Weapons (LW2)

Primary Weapons

Assault Rifle

Assault Rifles are the default primary weapon of most soldiers within modern militaries. Extremely versatile and "middle of the road" in every way.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores
Assault Rifle	3-5	+2	3	30	-	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Laser Rifle	4-7	+2	3	30	+5 Aim	Laser Weapons	20	1	1	-	10
Mag Rifle	5-9	+3	3	30	-	Magnetic Weapons	30	2	2	-	15
Coil Rifle	6-11	+4	3	30	Ignores 1 Armor	Coilguns	50	3	5	-	25
Plasma Rifle	8-12	+5	3	30	Inflicts Rupture (1 damage) 4 Upgrade Slots	Plasma Rifle	60	4	5	1	30

Weapon Range Modifier

Distance		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25+
Aim Modifier		30	27	24	21	18	15	12	9	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-5	-10	-15	-20	-25	-30

Cannon

Cannons can only be fielded by Gunner soldiers; automatic rifleman specialist trained in using light machine gun or squad automatic weapon as part of a fireteam. They have higher damage compared to rifles, and larger clips. They suffer penalties at very short range, but nowhere near the extent that sniper rifles do.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores
Cannon	4-6	+2	5	36	-	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Laser Cannon	5-8	+3	5	36	+5 Aim	Advanced Laser Weapons	25	1	1	-	10
Mag Cannon	6-11	+4	5	36	-	Advanced Magnetic Weaponry	40	2	2	-	20
Gauss Cannon	8-13	+5	5	36	Ignores 1 Armor	Advanced Coilguns	60	3	5	-	25
Beam Cannon	11-15	+6	5	36	Inflicts Rupture (1 damage)	Beam Cannon	70	4	5	1	35

Weapon Range Modifier

Distance		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26+
Aim Modifier		-10	-5	0	5	10	8	6	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-5	-10	-15	-20	-25	-30

Submachine Guns

SMG-type weapons can be used by most classes. They do lower damage than assault rifles, have smaller clips and have more falloff at range, but increase mobility. They also slightly decrease infiltration time for the soldier carrying them.

Using an SMG increases the soldier's Mobility by 3, and reduces enemy detection radius for that soldier by 12.5%.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores
SMG	2-4	+1	2	28	+3 Mobility -12.5% Detection Radius	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Laser Stengun	3-6	+2	2	30	+3 Mobility -12.5% Detection Radius +5 Aim	Laser Weapons	20	1	1	-	10
Stuttermag	4-7	+2	2	28	+3 Mobility -12.5% Detection Radius	Magnetic Weapons	30	2	2	-	20
Subcoiler	5-9	+3	2	28	+3 Mobility -12.5% Detection Radius Ignores 1 Armor	Coilguns	55	3	5	-	25
Scramgun	6-11	+4	2	28	+3 Mobility -12.5% Detection Radius Inflicts Rupture (1 damage)	Plasma Rifle	65	4	5	1	30

Weapon Range Modifier

Distance		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25+
Aim Modifier		30	25	20	15	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	-4	-8	-12	-16	-20	-24	-30	-40	-50	-60	-70	-80	-90	-100

Shotgun

Shotguns can be equipped by most soldiers in Long War. Assault soldiers have several perks specialising in them.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores
Shotgun	4-6	+2	4	30	+15 Crit Chance	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Scatterray	5-8	+3	4	30	+15 Crit Chance +5 Aim	Advanced Laser Weapons	25	1	1	-	10
Shard Gun	6-11	+4	4	30	+15 Crit Chance	Advanced Magnetic Weaponry	40	2	2	-	20
Scattergun	8-13	+5	4	30	+15 Crit Chance Ignores 1 Armor	Advanced Coilguns	60	3	5	-	25
Storm Gun	10-14	+8	4	30	+15 Crit Chance Inflicts Rupture (1 damage)	Storm Gun	70	6	5	-	35

Weapon Range Modifier

Distance		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19+
Aim Modifier		60	45	30	15	8	4	0	0	-4	-8	-16	-32	-40	-48	-60	-70	-80	-90	-100

