Thumper

The **Thumper** is a weapon in Ravenfield.

## Usage

The thumper specializes in rapid deployment of explosive payloads. It has adjustable leaf sights, allowing the user to configure the firing angle for maximum accuracy at range. The sights can be deployed with mouse wheel scrolling while holding "T", or by pressing "sight up/ sight down" keys, but their effect takes place only when aiming down sights. With the help of these sight features, the Thumper can accurately calculate where its arcing projectiles will land at the 100m, 150m, 200m, 250m, 300m, 350m, 400m, 450m, and 500m marks.

It can fire a fragmentation grenade which explodes on impact, dealing 650 damage to vehicles and killing infantry within a 5m radius. Alternatively, by pressing the loadout key a second time, it fires a smoke grenade which creates a cloud that lasts for 35 seconds and triggers on impact. The smoke grenade blast deals 0 explosive damage, but does deal slight balance damage, whereas the round itself deals 80 direct damage and 100 balance damage to infantry exclusively. Both round types are stored and fired individually. A lightning fast 2-second reload is applied every time a round is fired or swapped.

## Advantages

Being in essence a midpoint between the Dagger, Smoke Grenade and Frag, the Thumper is a very versatile anti-infantry weapon. While it is not intended for long-range use, the adjustable sights allow for fairly precise and effective mid-range engagement. It is at its best against unprotected light vehicles such as the Razorback Jeep, but should not be underestimated for its Anti-Armor properties; surprisingly, it can 3-shot a Mudskipper, and hold its own versus Rhinos in a pinch. Against infantry, it can lay waste even to large squads in such a way that even the Dagger would have trouble doing.

The Smoke Grenades deployed by the Thumper activate quickly and can be deployed either as quick cover sources or as offensive vision-impairing devices. The explosion-on-impact offers a critical advantage over the standalone smoke grenade, allowing for the generation of smoke clouds on windowsills and defensive barricades, thus potentially shutting down dangerous perches or vantage points.

## Weaknesses

The Thumper is only viable against ground targets, Its sluggish 'nades standing absolutely no chance at scoring hits against fast aircraft. It is also no fit substitute for proper anti armor weapons at longer ranges, where gauging trajectories against moving vehicles becomes a fine way to waste ammo.

It is also quite dangerous to operate at close range, where a single misplaced round can potentially kill several friendlies, or even the user.

The grenades also have an AOE no larger than that of the standard Frag, and so may not be able to effectively damage enemy infantry without some fine adjustments.

## Gallery

Thumper appearanceIts leaf sightsThe M79 grenade launcher.
## Trivia

* Thumper's design is based off of the real-life M79 Grenade Launcher
	+ Its name is also based on one of M79's various nicknames.
* The Frag Grenades fired by it have a black cushion while the Smoke Grenades have a blue one. This is easily seen when the weapon reloads.
* Ammunition used by the real M79, as with certain grenade launchers, will not detonate until they travel past a certain distance calculated by rotations after it leaves the muzzle. This does not apply to the in-game Thumper.

### Bugs and Glitches

* In screenshot mode, Thumper's leaf sights will always be deployed at the lowest possible position.
* From EA18-EA22, weapons with alt-fire had a bug whereas getting knocked down while switching between firing modes will cause the weapon to stop functioning until after switching weapons.

 *Italics* | This item is, or was, a Secret Item.