Needle gun
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Needle gun
"A long-range weapon used by mechanoids. Named after its needle-like projectiles, it fires single shots with great accuracy. While it does less damage than charge weapons, it can reach over very long distances."
Base Stats
Ranged Combat
- Mode
- Single-Shot
- Damage
- 15 dmg
- Armor penetration
- 35%
- Warm-Up
- 150 ticks (2.5 secs)
- Cooldown
- 126 ticks (2.1 secs)
- Range
- 44.9 tile(s)
- Accuracy
- 60% - 80% - 90% - 85%
- Velocity
- 120 (m/s)
- Burst Count
- 1 (per burst)
- DPS
- 3.26
- Stopping power
- 1.5
Melee Combat
The needle gun is a mechanoid-only weapon equipped on pikemen which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot; longer time between shots; very long range and high overall accuracy.
This weapon is unobtainable in normal play, though it can be spawned in by the Debug actions menu. It is provided here for comparisons sake.
Attack table
Ranged
 Needle gun |
Dam. | AP | Accuracy (Touch) |
Accuracy (Short) |
Accuracy (Medium) |
Accuracy (Long) |
DPS (Optimal) |
DPS (Touch) |
DPS (Short) |
DPS (Medium) |
DPS (Long) |
Market value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 35% | 60% | 80% | 90% | 85% | 3.26 | 1.96 | 2.61 | 2.93 | 2.77 | 1400 
|
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 |   |
| Needle gun
| Barrel (Blunt) | Barrel (Poke) | Human: Left & right fist (Blunt) | HP | Value | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DPS[1] | AP[1] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | Dam. | Cool. | AP | DPS | Chance[2] | ||
| 3.91 | 12.25% | 9 | 2.6s | 13% | 3.46 | 12.5% | 9 | 2.6s | 13% | 3.46 | 12.5% | 8.2 | 2s | 12% | 4.1 | 2× 37.5% | 100 | 1400
|
- ↑ 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
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