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This subject appears in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter.  This subject appears in Serious Sam HD: The Second Encounter. 

 
"Watch out, those screaming blockheads are carrying some sort of weapon with them!"
NETRICSA to Sam[src]
 

The Rotating Cannon is an autonomous artillery weapon that appears in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter and various remakes of the game.

Overview[]

The rotating cannon is a medieval cannon that has been modified by Mental after he was amazed with the concept of Sam's most powerful weapon, and decided to make something similar. He enhanced an ordinary medieval cannon with an auto-loading system, a radar and ammunition replenisher, making it an effective and dangerous stand-alone defense unit.

Unlike the Static Cannon, the rotating cannon can rotate 180 degrees on its base; if it detects the player while it is spinning around, it will fire a small but fast cannonball at them. As these cannonballs share the same damage statistics and piercing power as the player's cannonballs, the rotating cannon's projectiles can deal a lot of damage to an unsuspecting player, and can easily take away a lot of health and/or armor or even instantly gib the player (usually happens if the cannonball is moving at high speeds) if the cannon is not destroyed soon enough. In Serious Sam HD, the cannonballs are significantly weaker, as they do 75 base damage to the player (50 from the direct impact + 25 from splash damage) instead.

Appearances[]

Like the static cannon, the rotating cannon is fairly rare, and only appears in Land of the Damned and The Grand Cathedral, where they are often placed in far away places, such as on the top of buildings or walls. They are often placed in pairs of three, though more are encountered on higher difficulties. The first instance of rotating cannons is in the Christmas valley in Land of the Damned, where two rotating cannons are deployed by Beheaded Kamikazes onto the battlefield to assist during the large fight before the player makes it to the second village.

Application[]

Rotating cannon on wall

A rotating cannon positioned on top of a wall in Serious Sam HD.

The rotating cannon is often positioned in faraway places such as on the top of buildings or walls. This gives the cannon an advantage and a much wider field of view to be able to locate its target. The cannonballs it fires can travel at great speed and distance, which makes the cannon a great threat to the player should they get caught in its line of fire.

Tactics[]

  • As with the static cannon, the RAPTOR is the best anti-rotating cannon weapon, as it will destroy it in a single shot (two in the classic releases) if it is shot while zoomed. This is the ultimate weapon and should always be used against both rotating and static cannons whenever possible.
  • If the player is low on sniper ammo, they can also use the XL2 Lasergun, XPML21 Rocket Launcher or XM214-A Minigun against it.
  • Rotating cannons aren't always encountered alone, so the player should expect to fight more when they see a cannonball whizzing past them.
  • If the player is playing on Classics Revolution and has found the secret CDF-ST-005 Plasmathrower in The Citadel, they can use the weapon's alternate fire mode on the cannon from a distance; one shot is enough to take it out.
  • The rotating cannon is a high-priority target and should be destroyed as quickly as possible. Its cannonballs can deal a huge amount of damage and easily kill the player on higher difficulty settings, and their rotating mechanism makes it easier for them to detect and shoot at the player. The rotating cannon makes it harder to avoid other enemy projectiles, as the player needs to juggle avoiding the rotating cannon's line of sight and its projectiles.

Related achievements[]

Serious Sam VR: The Second Encounter[]

Achievement Mine's bigger than yours SSVRTSE
Mine's bigger than yours
Destroy an enemy cannon with your own cannon.

Serious Sam Fusion[]

Achievement Mine's bigger than yours SSF
Mine's bigger than yours
Destroy an enemy cannon with your own cannon.

Trivia[]

  • Like the static cannon, the rotating cannon has a NETRICSA description in Serious Sam: The Second Encounter, but not in Serious Sam HD. Its description is in the game's files in Serious Sam HD, but it never appears in-game. This is fixed in Serious Sam Fusion.
  • The rotating cannon's cannonballs use the same model as the player's own cannonballs, but they are smaller in size.

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