Qirex Prototype

Qirex Prototype
Team
League	AGRC
Speed	▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯ 6
Handling	▮▮▮▮▮▮▯▯▯▯ 6
Health	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ 10
Firepower	▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮▮ 10
Base Model	Fighter
Features	Armed with Miniguns that can fire up to 30 rounds in a single succession and reload themselves by 10 rounds every 3 seconds Unable to pick up any Weapons from Weapon Pads
How to Unlock	Get at least PASS on Empire Climb Combat Prototype Challenge

The Qirex Prototype is a ship featured in Wipeout 2048.

Description

The team at Qirex stripped out the loading bays from their ship, replacing it with an experimental rack of 50-cal miniguns. While unable to pick up any other weapons, the Qirex Prototype carries enough ammo to last any type of event, making it one of the most deadly ships out there.

Overview

Watch out, there's a killer machine on the grid! The Qirex Prototype is fitted with a pair of auto-reloading miniguns attached to its sides. While they function very similarly to Cannon, these miniguns are far more powerful, as a single magazine of 30 rounds is more than enough to destroy even the toughest ship on the grid! But there's another plus – this ship has the same turning radius as the AG Systems Fighter and is as tough as the Auricom Fighter. Still, the Qirex Prototype is not without drawbacks, one of which is the inability to pick up anything from weapon pads. Besides, the miniguns' reloading mechanism leaves much to be desired, as it takes 3 seconds to recover a clip of 10 rounds, and absorbing all 30 rounds only restores approximately 20% of the ship's health. Thus, you must carefully decide when to absorb the clip, so as to maintain this ship's health, otherwise it can take a long time to get it back as you will be left vulnerable to the opposition's weapon fire.

Gallery

Qirex Prototype in action

Trivia

• The ship's unique miniguns may likely foreshadow the machine gun cheat from Wipeout 2097 and the use of super weapons in the F5000 and F9000 leagues.
  • It may also foreshadow FEISAR's super weapon in Wipeout 64 (also referred to as the Mini-Gun), which is notably similar, except that it is a single-barreled minigun that fires rounds continuously.
  • Ironically, despite Qirex boasting the best weapons technology in the AGRC, their super weapon (Power Snare) in the F5000 is considered to be the least impressive in 64.
• Oncoming rounds from the ship's miniguns will cause the announcer in Wipeout Omega Collection to treat it like the Cannon, which makes sense, as it is a cannon-based weapon.
• The bullets and particle effects when firing are much heavier and much more visible than on the standard Cannon.
• To unlock the The Unlucky 7 trophy, use this ship to destroy all AI ships by yourself before crossing the finish line during a single event. It's highly recommended to attempt it in the very first event (Empire Climb Class C Race without weapons). Basically, all weapon pads are off, but not the Miniguns built onto the Qirex Prototype.
• The Omega Collection reveals that Qirex Prototype has a Firepower stat of 50, i.e. equivalent to a 5 in 2048, similar to all Prototype class ships. Since the miniguns are so powerful and also the only weapon available to the ship, this stat appears to be completely irrelevant.
• The reason for the Qirex Prototype's superior handling and enhanced durability compared to its original counterpart, the Qirex Fighter, is because of its lighter figure, with its chassis and body made of bare carbon fiber (as is the case of every other Prototype ship) and the removal of the standard weapons loadout seen in Fighter ships. This makes sense as carbon fiber is both strong and lightweight at the same time.