Blade + Volley + Burst Fire?

[Sylverone]

I was using Blade with multiple of the Volley tree upgrades, and really liking that, but then I took Burst Fire thinking it would probably result in in lots of small blades. Instead, I now have just 3, in a more challenging fire pattern, and I have to ask: Am I still getting the full penalties from Volley with its benefits removed?

[jonas28t]

Kinda, however the rate of fire increase from Burst Fire does apply to the the assembly time of the blades, so its 20% faster assembly time.

Volley (and Fussilade) does also increase spread, which doesnt matter for when they fire in a straight line.
Firing Array also interacts with this setup, since the Burst Fire makes it so you fire the blades one after another from the main cannon you get the benefit from it on all blades instead of the central one, as they are all central now.

I am curious why blades specifically was made to interact this way with Burst Fire (which is different from the Burst Fire effect, which the Burst Fire mod gives +2, Double Tap gives +1), but I expect it is because the weapon has a construct limit, so it can only have a certain number of blades on screen at any one time.

Swords does act as expected with Burst Fire, but it also doesnt add new swords to the screen when Burst Fire is added, it just make more swings (See the Butterfly build)