Dart Gun
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Dart Gun Official Entry "The X-COM dart gun is a small, accurate, high powered unit with a 10 hollow dart ammo clip. The darts are fired by a gas cartridge in the ammo pod. " |
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General Information
The Dart Gun is a low powered one-handed personal firearm that stores and launches 12 darts. It is not restricted by the environment and will function just as well in and out of water.
The Dart Gun features all of benefits of the X-COM standard issue Pistol used in the first alien war. As a pistol, the one handed grip allows the user to hold another item or weapon in the other hand without suffering an accuracy penalty. It is not accurate but makes up for this with by being a reasonably fast single-shot weapon. Best of all, it's the cheapest weapon in the arsenal.
All these qualities make it a suitable main weapon or side arm for an aquanaut with a specialized role such as a scout, grenadier, medic, heavy weapons specialist, etc.
Despite these benefits, the Dart Gun is the weakest of all the weapons. It is not capable of dealing much damage and often can not penetrate past the armour layer of many enemies. Only enemies with light armour and a near normal resistance to Armour Piercing Damage, such as the Aquatoid and Gillman will be effected by the darts. Even so, they are sufficiently resilient to the darts.
Functionally, the Dart Gun is a reasonably good weapon, but the inability to do any damage to most enemies negates all of its good qualities. From a training standpoint it is an excellent - and cheap - weapon for training firing accuracy and reactions.
This weapon appears in Terror from the Deep. For the UFO: Enemy Unknown equivalent, refer to the Pistol.
Weapon Statistics
Dart Gun
- Size: 2 high x 1 wide
- Firing Accuracy:
- 40% Snapshot
- 80% Aimed
- Firing Cost:
- 20% Snapshot
- 50% Aimed
- Buy Cost: $800
Ammo Stats
Dart Clip
- Size: 1 high x 1 wide
- Damage: 16 Armour Piercing
- Ammo Capacity: 12
- Buy Cost: $70
