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| description = A pulse-charged rail-assisted lance weapon. It fires a single shot at high velocity, charging it with unstable energy as it leaves the acceleration rail. | | description = A pulse-charged rail-assisted lance weapon. It fires a single shot at high velocity, charging it with unstable energy as it leaves the acceleration rail. | ||
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| thingSetMakerTags = RewardStandardLowFreq, RewardStandardQualitySuper | | thingSetMakerTags = RewardStandardLowFreq, RewardStandardQualitySuper | ||
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| − | ==Acquisition== | + | {{Info|The '''charge lance''' is a heavy, single-shot ranged [[weapon]] which deals a high amount of damage per shot with commensurate AP, a longer time between shots, an above-average range and high overall accuracy.}} |
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| + | == Acquisition == | ||
Charge lances can be produced at a [[fabrication bench]] with a minimum crafting skill of 9 once the [[research#Pulse charged munitions|pulse charged munitions]] research has been completed for {{Required Resources}} and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work. Charge lances can also be found in [[ancient shrine]]s or purchased from [[outlander]] and orbital [[Trade#combat supplier|combat suppliers]], as well as outlander settlements. | Charge lances can be produced at a [[fabrication bench]] with a minimum crafting skill of 9 once the [[research#Pulse charged munitions|pulse charged munitions]] research has been completed for {{Required Resources}} and {{Ticks|{{P|Work To Make}}}} of work. Charge lances can also be found in [[ancient shrine]]s or purchased from [[outlander]] and orbital [[Trade#combat supplier|combat suppliers]], as well as outlander settlements. | ||
[[Lancer]]s are the only enemy in the core game to use charge lances, but they aren't dropped when the lancer dies. Therefore, there is no way to acquire charge lances from [[raider]]s in the core game. With the [[Royalty DLC]] enabled, however, [[Empire#Janissary|Janissaries]], [[Empire#Cataphract|Cataphracts]], and [[Empire#Stellic defender|Stellic Defenders]] from the [[Empire]] have a possibility to spawn with a charge lance equipped. | [[Lancer]]s are the only enemy in the core game to use charge lances, but they aren't dropped when the lancer dies. Therefore, there is no way to acquire charge lances from [[raider]]s in the core game. With the [[Royalty DLC]] enabled, however, [[Empire#Janissary|Janissaries]], [[Empire#Cataphract|Cataphracts]], and [[Empire#Stellic defender|Stellic Defenders]] from the [[Empire]] have a possibility to spawn with a charge lance equipped. | ||
| − | ==Analysis== | + | == Analysis == |
The charge lance deals the highest damage per shot of all non-explosives, so has gained a reputation for dismembering and outright killing people (along with the [[pila]] and [[sniper rifle]]). It also has the highest armor penetration of all wieldable weapons, and it can stagger [[human]]s and slightly larger targets like [[megaspider]]s. Range is also above average, just below the [[assault rifle]]. | The charge lance deals the highest damage per shot of all non-explosives, so has gained a reputation for dismembering and outright killing people (along with the [[pila]] and [[sniper rifle]]). It also has the highest armor penetration of all wieldable weapons, and it can stagger [[human]]s and slightly larger targets like [[megaspider]]s. Range is also above average, just below the [[assault rifle]]. | ||
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The high damage per shot means that it can quickly dismember pawns. Not a great quality against human [[raider]]s, as higher DPS kills faster on average (through [[pain shock]]) than organ loss. However, it is an very dangerous property when used against your colony, as raiders far outnumber colonists; just 1 shot can permanently cripple an important member. As a result, lancers should be priority targets, especially before you have easy access to [[Artificial body parts|artificial parts]]. This also makes it a great hunting weapon, though a [[sniper rifle]] remains better. | The high damage per shot means that it can quickly dismember pawns. Not a great quality against human [[raider]]s, as higher DPS kills faster on average (through [[pain shock]]) than organ loss. However, it is an very dangerous property when used against your colony, as raiders far outnumber colonists; just 1 shot can permanently cripple an important member. As a result, lancers should be priority targets, especially before you have easy access to [[Artificial body parts|artificial parts]]. This also makes it a great hunting weapon, though a [[sniper rifle]] remains better. | ||
| − | ===Stats=== | + | === Stats === |
Against a human target with 45% or lower armor on all layers, a normal-quality charge lance can kill with 2 hits to the torso, 1-2 hits to the head, or 1 hit to the neck or brain; cripple or destroy limbs with a single hit; and destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 3 hits (~16.6 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock. A legendary-quality charge lance can 1-shot any body part or organ in a human pawn's body, and with an armor penetration of 67.5%, can do so against even quite heavily armored targets. | Against a human target with 45% or lower armor on all layers, a normal-quality charge lance can kill with 2 hits to the torso, 1-2 hits to the head, or 1 hit to the neck or brain; cripple or destroy limbs with a single hit; and destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 3 hits (~16.6 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock. A legendary-quality charge lance can 1-shot any body part or organ in a human pawn's body, and with an armor penetration of 67.5%, can do so against even quite heavily armored targets. | ||
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Revision as of 18:23, 30 December 2022
Charge lance
A pulse-charged rail-assisted lance weapon. It fires a single shot at high velocity, charging it with unstable energy as it leaves the acceleration rail.
