Unarmed

Unarmed Melee Weapon

Nothing like beating the life out of them with your bare fists!

Damage: 3-6 (Mechanical)

Impact speed: Very Low

Base action points: 10 AP

Range: Melee

Critical chance: 5%

Critical damage bonus: 100%

Bypasses 100% of target's energy shield.

Incurs 140% of mechanical damage resistance and threshold.

The Unarmed combat style is directly supported by some feats and psionic abilities, making it a viable option along with other, more powerful weapons.

However, feats that work while unarmed also generally work with Combat Gloves. Unarmed has the advantage of bypassing energy shields entirely, unlike fist weapons which bypass only 80%.

Differences to weapons

Since version 1.1.0.5, unarmed has been notably different from all weapons, even the very similar fist weapons.

The base damage of unarmed slowly improves with character level, before counting in the bonus from increasing Melee skill. The base damage is also increased by 5% for every point in strength above 5 and this bonus is multiplicative with the bonus from effective melee skill, unlike the additive Strength bonus on melee weapons.

Unarmed Base Damage

Level	Damage
1	3-6
2	4-6
3	4-7
4	4-7
5	4-7
6	4-7
7	4-8
8	4-8
9	5-8
10	5-8
11	5-9
12	5-9
13	5-9
14	5-9
15	6-10
16	6-10
17	6-10
18	6-10
19	6-11
20	6-11
21	6-11
22	7-11
23	7-12
24	7-12
25	7-12
26	7-12
27	7-13
28	7-13
29	8-13
30	8-13

Related feats and abilities

Unarmed only feats

• Improved Unarmed Combat
• Expert Unarmed Combat

Unarmed/fist weapon feats

• Combo
• Crippling Strike (also works with knives)
• Deflection
• Dirty Kick
• Heavy Punch
• Lightning Punches
• Wrestling

Psi abilities

• Force Emission

History

Underrail 1.1

• 1.1.0.5
  • Unarmed and fist weapon attacks now incur 140% of target's damage threshold and resistance (up from 125%)
  • Strength damage bonus is now factored directly into unarmed base damage
  • Unarmed base damage now scales with level instead of being static 5-9.

Underrail 1.0

• no direct changes

Underrail Alpha

• 0.1.4.0 - introduced