Difference between revisions of "Chain shotgun"

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The chain shotgun is a slightly heavier, multi-shot firearm in RimWorld which fires 3-shot bursts of rounds which deal a slightly higher amount of damage each; a moderate delay between each shot; a moderate time between bursts; very low accuracy and very short range. It'll take 3 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with a chain shotgun, or around 5 shots against a human with a normal armor vest. The chain shotgun can also instantly remove digits, cripple eyeballs and cause lethal brain damage if the victim's skull is unprotected. Limbs can be crippled in 2 shots against an unarmored human.

Since the chain shotgun has an extremely short range and fires in bursts - a quicker factoring in of odds with continuous failure - the chain shotgun can be considered a great weapon for inexperienced shooters, but not so good for skilled shooters; even the best shooters will struggle to be accurate with a chain shotgun and you're better off pairing them with longer-ranged weapons. A healthy level 0 traitless shooter, level 0 careful shooter or level 0 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use the chain shotgun up to 6 cells. However, a level 3 traitless shooter, level 0 careful shooter or level 6 trigger-happy is advisable to efficiently use the chain shotgun up to its maximum range of 9 cells.

On average, the chain shotgun is best paired with a careful shooter until level 5, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.

Melee Combat

A chain shotgun has a weapon bulk of 100%, but weapon bulk doesn't seem to have any observable effect on actual gameplay.

All possible melee attacks with a chain shotgun:

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	Cooldown	Likelihood	Base DPS	Armored DPS
Overall	-	-	9.69	1.869s	-	5.181	4.767
Stock	Smash	Blunt	9	1.8s	31%	5	4.6
Barrel	Smash	Blunt	10	1.9s	34.5%	5.263	4.842
Barrel	Poke	Blunt	10	1.9s	34.5%	5.263	4.842

Obtaining

Chain shotguns can be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following raider kinds:

Pirates:

Pirate - 3.9% chance (normal quality on average, 40-150% health)

Outlanders:

Town Guard - 1.9% chance (poor quality on average, 20-200% health)

Mercenaries:

Mercenary Gunner - 4% chance (normal quality on average, 70-230% health)

Spacers:

Space Soldier - 2.6% chance (good quality on average, 100% health)

Chain shotguns can also be crafted at a machining table once the gas operation research is completed; from 70 steel, 5 components and 45,000 ticks (12.5 mins) of work.

Conclusion & Comparison

The chain shotgun is a weapon that has an incredibly high base DPS, which in turn is offset by its very low base accuracy, meaning that it benefits greatly from high quality levels and being used against large targets. Alternatively, stray shots could also make it useful as a close-quarters crowd control weapon - though the minigun would likely perform better at this.

Due to its abysmal 9 cell range, the chain shotgun isn't a very feasible weapon for field combat since it's likely that people equipped with chain shotguns will get downed while trying to get in range with their target. With the above side-effects of using the chain shotgun though, it could be a very powerful weapon for holding chokepoints or generally having very close-up defence setups.

Going back to continuous failure: the chain shotgun effectively has a 78.4% accuracy from 0-4 cells, which then linearly increases to 79.9% at the chain shotgun's maximum range of 9 cells - the preceding figures of course being the chance of a single shot in the chain shotgun's 3-shot burst hitting a normal-sized target.

Graphs

Weapons

Melee | Neolithic: Breach axe • Club • Ikwa • Knife (Jade) • Spear

Medieval: Gladius • Longsword • Mace • Axe • Warhammer

Ultra: Eltex staff • Monosword (Persona) • Plasmasword (Persona) • Zeushammer (Persona)

Improvised: Beer • Elephant tusk • Thrumbo horn • Wood

Ranged | Neolithic: Greatbow • Pila • Recurve bow • Short bow • Flamebow

Medieval: Nerve spiker

Industrial: Assault rifle • Autopistol • Bolt-action rifle • Chain shotgun • Heavy SMG • Launcher (EMP, Incendiary, Smoke, Toxbomb ) • LMG • Machine pistol • Minigun • Pump shotgun • Revolver • Sniper rifle • Hellcat rifle • Incinerator

