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The Thumper is a grenade launcher added to Ravenfield in EA13. It fires both anti-personal fragmentation rounds and smoke rounds

Combat
The Thumper is a very good counter-infantry weapon when used correctly. The Thumper has adjustable iron sights, which start by default at 100 meters and can go up to 500 meters. The Thumper is most effective when used at longer ranges.

It can be used hand-in-hand with the Squad Leader Kit, the binoculars being used to calculate the distance, and the Thumper's iron sights being adjusted accordingly to ensure maximum accuracy.

The Thumper is very effective against large groups of enemies, as its fragmentation grenades (with high splash damage) can really pack a punch when shot into the centre of an enemy group.

The Smoke Grenades deployed by the Thumper deploy their smoke on impact, but this lasts for only about 35 seconds compared to the default Smoke Grenade's 50 second duration.

Weaknesses
The Thumper is very ineffective when used at close ranges, as it is meant to be fired from afar. The Thumper, when used at close ranges, often times damages or kills user. The Thumper is also not recommended to be used in an area with a lot of teammates. This often results in the injuring or death of your fellow team members.

The Thumper is also very ineffective against heavy vehicles like Tanks, which have a very high health pool. Since the Thumper is mainly an anti-infantry weapon, against a Tank or other heavy Vehicle it does extremely low damage. It is great, however, if used against a Jeep as the Jeep's occupants can be damaged directly, often directly killing them.

It can only be used against land threats.

Trivia

 * Thumperingame.png Thumper is based off of the real-life M79 Grenade Launcher of origin in the United States armed forces. This weapon was first used in the Vietnam War.

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