Railgun

What it is

Long-range sniper beam. Epic rarity. Charges for a beat, then fires an instant hitscan beam at the furthest in-range enemy, punching through everything along the line. Built to delete backline threats and big single targets — slow cadence, devastating per-shot.

Identification

Field	Value
Family	sniper
Damage tag	bullet
Rarity	epic
Target mode	furthest
Collision mode	beam_trace
Hits destructibles	yes
Warmup	0.55 s
Scaling curve	steep_exp
Area mode	beam_width

Target mode furthest makes the railgun aim at the farthest enemy still inside its acquire range — opposite of most weapons, which pick the closest target. See combat for the full target-mode list.

Stats by level

All numbers are pre-modifier raw spec values. Effective in-game damage = raw damage × the global weapon damage multiplier (see combat).

Stat	L1	L10	L20
Raw damage (per beam)	850	1,928	10,990
Damage multiplier	1.30×	2.50×	7.50×
Effective damage	1,105	4,820	82,427
Fire rate (shots/sec)	0.32	0.38	0.89
Cooldown (sec/shot)	3.13	2.63	1.12
Beam width (px)	36	46	128
Acquire range (px)	380	399	561
Beam length (px)	646	679	953
Warmup (sec)	0.55	0.55	0.55
Pierce	full line	full line	full line

Notes:

• Beam length = acquire range × 1.7. Decoupling means the beam reaches a bit past the AI’s targeting radius, so enemies drifting just outside acquire still get hit on the trace.
• Damage multiplier curve is shared across all weapons. L1 includes the early-level damage buff (+30% at L1, decaying −5%/level, gone at L7).
• steep_exp scaling: progress is cubic against level, so most growth lands at L15–L20. L10 sits at ~10% of the full L1→L20 stat delta.
• Warmup is fixed at all levels; only fire rate, damage, and beam width scale.

Behavior

1. Acquire. On cooldown end, the railgun picks the furthest enemy currently inside acquireRange.
2. Warmup. 0.55-second charge. Ship faces the target during charge.
3. Fire. A single hitscan beam fires along the locked angle. The trace is beam_trace collision: every enemy intersecting the beam-line capsule (width = beamWidth) takes one damage application. No travel time, no projectile.
4. Recovery. Beam render and post-fx persist 0.09 s. Then the cooldown timer runs based on current fire rate.

The beam pierces unconditionally — there is no pierce count and no per-hit damage falloff along the line. One trigger, one trace, every enemy in the corridor takes full damage simultaneously. Destructible props inside the line are also hit.

Horizontal modifiers

Player-side modifiers (Damage / Rate / Area) apply through these per-weapon rates:

Modifier	Rate per +1H
Damage (dmgPerH)	+4%
Rate (ratePerH)	+10%
Area	scales beamWidth (areaMode = beam_width)

Related

• Weapons overview
• Combat — damage, target modes, collision modes