Gauss — Mach Crash
Steel Path build. Sprint mods, Mach Rush, Mach Crash vacuum. Capture / Exterminate / Index in a blur. Redline for the speed steroid.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Capture speedruns, Index, moving between objectives, people who picked Gauss to go fast
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Capture speedruns, Index, moving between objectives, people who picked Gauss to go fast
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Gauss is the fastest Warframe that isn't a Titania in razor mode. This config admits that.
- Mach Crash is a grouping tool pretending to be a speed augment.
- Take Thermal Paradox to actual war. Take this to Capture.
Don’t use this for: sitting Defense
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Sprint + vacuum — Companion loot vacuum still helps. Mach Crash pulls enemies (and feels like a grouping button) when you hit a wall.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Battery
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Battery — Star Chart
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Readiness
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 1 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Thermal Paradox — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Thermal Paradox — OptimisedPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Sprint BoostNightwave / alerts
- After that2–3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalMach CrashSteel Path · Advanced · 2–3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Thermal Paradox — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Thermal Paradox — OptimisedFarm the gap
- Gauss augments — Thermal Transfer · Mach Crash · Kinetic Friction
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 2–3 Amber · Parkour / Casting Speed — Casting Speed for Rush tempo, or parkour velocity if you are committed.Archon locked
- 1 Azure · Duration — Redline while you run.Archon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Sprint Boost
One named gap. Nightwave / alerts
60 minutes
Sprint Boost, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
One Archon Hunt
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Sprint Boost
Nightwave / alerts
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
The Capture node is the content. You own Mach Crash.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Mach Crash and Sprint Boost.
- First mission to practice in
- A Capture on a tileset you know. Wall-crash a pack once so you see the vacuum.
2 button drills · 13 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 4 done
Keep this up
Rush loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Redline (4). Plating (2) so a wall doesn't kill you.
- 2Hold Mach Rush (1) across the tile. Battery slams. Tap 1 into a wall for Mach Crash vacuum if you need a kill cluster.
- 3Sunder the clump if it isn't dead from the crash.
- 4Extract. You were not here to camp.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Redline, then hold 1
1You are a missile. Battery slams.
- 2
Hit a wall near the pack
1Mach Crash vacuums. Sunder or shoot. Extract.
You will know it worked when: A pull-in when you crash, not just a knockdown.
Common mistakes
Rushing with no Plating
A wall and an Eximus slam will humble you.
When this feels easy
- 1Parkour shards if you are committedOtherwise just play the node.
Parts checklist
0 of 13 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
16 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●gaussframe
- 2○Sprint Boostmod
- 3○Rushmod
- 4○Mach Crashaugment
- 5○Primed Continuitymod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Augur Reachmod
- 8○Intensifymod
- 9○Streamlinemod
- 10○Flowmod
- 11○Arcane Consequencearcane
- 12○Molt Efficiencyarcane
- 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 14○Azure · Durationshard
- 15○Steel Pathunlock
- 16○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock
Depends on
What this loadout needs
Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.
Required
- Sprint Boost
missing · Nightwave / alerts
- Rush
missing · Enemy drops
- Mach Crash
missing · Arbiters of Hexis / The Perrin Sequence · 25,000 standing
Crashing into geometry vacuums enemies in a Range-scaled radius.
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Flowmissing · Enemy drops
Recommended
- Arcane Consequence
missing · Eidolon / trade
Parkour velocity after headshots. Optional meme, real on Captures.
Optional
Amber · Casting Speedmissing · Earn Amber shards
Casting Speed for Rush tempo, or parkour velocity if you are committed.
Strength
~145% crash damage
Duration
155% Redline
Range
175%+ crash / Crash vacuum
Sprint Speed mods and shards are the build. Mach Rush scales with sprint. Redline makes Rush cheaper and faster.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 130%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 175%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +150%
- Capacity
- 43 / 67
Weapon HUD
Arsenal numbers
Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.
- Damage
- 35
- Crit
- 12% × 2.00
- Status
- 26%
- Fire rate
- 9.58
- Multishot
- 1.00
- Avg hit
- 39
- Arsenal DPS
- 376
Toggle common mods
Gauss mods
- AuraSprint BoostNightwave / alerts
- ExilusRushEnemy drops
- 1Mach CrashCrashing into geometry vacuums enemies in a Range-scaled radius.Arbiters / Perrin · 25k
- 2Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
- 3StretchEnemy drops
- 4Augur ReachCrash vacuum radius. Range is the grouping.Cetus bounties
- 5IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 6StreamlineEnemy drops
- 7FlowEnemy drops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Sprint Boost | Nightwave / alerts | |
| Exilus | Rush | Enemy drops | |
| 1 | Mach Crash Crashing into geometry vacuums enemies in a Range-scaled radius. | Arbiters / Perrin · 25k | |
| 2 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer | |
| 3 | Stretch | Enemy drops | |
| 4 | Augur Reach Crash vacuum radius. Range is the grouping. | Cetus bounties | |
| 5 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 6 | Streamline | Enemy drops | |
| 7 | Flow | Enemy drops |
Sprint + vacuum
Companion loot vacuum still helps. Mach Crash pulls enemies (and feels like a grouping button) when you hit a wall.
Arcanes
Arcane Consequence
Parkour velocity after headshots. Optional meme, real on Captures.
Eidolon / trade
Molt Efficiency
Redline uptime while you zoom.
Zariman
Archon shards
- 1Amber · Parkour / Casting SpeedCasting Speed for Rush tempo, or parkour velocity if you are committed.2–3 · EDA
- 2Azure · DurationRedline while you run.1 · Netracells
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Parkour / Casting Speed Casting Speed for Rush tempo, or parkour velocity if you are committed. | 2–3 | EDA | |
| 2 | Azure · Duration Redline while you run. | 1 | Netracells |