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Weapon quality and material has a large impact on any weapon's effectiveness.Give your best melee pawns the strongest melee weapons, assuming you desire to get into melee at all.Animals will always fight back against a melee weapon, even against a 0% manhunter, making them terrible for hunting. The second con is that melee fighters will often have to approach ranged fighters, meaning it quickly becomes weaker in those situations. A 200 tribal raid will eventually wear down your most well-geared melee fighters, even in the best scenarios.

Later in the game, and especially with higher difficulties, enemies will vastly outnumber your colony. The main con with melee is that damage is unavoidable. You can have gunners fire just behind them. The melee block - create a chokepoint with 3 melee outside, where only 1 enemy can melee at a time - is extremely effective. Melee lends itself well to disruptive tactics, like rushing down a sniper or grenadier, or peeling off enemies from your gunners. A gun's barrel is quite ineffective compared to a sword. Pawns who are adjacent to each other are forced into melee combat, even if they are wielding a shotgun. Melee weapons specialize in hand-to-hand combat. Specifically, if stopping power >= body size, then the enemy will be slowed. Stopping power: A stopping power of 1 or more can stagger, or slow, humans and human-sized enemies.For the same DPS, a lower firing cycle makes a weapon more flexible, and better for kiting strategies. Firing Cycle: Firerate of a ranged weapon - the combination of warmup, cooldown, and firing time.Whenever firing from this range is actually effective is another story. Range: How far a ranged weapon can fire.Thus, weapons in the former category are considered 'skill friendly', and those in latter are best relegated to pawns with high shooting accuracies. Due to the specific mechanics of the Shooting Accuracy stat, weapons that deal the majority of their DPS at closer ranges lose less of their DPS than those that do less damage close up but more evenly spread their DPS across a wide band of ranges.

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For a full breakdown of mechanics see: Weapons. The pawn stat, Shooting Accuracy, is separate to the accuracy of the weapon itself. Certain weapons are more accurate at certain ranges.

Accuracy: For 2 weapons with the same DPS, a more accurate weapon hits targets more consistently.

In addition, each specific damage type ( Arrow vs ArrowHighVelocity, for instance) can have different chances to hit different body parts.

Damage type: Whenever a weapon checks Sharp, Blunt, or Heat damage.

This is the primary consideration for most weapons, and for melee weapons in particular. DPS: Damage per second (at a given range), taking into account raw damage, accuracy, firerate, burst count, and armor.There are a couple of stats that are particularly important to consider in a weapon: Even an endgame colony can find industral era weapons viable - charge rifles and miniguns aren't always the best weapon just because they are higher tech. Modern / Spacer - Weapons from Gas operation onwards.For the purposes of this guide, this includes any gun from Blowback operation and before, as well as medieval technology like longswords and greatbows. These weapons are often carried by eary pirate raiders. Early Industrial - Weaker firearms, like pistols.Often necessary when starting a Lost Tribe or Naked Brutality run, but usually it is quick to replace them. There are also three technology levels to consider: Most explosives do not rely on accuracy, Shooting skill, Manipulation, etc. In addition to raw explosions, many grenade-type weapons have a special effect, like molotov cocktails starting fire. Explosive - Grenades, launchers, and other oddball weapons/utility items like the doomsday rocket launcher.There are a wide variety of ranged weapons, from the all-rounder generalists to 'specialist' weapons that fit a specific niche. Ranged - Weapons that attack from range.Pawns are unable to fire guns at melee range, so these weapons have a wide variety of uses, from using hallways to bring enemies to you, to rushing a troublesome centipede. Melee - Weapons made for close combat.There are three main categories of weapon this guide will cover: