DS without annoying interruptions.
hey sockrteez your videos are really interesting and i really like them! btw can you tell me how does your game run so smoothly id really appreciate it if you tell me :)
Thanks for watching! Err I can't think of anything that would make my Terraria run more smoothly than others. It could be that I have frame skip on subtle. So many be try that :)
I have both the orange and grey one I found the orange one right aftrr I entered hard mode but the gray one I had pre hardmode unfortunately its true power on mobile is overshadowed by how awful it is to fire due to the controls and not everyday do I wanna lock on to the enemy or die trying because I keep locking onto somr random critter making it extremely hard to use on mobile History: the zapinator is based off of the zapper that came out eith the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) the NES came with these specific things: the console, a battery powered toy robot named R.O.B, duck hunt cartridge, and the zapper. it was originally used for duck hunt but it was almost always broken and never worked right and it may explain the reason for the text "Might be broken" when reading the description of the zapinator there was also an orange version of the zapper which corrosponded with the japanese NES the Famicom.
I'm SO glad they brought the Zapinator back!
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Absolutely love both Zapinators, yet absolutely loathe the bastard Traveling Merchants who refuse to sell it, duality of man
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Precisely everyone already knows the zapinators are broken. They have the capacity to deal as much damage as a fallen star, if not more.
Dr. Bright is not allowed to use the Zapinator
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If you're lucky to get the orange zapinator it can easily carry you upto Golem
I agree
"There are just so many other amazing obtainable weapons in hardmode"
Orange zapinator can also require 0 mana with the meteor armor, and it can carry you to plantera if you use a crit strike build. It's 100% better than sky fracture, spirit flame, and meteor staff.
If you have the right setup and a whole lot of mana potions plus a lucky mana flower, you can even make quick work of the Moon Lord, or even faster bosses such as the Empress of Light due to the incredibly fast base projectile speed.
@@shoes4clues955 you have to specify if its day or night EoL
@@Vexxel256 Either, the point was it can deal with faster speed
@@Vexxel256 Not really since the damage is the same against day or night EoL, you just have to be more skilled to do it with daytime.
I was lucky enough to get this weapon
The first time I have ever encountered a merchant I saw he sold a grey zappinator.
Same
I've loved both the gray and orange zapinator ever since they were added, they're just so enjoyably chaotic!
I remember randomly finding it super early on in the traveling merchant inventory, and just thought it was a funny Easter egg. Picked it up, and instantly fell in love with it (I’m a big magic build player so it fit perfectly). Honestly if you can get the hard mode version of the gun early enough it really holds it’s ground well into the mechanical bosses. Shame it’s incredibly rare though.
Had a huge clutch finish on Skeletron. Wasn't paying attention and it was about it hit morning. Then I got the damage multiplier and finished it's remaining 30%ish health
I like the gray zapinator but the issue I have with it is the fact that it has such a slow fire rate that it is horrible at taking pressure of yourself and for that alone I feel that although fun and powerful, isn't good enough to make it a main weapon for me. If the projectile doesn't end up hitting another enemy, then the fire rate can cause you to get into bad situations.
Also the fact that it's bought from the rng npc
I love your content and even though my main language is Spanish, I just love your videos. PS: Could you talk about obsidian armor and how its stats perform on hardmode?
I appreciate it! Great suggestion! Il write that one down for a future video 👍
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with no gear and just a grey or orange zapinator it technically can one shot any boss in the game, theoretically but the chances of that are near impossible
I love both the zapinators whenever they do get sold, they're like a huge progression skip if you can get them earlier (let's just say it makes pre mech fishron a whole lot easier)
Both are actually really good in everything except pvp because in pvp it does not do the random stuff
I just realized that the Zapinator is a reference to the NES Zapper.
