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Revision as of 06:31, 20 August 2014
Version history
- 0.18.1722 - The pistol was split into revolver and autopistol. Although the autopistol uses the old pistol's sprite, the revolver is functionally closer to the old pistol.
Machine pistol
A micro-submachine gun. It is short-ranged, but very light in the hands. Its rate of fire tends to make up for its weakness.
Base Stats
- Tech Level
- Industrial
- Weapon Class
- Industrial
- Market Value
- 220
- Mass
- 2.5 kg
Ranged Combat
- Mode
- Burst
- Damage
- 6 dmg (Bullet)
- Armor penetration
- 9%
- Warm-Up
- 30 ticks (0.5 secs)
- Cooldown
- 54 ticks (0.9 secs)
- Range
- 19.9 tile(s)
- Accuracy
- 90% - 65% - 35% - 15%
- Avg. accuracy
- 71.8%
- Velocity
- 55 (m/s)
- Burst Count
- 3 (per burst)
- Burst Ticks
- 7 ticks (0.12 secs)
(514.29 RPM) - DPS
- 11.02 (7.91)
- Stopping power
- 0.5
Melee Combat
- Melee Attack 1
- Grip
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Attack 2
- Barrel
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Attack 3
- Barrel
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Average DPS
- 4.5
- Melee Average AP
- 13%
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Blowback operation
- Skill Required
- Crafting 4
- Work To Make
- 11,000 ticks (3.06 mins)
- Resources to make
45 + 
3
- Has Quality
- True
- weaponTags
- Gun
- tradeTags
- WeaponRanged
The machine pistol is a slightly lighter, multi-shot firearm in RimWorld which fires 3-shot bursts of rounds which deal a low amount of damage each; a slightly shorter delay between each shot; a very short time between bursts; slightly shorter range and slightly higher overall accuracy.
Acquisition
Machine pistols can be crafted at a [[]] once the [[Research#|]] research project has been completed. They require , Expression error: Unexpected < operator. of work, and a [[]] skill of .
They can also be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, outlander settlements, or obtained from the following raider kinds:
| Raider Kind | Chance | Average Quality | Health |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scavenger Gunner | 25.20% | Normal | 40-110% |
| Pirate Gunner | 22.26% | Normal | 70-230% |
| Villager | 5.32% | Poor | 20-200% |
| Town Guard | 17.63% | Normal | 60-200% |
| Mercenary Gunner | 10.38% | Normal | 70-320% |
| Ancient Soldier | 8.61% | Normal | 100% |
Analysis
With high close-up accuracy and excellent rate of fire, the machine pistol is great for low-skill shooters, and has a respectable overall damage output. It easily outclasses the autopistol and goes toe-to-toe with the pump shotgun. It is cheap to manufacture, and commonly carried by earlygame raiders. However, almost every ranged weapon outranges the machine pistol, and armor penetration is unsuprisingly low.
The machine pistol is best suited as a close-quarters engagement weapon, also being good hit-and-run tactics due to its very short warmup/cooldown cycle. It's ill-advised to use the machine pistol as a hunting weapon since it'll easily send animals into a manhunting rage.
The low per-shot damage also makes it slightly worse for killing than raw DPS would suggest. As a result of this, survivors will usualy have many bleeding gunshot wounds to tend to. Therefore, it's advisable to use at least herbal medicine to be able to patch up multiple wounds per tend, unless you're confident that your doctors can patch each individual wound quickly enough.
As an earlygame weapon, machine pistols will be outclassed as you advance through the game. Weapons that typically supplant them include the heavy SMG, for general skill-friendly combat, and the chain shotgun, which specializes in close combat.
Stats
Against an unarmored human, a machine pistol can kill with 7 hits to the torso, 5 hits to the head or 4 hits to the neck; cripple or destroy limbs in 5 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with 2 hits. A single hit to the brain will cause debilitating brain damage, but typically won't kill unless the victim's consciousness hits 0%. It'll generally take around 11 hits (~8.67 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.
Overall, the machine pistol is best paired with a careful shooter up to level 12, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.
Attack table
| Industrial Weapons (Error: Page has no Property:Image) Industrial Weapons |
Dam. | AP | Accuracy (Touch) |
Accuracy (Short) |
Accuracy (Medium) |
Accuracy (Long) |
DPS (Optimal) |
DPS (Touch) |
DPS (Short) |
DPS (Medium) |
DPS (Long) |
Market value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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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.
