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Ray Rifle

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Overview[1]

Ray Rifle is a weapon in Dead Rails — 3.25 seconds.

The Ray Rifle is an exclusive weapon available only to the Alien (Class). This weapon fires three rounds of ammunition simultaneously with one shot.

How to get it

How to get it: Alien (Class).

Stats

Aim Fov Reduction
-15
Aim Time
0.15 seconds
Ammo Type
Ray Ammo
Bullet Spread
5
Damage
40
Deposit
Undepositable
Equip Time
0.25 seconds
Fire Rate
0.28 seconds
First Equip
1.25 seconds
Headshot
68
Hs Damage
68
Limb Damage
32
Moving Spread
1.5
Pellets
1
Reload
3.25 seconds
Reload Time
3.25 seconds
Sell value
Unsellable
Source
Alien (Class)
Ammo Capacity
20 (Upon being picked up or obtained) 21 (After first reload and onwards)

Pros & Cons

Large magazine capacity. Decent damage if all 3 shots land. Easily obtained with the Alien class. Eats through Ammo rather quickly. Low damage per shot. Ammo is limited, and more can only be found in the Alien Biome, which is likely to spawn at a far distance, and contains great danger due to Aliens frequently spawning or deployed from UFOs. High recoil due to shooting 3 bullets simultaneously, making headshots very hard to perform. Is limited to the Alien class.

Strategy

It is recommended to line enemies up before firing, as the gun uses up a lot of Ammo, and the Ammo cannot be found easily too. Wasting the gun's bullets is not recommended, since they are very rare and limited. If an enemy is low on HP, use a different weapon, preferably a melee. Even better, save the gun only for stronger enemies, like Werewolves or Vampires, as the gun can melt through those very quickly.

Patch history

This weapon seems to be the weapon alternate to the Ray Pistol as said by the developers, and would have been given out at the start of Alien Mode at a 50% chance, and the other 50% the Ray Pistol. Instead, it was given to Alien (Class) as a buff for the community. The model of the Ray Rifle closely resembles the Ray Gun Mark II from Treyarch’s Call of Duty Zombies franchise, with it first appearing in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. When it was first released, it doesn't have a scoping mechanic, despite the controls saying so. This is because of a bug and has since been patched. Shotgun weapons also shoot multiple bullets per shot, but it only uses up one of their Ammo. The Ray Rifle however also shoots multiple bullets, but it uses up multiple Ammunition in the process. This may be for the fact that Shotgun weapons uses shells instead of normal Ammo. The gun have a 21 rounds magazine, but when first picked up or obtained, it would be a 20 rounds. This may be an oversight. When the gun don't have enough bullets to fully shoot three times, it would shoot to the corresponding bullets it have left. This gun is the third class-exclusive weapon, with the first being the Sword (from the Knight Class) and the second being the Frost Grenades (from the Elf Class). Category:Weapons Category:Rifles Category:Ranged Weapons

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References

  1. 1.Sourced from deadrails.fandom.com · checked Aug 18, 2026
  2. 2.Image from Dead Rails Wiki (Fandom) · CC BY-SA · checked Jul 18, 2026

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