I did a zapinator play through and I got all the way through the game but some bosses took a few tries. It’s purely rng but seeing it do 60% of a bosses health in a few seconds by stacking effects is always cool
I was playing just now with my brother and as soon as plantera came 2nd phase it literally one shot her lmfao, ti was insanely cool
The Zapinator is a really fun weapon unless you suddenly find out that the bee queen has been suddenly awoken while exploring the jungle and after firing some wasps. Yeah, that happened to me before reaching hardmode, so I was instantly deleted
Love these cool terraria and short videos man keep it up
This weapon is so good for prehardmode, it can carry you all the way until WoF, the only problem i've ever had was activating the queen bee's fight due to one projectile randomly hitting her nest, that was pretty unpleasant considering i was mining for armor in master mode lmao
Me and the Bois getting the fart in a jar and unironically using it
I got zapinator veyr early when i began my adventure with this game, gotta admit thqt it carried me all the way up until hardmode where i started using many different weapons
"It's a rare weapon"
Look,so there is a stat in terraria called "luck".
This can be gotten by placing garden gnomes,touching ladybugs,using torches in its respective biome and drinking luck potions.
He mentioned that last one in the video
Something something, monkeys on typewriters
Also, please NEVER use this thing anywhere near a beehive
I got it when I was doing my first expert mode and it carried me through it heavily.
Right as I got into hardmode, I got the orange one and then some parts of the game nearly became a cakewalk.
10/10 would recommend.
Great vid, can't wait to see more terraria content!
Thanks for watching! :)
I remember my first playthrough I found the grey zapinator on my first traveling merchant and bought it. It confused the hell out of me and I killed the wall of flesh with it
When I was testing the orange zapnitor i got 10 times damage and CRIT but the beam kept teleporting into the dummy causing the DPS to be 50k
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This was great, keep up the good work. Also, side note, this guy called aggressive bungee goes more in-depth about the zapinators if you're interested
I remember me and my friend used it in pre-hm, we were so happy to get it and it carried us to hardmode
I love hoy your videos feel like a documentary
I had this video playing in the background as I beat daytime EoL, it shall now be one of the most special videos to me
I remember when i was playing mage once and mauled skeletron prime with a zapinator(idk exactly but i guess by the damage it was the orange one) that somehow dealt 28k dps by a lucky shot, wasnt so lucky for skeletrons head tho
I bought the Grey Zapinator on my 3rd day in Calamity and I hadn't used it before, didn't realise it had innate punchthrough and it melted the king slime
Looks like they are based on the nes pistols
A cool Easter egg
You have some of the coolest highest quality videos on terraria I have seen recently. Keep up the great work bro😁
I appreciate the positive feedback! Thanks for watching :)
my guess is that the glitching projectiles was actually an unfixable bug so re-logic decided to keep it as a feature lmao
No, because then there wouldn't be specific chances for each projectile type. The glitches were most likely on purpose because on older versions, the zapinator was known to be very buggy. I could be wrong though
It's referencing the fact that the original zapinator was overpowered ("broken", it one-shot anything and was a developer item) so they took the pun and made it into the feature of the rereleased weapon, making it act like it doesn't work properly.
gray zapinator is awesome. It has a chance to slow the bullet and can hit multiple time on an enemy that take no knockback (like bosses)
I didn’t know that Zapinator was broken until I was playing calamity, consumed rage and adrenaline, hit a crit and got the Zapinator x10
It was miraculous and I couldn’t comprehend how tf did I oneshot the Eye, 10/10 weapon I will absolutely use it every time.
I didn't knew it was glitched and only noticed when random laser desided to attack bee queen larvae somewhere off screen
I remember preparing for WoF as mage with the Zapinator, and I literally fired one shot, and suddenly, the battle was over. This thing is nuts, and gets even more crazy when you get the Orange Zapinator
even if you didnt get lucky, its power would be close to star cannon's against WoF, so you would have been fine.
aint no way, the merchant spawned in with this about a minute after I killed the eye of cthulu for the first time, what is my luck
Ah the good ol' gray zapinator. I love this thing and can literally ONE SHOT THE WALL OF FLESH WITH IT, and I'm not exaggeration. On my third shot, the WoF just suddenly died.
