Stinger

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Stinger
Lore info
Ammunition	Tarydium shards
Game info
Type	Projectile
Appears in	Unreal Unreal Mission Pack: Return to Na Pali Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict Unreal Tournament 3 Unreal Tournament 4
Properties
Primary Fire	Rapid fire of Tarydium shards.
Primary Fire	Rapid fire of Tarydium shards.
Secondary Fire	Shotgun-like spread (U1/RTNP) Slow but painful (and pinning) shard. (UC2/UT3)
Secondary Fire	Shotgun-like spread (U1/RTNP) Slow but painful (and pinning) shard. (UC2/UT3)

The Stinger is a weapon from the Unreal series. In later installments, the Stinger appears in the form of a Stinger Minigun.

Overview

It was originally designed to be a mining tool by the Liandri Mining Corporation. It launches small tarydium shards to carve away unwanted rock. It was discovered to be a decent offensive device and was weaponized. Primary fire immediately causes the gun to fire Tarydium shards at a quick rate. Secondary fire makes the Stinger shoot out loads of shards at a time, but has a slow rate of fire.

Unreal and Unreal Mission Pack: Return to Na Pali

Stinger
Game info
Type	Projectile
Properties
Primary Fire	14
Primary Fire	14
Secondary Fire	14-76
Secondary Fire	14-76
Ammo
Weapon Ammo	40
Weapon Ammo	40
Pickup Ammo	40
Pickup Ammo	40
Maximum Ammo	200
Maximum Ammo	200
Death messages
Weapon fire	"<Fragged> was perforated by <Fragger>'s Stinger."
Weapon fire	"<Fragged> was perforated by <Fragger>'s Stinger."

"Proving that hostility is the mother of invention, the Stinger is actually a Tarydium mining tool converted to a deadly weapon. In primary fire mode, this weapon demands a relatively high degree of marksmanship, but the wider projectile spread of the secondary fire mode requires considerably less precision."

– Unreal manual

Primary fire	Fast, narrow stream of Tarydium shards.
Secondary fire	Spurt of five shards at once, slow reload.
Source: Unreal manual

The Stinger's primary function is a projectile-based machine-gun, throwing out a steady and fairly accurate stream of blue tarydium crystal shards. It can also throw out a half a dozen shards in one wide-angle spread shot, doing medium damage at close range; unfortunately, this shot causes a significant delay before the weapon can be fired again.

The Stinger holds an interesting place in the arsenal of Unreal: as a rapid-fire weapon it's less powerful than the Minigun and can be harder to score hits with compared to that hitscan weapon; as a "shotgun" it's weaker than the Flak Cannon and tends to have a shorter effective range. Balancing this is its early availability and plentiful ammo in the original campaign.

Unreal Championship 2: The Liandri Conflict

Stinger
Lore info
Ammunition	Energy Ammo
Game info
Type	Projectile
Death messages
Primary fire	"<Fragger> filled <Fragged> with holes."
Primary fire	"<Fragger> filled <Fragged> with holes."
Secondary fire	"<Fragged> was allergic to <Fragger>'s stinger."
Secondary fire	"<Fragged> was allergic to <Fragger>'s stinger."

"The stinger is a Liandri mining tool that fires shards of Tarydium crystal. The primary fire shoots these shards at an alarming rate. Continuous fire causes the stinger to overheat, leading to a catalytic process that makes the Tarydium shards even more deadly. The alt-fire shoots larger, semi-sapient shards that will veer towards a locked-on opponent."

– UC2 manual

UC2's Stinger is similar to that of Unreal, but has some added features. Holding down the trigger of the primary fire mode for a while causes the weapons fire to do more damage. The alternate fire mode launches shards to have limited homing capabilities. Like all UC2 weapons the Stinger does not have unique ammo, but uses the Energy Ammo type.

Liandri Rivet Gun

Stinger
Game info
Type	Projectile
Death messages
Primary fire	"<Fragged> enjoyed <Fragger>'s rivets."
Primary fire	"<Fragged> enjoyed <Fragger>'s rivets."
Secondary fire	"<Fragger> nailed <Fragged> to the wall."
Secondary fire	"<Fragger> nailed <Fragged> to the wall."

"Modified construction tool that rapid fires red-hot rivets. Can also fire a spike to stake opponents to the wall."

