Changes: Cryo

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Cryo weapons can only be found on Pandora's moon because of the frozen methane they require in order to fire. Marcus Kincaid hopes to one day bring this technology to Pandora.

— Tip 83, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel

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Cryo is an elemental damage type introduced in Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel and returning in Borderlands 3. All manufacturers, aside from Torgue (TPS only, as they started making more elemental weapons in BL3), have at least one Cryo elemental weapon.

Cryo elemental weapons are capable of slowing down and/or freezing targets solid. Cryo damage is particularly useful against nimble targets, such as Guardians, where a cryo status effect can freeze them in place to leave them vulnerable. If an airborne target is frozen, it will fall to the ground and receive fall damage, potentially causing it to instantly shatter if enough damage was inflicted.

Effects Against Enemies

Enemies that can suffer a cryo status effect are slowly covered in ice as they freeze solid. While frozen, the enemy cannot attack or move and the effect persists for 6 seconds (unless another cryo status effect is caused), during which time the frozen target will suffer a small amount of damage-over-time. It is possible to determine when an enemy is about to thaw out from its frozen state, as the ice covering its body will begin to vibrate before disappearing.

While frozen, enemies take an additional +250% melee damage, +200% explosive damage, and +200% extra critical hit damage. Cryo weapons against a frozen enemy deals +110% extra critical hit damage.

In the case of a Torgue Gyrojet (capable of inflicting explosive impact and splash damage), both the impact and the Splash are calculated addictively and individually, potentially allowing a critical hit to deal seven times the damage.
The critical hit bonus stacks with the bonus provided by a weapon addictively. For example, a Hyperion SMG will deal 3.5x damage

Cryo attacks inflict full damage against both flesh and armored targets, but suffer a small penalty against all shielded targets n Normal Mode (75% damage) - in True Vault Hunter Mode and Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode, shielded targets gain a significant resistance to cryo damage (40% damage). Enemies with the cryo elemental type cannot be frozen and are heavily resistant. Incendiary elemental effects do not interfere with Cryo in anyway and the opposite is also true. However, certain incendiary enemies, such as the normal Kraggons, are weak to Cryo.

Some enemies, such as Iwajira and most bosses in the game, cannot be frozen solid, but still suffer from cryo damage-over-time and the cryo-associated weapon debuffs, especially the movement speed reduction.

Effects Against Vault Hunters

When a playable Vault Hunter suffers a cryo status effect, the Vault Hunter will not freeze solid but will instead be significantly slowed down, with sprinting speed being slower than the regular running speed. This slowdown typically lasts for 6 seconds but can last longer if the Vault Hunter is standing near a Cryo Vine or is afflicted by another cryo status effect.

Notes

The slowdown inflicted upon Vault Hunters by a cryo damage-over-time can occasionally persist. While rare during normal combat, if a Vault Hunter enters Fight For Your Life while slowed down by cryo damage, the chance of the slowdown persisting is much higher. This effect can be cleared by being afflicted with another cryo status effect (by passing close to a Cryo Vine for example) and waiting for it to wear off again (does not always work). If no source of regaining a cryo status effect is available (or the previous advice does not work), saving and quitting is the only other available option.
- This bug has been fixed as of the March 24th, 2015 patch.

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-'''{{element|Cryo}}''' is an elemental damage type introduced in ''[[Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel]]'' and returning in ''[[Borderlands 3]]''. All manufacturers, aside from [[Torgue]], have at least one Cryo elemental weapon.
+'''{{element|Cryo}}''' is an elemental damage type introduced in ''[[Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel]]'' and returning in ''[[Borderlands 3]]''. All manufacturers, aside from [[Torgue]] (TPS only, as they started making more elemental weapons in BL3), have at least one Cryo elemental weapon.
 Cryo elemental weapons are capable of slowing down and/or freezing targets solid. Cryo damage is particularly useful against nimble targets, such as [[Guardian (enemy)|Guardians]], where a cryo status effect can freeze them in place to leave them vulnerable. If an airborne target is frozen, it will fall to the ground and receive fall damage, potentially causing it to instantly shatter if enough damage was inflicted.
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 Enemies that can suffer a cryo status effect are slowly covered in ice as they freeze solid. While frozen, the enemy cannot attack or move and the effect persists for 6 seconds (unless another cryo status effect is caused), during which time the frozen target will suffer a small amount of damage-over-time. It is possible to determine when an enemy is about to thaw out from its frozen state, as the ice covering its body will begin to vibrate before disappearing.
 While frozen, enemies take an additional +250% [[melee]] damage, +200% {{Element|explosive}} damage, and +200% extra [[critical hit (Borderlands 2)|critical hit]] damage. Cryo weapons against a frozen enemy deals +110% extra critical hit damage.
+* In the case of a Torgue Gyrojet (capable of inflicting explosive impact and splash damage), both the impact and the Splash are calculated addictively and individually, potentially allowing a critical hit to deal seven times the damage.
+* The critical hit bonus stacks with the bonus provided by a weapon addictively. For example, a Hyperion SMG will deal 3.5x damage
-Cryo attacks inflict full damage against both flesh and armored targets, but suffer a small penalty against all shielded targets n Normal Mode (75% damage) - in [[True Vault Hunter Mode]] and [[Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]], shielded targets gain a significant resistance to cryo damage (40% damage). Enemies with the cryo elemental type are immune to the freeze effect and are resistant to the damage type.
+Cryo attacks inflict full damage against both flesh and armored targets, but suffer a small penalty against all shielded targets n Normal Mode (75% damage) - in [[True Vault Hunter Mode]] and [[Ultimate Vault Hunter Mode]], shielded targets gain a significant resistance to cryo damage (40% damage). Enemies with the cryo elemental type cannot be frozen and are heavily resistant. Incendiary elemental effects do not interfere with Cryo in anyway and the opposite is also true. However, certain incendiary enemies, such as the normal Kraggons, are weak to Cryo.
 Some enemies, such as [[Iwajira]] and most bosses in the game, cannot be frozen solid, but still suffer from cryo damage-over-time and the cryo-associated weapon debuffs, especially the movement speed reduction.