Weapons

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Darkwind offers a wide variety of weapons you can mount on your vehicles from flamethrowers for close range combat to mounted artillery mortars for long range mayhem.

Information about pedestrian weapons is available on the Pedestrian Weapons page.

Weapons take up a certain amount of bulk and a weapon slot. Most vehicles have 6 weapons slots: 2 front, 2 rear and one on each side.

Besides bulk there are a lot of other factors worth taking under consideration when choosing your weapons, such as close- and long-range accuracy, recoil, amount and type of damage it does, and whether it does splash damage.

Weapons are bought from local mechanic shops or stripped from looted cars, and like all other items in Darkwind are subject to the dynamic economy, which means not all weapons are always in stock, and some weapons are quite rare and expensive.

TODO:

  • Extend intro
  • Add this overview table like to all the weapons pages:
  • Add weapon CR to the tables.
  • Add weapon weight to the tables.
  • See about adding recoil to the weapon info (although it's very hard to measure)
Overview
Bulk 20
Clip Size 20
Damage Medium (2/7)
Close Accuracy Good (5/8)
Ranged Accuracy Reasonable (4/8)
Category Targeted
Skill Gunnery

Guns

Weapon Bulk Clip Size Damage[1] Cost[2] Base Reload Time Combat Rating
Machine Gun 20 20 2k 8 11
Gatling Gun 20 40 2k+ 8 14
Flechette Gun 20 8 5k+ 10 20
Micromissile Launcher 20 15 1k+ 12 8
Medium Machine Gun 30 20 8 14
Vehicular Shotgun 30 12 2k+ 10 12
Flamethrower 40 10 1k 6 5
Laser 40 Inf. 1-4 12k+ N/A 80
Rocket Launcher 40 10 3,5k+ 12 22
Car Rifle 35 15 3k+ 10 20
Heavy Flamethrower 60 10 6 13
Heavy Laser 60 Inf. 1-6 N/A 118
Heavy Car Rifle 70 15 10 44
Mini Rocket[3] 3 1 ~100 N/A 0
Light Rocket[3] 4 1 <100 N/A 2
Medium Rocket[3] 8 1 N/A 3
Mini Rocket Pod[4] 6 5 - 13
Light Rocket Rack[4] 10 3 - 15
Medium Rocket Rack[4] 15 2 - 21

Large Guns

Weapon Bulk Clip Size Damage[1] Cost[2] Base Reload Time Combat Rating
Heavy Machine Gun 40 20 4(?) 4-6k 10 21
Heavy Gatling Gun 40 40 2-6 10 28
Car Cannon 60 10 6(?) 12k+ 12 66
Anti-Tank Gun 60 10 8k+ 12 58
Tank Gun 200 10 14k+ 12 102
Heavy Rocket[3] 12 1 6() 500+ N/A 4
Radar Guided Missiles 40 2 10k+ 10 61
Heavy Rocket Rack[4] 20 2 - 26

Ballistics Weapons

Weapon Bulk Clip Size Damage[1] Cost[2] Base Rld. Time Combat Rating
Paint Gun 30 15 Special 10 8
Smoke Gun 30 15 Special 10 8
Car Grenade Launcher 40 10 10 10
Mounted Mortar 80 12 5-6k+ 10 36

Dropped Weapons

Weapon Bulk Clip Size Damage[1] Cost[2] Base Rld. Time Combat Rating
Mine Dropper 40 10 10 5
Spike Dropper 20 10 Tires Only 10 2
Oil Jet 40 15 Special 10 2
Heavy Oil Jet 60 15 Special 10 7
Flaming Oil Jet 40 15 Special 10 6
Heavy Flaming Oil Jet 60 15 Special 10 3

Special Weapons

Weapon Bulk Clip Size Damage[1] Cost[2] Base Rld. Time Combat Rating
Smoke Screen 20 10 None 10 3
Heavy Smoke Screen 40 10 None 10 5
Paint Spray 20 15 Special 10 4
Heavy Paint Spray 40 15 Special 10 8
Nitrous Booster 20 5 Self Only 10 5
Rocket Booster 40 4 10 31

Melee/Ramming Weapons

Weapon Bulk Cost[2] Combat Rating
Mounted Ram 5 2
Mounted Spikes 5 3
Reinforced Ram 25 20

Effect of relative speed

The relative speed of two cars' affects the chance to hit although not all weapons are affected the same[5]

  • Affected less than normal:
    • Radar Guided Missile
    • Car Rifle
    • Heavy Car Rifle
    • Laser
    • Heavy Laser
  • Affected more than normal:
    • Car Grenade Launcher
    • Mounted Mortar
    • Paint Gun
    • Smoke Gun
    • All types of single-shot rockets
  • Affected a lot more than normal:
    • Rocket Launcher
    • Micromissile Launcher
  • Affected a normal amount:
    • All other weapons

Exact info on the new weapons is unavailable, but we can expect them to follow similar logic with ballistics weapons being heavily affected and Heavy Car Rifles being less affected.

Effect of Driving/Firing Direction

There is a 10% (approximate) accuracy penalty for firing in the direction opposite to the one you are traveling, i.e. firing rear weapons while driving forward, or firing front weapons while driving in reverse.

Weapon Ratings

On the official Darkwind weapon info page the following rating system is used for the accuracy and damage of weapons.

  • Accuracy Levels
  1. Terrible (0/8)
  2. Very Poor (1/8)
  3. Poor (2/8)
  4. Quite Poor (3/8)
  5. Reasonable (4/8)
  6. Good (5/8)
  7. Very Good (6/8)
  8. Excellent (7/8)
  9. Exceptional (8/8)
  • Damage Levels
  1. None (0/7)
  2. Low (1/7)
  3. Medium (2/7)
  4. Medium-High (3/7)
  5. High (4/7)
  6. Very high (5/7)
  7. Extremely High (6/7)
  8. Exceptionally High (7/7)

See Also:

Weapons info on the Darkwind Website

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Armor Damage
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 Very Conservative estimates on what it might cost at Jake's (in cheaper towns)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 These weapons can only be reloaded in town.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 These weapons are too slow to reload during a combat. They can only be reloading during the setup phase before a combat, during the looting stage after combat, or in town.
  5. http://dark-wind.com/forums2/index.php?a=topic&t=1096&min=15&num=15