Sniper Rifle

Sniper Rifles can only be fielded by Sharpshooters.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores
Sniper Rifle	4-6	+2	3	30	+10 Crit Chance	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Laser Lance	5-8	+3	3	30	+10 Crit Chance +5 Aim	Advanced Laser Weapons	25	1	1	-	10
Mag Long Rifle	6-11	+4	3	30	+10 Crit Chance	Advanced Magnetic Weaponry	40	2	2	-	20
Gauss Long Rifle	8-13	+5	3	30	+10 Crit Chance Ignores 1 Armor	Advanced Coilguns	60	3	5	-	25
Plasma Lance	10-14	+6	3	30	+20 Crit Chance Inflicts Rupture (1 damage)	Plasma Lance	70	4	5	1	35

Weapon Range Modifier

Distance		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40	41+
Aim Modifier		-30	-27	-24	-21	-18	-15	-12	-9	-6	-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	-1	-2	-3	-4	-5	-6	-7	-8	-9	-10	-11	-12	-13	-14	-15	-16	-17	-18	-19	-20

Auxiliary Weapons

Pistols

The Pistol is now a utility slot item and can be equipped on any soldier. Pistol related perks are trainable in the Advanced Warfare Center. Officers also have a few abilities related to pistols, including the ability to give one to a civilian ally.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost				Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores
Pistol	1-3	+1	∞	26	-	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Laser Pistol	2-4	+1	∞	26	+5 Aim	Laser Weapons	5	-	1	-	3
Mag Pistol	3-5	+2	∞	26	-	Magnetic Weapons	10	1	1	-	15
Gauss Pistol	4-6	+2	∞	26	Ignores 1 Armor	Coilguns	30	2	3	-	20
Plasma Pistol	5-7	+3	∞	26	Inflicts Rupture (1 damage)	Plasma Rifle	20	3	5	1	25

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals
Shadowkeeper	1-4	+1	∞	9	+10 Aim +15 Crit Chance Shadowfall	Experimental Weapons	25	-	-
Enhanced Shadowkeeper	3-6	+2	∞	9	+10 Aim +15 Crit Chance Shadowfall	Magnetic Weapons	45	5	-
Powered Shadowkeeper	5-8	+3	∞	9	+10 Aim +15 Crit Chance Shadowfall Inflicts Rupture (1 damage)	Plasma Rifle	100	10	20

Weapon Range Modifier

Distance		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25+
Aim Modifier		30	25	20	15	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	-4	-8	-12	-16	-20	-24	-30	-40	-50	-60	-70	-80	-90	-100

Secondary Weapons

Secondary weapons are available only to Soldier classes. These weapons require specific training and each Soldier class can use only one type of special weapon.

Combat Knife

The Combat Knife is used by the Gunner class. While it is weaker than the Sword, this melee weapon is highly accurate and has a higher innate chance to crit.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost			Black Market Value
						Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals
Combat Knife	2-4	+3	6	+20 Aim +20 Crit Chance	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Vibroblade	3-8	+5	6	+20 Aim +20 Crit Chance Ignores 2 Armor	Muton Autopsy	10	1	-	5

Arc Thrower

The Arc Thrower is used by the Assault class. They do no damage, but will stun organic enemies if it hits. Importantly, it has normal range penalties, giving a shotgun equipped Assault an option to use at range.

Perks allow the Arc Thrower to deal armour-ignoring damage to mechanical enemies (MECs, Drones) and reduce their hack defense.

Name	Stun Duration (Organic Only)	EMPulse Damage (Robotic only)	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost					Black Market Value
						Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores	Corpses
Arc Thrower	2 actions / 1 turn	2-5	30	+5 Aim	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Advanced Arc Thrower	3 actions / 1 and half turns	4-9	30	+5 Aim	ADVENT Stun Lancer Autopsy	20	1	3	-	-	10
Arc Blaster	4 actions / 2 turns	7-12	30	+5 Aim	Gatekeeper Autopsy	35	1	5	1	1x Gatekeeper Shell	20

GREMLIN

The GREMLIN is used by the Specialist class. These little robots provide electronic warfare and logistical combat support, such as remote hacking and healing, and can deal damage with the right perks, especially against mechanical enemies.