– UC2 manual

The male Liandri robots (Corrosion, Raptor and Syzygy) have a starting weapon which is basically a Stinger in all but name and visual design.

Unreal Tournament 3

Stinger Minigun
Game info
Types	Hitscan Projectile
Properties
Primary Fire	14 8 (Vehicles) 8 (Nodes)
Primary Fire	14 8 (Vehicles) 8 (Nodes)
Secondary Fire	38 22 (Vehicles) 22 (Nodes)
Secondary Fire	38 22 (Vehicles) 22 (Nodes)
Ammo
Weapon Ammo	100
Weapon Ammo	100
Pickup Ammo	50 (Version 1.0-1.3) 40 (As of Version 2.0)
Pickup Ammo	50 (Version 1.0-1.3) 40 (As of Version 2.0)
Maximum Ammo	300
Maximum Ammo	300

"Replacing the Minigun in this year's Tournament, the 'Stinger' is actually a Liandri mining tool converted into military service. The Stinger fires shards of unprocessed Tarydium crystal at an alarming rate, raking opponents with a storm of deadly needles. The alternate fire shoots larger hunks of crystal that can knock back an opponent, sometimes even pinning them to walls."

– Weapon description

Primary Fire

Rapidly fires unprocessed Tarydium crystal shards. This mode is like traditional miniguns, with hitscan shots and lots of random spread. The first shots fired have slightly longer delays between them, corresponding to fire rates of about 5.8/s, 6.3/s, 7.0/s, 7.7/s and 8.7/s respectively. The full fire rate is reached after about 0.72s. (0.79s for consoles)

Secondary Fire

Fires large, visible chunks of Tarydium. This mode resembles the original Stinger: it's projectiles are certianly not instant hit, so you will have to lead your target a bit. However, it does have a fair bit of knockback, as well as the ability to pin opponents to the walls with a killing shot. As these shots follow a perfect line with no spread, they are useful against distant stationary or slow targets.

The Stinger from the original Unreal replaces the Minigun as a fast firing semi-projectile weapon. The gun has two modes, a fast but inaccurate spread of Tarydium crystal shards that hits instantly, and a slower firing more powerful projectile shot that uses two shards. It appears to have nine barrels, in groups of three. If you fire at a enemy for long enough with the secondary fire mode, you can pin them to a wall.

Related Achievements

	Shard-o-matic  10
	Get the "Blue Streak" award in 10 matches.

Unreal Tournament 4

Stinger Minigun
Game info
Type	Projectile
Death messages
Primary fire	"<Fragged> was mowed down by <Fragger>'s Stinger Minigun."
Primary fire	"<Fragged> was mowed down by <Fragger>'s Stinger Minigun."
Secondary fire	"<Fragged> was eviscerated by <Fragger>'s Stinger Minigun."
Secondary fire	"<Fragged> was eviscerated by <Fragger>'s Stinger Minigun."
Suicide (Male - Primary)	"<Fragged> turned the Stinger Minigun on himself."
Suicide (Male - Primary)	"<Fragged> turned the Stinger Minigun on himself."
Suicide (Male - Secondary)	"<Fragged> stung himself."
Suicide (Male - Secondary)	"<Fragged> stung himself."
Suicide (Female - Primary)	"<Fragged> turned the Stinger Minigun on herself."
Suicide (Female - Primary)	"<Fragged> turned the Stinger Minigun on herself."
Suicide (Female - Secondary)	"<Fragged> stung herself."
Suicide (Female - Secondary)	"<Fragged> stung herself."

Primary Fire

Rapid fire hitscan - good for trackins moving targets. Very deadly with good aim.

Secondary Fire

Slower firing large shards with proximity detonation, good for long range suppression.

The Stinger Minigun remains largely unchanged from UT3.

Trivia

• The Stinger has never made an appearance in any title running on early versions of Unreal Engine 2. The Minigun took its place instead.

Gallery

First-person view (Unreal)

Tarydium shards

Unreal Tournament Stinger minigun guide

UT4 Stinger Minigun guide

Fragging with Zaccubus UT Tutorial how to shard jump

UT4 Stinger Minigun Shard jump guide

See also

• Minigun
• Flak Cannon
• Tarydium