Uranium slug turret

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Uranium slug turret

Uranium slug turret

An armor-piercing turret. Its ultra-dense uranium shells can punch through heavy armor, 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
BuildingSecurity
Market Value
1445 Silver [Note]
Beauty
-20
HP
380
Flammability
70%
Path Cost
50 (21%)

Building

Size
2 × 2
Minifiable
False
Placeable
True
Passability
pass through only
Cover Effectiveness
50%
Terrain Affordance
Heavy
Power
-150 W

Ranged Combat

Mode
Single-Shot
Damage
55 dmg
Armor penetration
82%
Warm-Up
ticks (0 secs)
Cooldown
240 ticks (4 secs)
Range
45.9 tile(s)
Minimum Range
11.9 tiles
Accuracy
22% - 33% - 44% - 95%
Velocity
120 (m/s)
Burst Count
1 (per burst)
DPS
13.75
Stopping power
0.5

Creation

Required Research
Uranium slug turret
Skill Required
Construction 6
Work To Make
15,000 ticks (4.17 mins)
Resources to make
Steel 300 + Plasteel 30 + Uranium 60 + Component 6
Deconstruct yield
Steel 150 + Plasteel 15 + Uranium 30 + Component 3
Destroy yield
Steel 75 + Plasteel 7 - 8 + Uranium 15 + Component 1 - 2

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. It can destroy arms and heads in a single shot. Useful against Centipedes and other tanky units (such as ones wearing power armor) because of its high Armor Penetration.

Since uranium slug turrets are large 2x2 structures, ranged attacks are twice as accurate against them.

It is built with Steel 300 Steel, Plasteel 30 Plasteel, Uranium 60 Uranium, Component 6 Components in 15,000 ticks (4.17 mins).

After firing 30 slugs it needs to be reloaded by a hauler, 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.

Cover bug

As of version 1.3.3117, despite displaying in the mouse-over box as benefiting from cover, empirical testing demonstrates that this is false and uranium slug turrets do not benefit from cover at all.

Graphs

True DPS over Range

Version history

  • 0.19.2009 - Added.
  • 1.1.0 - 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%).
  • 1.1.2618 - received a buff to damage (30 -> 45), increased range (39.9 -> 45.9), increased reload cost (80 -> 120) and reduced magazine capacity (40 -> 30).
  • 1.1.2624 - received a buff to damage (45 -> 50), buff to armor penetration (70% -> 75%), and reduced reload cost (120 -> 90).
  • 1.3.3200 - Damage increased from 50 to 55. Accuracy increased: touch 0.2 -> 0.22, short 0.3 -> 0.33, medium 0.4 -> 0.44.