Weapons

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
Ammo Capacity/Bulk	20/4
Damage	Medium (2/7)
Close Accuracy	Good (5/8)
Ranged Accuracy	Reasonable (4/8)
Category	Targeted
Skill	Gunnery

Guns

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Cost	Base Reload Time	Combat Rating
Machine Gun	20	152	20/4	1-2	2k	8	11
Gatling Gun	20	154	40/4	1-1 x2	2k+	8	14
Flechette Gun	20		8/4		5k+	10	20
Micromissile Launcher	20		15/4		1k+	12	8
Medium Machine Gun	30	254	20/6	2-3		8	14
Vehicular Shotgun	30		12/6		2k+	10	12
Flamethrower	40	455	10/8		1k	6	5
Laser	40		Inf.	1-4	12k+	N/A	80
Rocket Launcher	40		10/8	4-5	3,5k+	12	22
Car Rifle	35	300	15/7	2-3	3k+	10	20
Heavy Flamethrower	60		10/12			6	13
Heavy Laser	60		Inf.	1-6		N/A	118
Heavy Car Rifle	70		15/14			10	44
Mini Rocket	3	25	1/1		~100	-	0
Light Rocket	4	32	1		<100	-	2
Medium Rocket	8		1			-	3
Mini Rocket Pod	6		5/1			-	13
Light Rocket Rack	10		3			-	15
Medium Rocket Rack	15		2			-	21

Large Guns

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Cost	Base Reload Time	Combat Rating
Heavy Machine Gun	40	350	20/8	4(?)	4-6k	10	21
Heavy Gatling Gun	40		40/8	2-6		10	28
Car Cannon	60		10/12	6(?)	12k+	12	66
Anti-Tank Gun	60		10/12		8k+	12	58
Tank Gun	200		10/40		14k+	12	102
Heavy Rocket	12		1	6()	500+	-	4
Radar Guided Missiles	40		2/8		10k+	10	61
Heavy Rocket Rack	20		2/4			-	26

Ballistics Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Cost	Base Rld. Time	Combat Rating
Paint Gun	30		15/6	Special		10	16
Smoke Gun	30		15/6	Special		10	8
Car Grenade Launcher	40		10/8			10	10
Mounted Mortar	80		12/16			10	36

Dropped Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Cost	Base Rld. Time	Combat Rating
Mine Dropper	40		10/8			10	5
Spike Dropper	20		10/4	Tires Only		10	2
Oil Jet	40		15/8	Special		10	2
Heavy Oil Jet	60		15/12	Special		10	7
Flaming Oil Jet	40		15/8	Special		10	6
Heavy Flaming Oil Jet	60		15/12	Special		10	3

Special Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo /Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Cost	Base Rld. Time	Combat Rating
Smoke Screen	20		10/4	None		10	3
Heavy Smoke Screen	40		10/8	None		10	5
Paint Spray	20		15/4	Special		10	4
Heavy Paint Spray	40		15/8	Special		10	8
Nitrous Booster	20		5/4	Self Only		10	5
Rocket Booster	40		4/8			10	31

Melee/Ramming Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Cost	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.

• 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 the Heavy Car Rifle 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 damage and accuracy of weapons:

• 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)

• 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)

See Also:

Weapons info on the Darkwind Website