Spacer: Charge lance • Charge rifle

Consumables: Doomsday rocket launcher • Triple rocket launcher

Throwables: EMP grenades • Frag grenades • Molotov cocktails • Tox grenades

Mechanoid: Heavy charge blaster • Inferno cannon • Needle gun • Thump cannon • Beam graser • Charge blaster turret • Hellsphere cannon • Mini-flameblaster • Mini-shotgun • Slugthrower • Spiner • Toxic needle gun

Structures: Autocannon • Mini-turret gun • Mortar (Weapon) • Uranium slug cannon • Auto-mortar • Inferno cannon (Turret) • Light charge blaster • Mini-slugger • Tactical turret gun

Related | Body part weapons: Prosthetic arm • Bionic arm • Archotech arm • Power claw • Field hand • Drill arm • Venom talon • Venom fangs • Knee spike • Elbow blade • Hand talon • Flesh whip

Integrated weapons: Grenadier armor • Phoenix armor

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 |name = Chain Shotgun
 |image = ChainShotgun.png|Chain Shotgun
-|description ="A magazine-fed fully automatic shotgun. Short range and very low accuracy, but extraordinarily dangerous."
+|description ="A magazine-fed fully automatic shotgun. Short range and very low accuracy, but extraordinarily dangerous due to burst fire.
 |type = Equipment
 |type2 = Weapons
 |class = Modern
-|damage = 20
+|damage = 18
-|range = 10
+|range = 9
 |velocity = 55
 |accuracyTouch = 40
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 |burst = 3
 |burstTicks = 12
-|warmup = 66
+|warmup = 72
-|cooldown = 75.6
+|cooldown = 81
 |DPS = DPS
-|sell = {{icon|silver|375}}
+|sell = {{icon|silver|400}}
-|buy = {{icon|steel|70}}{{icon|component|5}} + 750 work
+|buy = {{icon|steel|70}} + {{icon|component|5}}
 |mass base = 4.5
 }}
 </onlyinclude>
-{{info|The chain shotgun is a considerably heavy, 'automatic' firearm in RimWorld which fires 3-shot bursts of high damage rounds, very short range, and very poor accuracy.}}
+{{info|The chain shotgun is a slightly heavier, multi-shot firearm in RimWorld which fires 3-shot bursts of rounds which deal a slightly higher amount of damage each; a moderate delay between each shot; a moderate time between bursts; very low accuracy and very short range.}}
-Despite these caveats, the chain shotgun is capable of dealing out tremendous amounts of damage when spraying at clustered enemies, or at a single large foe due to the accuracy bonus received from doing so. Due to the fact that it's very short-ranged, the chain shotgun is a great weapon to equip even on people with very poor (<93% post-processed) shooting accuracy - without being penalised too badly.
+It'll take 3 shots to the torso to kill an unarmored human with a chain shotgun, or around 5 shots against a human with a normal armor vest. The chain shotgun can also instantly remove digits, cripple eyeballs and cause lethal brain damage if the victim's skull is unprotected. Limbs can be crippled in 2 shots against an unarmored human.
-One scenario where the chain shotgun could prove to be extremely potent is when used in [[Defense structures#Killboxes|killboxes]], where the short distance and bunched up enemies allow this weapon to be unleashed at its full potential - but the improved AI in Alpha 17 could make this tactic somewhat less useful, and not everybody likes building killboxes as they take a lot of challenge out of the game.
+Since the chain shotgun has an extremely short range and fires in bursts - a quicker factoring in of odds with continuous failure - the chain shotgun can be considered a great weapon for inexperienced shooters, but not so good for skilled shooters; even the best shooters will struggle to be accurate with a chain shotgun and you're better off pairing them with longer-ranged weapons. A healthy level 0 traitless shooter, level 0 careful shooter or level 0 trigger-happy can somewhat efficiently use the chain shotgun up to 6 cells. However, a level 3 traitless shooter, level 0 careful shooter or level 6 trigger-happy is advisable to efficiently use the chain shotgun up to its maximum range of 9 cells.