Name	Hack Bonus	Aid Protocol Defense Bonus	Combat Protocol Damage	Revival Protocol Charges	Interference Charges	Scanning Protocol Charges	Heal Bonus	Rescue Protocol Charges	Capacitor Discharge Damage	Prerequisites	Cost					Black Market Value
											Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores	Corpses
GREMLIN	+0	+20	2 / 4-5	2	3	1	+0	1	3-6 / 5-8	-	-	-	-	-	-
GREMLIN Mark II	+20	+25	4 / 7-8	3	5	2	+1	2	5-8 / 8-11	ADVENT Robotics	20	1	1	-	1x Drone Wreck	10
GREMLIN Mark III	+40	+30	6 / 10-11	4	6	3	+2	3	7-10 / 11-14	Sectopod Breakdown	35	1	-	1	1x Sectopod Wreck	20

Grenade Launcher

The Grenade Launcher is used by the Grenadier class. They provide extended range and blast radius bonuses over Grenades thrown by other classes, and grenades launched by these do not suffer the cooldown preventing other classes from using grenades every turn

Name	Range Bonus	Radius Bonus	Prerequisites	Cost			Black Market Value
				Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals
Grenade Launcher	+4	+1	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Advanced Grenade Launcher	+6	+1	Magnetic Weapons	25	1	1	20

Holotargeter

The Holotargeter is used by the Sharpshooter class. Holotargeters have squadsight range and apply an aim bonus to any targeted enemies. The Sharpshooter can specialize in various skills to augment the Holotargeter with additional bonuses and allow targeting of multiple enemies in a single turn.

Name	Aim Bonus	HiDef Holo Crit Bonus	VPT Damage Bonus	Multitargeting Radius	Prerequisites	Cost					Black Market Value
						Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores	Corpses
Holotargeter	+10	+10	+1	4	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Holotargeter Mark II	+15	+15	+1	5	ADVENT MEC Breakdown	30	1	0	1	1x ADVENT MEC Wreck	5
Holotargeter Mark III	+20	+20	+2	6	Andromedon Autopsy	60	3	0	1	1x Andromedon Wreck	10

Psi Amp

The Psi Amp is used by the Psi Operative class. They are used for all psionic attacks.

Name	Psi Offense Bonus	Soulfire Damage	Void Rift Damage	Null Lance Damage	Mind Merge Additional Bonuses	Prerequisites	Cost					Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores	Corpses
Psi Amp	+0	4-6	3-4	6-9	-	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Advanced Psi Amp	+10	6-9	5-6	8-12	+5 Will +5 Crit Chance +1 Ablative HP	Psionics Elerium	40	2	5	1	1x Sectoid Corpse	5
Alien Psi Amp	+20	9-11	7-9	10-15	+10 Will +10 Crit Chance +2 Ablative HP	Psionics Gatekeeper Autopsy	100	2	10	1	1x Gatekeeper Shell	10

Sawed-Off Shotgun

The Sawed-Off Shotgun is used by the Ranger class. It deals colossal damage at close range, especially if both barrels are used at once, but has extreme accuracy penalties beyond a few tiles. These shotguns cannot be reloaded.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Clip Size	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost			Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals
Sawed-Off Shotgun	5-9	+2	2	30	+15 Crit Chance	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Mag Shorty	9-15	+5	2	30	+15 Crit Chance	Advanced Coilguns	25	1	1	8

Weapon Range Modifier

Distance		1	2	3	4	5	6	7+
Aim Modifier		60	30	0	-20	-40	-80	-100

Sword

The Sword is used by the Shinobi class.

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost					Black Market Value
						Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores	Corpses
Sword	3-5	+2	9	+20 Aim +10 Crit Chance	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Arc Blade	6-10	+4	9	+25 Aim +15 Crit Chance 25% chance of stunning for 2 actions / 1 turn	ADVENT Stun Lancer Autopsy	20	1	1	-	1x ADVENT Stun Lancer Corpse	8
Fusion Blade	10-14	+6	9	+30 Aim +20 Crit Chance Burns for 2 turns	Archon Autopsy	35	2	3	1	1x Archon Corpse	15

Name	Damage	Crit Damage	Sound Range	Special properties	Prerequisites	Cost
						Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals
Hunter's Axe	4-6	+2	9	+15 Aim +10 Crit Chance	Experimental Weapons	40	-	-
Ionic Axe	6-10	+4	9	+15 Aim +15 Crit Chance 25% chance of stunning for 2 actions / 1 turn	ADVENT Stun Lancer Autopsy	80	10	-
Fusion Axe	10-14	+6	9	+15 Aim +20 Crit Chance Burns for 2 turns	Archon Autopsy	130	10	5

Gauntlet

The Gauntlet is used by the Technical class.

