This guide gives an overview of the different weapon types found in Distant Star: Revenant Fleet.

Most weapons in the game are automatic, some however are targeted so it's important to know the difference when selecting which weapon to outfit your ship with.

• Automatic - your ships will fire on targets that are within range without you commanding them to. If you right click a target, your ships will focus their fire on that enemy, even when moving.
  
• Targeted - Some weapons will need to be activated and targeted. In particular the Lance (Lancer), Photon Blast (Rogue), and Torpedoes (Dreadnought) all need to be manually activated.

Each weapon will have a selection of stats applied to them.

• AOE size - Certain abilities and weapons damage an area around the point of impact. Its Area of Effect (AOE) size is how large this area is.
  
• Damage - The base damage per hit, per projectile. Some weapons will do more damage to the enemies shields, hull, and energy.
  
• Duration - Primarily applies to Lance weapons. How long the attack persists.
  
• Hardpoints - The number of weapons installed on the ship. Most weapons have only one hardpoint but some may have two (two separate weapons firing simultaneously). When automatically firing on enemies, these may choose different targets unless you issue and order to force fire on a single target.
  
• Projectiles per burst - Some weapons such as missiles fire more than one projectile per shot.
  
• Range - The max range of a weapon (you can also hover over the weapon in-game to see the radius of it's range).
  
• Rate of Fire - How fast the each hardpoint weapon fires: 1 shot every X seconds (if the weapon has 2 hardpoints it fires 2 shots every X seconds).

Calculating weapon DPS: All the stats mentioned above will have an impact on the ships damage per second. To calculate the ship's DPS divide its damage by its rate of fire multiplied by the number of Hardpoints and projectiles per burst.

For example, the Strike missiles (Tier 1) have a dps of 66 calculated by:

Where weapons can be upgraded to Tier 2 & 3 variants, the upgraded stats can be found in this order: T1 / T2 / T3.

Beam weapons are long-range automatic weapons usable by the Tech, Rogue, and Pulsar ships and do a moderate amount of damage.


Fires a long-range beam that damages both shields and hull.


Fires a long-range beam that does heavy damage to hull but minor damage to shields


Fires an ion beam, dealing heavy damage to shields, but minor to hull.


Fires an EMP beam, dealing heavy damage to energy but minor damage to hull or shields.


Fires a long-range beam that damages both shields and hull.

Blast weapons are high damage and short range targeted attacks used by the Rogue class,

Fires a ball of photonic energy, dealing heavy damage at close range.

Cannon weapons are fast firing weapons, ideal for suppressing enemy shields and usable by the Assault, Dreadnought and Gunship.

Standard issue cannon.


Slowly fires high-powered rounds that do heavy damage.


A fast-firing cannon that does heavy damage. Ideal for supressing shields.

Lances are targeted weapons used solely by the Lancer class. They are slow firing, high damage with a long firing duration.

Charges a lance that deals massive damage.


Charges a long-lasting lance that deals massive damage.


A slow-firing, automatic lance that deals moderate damage (less damage than targeted lances but more damage than automatic beams).


Drains energy to fire, but deals massive damage to enemies.

Missiles weapons are slow-firing, powerful and do area-based damage to their targets. The Dreadnought and Gunship can equip missiles.


Standard-issue missiles that do moderate, area-based damage


Slow-firing missiles that do heavy, area-based damage.


Launches a barrage of weaker missiles

Torpedoes are high damage, area of effect weapons that are usable by the Dreadnought. Damage from torpedoes is greater at the center of the target zone and diminishes towards the edges.

Fires a torpedo at a targeted area, dealing moderate, area-based damage.


Fires a torpedo at a targeted area, dealing moderate damage to all units caught within its wide blast-area

Drone bays automatically deploy drones to attack nearby enemy fleets and can be equipped by the Carrier class. In addition to damaging enemy ships, drones also act as a distraction to draw their fire away from your fleet.

Periodically launches cannon-firing drones. Drones last for 20 seconds before self-destructing.


Periodically launches missile-firing drones. Drones last for 20 seconds before self-destructing.