+On average, the chain shotgun is best paired with a careful shooter until level 5, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
+====Melee Combat====
+A chain shotgun has a weapon bulk of 100%, but weapon bulk doesn't seem to have any observable effect on actual gameplay.
+All possible melee attacks with a chain shotgun:
+{| {{STDT| c_12 text-center}}
+!Tool
+!Attack
+!Damage Type
+!Power
+!Cooldown
+!Likelihood
+!Base DPS
+!Armored DPS
+|-
+!Overall
+!-
+!-
+!9.69
+!1.869s
+!-
+!5.181
+!4.767
+|- newline
+|Stock
+|Smash
+|Blunt
+|9
+|1.8s
+|31%
+|5
+|4.6
+|- newline
+|Barrel
+|Smash
+|Blunt
+|10
+|1.9s
+|34.5%
+|5.263
+|4.842
+|- newline
+|Barrel
+|Poke
+|Blunt
+|10
+|1.9s
+|34.5%
+|5.263
+|4.842
+|}
 ===Obtaining===
-As with most other ranged weapons, the chain shotgun can be purchased from outlander weapon caravans, and from orbital weapon traders - or obtained via incapacitating a chain shotgun-wielding outlander or pirate. Chain shotguns can also be manufactured at a [[machining table]] once the [[research#machining|machining]] research has been completed; for 70 [[steel]], 5 [[component]]s, and 45,000 ticks (750 secs) of work.
+Chain shotguns can be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, or obtained from the following [[raider#Humanlike|raider]] kinds:
+'''Pirates:'''
+* Pirate - 3.9% chance (normal [[quality]] on average, 40-150% health)
+'''Outlanders:'''
+* Town Guard - 1.9% chance (poor quality on average, 20-200% health)
+'''Mercenaries:'''
+* Mercenary Gunner - 4% chance (normal quality on average, 70-230% health)
+'''Spacers:'''
+* Space Soldier - 2.6% chance (good quality on average, 100% health)
+Chain shotguns can also be crafted at a [[machining table]] once the [[Research#GasOperation|gas operation]] research is completed; from 70 [[steel]], 5 [[component]]s and {{Ticks|45000}} of work.
 ===Conclusion & Comparison===
+The chain shotgun is a weapon that has an incredibly high base DPS, which in turn is offset by its very low base accuracy, meaning that it benefits greatly from high quality levels and being used against large targets. Alternatively, stray shots could also make it useful as a close-quarters crowd control weapon - though the [[minigun]] would likely perform better at this.
+Due to its abysmal 9 cell range, the chain shotgun isn't a very feasible weapon for field combat since it's likely that people equipped with chain shotguns will get downed while trying to get in range with their target. With the above side-effects of using the chain shotgun though, it could be a very powerful weapon for holding chokepoints or generally having very close-up defence setups.
-The chain shotgun has extremely high damage potential owing to its zero-compromise damage per shot, and triple-burst nature; it is literally the 3-shot burst version of the [[pump shotgun]], and the [[LMG]] of the shotgun world - but its major caveats are its extremely handicapped range and accuracy, for the sake of balance to prevent this weapon from being absolutely insane. Against normal-sized targets, the chain shotgun still has superior damage output to the pump shotgun, but falls behind more accurate weapons such as the [[heavy SMG]].
+Going back to continuous failure: the chain shotgun effectively has a 78.4% accuracy from 0-4 cells, which then linearly increases to 79.9% at the chain shotgun's maximum range of 9 cells - the preceding figures of course being the chance of a single shot in the chain shotgun's 3-shot burst hitting a normal-sized target.
-However, against larger targets where the accuracy gets a positive multiplier, and at higher weapon quality levels, the chain shotgun can even usurp the almighty [[charge rifle]] in terms of having the highest damage output out of any standard ranged weapon in the game - an impressive feat to be sure. As previously mentioned, the chain shotgun can also be used for point-blank crowd control, to make use of the many missed shots that will inevitably occur.