Revolver

Revolver

An ancient pattern double-action revolver. It's not very powerful, but has a decent range for a pistol and is quick on the draw.

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

"Modern 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

Modern

Mass

1.4 kg

Ranged Combat

Mode

Single-Shot

Damage

12 dmg

Armor penetration

18%

Warm-Up

18 ticks (0.3 secs)

Cooldown

96 ticks (1.6 secs)

Range

25.9 tile(s)

Accuracy

80% - 75% - 45% - 35%

Avg. accuracy

68.5%

Velocity

55 (m/s)

Burst Count

1 (per burst)

DPS

6.32 (4.33)

Stopping power

1

The revolver is a light, single-shot firearm in RimWorld which deals a moderate amount of damage per shot, has a short time between shots, a moderate range and moderate overall accuracy.

Acquisition

Revolvers can 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	25.83%	Normal	40-110%
Pirate Gunner	14.09%	Normal	70-230%
Villager	19.91%	Poor	20-200%
Town Councilman	43.10%	Good	100%
Town Guard	10.18%	Normal	60-200%
Mercenary Gunner	6.50%	Normal	70-320%
Ancient Soldier	5.38%	Normal	100%

Revolvers can also be crafted at a machining table once the gunsmithing research has been completed; from 30 steel, 2 components and 4,000 ticks (1.11 mins) of work. A crafting skill of at least 3 is required.

A revolver is also one of the three starting weapons in the standard crashlanded scenario, along with a bolt-action rifle and plasteel knife.

Analysis

The revolver has a fairly good damage output for a single-shot weapon, only slightly trailing the autopistol in this aspect. Thanks to its fairly short time between shots and its good close-up accuracy, the revolver's a good weapon for low-skilled shooters. It also has a high enough stopping power to stagger advancing humans or human-sized mechanoids. The revolver is also very easy to acquire because earlygame raiders often use it, and because of its low manufacturing costs and technology requirements.

However, like the autopistol (though to a lesser extent), the revolver isn't particularly suited to medium-range engagements despite having the range to do so due to its fairly poor accuracy at those distances; even the recurve bow can keep up in those engagements, while the greatbow and bolt-action rifle easily surpass it.

The revolver is best suited as a close-quarters weapon overall owing to its accuracy profile, although it can be used as a support weapon to slow down enemies that are attempting to close distance (melee units, shotgunners etc.). This weapon's also a somewhat viable hunting weapon for lower-risk game, but the bolt-action rifle will still net better results.

Against an unarmored human, a revolver can kill with 4 hits to the torso, 3 hits to the head, 2 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 6 hits (~16.7 seconds average) to incapacitate that human from pain shock.

Overall, the revolver is best paired with a careful shooter up to the equivalent of a level 21, then with a trigger-happy shooter beyond that point.

Melee Combat

Tool	Attack	Damage Type	Power	AP	Cooldown	Likelihood	Base DPS
Overall	-	-	9	13%	2.00s	-	4.50
Grip	Blunt	Blunt	9	13%	2.00s	50.00%	4.50
Barrel	Blunt	Blunt	9	13%	2.00s	25.00%	4.50
Barrel	Poke	Blunt	9	13%	2.00s	25.00%	4.50

Revolver vs. Comparable Weapons

This section goes over how well the revolver 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 revolvers 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
Autopistol	35.16%	40.09%	44.89%	43.81%	44.41%	-	-
Pump Shotgun	38.99%	37.04%	33.25%	-	-	-	-
Bolt-Action Rifle	74.06%	64.80%	55.62%	41.13%	20.54%	-	-
Greatbow	83.68%	76.09%	66.57%	57.44%	43.91%	-	-

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
Autopistol	39.18%	41.30%	45.73%	45.21%	47.51%	-	-
Pump Shotgun	42.43%	39.48%	33.40%	-	-	-	-
Bolt-Action Rifle	67.32%	60.00%	51.96%	35.49%	18.03%	-	-
Greatbow	85.79%	79.07%	68.07%	59.97%	43.35%	-	-

Graphs

The graphs assume a normal quality revolver against an adult human that's out in the open in clear weather. For DPS, projectile speed has also been factored into the equation, with the weighting based on the base amount of attacks that it'll take to put the aforementioned target into pain shock.

Version history

It received a slight accuracy buff in 1.0.

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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