Toxic needle gun

Toxic needle gun

A mechanoid-built gun that fires toxin-infused metal needles. It can fire long distances and will poison the target in addition to doing physical damage.

Base Stats

Type

Equipment – Weapons

Tech Level

Spacer

Weapon Class

Mechanoid

Market Value

1400 

Mass

2.6 kg

Ranged Combat

Mode

Single-Shot

Damage

15 dmg (Toxic bullet)

Armor penetration

35%

Warm-Up

141 ticks (2.35 secs)

Cooldown

126 ticks (2.1 secs)

Range

44.9 tile(s)

Accuracy

60% - 80% - 90% - 85%

Avg. accuracy

79%

Velocity

90 (m/s)

DPS

3.37 (2.66)

Stopping power

1.5

Melee Combat

Melee Attack 1

Barrel
9 dmg (Blunt)
13% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Attack 2 

Barrel
9 dmg (Poke)
13% AP
2.6 seconds cooldown

Melee Average DPS

4.5

Melee Average AP

13%

Technical

weaponTags

MechanoidGunToxicNeedle

The toxic needle gun is an mechanoid-only ranged weapon added by the Biotech DLC. It is the main armament of the apocriton.

This weapon cannot be independently obtained in normal play. It is provided here for comparisons sake.

Acquisition

Toxic needle guns spawn on all apocritons. However, it is not possible to obtain it directly in normal play. Pawns carrying it will not drop it on death, downing, or complete loss of manipulation like other weapons. It can be spawned in by the Debug actions menu but, like all unobtainable weapons, will disappear after being dropped.

Summary

For each point of damage dealt with the toxic bullets, the victim receives 0.65% toxic buildup. Note that this scales inversely with both toxic resistance and body size.

Analysis

The Toxic Needle Gun has a range of 44.9 tiles, matching a sniper rifle. Compared to the sniper rifle it has 3% less armor penetration, deals 40% less damage, takes a second less to aim, and has a slightly shorter cooldown after a shot before aiming can begin again.

The Toxic Needle Gun is highly likely to deal full damage through mid-tier armor such as flak jackets, flak helmets, normal quality dusters, and neolithic options such as the war mask. Flak Vests of normal quality offer decent protection- offering a 32.5% chance of negating damage from the Toxic Needle Gun.

The accumulation of Toxic Buildup is likely to be less immediately pressing than the wounds inflicted by the gun itself, but care should be taken to avoid pawns reaching moderate or worse levels of Toxic Buildup as vomiting is a potentially deadly side effect while fighting an apocriton.

Version history

• Biotech DLC Release - Added.

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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