Torpedo Turret

The Torpedo Turret

The Torpedo Turret is a vanilla-based, high-explosive missile turret with a low rate of fire. I balanced it against the vanilla Rocket Turret, as well as the warfare turrets, and gave it a niche in the 600-1000m range as a heavy explosive weapon. I've combat-tested the weapon extensively, and in my experience, it can beat artillery turrets most of the time while within its effective range. However, when at long ranges, torpedoes are defeated by the warfare turrets, and the base game turrets put up a fair fight at short ranges.

The theoretical DPS of the Torpedo Turret is about the same as the Rocket Turret, assuming each turret can land all of their shots. Torpedoes fire at about 1/6th the speed of Rockets, but they hypothetically do 6x more damage each. The Torpedo Turret also has aiming arcs and tracking speed as bad as the Artillery Turret's. To make up for the downsides, Torpedoes are bigger, longer-ranged projectiles, with larger explosion radii.

This mod is ready for use in survival. It contains build stages and all LODs, balanced material costs, and has been certified as fun to use by my friends.

Note: Not for WeaponCore. Might behave unexpectedly if used with WeaponCore. This is a vanilla weapon.

Statistics

[table] [tr] [th]Comparison[/th] [th]Rocket[/th] [th]Torpedo[/th] [/tr] [tr] [td]Damage[/td] [td]500[/td] [td]3000[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Projectile speed[/td] [td]200 m/s[/td] [td]300 m/s[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Rate of fire[/td] [td]6 over 3.4s[/td] [td]4 over 9.0s[/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Reload time[/td] [td]4 seconds[/td] [td]20 seconds[/td] [/tr] [td]Rounds per minute[/td] [td]49.16[/td] [td]8.28[/td] [tr] [td]Range[/td] [td]800 m[/td] [td]1400 m[/td] [/tr]

* Explosive damage isn't straightforward. The 500 damage of a vanilla Rocket is actually more like 3900 damage when it hits a component such as a large hydrogen tank. In that test, a Torpedo only deals about 7600 damage per shot - a mere double damage! In this situation, the vanilla Rocket Turret deals about 3200 DPS, and the Torpedo Turret deals about 1050 DPS. It took me a lot of combat testing to find out that the turret is a lot more effective in combat than on paper - it is definitely able to keep up with Rocket Turrets in terms of DPS in an actual fight.

Static weapon version: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3056537192

These models took me a long time to make! Please don't reupload or redistribute my assets without permission.