Love your videos man and all the effort you put into them. I’m glad I found your TH-cam channel :) Keep it up 👍
I’ve recently used the zapinator and it made quick work of queen bee and skeletron
the first time i saw the Grey Zapinator being used was when a friend (known for their bad internet) got one in earrrrly pre-hardmode and i thought the random projectiles were because of connection issues
Is no one gonna talk about how these look like the guns you use to play duck hunt on the NES
It is as good as you say. It's the Mage's version of the star cannon.
I was going summoner in my drunk world playthrough and a traveling merchant was selling the grey zapinator and I was like : SCREW BEING A SUMMONER, WHERES THE METEORITE?
I love your content man, i really do. The amount of effort you put into this is amazing.
Vid idea:
Can you talk about the 5 most unusual/underrated items in terraria?
Kinda like the top 5 worst items
Noted!
I saw a video about zapinator and they're nuts, after that I started visiting any TM for a zapinator, and I got lucky with the TM rng and got the orange one in a few terraria days
I finally beat my first mech boss with orange zapinator, The Twins
The zapinator is always an unusual item in terraria. At first it was removed from the game then later added with 2 versions. It has those random ways of doing things that when using it you may get lucky and it does a lot of damage or unlucky and do little damage.
We need a zapinator playthrough. Start with a grey zapinator, and use nothing but zapinators to beat the Moon Lord.
Got this weapon by chance in master mode. Eviscerated wall of flesh and didn’t know what happened, which brought me here
i had totaly forgotten that they even existed in the first place
woah i remember watching this dude when he only had like 1k subs this channels grown so much! :D
he’s still underrated tho
can you do long content
I love the style
As a person with a serious gambling problem, I love the zapinator
I once had the zapinator oneshot skeleton due to the rare slow 10x damage slowdown projectile which absolutely decimated him du to his large hitbox.
there was a clip on reddit of someone rolling the 10x damage multiplier plud exrta projectiles to oneshot skeletron
The Orange Zapinator looks a lot like the Zapper Light Gun, a peripheral device.
The orange zapinator carried me through hardmode up until my first battle against the Moon Lord, and I got it before beating Skeletron Prime and the Destroyer
I am doing a magic gun only playthrough and got the Orange Zapinator as soon as I entered hardmode. It is so good, it easily took down all 3 Mechs and Plantera. Some of if no the easiest fights I've ever had.
Great vid - Good work Sockrteez!
if you played Splatoon, or Duckhunt at all, you instantly know what weapon this is familiar to
If you are lucky enough you can kill moon lord
I can one shot
I found one of these my first time getting a travelling merchant and passed it up, saw this video, regretted it. And the very next merchant I get. Low and behold the grey zapinator again.
the orange zappy boy carried me thru the twins and skeletron prime, tried being fair but kept getting railed like reily reid
I like how the tooltip acknowledges that
I accidentally summoned the wall of flash while building the bridge in for the worthy master mode and then I one shot it with the gray zapinator. I shat a brick in disbelief of what just happened and also because it turned into a blood moon in hardmode where all of my stupid npcs jumped out of the wraith proof house except for the zoologist.
I actually used the orange zapinator in hard mode and it helped big time with the mechanical bosses.
Zapinator and Counterweight are some of the only weapons that are fun but actually PRACTICAL as well, along with being stupid
this weapon is basically gambling but condensed into the shape of a laser gun.
The DPS is a bit overstated. Yes, it's definitely stronger than the space gun on single targets, but it's not twice as strong. The DPS meter doesn't show very accurate numbers on very slow weapons since it stops tracking DPS after a fraction of a second. That means that part of the time you're not hitting the target isn't considered for the calculation of the DPS, which leads to inflated DPS numbers.
The gray zapinator SHREDS the wof I was playing master mode with a friend (on drunk seed if that even matters) AND IT JUST DECIMATES the poor thing!
Edit: Also I love the new profile picture sockrteez and keep up with the amazing content!
