Gate

Gate  
General  
Category Closeable gate
Hammer Medium, Large
Building  
Build cost 200 Build Supplies (85 in Season 1)
Build time 200 hits Medium (113.4 s), 134 hits Large (118.3 s). Derived from the hammer swing timing, not timed in play.
Health 5,320 HP
Damage  
Bullets -85%
Melee -80%
Grenades +0%
Rockets +850%
C4 +1,000%
IEDs +2,000%
Internal name DA_Buildable_Gate, with parts DA_Buildable_Gate_Left, DA_Buildable_Gate_Right and DA_Buildable_Gate_Ramp

The Gate is a closeable barrier made of two halves and a ramp. A Medium or Large Hammer can build it. Rockets, C4 and IEDs all do many times their normal damage to it.

Overview

The Gate costs 200 Build Supplies and has 5,320 HP. Its parts are the left half, the right half and the ramp. Each half costs 85 Build Supplies and has 5,320 HP. The ramp costs 85 Build Supplies and has 6,500 HP.

Destroying an enemy Gate pays 200 cash and 50 Role XP. Its ramp pays 85 cash and 20 Role XP.

Building it

  • Cost: 200 Build Supplies for the Gate, whichever hammer builds it. The data does not say whether the part costs add to the 200. Nothing is charged at placement.
  • Hammers: Medium or Large.
  • Placement: It must be inside a friendly Forward Operating Base radius. It cannot be placed within 3 m of a safe zone or while standing in one, and not within 1 m of a ladder. The Gate’s parts can sit on surfaces with a maximum angle of 10. The data does not state the unit, which is most likely degrees.
  • Stack limit: 1.
  • Build stages: Five, at 0, 25, 50, 75 and 100% of progress. The earlier stages have 21, 19, 39 and 40 weak spots. A hammer hit on a weak spot adds more progress (see Buildables).
  • Parts: When the Gate is finished, it turns into separate parts: the left half, the right half and the ramp. Each is its own buildable with its own health: each half has 5,320 HP and the ramp has 6,500 HP. This is Derived from the stage data (see Buildables).
  • Build time: Estimated from the hits to build in the table below, one hit per swing (derived, not timed in play).
Building it Small hammer Medium hammer Large hammer
Hits to build cannot place 200 (about 113.4 s) 134 (about 118.3 s)
Hits to repair from zero health 71 36 24
Hits to dismantle (your own) 36 27 22

Seconds are an estimate: one hammer hit per swing, 0.567 s per hit for the Small and Medium hammers and 0.883 s for the Large (derived from the use animation, not measured).

The parts are not built on their own; they come with the finished Gate. Once separated, each half has 85 Build Supplies of cost and takes 10 repair hits from zero and 22 dismantle hits with the Large Hammer. The ramp, also 85 Build Supplies, takes 10 repair hits and 26 dismantle hits with the Large Hammer (Derived). The build count assumes normal hits, and hitting weak spots brings it down.

What it does

The Gate can be closed, and the data gives it a breach effect when it is destroyed. The data does not say what the breach does in play beyond that. The rest of its effect is health and how it takes damage.

Durability

Source Change Share of damage that gets through
Bullets -85% 15%
Melee -80% 20%
Grenades +0% 100%
Rockets +850% 9.5 times
C4 +1,000% 11 times
IEDs +2,000% 21 times

Rockets, C4 and IEDs multiply the Gate’s damage far more than they do to most walls. The table below gives the hits it takes to destroy, for each source. For how the percentages combine, see the Damage Pipeline.

Hits to destroy (point blank, derived)

Derived from each source’s base damage and the damage table. It is not a count from play: each figure assumes every shot lands at point blank for full damage, with no falloff and no other rules, so real fights can differ. Base damage used: M4 5.56 mm FMJ 28, .50 cal FMJ 90, 120 mm rocket 150, M67 frag grenade 100 (it counts as a rocket against structures), C4 charge 250, IED 300. Each figure is the number of hits needed after every matching damage entry is applied.

Structure HP M4 5.56 mm FMJ .50 cal FMJ 120 mm rocket M67 frag grenade C4 charge IED
Gate, or each half 5,320 1,267 395 5 6 2 1
Gate ramp 6,500 1,548 482 6 7 3 2

Season 2 changes

  • Build cost went from 85 to 200 Build Supplies. The data lists this change for the main Gate only.

See also

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