Weapons

Weapons

There are six categories of weapons that do five types of damage. What category of weapon you will be best with is based on your skill level. The categories are: unarmed (which can be modified with gloves), melee, throwing, small guns, big guns, and energy weapons. The types of damage these weapons can inflict are: normal, laser, flame, plasma, and explode.

Normal damage covers bullets, shells, cutting instruments, blunt force, and HTH attacks.
Laser covers, laser weapons such as the laser pistol, rifle, and gatling laser.
Fire is damage from a flamer or molotov cocktail.
Plasma is damage from a plasma pistol, rifle, or grenade.
Explode is damage from any explosive weapon like a rocket launcher or fragmentation grenade.

You are still able to use weapons you are not skilled in, but because you are not as competent in firing and maintaining those types of weapons, your accuracy will suffer. Your skill level will not modify damage done by a weapon. The muscle operated weapons, unarmed, melee, and thrown will change their distance or damage based on your strength stat, while firearms may get a damage or piercing modifier based on the ammo used. Skill level will only modify accuracy. All weapon weights are assuming an unloaded weapon, and the AP cost for reloading any weapon is 2.

Unarmed

All unarmed damage is assuming a Strength of 10.

Unarmed	Damage	Range	AP	Ammo	Weight	Min.Str
Rock	1-4	-	3 Unarmed/4 Aimed Unarmed	-	1	1
Brass Knuckles	2-10	-	3 Unarmed/4 Aimed Unarmed	-	1	1
Spiked Knuckles	4-15	-	3 Unarmed/4 Aimed Unarmed	-	1	1
Power Fist	12-29	-	3 Unarmed/4 Aimed Unarmed	25:Small Energy Cells	7	1

The rock can also be used as a throwing weapon.

Melee

All melee damage is assuming a Strength of 10. All AP costs are for melee actions only, not throwing with the same weapon. Melee weapons are arranged according to damage but check AP as well. For example: The sledgehammer does more damage than the combat knife, but the combat knife requires 1 less AP making it the better weapon.

Melee	Damage	Range	AP	Ammo	Weight	Min.Str
Knife	1-11	-	3 Swing/4 Aimed Swing/3 Thrust/4 Aimed Thrust	-	1	2
Club	1-11	-	3 Swing/4 Aimed Swing	-	3	3
Throwing Knife	3-6	-	4 Swing/5 Aimed Swing	-	1	3
Crowbar	3-15	-	4 Swing/5 Aimed Swing	-	5	5
Spear	3-15	2	4 Thrust/5 Aimed Thrust	-	4	4
Combat Knife	3-15	-	3 Swing/4 Aimed Swing/3 Thrust/ Aimed Thrust	-	2	2
Sledgehammer	4-14	2	4 Swing/5 Aimed Swing/5 Thrust/6 Aimed Thrust	-	12	6
Cattle Prod	12-25	-	4 Swing/5 Aimed Swing	20:Small Energy Cells	3	4
Ripper	15-37	-	4 Swing/5 Aimed Swing	30:Small Energy Cells	2	4
Super Sledge	18-41	2	3 Swing/4 Aimed Swing/4 Thrust/5 Aimed Thrust	-	12	5

The spear and throwing knife can also be used as throwing weapons.

Throwing

All thrown weapons are assuming a Strength of 10. All AP costs are for throwing actions only, not melee with the same weapon. When you throw a weapon if you have a duplicate in your inventory, that item will be added to your active item slot at no penalty.

