Long Derringer family
Long Derringer
A small, light pistol tool that holds a single Long Ammo shot. Perfect in a pinch.
- Ammo
- 1/2=3
loaded / in reserve / total
- Recoil
- 45
- Spread
- 5
- Sway
- 0.4
- Quarter
- 58m
- Rate
- 100rpm
- Reload
- 4.9s
- Aim
- 0.9s
- Heavy
- 27
- Light
- 13
Range and damage
How far it kills
90 per hit, before falloff
Hunter HP
Hits needed to kill a 150 HP hunter, each band closing at the metre it stops working. Point anywhere along a bar to read that distance below. The dashed lines are named under the bars: falloff is where damage starts dropping, flat is where it stops falling, drop is where the round stops flying flat.
How damage falls
share of full damage, on the axis and marks the bars use
Falls fastest between 40 and 70 m, at 13.7% of full damage per 10 m; 10.4% per 10 m across the whole fall to 90 m, where it holds 48%. A quarter of it is gone by 58 m, where the line meets the marked level - the figure the weapon list sorts by.
Handling
Single-shot, 1 round.
What firing does to your view
The muzzle climbs 45° after every shot. How much of the screen that eats is not fixed - it depends on how wide your own field of view is, so these are drawn at the game's default 55°, and a wider setting costs you less of it.
- The kick itself plays out in 0.17s, long over before you can fire again at 0.6s.
- It walks 2° to the right as well as up.
- Its kick is steeper than 100% of 158 pistol loadouts.
Where the shot goes
Your weapon rests shouldered, so that is the cone an unaimed shot uses - crouching, walking and jumping all scale it. Sighted, it closes to 0.7.
- 10 Jumping ×2
- 7.5 Walking ×1.5
- 5 Shouldered
- 2.5 Crouched ×0.5
- 0.7 Aiming
- Its shouldered cone is better than 8% of 158 pistol loadouts.
- While aiming the reticle drifts on its own - crouching cuts it to 0.5, walking multiplies it by 1.5 and makes it 1.3× quicker, jumping multiplies it by 2 and makes it 4× quicker.
- Jumping throws a sighted shot away entirely - the cone opens from 0.7 to 2100.
What you wait for
One shot, then 4.9s to load it back. 4.9s for one full trip through the magazine.
4.9s reloading
- Raising the sights takes 0.9s before any of that starts.
- Its reload is better than 89% of 158 pistol loadouts.
- Its rate of fire is better than 70% of 158 pistol loadouts.
Against monsters, and who hears it
Attacks
Light attack
- Damage
- 15
- Damage type
- Melee Blunt
- Cleave cap
- 1 body
Swing cadence
- Light attack
- 0.5s before the next light attack
- Heavy attack
- 0.45s before the next heavy attack
- Tired
- 1.6s - the delay once you are out of stamina
Against a hunter, by hit zone
- Head 30
- Upper torso 13
- Torso 13
- Left arm 13
- Right arm 13
- Left leg 9
- Right leg 9
Against a hunter's 150 health, from the game's own hunter hit-zone table. Melee carries no falloff, so these do not change with distance.
Against the bestiary
Light attack
Deals Melee Blunt damage. It hits Immolator hardest (1.44x) and Water Devil softest (0.45x).
Five or more
Doctor Grunt HeadGrunt HeadLantern or Torch Grunt HeadMuzzled Hellhound JawImmolator HeadWater Devil BodyArmored HeadConcertina Armored HeadAssassin HeadRotjaw WeakspotHellborn HeadMeathead Torso UpperSpider HeadButcher HeadBloodskin WeakspotScrapbeak Head
Computed from each creature's own hit-zone table against this attack's damage type.
Noise
Among the loudest in the arsenal to AI. That is what monsters notice. Another hunter hears the shot out to 750 m - the same for every weapon in the game, so this bar is about stealth from AI, not from people.
Heard by AI to 50 m
5 your sprint 50
of 150 weapons, Flame Rifle to Uppercut Precision
Its report, and what it does to your ears
- Distant report
- handgun, high register
- Deafens you
- 25% per shot
Hear it
Drag to a distance and fire. Each layer fades, dulls and drops out on the game's own curves - past 750 m the report stops dead, which is the game's cutoff rather than a fade.
6 of 6 layers audible
Built from the weapon's real sound layers, each following the volume, filter and dropout curve the game authors for it, plus one synthesized echo tail taken from the game's own outdoor reverb settings (decay 6 s, predelay 50 ms). Not reproduced: exact room-by-room tails, the stereo image, obstruction by terrain and buildings, and the variation the game adds between shots.
Traits and perks
What traits change
The game's trait descriptions give no numbers. Where this weapon's own attribute presets substitute values for an active trait, they are below.
Crack Shot
| Stat | Base | With |
|---|---|---|
| Sway, horizontal | 0.2 | 0.1 |
| Sway, vertical | 0.4 | 0.2 |
Only stats the trait actually moves are listed - a value the trait leaves untouched is omitted rather than shown unchanged. A crouched-spread multiplier of 1 means crouching stops steadying the weapon at all while that mode is active. Dual wielding is a weapon capability rather than a trait, and is not uniformly an upgrade: several pistols fire slower akimbo than single, in exchange for the doubled magazine.
Traits that apply
Every trait this weapon's own data references. A recommendation is the game's own; the numbers above are the ones we can prove from the weapon's attribute presets.
Crack Shot Reduce sway for weapons and increase zoom level in iron sights for rifles and pistols with stocks. Excludes shotguns and sawed-off variants.
Frontiersman 6 pts Use Tools one extra time.
A few perks carve out exceptions in their own description - Crack Shot excludes shotguns and sawed-off variants - so read the perk text, not just the listing.