“ | 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
Shadow Midas' Drum Gun is an Assault Weapon in Fortnite: Battle Royale. It was added in Chapter 2: Season 4. It is a Mythic version of the Drum Gun.
Functionality[]
Like its original counterpart, Shadow Midas' Drum Gun is a fully automatic, fast firing, closer ranged weapon. It is best used like an SMG, dealing high amounts of damage in a close quarters environment, but being much weaker at extended ranges due to poor accuracy. As it stands, Shadow Midas' Drum Gun plays closer to a Submachine Gun than an Assault Weapon, similar to the Light Machine Gun.
Stats[]
Shadow Midas' Drum Gun uses Medium Bullets and has a headshot multiplier of 1.5x.
SHADOW MIDAS' DRUM GUN (Mythic) | |
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DPS | 204 |
DAMAGE | 24 |
MAGAZINE SIZE | 0 |
FIRE RATE | 8.5 |
RELOAD TIME | 2.7s |
STRUCTURE DAMAGE | 24 |
Shadow Midas' Drum Gun is a '''hitscan''' weapon. It does not have '''First Shot Accuracy''' Enabled.
Obtained[]
From when the weapon was last obtained in Chapter 2: Season 4:
Shadow Midas' Drum Gun could only be obtained by eliminating Shadow Midas at The Ruins. Only one of it spawns per match because of this.
Strategy Guide[]
- Shadow Midas' Drum Gun is essentially an SMG in all but name, so it should be used accordingly.
- Pairing Shadow Midas' Drum Gun with a high-damage, slow-firing shotgun, such as the Pump Shotgun or Charge Shotgun, is an excellent combo. Fire your shotgun shot, then quickly switch to Shadow Midas' Drum Gun to finish the opponent off.
- The high DPS of Shadow Midas' Drum Gun paired with its high capacity makes it a great choice for destroying opponents' build pieces at close range.
- If the opponent is hiding behind a wall, you can destroy it with Shadow Midas' Drum Gun and replace it with your own wall, then edit the wall to get off a strong shotgun shot or spray at the opponent further with Shadow Midas' Drum Gun.
Weapon ID[]
Shadow Midas' Drum Gun is referred to as Ghost Midas in the files.
- Mythic: WID_Boss_GhostMidas
History[]
Chapter 2: Season 4[]
- Update v14.40: Added Shadow Midas' Drum Gun alongside the Shadow Midas boss.
- Update v14.50: Vaulted Shadow Midas' Drum Gun alongside the Shadow Midas boss.
Chapter 3: Season 1[]
- Update v19.00 (December 13th 2021): Shadow Midas' Drum Gun has been added to Creative. It has several bugs due to some files for it being removed.
Chapter 4: Season 4[]
- Update v26.00: The Shadow effect on the weapon’s model no longer covers the entire gun (issue).
Chapter 5: Season 1[]
- Update v28.00: Fixed the weapon’s animations.
Trivia[]
- Shadow Midas’ Drum Gun along with Jules' Drum Gun and Midas' Drum Gun have identical statistics and function.
- Currently the gun is bugged for several reasons. These included:
- The weapon used to make "ghostly" noises when fired, however this noise no longer plays if used in current versions as the sound files for it were removed.
- The weapon used to have a shadowy flame effect coming off it (seen in it's icon) which no longer appears as the files for it were removed.
- Ever since it was added to Creative, the message displayed in the Killfeed incorrectly calls it: "Ghost Midas' Drum Gun."
- Since Chapter 4: Season 4 The Shadow effect on the weapon’s model no longer covers the entire gun.
- Shadow Midas’ Drum Gun has Newton's equation on the second law of motion (f=ma) on the back of it, similar to Jules’ Drum Gun. However this isn’t normally supposed to be visible as the Weapon’s Shadow Effects cover it.
- For many Seasons, the weapon's animations were broken, causing the charging bolt to never move and the magazine to never be pulled out when reloading. This bug was fixed with the launch of Chapter 5: Season 1.