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| “ | Assault Weapon: A heavy weapon with high damage, an extreme rate of fire, and a huge magazine size. Very inaccurate unless aiming down sights from a fixed position, and firing in short bursts.
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- — In-Game Description
Drum Gun is an Assault Weapon in Fortnite: Battle Royale, that was added in Season 4.
Drum Gun has four Mythic variants called Midas' Drum Gun (OG), Jules' Drum Gun, Shadow Midas' Drum Gun, and Snoop Dogg's Drum Gun.
Functionality[]
Drum Gun is a fully automatic, fast firing, closer ranged weapon dealing high amounts of damage in a close quarters environment, but being much weaker at extended ranges due to poor accuracy.
Drum Gun uses 
Medium Bullets and has a headshot multiplier of 1.5x, is a Hitscan weapon and doesn't have the First Shot Accuracy enabled.
The Drum Gun can be reloaded whilst aiming.
Drum Gun in action
Stats[]
|
Drum Gun (Uncommon) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 168 |
| DAMAGE | 21 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 40 |
| FIRE RATE | 8 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3.15s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 21 |
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|
Drum Gun (Rare) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 176 |
| DAMAGE | 22 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 40 |
| FIRE RATE | 8 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 22 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Epic) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 184 |
| DAMAGE | 23 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 40 |
| FIRE RATE | 8 |
| RELOAD TIME | 2.85s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 23 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Legendary) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 192 |
| DAMAGE | 24 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 40 |
| FIRE RATE | 8 |
| RELOAD TIME | 2.7s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 24 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Uncommon) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 198 |
| DAMAGE | 22 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 50 |
| FIRE RATE | 9 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3.15s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 22 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Rare) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 207 |
| DAMAGE | 23 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 50 |
| FIRE RATE | 9 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 23 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Uncommon) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 176 |
| DAMAGE | 22 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 40 |
| FIRE RATE | 8 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3.15s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 22 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Rare) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 184 |
| DAMAGE | 23 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 40 |
| FIRE RATE | 8 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 23 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Uncommon) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 234 |
| DAMAGE | 26 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 50 |
| FIRE RATE | 9 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3.15s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 26 |
|
|
Drum Gun (Rare) |
|---|---|
| DPS | 243 |
| DAMAGE | 27 |
| MAGAZINE SIZE | 50 |
| FIRE RATE | 9 |
| RELOAD TIME | 3s |
| STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 27 |
Sounds[]
 Drum Gun Sounds
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sounds | ID | |||
| Pickup | Rifle_Pickup
| |||
| Equipe | Weapon_Drumgun_ReloadEnd
| |||
| Aiming | In | Weapon_MILRIFLE_ADS_IN_01Weapon_MILRIFLE_ADS_IN_02Weapon_MILRIFLE_ADS_IN_XX
| ||
| Out | Weapon_MILRIFLE_ADS_OUT_01Weapon_MILRIFLE_ADS_OUT_02Weapon_MILRIFLE_ADS_OUT_XX
| |||
| Shooting | Close | Drumgun_Fire_Close_01Drumgun_Fire_Close_02Drumgun_Fire_Close_03Drumgun_Fire_Close_05Drumgun_Fire_Close_XX
| ||
| Medium | Drumgun_Fire_Medium_01Drumgun_Fire_Medium_02Drumgun_Fire_Medium_03Drumgun_Fire_Medium_XXDrumgun_Fire_MediumNew_01Drumgun_Fire_MediumNew_02Drumgun_Fire_MediumNew_03Drumgun_Fire_MediumNew_XX
| |||
| Distant | Drumgun_Fire_Distant_01Drumgun_Fire_DistantNew_01
| |||
| Reload | Start | Weapon_Drumgun_ReloadStart
| ||
| Insert | Weapon_Drumgun_ReloadInsert
| |||
| End | Weapon_Drumgun_ReloadEnd
| |||
| Out of Ammo | Rifle_OutofAmmo_01Rifle_OutofAmmo_02Rifle_OutofAmmo_03Rifle_OutofAmmo_04Rifle_OutofAmmo_XX
| |||
| Drop | Weapon_Generic_Drop_AR_01Weapon_Generic_Drop_AR_02Weapon_Generic_Drop_AR_03Weapon_Generic_Drop_AR_04Weapon_Generic_Drop_AR_XX
| |||
Weapon ID[]
Drum Gun is referred to as Assault Auto Drum in the files.
- Uncommon: WID_Assault_AutoDrum_Athena_UC_Ore_T03
- Rare: WID_Assault_AutoDrum_Athena_R_Ore_T03
History[]
Season 4[]
Update v4.50[]
- Introduced.
Season 5[]
Update v5.20[]
- Falloff range damage reduced from 80% to 70% at 3500 units.
- Falloff range damage reduced from 65% to 55% at 5000+ units.
- Added environmental damage fall off matching player damage fall off.
- Jumping accuracy decreased by 5%.
- Targeting accuracy decreased by 10%.
- Spawn rate reduced from chests and floor loot by 40%.
Update v5.40[]
Season 8[]
Update v8.01[]
- Introduced in Fortnite: Creative.
The Unvaulting Event[]
- Unvaulted after a community choice.
Season 9[]
Update v9.01[]
- Damage reduced from 26/27 to 22/23.
Content Update v9.30[]
- Fire rate reduced from 9 to 8.
- Magazine size reduced from 50 to 40.
Season X[]
Update v10.20[]
Chapter 2: Season 1[]
Update v11.00[]
- Structure damage falloff was removed.
Update v11.31[]
- December 19th 2019: Unvaulted.
- December 20th 2019: Vaulted.
- January 1st 2020: Unvaulted.
- January 2nd 2020: Vaulted.
Chapter 2: Season 3[]
Update v13.00[]
- Damage reduced from 22/23 to 21/22.
Chapter 5: Season 2[]
Update v29.10[]
- The name was changed from Drum Gun to Legacy Drum Gun.
Chapter 2 Remix[]
Update v32.00[]
- Unvaulted.
- The name was changed from "Legacy Drum Gun" to Drum Gun".
Trivia[]
- Drum Gun resembles the M1928 Thompson Submachine Gun.[1]
- Drum Gun is based on Save the World's Typewriter, using the same icon and model.
- Drum Gun was the winner of the The Unvaulting Event.
- The Drum Gun has the most Mythic variants out of all weapons in Fortnite, with a total of four: Midas' Drum Gun (OG), Jules' Drum Gun, Shadow Midas' Drum Gun, and Snoop Dogg's Drum Gun.
- If we count the Chapter 1 weapon, the Drum Gun has in total seven version of itself (Drum Gun ,Midas' Drum Gun (OG), Jules' Drum Gun, Shadow Midas' Drum Gun, Snoop Dogg's Drum Gun, Modular Drum Gun and Midas' Modular Drum Gun).