Base Stats
Ranged Combat
- Mode
- Single-Shot
- Damage
- 30 dmg (Bullet)
- Armor penetration
- 45%
- Warm-Up
- 102 ticks (1.7 secs)
- Cooldown
- 162 ticks (2.7 secs)
- Range
- 29.9 tile(s)
- Accuracy
- 65% - 85% - 85% - 75%
- Velocity
- 120 (m/s)
- Burst Count
- 1 (per burst)
- DPS
- 6.82
- Stopping power
- 1.5
Melee Combat
- Melee Attack 1
- Stock
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Attack 2
- Barrel
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Attack 3
- Barrel
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Pulse charged munitions
- Skill Required
- Crafting 9
- Work To Make
- 60,000 ticks (16.67 mins)
- Resources to make
60 + 
3
- weaponTags
- Gun, SpacerGun, MechanoidGunMedium
- thingSetMakerTags
- RewardStandardLowFreq, RewardStandardQualitySuper
The charge lance is a heavy, single-shot ranged weapon which deals a high amount of damage per shot with commensurate AP, a longer time between shots, an above-average range and high overall accuracy.
Acquisition
Charge lances can be produced at a fabrication bench with a minimum crafting skill of 9 once the pulse charged munitions research has been completed for 60 Plasteel, 3 Advanced components and 60,000 ticks (16.67 mins) of work. Charge lances can also be found in ancient shrines or purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, as well as outlander settlements.
Lancers are the only enemy in the core game to use charge lances, but they aren't dropped when the lancer dies. Therefore, there is no way to acquire charge lances from raiders in the core game. With the Royalty DLC enabled, however, Janissaries, Cataphracts, and Stellic Defenders from the Empire have a possibility to spawn with a charge lance equipped.
Analysis
The charge lance deals the highest damage per shot of all non-explosives, so has gained a reputation for dismembering and outright killing people (along with the pila and sniper rifle). It also has the highest armor penetration of all wieldable weapons, and it can stagger humans and slightly larger targets like megaspiders. Range is also above average, just below the assault rifle.
But, for an endgame weapon, the charge lance's overall DPS is actually quite low. It's worse than an assault rifle of the same quality outside of point blank range. Close up, it loses to the heavy SMG and even machine pistol, let alone the chain shotgun. Again, this is before quality; due to its cost, it's often more efficient to try and get a high quality assault rifle.
The high damage per shot means that it can quickly dismember pawns. Not a great quality against human raiders, as higher DPS kills faster on average (through pain shock) than organ loss. However, it is an very dangerous property when used against your colony, as raiders far outnumber colonists; just 1 shot can permanently cripple an important member. As a result, lancers should be priority targets, especially before you have easy access to artificial parts. This also makes it a great hunting weapon, though a sniper rifle remains better.
Stats
Against a human target with 45% or lower armor on all layers, a normal-quality charge lance can kill with 2 hits to the torso, 1-2 hits to the head, or 1 hit to the neck or brain; cripple or destroy limbs with a single hit; and destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 3 hits (~16.6 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock. A legendary-quality charge lance can 1-shot any body part or organ in a human pawn's body, and with an armor penetration of 67.5%, can do so against even quite heavily armored targets.
A charge lance is best paired with a trigger-happy pawn at shorter ranges and a careful shooter at longer ranges. The exact range transition depends on shooting level, being as low as 4 cells at Shooting level 5 and as high as 24 cells at Shooting level 20. At its maximum range of 30 cells, a charge lance is always better in the hands of a careful shooter than a trigger-happy pawn, or one without either trait, regardless of Shooting level.
