Clockwork Assault Rifle

Clockwork Assault Rifle

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Statistics

Type	Weapon
Uses ammo	Bullets
Damage	17 / 19    (Ranged)
Knockback	0 (No knockback)
Critical chance	4%
Use time	12 (Very fast)
Velocity	7.75
Tooltip	Three round burst Only the first shot consumes ammo
Rarity	04*
Sell	3
Research	1 required

Sounds

Use

• Internal Item ID: 434

The Clockwork Assault Rifle firing Musket Balls.

The Clockwork Assault Rifle is a Hardmode gun that fires in three-round bursts. It has a 12.5*1/8 (12.5%) / 25*1/4 (25%) chance to be dropped by the Wall of Flesh. Only the first shot out of the three will consume ammunition. The ⚒ Use / Attack button can be held for repeated fire.

Its best modifier is Demonic, as it does does not have any knockback and thus cannot get modifiers that affect it.    It can also get the Deadly modifier, which, while the Demonic modifier may provide the greatest damage per hit, grants a higher increase to the overall DPS.

Notes

• The Clockwork Assault Rifle fires three shots, each one with a delay of 4 ticks, for a total of 12 ticks. The delay between one burst and the next is 14 ticks. One complete use of the weapon (including the delay) takes 26 ticks.
• On the 3DS version, the Clockwork Assault Rifle has a knockback stat of Very Weak

Tips

• This weapon's high rate of fire and low ammo consumption make it ideal for crowd control. These same strengths also make it effective against bosses, especially for some of the mechanical bosses.
• This weapon's low ammo consumption makes it ideal for people who use expensive ammo, even well into the late-game.
• When using Crystal or Ichor Bullets as ammo, the player can easily defeat Plantera and even Golem with as poor as Hallowed armor.
• Having the Rapid modifier will greatly increase its fire rate, making it fire faster than the Minishark and doing as much DPS as the Megashark.

Trivia

• On the  Mobile version, the Clockwork Assault Rifle used to not have the delay between ticks, making it very viable far into Hardmode. However, this has been removed with the 1.3 update. Though, it seems that in the Nintendo Switch version it has a similar effect of consuming two shots at once, making it fire far faster than it should.
• The Clockwork Assault Rifle, Star Cannon, Flintlock Pistol and the Minishark are some of the only guns without knockback.
• The Clockwork Assault Rifle is potentially a reference to the Heckler & Koch G11 assault rifle, a real-world prototype rifle that fired in three-round bursts and had several gears in the internals of the weapon.

History

 Desktop version

• Desktop 1.4.0.1: Damage decreased from 19 to 17.

• Desktop 1.3.1: Sprite updated.

• Desktop 1.1: Introduced.

 Console version

• Console-Release: Introduced.

 Switch version

• Switch 1.0.711.6: Introduced.

 Mobile version

• Mobile-Release: Introduced.

3DS version

• 3DS-Release: Introduced.