Machine pistol vs. comparable weapons
This section goes over how well the machine pistol fares against comparable weapons (similar value, tech level or similar characteristics) in 1 vs. 1 combat.
Methodology
- All testing is semi-automated which allows for large sample sizes to be gathered per set of results with ease
- All pawns have skill levels of 14 in ranged and melee
- No pawns have any traits that affect combat performance
- All pawns are of at least 18 years of age and completely healthy
- Pawns are divided by walls to prevent stray shots from skewing results in any way
- Weather is always kept clear
- No cover is used for either team
Results in the tables below are the percentages of battles that machine pistols either won or tied against the weapon listed in the first column of said tables, with a sample size of 2,000 battles per result. Higher percentages are better.
Unarmored
For the unarmored testing, all pawns wore normal quality plainleather pants, plainleather button-down shirts, plainleather dusters and plainleather cowboy hats.
| Other Weapon | 3 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 25 | 32 | 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy SMG | 37.43% | 38.81% | 36.61% | 38.85% | - | - | - |
| Pump Shotgun | 76.44% | 66.34% | 51.12% | - | - | - | - |
| Autopistol | 80.66% | 74.18% | 66.93% | 63.80% | - | - | - |
Armored
For the armored testing, all pawns wore normal quality flak pants, flak vests, plainleather button-down shirts, flak jackets and steel simple helmets.
| Other Weapon | 3 | 7 | 12 | 18 | 25 | 32 | 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy SMG | 35.69% | 34.13% | 33.68% | 35.79% | - | - | - |
| Pump Shotgun | 77.37% | 69.13% | 51.76% | - | - | - | - |
| Autopistol | 81.49% | 75.64% | 66.35% | 62.92% | - | - | - |
Version history
- ~2015 - Renamed from Uzi to PDW and texture updated
- 0.15.1279 - Renamed PDW to Machine Pistol.
- Beta 19 - Texture replaced with one that had previously been used by the Heavy SMG.
- Beta 19/1.0 - Beta 19/1.0 - All melee attack damages increased 8 -> 9, cooldown increased from 1.6s -> 2s.
- 1.0 - Received an accuracy buff in close ranged combat.
Original Uzi sprite
Original PDW sprite. Ironically, looks more like the real Uzi than the Uzi sprite
- 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
Assault rifle
A general-purpose gas-operated assault rifle for field or urban combat. It has good range, decent power, and good accuracy.
Base Stats
- Tech Level
- Industrial
- Weapon Class
- Industrial
- Market Value
- 480
- Mass
- 3.5 kg
Ranged Combat
- Mode
- Burst
- Damage
- 11 dmg (Bullet)
- Armor penetration
- 16%
- Warm-Up
- 60 ticks (1 sec)
- Cooldown
- 102 ticks (1.7 secs)
- Range
- 30.9 tile(s)
- Accuracy
- 60% - 70% - 65% - 55%
- Avg. accuracy
- 65.2%
- Velocity
- 70 (m/s)
- Burst Count
- 3 (per burst)
- Burst Ticks
- 10 ticks (0.17 secs)
(360 RPM) - DPS
- 10.88 (7.09)
- Stopping power
- 0.5
Melee Combat
- Melee Attack 1
- Stock
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Attack 2
- Barrel
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Attack 3
- Barrel
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2.0 seconds cooldown - Melee Average DPS
- 4.5
- Melee Average AP
- 13%
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Precision rifling
- Skill Required
- Crafting 6
- Work To Make
- 40,000 ticks (11.11 mins)
- Resources to make
- 60 + 7
- Has Quality
- True
- weaponTags
- Gun, IndustrialGunAdvanced
- thingSetMakerTags
- RewardStandardQualitySuper
- tradeTags
- WeaponRanged
The assault rifle is a moderately heavy, automatic ranged weapon which fires 3-shot bursts of rounds which deal a moderate amount of damage each; a slightly shorter delay between each shot; a moderate time between bursts; slightly longer range and moderate overall accuracy.
Acquisition
Assault rifles can be crafted at a [[]] once the [[Research#|]] research project has been completed. They require , Expression error: Unexpected < operator. of work, and a [[]] skill of .
