Weapons

Overview

Weapons are primarily designed to inflict damage on other ships.

They may however be used to break up space debris, intercept missiles, and repair ships (with repair lasers).

Some weapons are very energy efficient, usually a result of requiring ammunition.

Direct fire weapons like those listed below can be characterized as either a beam, area of effect, or a bolt.

Bolt weapons

• Fire discrete projectiles which travel through space at the listed speed.
• May fire repeatedly at the specified rate of fire.
• Accuracy depends on the bullet speed, which ranges from slow capital ship cannons to Flak that exceeds the speed of beam weapons.

Beam weapons

• Are virtually impossible to evade because all beam weapons have a very high propagation speed.
• Generate a beam until the trigger is released or energy is depleted.

Shockwave weapons

• Are almost impossible to evade since some can cover an area that is over 1 km wide.
• Fire a cone of destruction hitting victims multiple times, inflicting a huge multiplier on large targets.
• Often a source of friendly fire.

Flak weapons

• Are primarily designed as anti-fighter weapons.
• Create a large damage area capable of seriously damaging fighters.

Damage

Damage is inflicted in two ways.

Hull

Hulls are the outer shells of ships, they usually protect the equipment that makes a ship a ship rather than a blasted out derelict. Damage to the hull directly damages the ship and its equipment.

Shield

Shields are a protective energy field which primarily keeps micrometeorites and other debris from harming the hull in the course of normal navigation. They also protect the hull from weapons fire. Typically the shields must first be overcome to damage a ship.

Weapons List

A graphical table can be found at http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/X3Weapons/X3WeaponReport

Name	Shield Damage (Per second)	Hull Damage (Per second)	Range (Km)	Speed (m/s)	Required ammo	Cargo type	Cargo Space
Fusion Beam Cannon	9000	12800	6.63	2660	no	L	30
SPARE LASER 1	12000	1800	100	25000	no	L	33
SPARE LASER 2	2300	1100	1.79	5993	no	S	1
Matter/Anti-Matter Launcher	10000	3700	3.62	445	Matter/Anti-Matter Warhead	M	21
Electro-Magnetic Plasma Cannon	5200	2000	2.0	588	no	S	5
Prototype Starburst Shockwave Cannon	11700	1900	2.0	2000	no	XL	28
Point Singularity Projector **	25200	9500	6.42	321	no	XL	200
Starburst Shockwave Cannon	13100	2100	2.0	2000	no	L	28
Gamma Kyon Emitter	10700	6400	4.85	12143	no	XL	25
Beta Kyon Emitter	5000	3000	3.41	9765	no	M	5
Alpha Kyon Emitter	2300	1100	1.79	5993	no	S	1
Experimental Electro-Magnetic Plasma Cannon	4600	1800	2.0	588	no	S	5
Prototype Matter/Anti-Matter Launcher	8900	3300	3.62	445	Matter/Anti-Matter Warhead	M	21
Phased Array Laser Cannon	9400	7000	6.37	2561	no	L	32
Phased Shockwave Generator *	2500	134	1.44	254	no	L	28
Cluster Flak Array	12000	1800	1.98	2200	no	L	33
Repair Laser	0	100	2.2	4400	no	-	1
Incendiary Bomb Launcher ** / ***	46200	8100	5.14	312	no	XL	110
Phased Repeater Gun	7200	765	2.32	1560	no	S	4
High Energy Plasma Thrower	9400	1500	2.31	431	no	S	6
Tractor Beam	0	0	2.0	4000	no	S	50
Particle Accelerator Cannon	6000	748	1.92	703	no	S	3
Mobile Drilling System	118	325	4.83	84	no	XL	100
Ion Pulse Generator	13000	544	3.88	347	no	M	28
Energy Bolt Chaingun	8900	1400	2.81	604	Energy Bolt Chaingun Ammunition	S	1
Plasma Beam Cannon	11900	4500	5.85	10644	no	XL	120
Flak Artillery Array	12800	1900	2.11	7051	no	L	30
Fragmentation Bomb Launcher	8800	1400	1.97	359	no	S	5
Ion Shard Railgun	10200	3700	3.33	498	no	M	22
Pulsed Beam Emitter	18100	673	0.977	6980	no	M	8
Concussion Impulse Generator	9800	3200	3.46	420	no	M	25
Plasma Burst Generator *	427	109	0.787	375	no	S	7
Gauss Cannon	42200	17900	4.78	353	Gauss Cannon Ammunition	XL	55
Ion Cannon**	66100	3800	5.12	387	no	XL	150
Photon Pulse Cannon **	46500	8200	6.62	333	no	XL	100
Ion Disruptor	3300	10	0.938	2027	no	M	10
Mass Driver	0	185	0.997	739	Mass Driver Ammunition	S	1
Impulse Ray Emitter	1400	140	1.39	1162	no	S	1
Tri-Beam Cannon			6.633	5630	no	XL	135

* Actual damage much higher, an area of effect weapon. Will hit several/many targets and each many times. Very energy efficient.

** Capital weapon which can be charged up, using more energy but dealing more damage. For further details check out charging.

*** IBL "set the target on fire", adding burn damage. For 3 seconds, about 3000 damage per second are inflicted. This is not cumulative with multiple IBL hitting the target so it's barely noticable when firing 4-8 IBL simultaneously.