Name	Damage	Sound Range	Env. Damage	Shred	Panic Strength	Prerequisites	Cost					Black Market Value
							Supplies	Alloys	Elerium Crystals	Elerium Cores	Corpses
Gauntlet	2-7 / 2-5	39 / 20	20	2	50	XCOM starts with an unlimited supply
Gauntlet Mark II	4-9 / 4-8	39 / 20	25	2	65	Magnetic Weapons	30	3	5	-	-	10
Blaster Gauntlet	5-12 / 7-11	39 / 20	30	3	85	Battlesuits Muton Elite Autopsy	150	5	10	2	1x Muton Elite Corpse	20

Heavy Weapons

Heavy weapons are carried by the Technical class and other soldiers in EXO suits. Technicals carry the Gauntlet, which has an integrated rocket launcher and flamethrower. Technicals in an EXO suit can't equip different heavy weapons, but can carry extra rockets and flamethrower fuel in its heavy weapon slot. Other soldiers can carry different heavy weapons, but not rocket launchers or flamethrowers.

Name	Effect
Rocket Launcher	Deals high area damage, but can scatter based on aim, range and whether the soldier has moved this turn.
Flamethrower	Fires a short range cone that pierces low cover and can inflict Burning.
Blaster Launcher	Replaces the Rocket Launcher for Technicals with Blaster Gauntlets.
Shredder Gun	Fires a large cone.
Shredstorm Cannon	Advanced Shredder Gun.
Plasma Blaster	Fires a beam in a straight line, penetrating walls, cover and armor.

Rocket Scatter

Rocket scatter is calculated by making a number of aim rolls against the maximum scatter distance and applying scatter of that number of tiles in a random direction. The maximum scatter is by default 4 tiles, reduced by 2 tiles by the Fire In The Hole ability, and increased by 2 tiles if the soldier has only one action remaining.

The aim rolls are based on the aim of the soldier, reduced by 30 if the soldier has only one action remaining, with a range penalty of 3 per tile further than 9.

So, if your Tech has 70 Aim innately and Fire In The Hole, hasn't moved and is taking a shot at a target 14 tiles away (-15), you want 2 rolls of 55%. Doable. On the other hand if they moved before firing, you want 4 rolls of 25%. Not great odds!

Rocket accuracy can further be increased by increasing the soldier's base aim. Modifiers based on the soldier's weapon will not effect it. For example, these effect the soldier's aim in general and will boost rocket accuracy:

• PCS: Perception
• Steady Hands
• Aim (Perk)
• Lone Wolf
• PCS: Combat Rush
• Combat Fitness
• Aim progression on stat bonuses from leveling up

For a counter-example, these effect effects are tied to weapons and don't effect rocket accuracy:

• The accuracy boost from laser weapons
• Weapon upgrade modules (scopes, stocks, etc)
• Tracer rounds
• PCS: Hyper reactive pupils

Weapon Upgrades

[...]

Mod	Effect	Basic	Advanced	Elite
Auto Loader	Free reload	+1	+2	+3
Expanded Magazine	Adds ammo capacity	+1	+2	+3
Hair Trigger	Adds bonus aim to reaction fire	+5%	+10%	+15%
Laser Sight	Adds critical chance bonus	+5%	+10%	+15%
Scope	Adds bonus aim to non-reaction fire	+5%	+10%	+15%
Stock	Grants the Steady Weapon ability (+X aim, +X crit on next shot)	+15	+20	+25
Suppressor	Reduces Soldier's impact on infiltration time by (X), Reduces a Weapon's sound range by (Y) meters.1	15%, 5	20%, 8	25%, 11

¹(Assuming 1 Tile = 1.5 Meters) Basic Suppressor: 3.33 Tiles, Advanced: 5.33 Tiles, Superior: 7.33 Tiles; in a straight line.