Charge rifle

Charge Rifle

"Phase-charging energy projectile rifle."

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

"Advanced Weapons" is not in the list (Neolithic Weapons, Medieval Weapons, Industrial Weapons, Spacer Weapons, Ultra Weapons, Mechanoid Weapons) of allowed values for the "Class" property.

Weapon Class

Advanced

Mass

4.6 kg

Ranged Combat

Mode

Burst

Damage

12 dmg

Warm-Up

60 ticks (1 sec)

Cooldown

68.4 ticks (1.14 secs)

Range

24 tile(s)

Accuracy

80% - 83% - 68% - 53%

Velocity

70 (m/s)

Burst Count

3 (per burst)

Burst Ticks

12 ticks (0.2 secs)
(300 RPM)

DPS

14.17 ()

Futuristic assault rifle that fires packets of energy at short to mid-range. This weapon packs a significant amount of power per shot while maintaining a high rate of fire, but is hampered somewhat by its relatively low range.

The Charge Rifle currently has the second highest DPS of all equippable weapons in the game, topped only by the Minigun, but is more effective than the Minigun in most situations due to its lack of a forced miss radius, higher accuracy, and lower warmup and cooldown times. For this reason, charge rifles are an ideal counter to heavily-armored enemies like Centipedes if you don't have access to EMP or Frag grenades. Charge rifles can be seen equipped by elite mercenary raiders in the mid-late game onwards, but can also be purchased from traders, or crafted at a machining table, once charged shot is researched.

Due to the range limitations, it's not the worst of ideas to mix in a few colonists with assault rifles, survival rifles or sniper rifles to pick off enemies at longer ranges, while the charge rifles generally rip enemies to shreds at closer ranges.

Trivia

Charged-shot weapons are also referred to as Tokamak weapons in the fiction primer. They fire projectiles coated in a matrix of magnetically-contained charged particles. On impact, the energy in the particles is released in a very efficient explosion. These require high amounts of power to fire and are powered by hex-cells at small scales (like Charge Rifles), or fusion reactors in the case of large cannons.

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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

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

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