They can also be found in ancient shrines or purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, and outlander faction bases. They can also be found on the following raider kinds:
| Raider Kind | Chance | Average Quality | Health |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercenary Gunner | 9.17% | Normal | 70-320% |
| Elite Mercenary | 53.37% | Normal | 100% |
| Boss | 53.37% | Normal | 100% |
| Ancient Soldier | 10.81% | Normal | 100% |
| Trooper |
? | ? | 70-230% |
| Janissary |
? | ? | 70-230% |
Analysis
The assault rifle is the jack-of-all trades of RimWorld's firearms. Single-target damage is respectable, with accuracy and warmup time being good overall. Range is amazing - tied for third of all non-consumable weapons and only beaten by weapons with considerably less DPS. The assault rifle can be used to good effect in virtually any use case, whether in close-quarters, out hunting, or on the field. Other weapons surpass the assault rifle in specific roles, such as the chain shotgun in maximum DPS and in close quarters, but no other weapon is as flexible and versatile. For this reason, assault rifles are a common choice for standard issue when not optimizing for a specific strategy.
In terms of actual DPS, the assault rifle is consistently higher than the LMG, lower than the heavy SMG until beyond short range (12 tiles), and generally outdamaged before and after AP by the lower-ranged charge rifle. All four are completely outdamaged by less flexible weapons like the minigun and chain shotgun however. The assault rifle is a moderately skill friendly-weapon when the player manually controls the pawn's range, though the charge rifle and heavy SMG tends to fill that niche better.
The only real thing that the assault rifle lacks is stopping power, as it's unable to stagger humans. Another downside is that production is quite expensive, though not as expensive as a charge rifle. You also won't see raiders use assault rifles until the midgame somewhat limiting the chance to use looted rifles before the higher qualities available to colony-produced weapons take precedence.
Stats
Against an unarmored human, an assault rifle can kill with 4 hits to the torso, 3 hits to the head or neck, or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 3 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 6 hits (~10.1 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.
Attack table
| Industrial Weapons (Error: Page has no Property:Image) Industrial Weapons |
Dam. | AP | Accuracy (Touch) |
Accuracy (Short) |
Accuracy (Medium) |
Accuracy (Long) |
DPS (Optimal) |
DPS (Touch) |
DPS (Short) |
DPS (Medium) |
DPS (Long) |
Market value |
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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.
Version history
- Approximately A9 - Renamed from M16 to Assault rifle.
- 0.12.910 - Rebalanced.
- Beta 19/1.0 - Barrel melee attack damage reduced 10 -> 9, cooldown increased from 1.9s -> 2s. Stock cooldown increased from 1.8 -> 2.
Original M16 sprite
- 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
Minigun
A multi-barrel machine gun. It's unwieldy, but once it starts firing it fires very fast. Where most self-loading guns are powered by the energy from the gunpowder, the minigun uses an electric motor to rapidly cycle cartridges through the weapon.
Base Stats
- Tech Level
- Industrial
- Weapon Class
- Industrial
- Market Value
- 1160
- Mass
- 10 kg
Ranged Combat
- Mode
- Burst
- Damage
- 10 dmg (Bullet)
- Armor penetration
- 15%
- Warm-Up
- 150 ticks (2.5 secs)
- Cooldown
- 138 ticks (2.3 secs)
- Range
- 30.9 tile(s)
- Accuracy
- 15% - 25% - 25% - 18%
- Avg. accuracy
- 22.2%
- Velocity
- 70 (m/s)
- Burst Count
- 25 (per burst)
- Burst Ticks
- 5 ticks (0.08 secs)
(720 RPM) - DPS
- 36.76 (8.16)
- Stopping power
- 0.5
Melee Combat
- Melee Attack 1
- Barrels
11.7 dmg (Blunt)
18% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown - Melee Average DPS
- 4.5
- Melee Average AP
- 18%
Creation
- Crafted At
- Required Research
- Multibarrel weapons
- Skill Required
- Crafting 7
- Work To Make
- 60,000 ticks (16.67 mins)
- Resources to make
- 160 + 20
- Has Quality
- True
- weaponTags
- Gun, GunHeavy, Minigun
- thingSetMakerTags
- RewardStandardQualitySuper
- tradeTags
- WeaponRanged
The minigun is a very heavy, multi-shot ranged weapon that puts a lot of damage downrange in exchange for a move speed penalty.
