Rifleman

Rifleman
An infected marauder with a sawed-off shotgun.
Main Stats
Health 43 Ranged Damage 10 Melee Damage 2
Crit. Chance	0%
Speed	4
Rage Drop	3
Behavior Stats
Agility	30
Aggression	25
Detection Range	200
Agility Penalty	80%
Aggression Penalty	80%
Morale Stats
Charisma	64
Valor	200
Charisma Radius	80
Ranged Data
Ammo Capacity	2 (2x3 pellets)
Firing Period	3.2s
Reloading Period	2s
Range	180
Bullet Spread	50°

Rifleman is an infected marauder armed with a sawed-off shotgun and dressed in a brown and gray t-shirt, black pants, a duty belt, and a black cap. He sports a shaggy, graying beard and a tattoo on his arm.

Overview

Rifleman is a marauder Shotgunner, and is a direct counterpart to Farmer.

He uses a sawed-off shotgun that fires 3 pellets in a cone at moderate speed, and has 2 rounds. If approached suddenly or without ammo, he does a quick melee attack.

As a human, he is able to move towards closest detected enemies, is susceptible to fear, and can navigate around fire pools. He will attack Generator and Turret when he is near them, but will ignore any other stationary items. Some time after dying, he turns into a Tipsy.

Strategy

Builder and Grenadier prove to be the best options to counter Rifleman, as they are one of the few bullet resistant units available by the time of reaching location 3. Grenadier is especially notable, as his explosives allow to take care of Rifleman before he can even detect the incoming units. Empty Barrel or Red Barrel can be used for the same strategy too, given that a mission allows to accumulate enough rage prior to Rifleman's appearance.

Another good strategy is to give Rifleman a taste of his own medicine with ranged units. Policeman Diaz is a good unit to use against him as he can hit Rifleman while focusing on other enemies in front of him, and being able to take several hits from the sawed-off as well.

Bugs

• Currently, Rifleman's ranged attacks do not scale with his level.

Trivia

• Rifleman's sprite is reused for the gunner inside the Marauder Vehicle and during the Corn Farm event. In those forms, he is seen wearing a black t-shirt instead of his brown and gray t-shirt and wielding an LMG instead of a sawed-off shotgun.
  • He also appears to have a resemblance to Trader.
• Although Rifleman is formally introduced mission 2 of location 3, he first appears in the cutscene of stage 1, mission 4, where he is killed by a Zombie before the survivors arrive.
• Internally, Rifleman is referred to as "Farmer".

Gallery

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