Attack table
Ranged
 Charge lance |
Accuracy (Touch) |
Accuracy (Short) |
Accuracy (Medium) |
Accuracy (Long) |
DPS (Optimal) |
DPS (Touch) |
DPS (Short) |
DPS (Medium) |
DPS (Long) |
Market value |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Dam. | AP | ||||||||||
| Awful | 27 | 40.5% | 52% | 68% | 68% | 60% | 6.14 | 3.19 | 4.17 | 4.17 | 3.68 | 675 
|
| Poor | 30 | 45% | 58.5% | 76.5% | 76.5% | 67.5% | 6.82 | 4.02 | 5.25 | 5.25 | 4.64 | 1015
|
| Normal | 30 | 45% | 65% | 85% | 85% | 75% | 6.82 | 4.43 | 5.8 | 5.8 | 5.12 | 1355
|
| Good | 30 | 45% | 71.5% | 93.5% | 93.5% | 82.5% | 6.82 | 4.91 | 6.41 | 6.41 | 5.66 | 1695
|
| Excellent | 30 | 45% | 78% | 100% | 100% | 90% | 6.82 | 5.32 | 6.82 | 6.82 | 6.14 | 2030
|
| Masterwork | 37.5 | 56.25% | 87.75% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 8.53 | 7.5 | 8.53 | 8.53 | 8.53 | 3355
|
| Legendary | 45 | 67.5% | 97.5% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 10.23 | 10.03 | 10.23 | 10.23 | 10.23 | 4355
|
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality. Values shown in Red indicate the weapon is out of range at the reference point for this range band.
The value is provided due to the interpolated nature of accuracy between range points.
Melee
| Feature | Toggle |
|---|---|
| Attacks |   |
| Charge lance
| Stock (Blunt) | Barrel (Blunt) | Barrel (Poke) | Human: Left & right fist (Blunt) | HP | Value | ||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality |
DPS[1] | AP[1] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | ||
| Awful | 3.98 | 11.6% | 7.2 | 2s | 10.4% | 3.6 | 8.33% | 7.2 | 2s | 10.4% | 3.6 | 8.33% | 7.2 | 2s | 10.4% | 3.6 | 8.33% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 37.5% | 100 | 675
|
| Poor | 4.07 | 11.82% | 8.1 | 2s | 11.7% | 4.05 | 20% | 8.1 | 2s | 11.7% | 4.05 | 20% | 8.1 | 2s | 11.7% | 4.05 | 20% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 20% | 100 | 1015
|
| Normal | 4.4 | 12.75% | 9 | 2s | 13% | 4.5 | 25% | 9 | 2s | 13% | 4.5 | 25% | 9 | 2s | 13% | 4.5 | 25% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 12.5% | 100 | 1355
|
| Good | 4.74 | 13.73% | 9.9 | 2s | 14.3% | 4.95 | 25% | 9.9 | 2s | 14.3% | 4.95 | 25% | 9.9 | 2s | 14.3% | 4.95 | 25% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 12.5% | 100 | 1695
|
| Excellent | 5.08 | 14.7% | 10.8 | 2s | 15.6% | 5.4 | 25% | 10.8 | 2s | 15.6% | 5.4 | 25% | 10.8 | 2s | 15.6% | 5.4 | 25% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 12.5% | 100 | 2030
|
| Masterwork | 5.92 | 17.14% | 13.05 | 2s | 18.85% | 6.53 | 25% | 13.05 | 2s | 18.85% | 6.53 | 25% | 13.05 | 2s | 18.85% | 6.53 | 25% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 12.5% | 100 | 3355
|
| Legendary | 6.59 | 19.09% | 14.85 | 2s | 21.45% | 7.43 | 25% | 14.85 | 2s | 21.45% | 7.43 | 25% | 14.85 | 2s | 21.45% | 7.43 | 25% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 12.5% | 100 | 4355
|
For the full effects of qualities, see Quality.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Note: This is the actual base average derived from the melee verb system updated in 1.1.2610, it may sometimes disagree with the listed value in the in-game infobox.
It may also change depending on the stats and the melee verbs available to the wielder if the weapon is wielded by some other than a baseline human. - ↑ Chance for attack to be selected, assuming the weapon is wielded by a baseline human. It may change depending on the melee verbs available to the wielder
Version history
- Beta 19 - received a slight damage buff (27 --> 30), a slight reduction in time to aim and increase in attack cooldown, leaving fire rate more or less the same. It also received a crafting recipe, allowing humans to use them.
- 1.1 - range and long range accuracy was nerfed (37 --> 30; 80% --> 75%).
Original charge lance sprite
- Ultra
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