Neutralizer is 
Cyte-09's Exalted Sniper Rifle, summoned by activating the ability 
Neutralize. Primary fire shoots sniper shots that ricochet on weak points, while its Alternate Fire lobs a 
Cold grenade.
Characteristics
- This weapon deals primarily
Puncture damage on its primary fire and pure Cold on its Alternate Fire. - Can use the sniper-exclusive
Target Acquired and Sharpshooter mods. - Innate
and 
polarities.
Advantages:
- Primary fire shoots sniper rounds.
- Shots ricochet on weak point hits up to 4 times within
10 meters of the target, with a damage loss of 20% per ricochet. - Very high critical chance and critical multiplier.
- Innate 2.5 meters punch through.
- Three zoom modes:
- First zoom has 2.5x zoom distance and +40% critical damage multiplier.
- Second zoom has 4.0x zoom distance and +60% critical damage multiplier.
- Third zoom has 8.0x zoom distance and +80% critical damage multiplier.
- Shots ricochet on weak point hits up to 4 times within
- Alternate Fire launches a grenade that explodes in a 10 meter radius, inflicting 10 Cold stacks and leaves a lingering field for 5 seconds.
- High critical chance.
Disadvantages:
- Requires
5 energy to activate. Primary fire shots consume 10 energy, while Alternate Fire consumes 20 energy and 3 ammo. - Primary Fire:
- Low status chance.
- Alternate Fire:
- Low damage.
- 0% status chance.
- Projectile has travel time with heavy arcing.
- As an Exalted Weapon, it cannot benefit from, nor contribute to the set bonus of any Set Mods.
- That said, the Vigilante Set bonus will apply regardless of whether or not it is equipped onto the Neutralizer itself (e.g. on a Sentinel's Laser Rifle).
- Cannot equip critical related Acolyte Mods (e.g. Argon Scope) or Amalgam Mods (e.g. Amalgam Serration).
- This includes mods based on these Acolyte mods, such as Galvanized Scope.
- This includes mods based on these Acolyte mods, such as
- Does not have an Exilus slot.
- Cannot equip Primary Arcane Enhancements.
Notes
- Neutralizer uses Rifle Mods and can equip Sniper mods.
- Neutralizer appears in the Arsenal after unlocking Cyte-09's Neutralize ability.
- Despite the UI indicating otherwise when modding, the alternate fire forces Cold and cannot be altered by elemental mods.
Tips
- Synergizes with Spectral Serration and Primary Acuity due to
Evade and 
Seek respectively.
Trivia
- Despite being an exalted weapon, Neutralizer can equip skins meant for normal Sniper Rifles.
Patch History
Update 38.0 (2024-12-13)
- Introduced.
See Also
- Neutralize, the ability that summons the weapon.
- Cyte-09, the weapon's user.
