Uranium slug turret

Uranium slug turret

"A long-ranged armor-piercing turret. Its ultra-dense uranium shells can punch through heavy armor at long ranges, but it requires new uranium slugs to be loaded after use. It's more accurate at longer ranges, and can't fire at all close up. May explode when damaged."

Base Stats

Type

Security

Mass

100 kg

Beauty

-20

HP

450

Flammability

70%

Building

Size

2 × 2

Placeable

Yes

Cover Effectiveness

50%

Power

-150 W

Ranged Combat

Mode

Single-Shot

Damage

50 dmg

Armor penetration

75%

Cooldown

240 ticks (4 secs)

Range

45.9 tile(s)

Minimum Range

11.9 tiles

Accuracy

20% - 30% - 40% - 95%

Velocity

120 (m/s)

Burst Count

1 (per burst)

DPS

12.5

Stopping power

0.5

Creation

Deconstruct yield

225 + 45 + 45 + 5

The uranium slug turret is a defensive turret. It has a long range of 45.9 tiles and is very accurate at range (98% accuracy per tile vs 96% for all others), but can't hit anything within 11.9 tiles. It is more accurate at long ranges than at close ranges. Like the autocannon turret though, the uranium slug turret's stopping power is almost non-existent despite its extremely high per-shot damage, not even being able to stagger humans.

Since uranium slug turrets are large 2x2 structures, ranged attacks are twice as accurate against them. However, uranium slug turrets also benefit from being put behind sandbags which mitigates this accuracy bonus.

After firing 30 slugs it needs to be reloaded, costing:

• 60 uranium in Peaceful and Base Builder difficulty
• 90 uranium in Medium difficulty
• 120 uranium in Rough difficulty and above

Its high armor penetration negates much of the armor points from any enemy.

Uranium slug turrets have a chance to explode when they drop below 20% health, dealing damage to everything in a large radius.

Radius of uranium slug turret explosion. Note the slight offset from the 'true' center of the turret.

Usage

In the current version, it is too cost-inefficient to be practical against the majority of enemies- uranium is hard to come by, and the damage, while high compared to other weapons, is not enough to compensate for the cost.

Interestingly, it is more accurate at long ranges than short ranges; for best effects, pair it up with the other turrets to provide short-range firepower.

It works well to intercept heavily armored enemies, such as centipedes or raiders with marine armor as its extremely high armor penetration will negate much armor. However, due to its low accuracy at short distances it is unsuited for killbox use without a specially designed killbox.

Unlike the mini-turret, this one can not be moved after it is built.

Visualization of effective turret range of all three turrets, from uranium slug turret (top), to autocannon turret (middle), to mini-turret (bottom).
Green is 80 - 100% of peak accuracy, blue is 50 - 80% of peak accuracy, red is below 50% of peak accuracy and grey is outside range. Gold tiles are spaced every 5 tiles. Values from 1.0.

Version history

It was added in Beta 19/1.0.

In 1.1.0 it received a massive nerf to damage (75 -> 30), nerf to armor penetration (112.5% -> 70%), reduced range (49.9 -> 39.9), increased reload cost (60 -> 80 baseline) and nerf to shooting accuracy (98.8% -> 98%).

In 1.1.2618 it received a buff to damage (30 -> 45), increased range (39.9 -> 45.9), increased reload cost (80 -> 120) and reduced magazine capacity (40 -> 30).

In 1.1.2624 it received a buff to damage (45 -> 50), buff to armor penetration (70% -> 75%), and reduced reload cost (120 -> 90).

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Architect

Security

Barricade • Sandbags • Spike trap

(research)

Autocannon turret • Foam turret • Mini-turret • Rocketswarm launcher • Uranium slug turret • Mortar

IEDs

IED trap • IED incendiary trap • IED EMP trap • IED firefoam trap • IED smoke trap • IED antigrain warhead trap • IED tox trap • IED deadlife trap

Related

Antigrain warhead • EMP shell • Firefoam shell • High-explosive shell • Incendiary shell • Smoke shell • Tox shell • Deadlife shell