Heavy Weapons is a combat skill in Wasteland 2.
Characteristics
Heavy machine guns are the three hundred pound gorillas of the weapon world. Take this training if you like big guns that fire a lot of bullets.
Heavy Weapons do very high damage and have good Armor Penetration, but a single shot takes a lot of Action Points, so using them can slow down the Ranger. They are also very heavy, and thus take up a lot of inventory space. They are also very expensive and sometimes hard to find ammo for. That said, a single opportune use of a heavy weapon may swing a seemingly hopeless fight in your favor. Note that Heavy Weapons only includes machine guns, not rocket launchers, which use no skill at all.
- Strengths
- High damage
- Good Armor Penetration
- Large clip size
- Weaknesses
- High AP cost to attack
- Can slow movement speed in combat
- Cannot use Precision Strikes
| Skill level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Base Accuracy | 25% | 31% | 37% | 44% | 51% | 58% | 66% | 74% | 82% | 90% |
| Critical Chance | 1% | 2% | 3% | 4% | 5% | 6% | 7% | 8% | 9% | 10% |
| Perks | Battering Fire | Overwhelming Fire | Devastating Fire | Bullet-Ridden | ||||||
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