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 of Napalm Gun to the tables.
• Enter missing weapon weights to the tables.
• Add or link info regarding continuous fire bonuses.
• 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	Base Reload Time	Combat Rating
Machine Gun	20	152	20/4	1-2	8	11
Gatling Gun	20	154	40/4	1-1 x2	8	14
Flechette Gun	20	500	8/4	Anti-Personnel ONLY	10	20
Micromissile Launcher	20	100	15/4		12	8
Medium Machine Gun	30	250	20/6	2-3	8	14
Vehicular Shotgun	30	455	12/6	1 + Anti-Personnel	10	12
Flamethrower	40	455	10/8		6	5
Laser	40		Inf.	1-4	N/A	80
Rocket Launcher	40	205	10/8	4-5	12	22
Car Rifle	35	300	15/7	2-3	10	20
Heavy Flamethrower	60	660	10/12		6	13
Heavy Laser	60		Inf.	1-6	N/A	118
Heavy Car Rifle	70	460	15/14		10	44
Mini Rocket	3	25	1/1		-	0
Light Rocket	4	32	1		-	2
Medium Rocket	8	62	1		-	3
Mini Rocket Pod	6	40	5/1		-	13
Light Rocket Rack	10	60	3		-	6
Medium Rocket Rack	15	75	2		-	21

Large Guns

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Base Reload Time	Combat Rating
Heavy Machine Gun	40	350	20/8	4-6	10	21
Heavy Gatling Gun	40	350	40/8	2-3 x2	10	28
Car Cannon	60	510	10/12	6(?)	12	66
Anti-Tank Gun	60	610	10/12		12	58
Tank Gun	200		10/40		12	102
Heavy Rocket	12	118	1	6()	-	4
Radar Guided Missiles	40		2/8		10	61
Heavy Rocket Rack	20	325	2/4		-	26

Ballistics Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Base Rld. Time	Combat Rating
Paint Gun	30	200	15/6	Special	10	16
Smoke Gun	30		15/6	Special	10	8
Napalm Gun	35	700	10/7	Special	10	?
Car Grenade Launcher	40	200	10/8		10	10
Mounted Mortar	80		12/16		10	36

Dropped Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Base Rld. Time	Combat Rating
Mine Dropper	40	150	10/8		10	5
Spike Dropper	20		10/4	Tires Only	10	2
Oil Jet	25		15/8	Special	10	2
Heavy Oil Jet	40		15/12	Special	10	7
Flaming Oil Jet	40	30	15/8	Special	10	6
Heavy Flaming Oil Jet	60	60	15/12	Special	10	3

Special Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Ammo /Capacity/Bulk	Damage	Base Rld. Time	Combat Rating
Smoke Screen	20		10/4	None	10	3
Heavy Smoke Screen	40	50	10/8	None	10	5
Paint Spray	20	25	15/4	Special	10	4
Heavy Paint Spray	40		15/8	Special	10	8
Nitrous Booster	20	25	5/4	Self Only	10	5
Rocket Booster	40		4/8		10	31

Melee/Ramming Weapons

Weapon	Bulk	Weight	Combat Rating
Mounted Ram	5	200	2
Mounted Spikes	5	100	3
Reinforced Ram	25	1000	20
Plow Ram	25	1000	10

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