Autocannon turret

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Autocannon turret

Autocannon turret

A heavy automatic turret. Its large-caliber shells do heavy damage over significant ranges, but its barrel must be refurbished after use. It cannot fire at close-up targets, and may explode when damaged.

Base Stats

Type
Security
Mass
150 kg
Beauty
-20
HP
450

Building

Size
2
Placeable
Yes
Power
-160 W

Ranged Combat

Cooldown
210 ticks (3.5 secs)

The autocannon turret is a defense structure that fires a burst of high damage shells. It has a maximum range of 32.9 tiles, but cannot hit enemies within an 8.9 tile radius.

After firing 90 rounds it requires a barrel change, costing:

  • 60 steel in Peaceful and Base Builder difficulty
  • 90 steel in Medium difficulty
  • 120 steel in Rough difficulty and above

Usage

Its use is not very cost-effective as its low accuracy makes it somewhat unlikely to land shots at range, and it costs quite some steel for each shot.

It can be useful in killboxes where it is more likely to hit, by bringing enemies closer together and putting them in range.

Due to their high damage output, autocannons can be effective at mowing down lancers when grouped, provided you can lure them within its effective range; their charge lances are otherwise able to outrange them by roughly 4 tiles.

Visualization of effective turret range of all three turrets, from uranium slug turret (top), to autocannon turret (middle), to mini-turret (bottom).
Green is 80 - 100% of peak accuracy, blue is 50 - 80% of peak accuracy, red is below 50% of peak accuracy and grey is outside range. Gold tiles are spaced every 5 tiles.