Acquisition
Miniguns can be crafted at a [[]] once the [[Research#|]] research project has been completed. They require , Expression error: Unexpected < operator. of work, and a [[]] skill of .
They can also be purchased from outlander and orbital combat suppliers, and outlander faction bases. They can also be found on the following raider kinds:
| Raider Kind | Chance | Average Quality | Health |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heavy Mercenary | 36.73% | Normal | 70-320% |
| Cataphract |
? | ? | 70-230% |
Miniguns also spawn on all centipede gunners, including those gestated by a colony. However, it is not possible to loot them. The centipedes carrying it will not drop it on death, downing, or complete loss of manipulation like other weapons.
Summary
The minigun fires -shot bursts of rounds which deal a moderate amount of damage each; a short delay between each shot; a slightly longer time between bursts; slightly longer range and very low overall accuracy.
When equipped, an industrial weapons reduces the pawn's base move speed by −0.25 c/s. As offsets such as these apply before multiplicative effects such as from Moving capacity, the actual impact on move speed can be larger or smaller than this value. For example, a pawn with 125% Moving would have their speed decreased by −0.3125 c/s, while a pawn with only 50% Moving would only have their speed decreased by −0.125 c/s. See Move Speed for details.
Analysis
The minigun takes what the LMG has and cranks it up to eleven.
Raw damage per second is, by far, the highest out of all non-explosive weapons in the game. It's almost double that of the chain shotgun, and 2.5 that of the LMG. Even against single targets, the minigun's average DPS technically surpasses the charge rifle past "short" range (12 tiles). In practice, miniguns are poor against single targets for a number of reasons. It is inaccurate, which makes damage highly variable. And it has a long warmup time; by the time a minigun starts firing, a charge rifle would have already completed a burst. Weapons like assault rifles and heavy SMGs are more reliably good against a lone target.
But the minigun isn't meant for single targets. The low accuracy and huge, 25-shot burst makes the minigun extremely good against crowds. Missed shots can hit other targets in the vicinity, negating much of the accuracy. Even low-skill pawns are bound to hit things with so many bullets. But, even then, the minigun is not without problems. The massive warmup/cooldown cycle and movement speed penalty makes it rather inflexible; pawns will become extremely vulnerable if shooting out in the open.
Therefore, miniguns are best used inside a well-defended emplacement, like a killbox, against large, clustered crowds of enemies. Note that they are expensive; not just costly in both production time and resources, but also in research requirements. They won't appear from raiders until the lategame.
Stats
The minigun is most accurate between 12 and 25 cells range, though the exponential accuracy application from Shooting skill means that the minigun is likely to hit its highest accuracy at between 0 and 14 cells, depending on Shooting level (it requires at least Shooting 8 for the best accuracy range to be anything other than 0 cells, however).
Against an unarmored human, a minigun can kill with 4 hits to the torso, 3-4 hits to the head, 3 hits to the neck or 1 hit to the brain; cripple or destroy limbs in 3 hits; and cripple or destroy eyes and digits with a single hit. It'll generally take around 7 hits (~9.8 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.
From a strictly primary-target perspective, at a relative short range of 12 cells, a Minigun is best paired with Careful Shooter up to Shooting level 13, and Trigger-Happy at 14+. At a moderate range of 20 cells, Careful Shooter wins up through Shooting 18, and Trigger-Happy at 19+. Careful Shooting wins for all shooting levels at a target range of 24+ cells. However, against crowds of enemies, where accuracy is mostly irrelevant, Trigger-Happy wins at all Shooting levels and all ranges for rather obvious reasons.
Attack table
| Industrial Weapons (Error: Page has no Property:Image) Industrial Weapons |
Dam. | AP | Accuracy (Touch) |
Accuracy (Short) |
Accuracy (Medium) |
Accuracy (Long) |
DPS (Optimal) |
DPS (Touch) |
DPS (Short) |
DPS (Medium) |
DPS (Long) |
Market value |
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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.
Version history
- 0.3.410 - Can now spawn on pawns
- Beta 19 - forced miss radius removed allowing it to hit single targets; to compensate accuracy has been nerfed. Also received a buff to damage and a nerf to fire rate; the overall damage is slightly higher.
- 1.4.3523 - New weaponTag added to uniquely identify it for use by a specific centipede variant.
Old sprite, replaced on or before 4/4/15
- 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
- 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