| Assault Rifle | ||
|---|---|---|
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| Details | ||
| Damage | Singleplayer: 45 Multiplayer: 25 | |
| Attack type | Hitscan | |
| Attack delay | None | |
| Rate of fire | ~450 RPM | |
| Imprecision (horizontal) |
6.3° | |
| Ammunition | Assault rifle bullets | |
| Round capacity | 200 | |
| Note | First shot has perfect accuracy | |
Description[]
The Assault Rifle is a powerful fully-automatic firearm, and is one of the most versatile weapons in-game.
With a decent rate of fire and high damage per shot, it is excellent at mowing down hordes of lesser enemies. These traits also make it effective against stronger foes and even bosses, but to a lesser degree than weapons such as the Hunting Rifle or Riveter.
The first bullet fired from the Assault Rifle will always be perfectly accurate, allowing it to efficiently snipe at long range provided you repeatedly tap the fire button.
Assault Rifle in HD
Ammo pickups are reasonably common as well, making the Assault Rifle an admirable primary weapon.
Trivia[]
- The Assault Rifle appears to resemble the M60 general purpose machine gun.
- From teasers shown for DUSK HD, it appears as a Stoner 63A in its Belt-Fed Commando configuration.
- These would technically mean the weapon should actually be called a "Machine Gun" rather than an "Assault Rifle". When making this change was suggested to him on Twitter, David Szymanski jokingly clarified that in the DUSK universe, what we know as machine guns are called "assault rifles" instead (and also that magazines are called "clips", to counter similar incorrect terminology used for ammo pickups like those of the Pistols).
- Although the Assault Rifle has a front post in game, the lack of a back sight would make it useless on a real firearm. The HD version fixes this by adding a rear sight, albeit folded down.
- As mentioned in an interview with David Szymanski, in early testing versions, the Assault Rifle had a randomized rate of fire. This was made to make the weapon feel rusted and worn out, however this feature was removed and the rate of fire was set to a fixed number due to many of the players and testers regarding it as a bug or issue derived from framerate. The removal of this feature was quite saddening for David.
- An early build featured a CAR-15/Colt Commando as the assault rifle.
Media[]
An Assault Rifle on the ground next to a dead Possessed Scarecrow.