Throwing	Damage	Range	AP	Ammo	Weight	Min.Str
Rock	1-4	15	4 Throw/5 Aimed Throw	Itself	1	1
Throwing Knife	3-6	16	5 Throw/6 Aimed Throw	Itself	1	3
Spear	3-15	?	6 Throw/7 Aimed Throw	Itself	4	4
Molotov Cocktail	8-20	12	5 Throw	Itself	1	3
Fragmentation Grenade	20-35	15	4 Throw	Itself	1	3
Pulse Grenade	100-150	15	4 Throw	Itself	1	4
Plasma Grenade	40-90	15	4 Throw	Itself	1	4

The rock can also be used as an unarmed weapon; the throwing knife and spear can be used as melee weapons. The pulse grenade only affects robots

Small Guns

The type of ammo used may modify gun damage. The damage for burst weapons may look unimpressive but keep in mind they will fire multiple rounds. Most of the burst weapons have pathetic single fire modes; you may want to keep a short-range burst weapon in one hand and a long-range single shot weapon in the other. Guns are organized by type (pistols, SMG's, shotguns rifles).

Small Guns	Damage	Range	AP	Ammo	Weight	Min.Str
9mm Mauser	5-10	22	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	5:9mm ball	5	3
10mm Pistol	5-12	25	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	12:10mm	3	3
Desert Eagle	10-16	25	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	8:44 Magnum	4	4
14mm Pistol	12-22	24	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	6:14mm	4	4
.223 Pistol	20-30	30	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	5:.223	5	5
10mm SMG	5-12	25	5 Single/6 Aimed Single/6 Burst	30:10mm	5	4
Shotgun	12-22	14	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	2:12ga. shells	5	4
Combat Shotgun	15-25	22	5 Single/6 Aimed Single/6 Burst	12:12ga. shells	10	5
Red Ryder BB Gun	1-3	22	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	100:BB's	5	3
Hunting Rifle	8-20	40	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	10:.223	9	5
Assault Rifle	8-16	45	5 Single/6 Aimed Single/6 Burst	24:5mm	7	5
Sniper Rifle	14-35	50	6 Single/7 Aimed Single	6:.223	9	5
LE Red Ryder BB Gun	25	32	4 Single/5 Aimed Single	100:BB's	5	3

The BB gun is an Easter Egg from "Christmas Story" it may get an increased chance to shoot out an eye, and the hunting and sniper rifle may get increased chances to hit (unconfirmed)

Big Guns

Big guns do obscene amounts of damage to lightly armored creatures, but I would not suggest specializing in them unless you have very high strength. The guns are heavy and require a high strength stat to wield, and you need to be strong enough to carry around the very heavy and very expensive ammo required of them.

Big Guns	Damage	Range	AP	Ammo	Weight	Min.Str
Minigun	7-11	35	6 Burst	120:5mm	28	7
Flamer	45-90	5	6 Burst	5:Flamethrower Fuel	18	6
Rocket Launcher	35-100	40	6 Single	1 Rocket	15	6

If the minigun looks really weak at first glance, keep in mind it fires 40 times per burst. I strongly advise against using the rocket launcher at close range, the result will not be pretty.

These are generally the most powerful weapons in the game. Energy weapon damage is not modified by the type of ammo used like other weapons. Remember laser and plasma weapons do different types of damage.

Energy Weapons	Damage	Range	AP	Ammo	Weight	Min.Str
Laser Pistol	10-22	35	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	12:Small Energy Cells	4	3
Laser Rifle	25-50	45	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	12:Micro Fusion Cells	12	6
Gatling Laser	20-40	40	6 Burst	30:Micro Fusion Cells	24	6
Plasma Pistol	15-35	20	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	16:Small Energy Cells	4	4
Plasma Rifle	30-65	25	5 Single/6 Aimed Single	10:Micro Fusion Cells	12	6
Turbo Plasma Rifle	35-70	35	4 Single/5 Aimed Single	10:Micro Fusion Cells	17	6
Alien Blaster	30-90	10	4 Single/5 Aimed Single	30:Small Energy Cells	2	2

Again, keep in mind the gatling laser is a burst weapon and the amount of damage it does is misleading. In general plasma weapons do more damage at the cost of less range, the choice is up to you, but the turbo plasma rifle will probably be your best weapon. I have not determined if the alien blaster does laser or plasma damage, if you have info on this please e-mail me.