I’m happy you like it! Thanks for watching :)
These weapons are fantastic and I always like to use them if given the chance. I got the orange zapinator in a recent playthrough and although I haven't used it against any bosses I like to occasionally use it against enemies just because it's a fun bit of chaos and a weapon unlike any other(well, except for the gray zapinator of course.).
And the pew-matic gun from deerclops, it fires random projectiles each time you shoot and depending what it shoots results in varying damage each shot, its super fun you should try it out
I was lucky enough to get a grey zapinator fairly early in a master mode "get fixed boi" world I'm playing through with my friend. Has carried so far, and I don't know I'll be switching to anything else any time soon
I lagged while taking down Skeletron with this thing with my buddies and all the projectiles gathered in one spot and he hit it, after my connection got better it did 30,000 damage in a second. So if your struggling to kill a boss grab one of these and switch to century link
congrats on 6 and 7k
I used it againts the destroyer (orange one) because i didnt have anymore holy arrows left, so i had no choice but to use it, IT DE-STROYED THE DESTROYER.
my friend and I were playing an expert world and he got the gray zapinator and the slime staff AND the binoculars in the same hour without grinding.
Luck incarnate, condensed into a pew pew gun.
Even getting it is dictated by Lady Luck.
I use the orange zapinator to execute mi friends when they're afk sometimes, since it's so random they might die or might not you never know what would happen, they might get sent to the backrooms if they are unlucky
Ah yes, the Zapinator
I love this thing, even though no one uses it
I recently started my first master mode world and got soo lucky the TM had it in stock!
Once i was farming King Slime and only shot 3 shots and the 3rd one killed it instantly!
This weapon would be viable if the travelling merchant were to actually sell it
Fun fact: before you could get the zapinator in all versions of terraria, the zapinator was available in the 3ds version of terraria, sort of?
Zapinator my beloved
I literally just used it on fishron on master mode today, using titanium armor, its that overpowered
I have never used the grey zapinator but I have used the orange zapinator and it carried me through the 2 other mech bosses
i got the orange one as soon as i entered hard mode like the same day that i killed the wof and before that i got the grey one on my 5 or 6 day on terraria and fun fact this is my first playthrough so it helped a lot and btw my highest crit was about 10 to 11k and i hit it 2 times it straight up sent skeletron prime to half ish hp
good video my friend, ive never found this weapon
i encountered more than 4 merchant than sold me a zapinator
nooooooooo you cant one-shot the king slim-
haha funny gun go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
You should’ve mentioned the origins of it. For people who want to quickly know it was a overpowered developer weapon that was used to test Terraria on the 3DS without annoying interruptions.
As a tribute to it they added in either 1.4 or 1.4.1 update
hey sockrteez your videos are really interesting and i really like them! btw can you tell me how does your game run
so smoothly id really appreciate it if you tell me :)
Thanks for watching! Err I can't think of anything that would make my Terraria run more smoothly than others. It could be that I have frame skip on subtle. So many be try that :)
I got the orange version of thoda weapon without knowing what it did, i was interested when it dealt 1000 damage
In my first 1.4 playthroughth I get orange zapinator in like 1st or 2nd merchant and it was amazing time on early hardmode
orange zapinator can carry you to plantera if you are lucky
With max luck mod, RNGesus will bless you constantly
Only weapon that could (theoretically) kill a dungeon guardian in 1 hit with no crazy prep; you’d just need to get absurdly lucky :p
I have both the orange and grey one I found the orange one right aftrr I entered hard mode but the gray one I had pre hardmode unfortunately its true power on mobile is overshadowed by how awful it is to fire due to the controls and not everyday do I wanna lock on to the enemy or die trying because I keep locking onto somr random critter making it extremely hard to use on mobile
History: the zapinator is based off of the zapper that came out eith the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) the NES came with these specific things: the console, a battery powered toy robot named R.O.B, duck hunt cartridge, and the zapper. it was originally used for duck hunt but it was almost always broken and never worked right and it may explain the reason for the text "Might be broken" when reading the description of the zapinator there was also an orange version of the zapper which corrosponded with the japanese NES the Famicom.