Buy Distortion Cannons in Star Citizen

Buy Distortion Cannons in Star Citizen and build a ship loadout focused on disabling enemy systems instead of relying only on conventional hull damage. Choose the exact cannon and size required for your ship, then receive the weapon through a coordinated in-game delivery.

Distortion Cannons deal distortion damage that interferes with powered ship components. They are particularly useful for disable-focused combat, bounty hunting and situations where keeping the target ship intact matters more than destroying it outright.

What Are Distortion Cannons in Star Citizen?

Distortion Cannons are energy-based ship weapons that attack the target's electrical and component systems rather than functioning like conventional ballistic or laser cannons. Their purpose is to build distortion effects on powered systems and temporarily take affected components offline.

This makes them useful for pilots who want to disable a target before boarding, capturing or finishing the engagement with another weapon type. Distortion damage is not a replacement for normal hull damage, so mixed weapon loadouts can be more practical when you still need reliable physical or energy damage.

Choose the Right Distortion Cannon Size

The weapon size must match the hardpoint available on your ship or turret. Selecting the correct size is therefore the first step when building a distortion loadout.

S1: the Joker Engineering Suckerpunch Cannon is the current small distortion cannon option.

S2: pilots can choose between the Joker Suckerpunch-L Cannon and the Behring EVSD Cannon. Both are Size 2 distortion weapons, but they are separate models and should be selected according to the intended loadout.

S3: the Suckerpunch-XL is Joker Engineering's larger distortion cannon for Size 3 weapon hardpoints.

If you are unsure which weapon fits your ship, provide the ship model when ordering so the hardpoint can be checked before delivery.

Current Star Citizen Distortion Cannons

Suckerpunch Distortion Cannons

Joker Engineering's Suckerpunch family covers the main Size 1 to Size 3 progression for distortion cannons. These weapons are built specifically around draining and disrupting the target's power systems instead of inflicting conventional physical hull damage.

The Suckerpunch Cannon covers S1 hardpoints, the Suckerpunch-L moves the same concept to S2, and the Suckerpunch-XL provides the S3 option. This makes the family convenient when building similar disable-focused setups across different ship sizes.

EVSD Cannon

The EVSD is Behring Applied Technology's Size 2 distortion cannon. It provides an alternative to the Suckerpunch-L for ships using S2 weapon mounts.

Current 4.10.1 data lists the EVSD as a Grade A S2 distortion weapon available from several weapon vendors in Stanton. Because both the EVSD and Suckerpunch-L occupy S2 hardpoints, they should be offered as separate weapon choices rather than as different sizes of the same product.

How Distortion Damage Works

Distortion damage is designed around disrupting active ship systems. As distortion builds on affected components, those systems can be forced offline until the accumulated distortion effect decays and the component recovers.

This creates a different combat objective from pure DPS. Instead of simply reducing hull health as quickly as possible, distortion builds are intended to compromise the target's ability to continue operating effectively.

The exact interaction depends on current shield, component and power-management mechanics, so shutdown times and combat effectiveness can change with balance updates.

Distortion Cannon vs Laser Cannon

Laser Cannons are conventional energy weapons intended to deal direct combat damage. Distortion Cannons use the ship's weapon capacitor as well, but their damage is focused on system disruption rather than normal destructive damage.

A pilot choosing between them should first decide whether the objective is to destroy the target or disable it. A mixed loadout can also combine normal damage with distortion pressure when the ship has enough compatible hardpoints.

Distortion Cannon vs Distortion Scattergun

Distortion Cannons should also be kept separate from Distortion Scatterguns. Cannons fire focused projectiles and are better suited to deliberate ranged hits, while scatterguns use a spread pattern designed around closer engagements.

This product includes Distortion Cannons only. Distortion Scatterguns should remain in their own weapon product to avoid mixing two different combat and search intents.

Capacitor and Ammunition

Distortion Cannons do not use a conventional ballistic ammunition magazine. They draw from the ship's weapon power and capacitor system, with available shots and recharge behavior depending on the weapon and ship configuration.

That means a distortion build does not require ballistic ammunition restocking, but weapon capacitor allocation becomes part of sustained combat performance.

How Distortion Cannon Delivery Works

Select the exact distortion cannon model and quantity required for your ship. If you are not certain about compatibility, add your ship model to the order so the intended hardpoint can be checked before delivery.

Our team will coordinate an available server and meeting location and transfer the selected ship weapons through an appropriate in-game handoff method.

You remain on your own Star Citizen account throughout standard delivery. Your RSI password is not required.

For other ship guns and loadout components, browse our Star Citizen Weapons catalog.

Build a Disable-Focused Ship Loadout

Distortion Cannons make the most sense when disabling the target is part of the plan. They can support bounty hunting, capture-focused gameplay and mixed combat builds where other weapons provide the conventional damage.

Ordering the exact model and quantity you need lets you assemble the full weapon set without travelling between multiple weapon shops or sourcing each cannon separately.