Paintballer

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CurrentVersion 2Version 1

"Usually, paintball guns aren't really useful in the apocalypse but apparently this one... kinda is. Deals splash damage."

―Store Description

"Usually, paintball guns aren't really useful in the apocalypse but apparently this one is. Deals splash damage."

―Store Description

"Usually, paintball guns aren't really useful in the apocalypse but apparently this one is."

―Former Store Description

Description

The Paintballer is a starter splash damage tower that can be bought in the store for Error creating thumbnail: File missing 100, but it could also be obtained by a now expired code.

It boasts a faster firerate than other splash towers in exchange for lower damage. Additionally, unlike most other splash towers, its explosion can only damage five enemies with each explosion. This is reduced to four enemies in PVP. Its damage also does not decrease the further the enemy is from the center of the explosion. This means that every enemy hit will always receive the same damage. The Paintballer falls short of other towers in most parts of the game, especially DPS, as its highest DPS is much lower than those of other towers, such as the Shotgunner. This means that it is not that useful later on during the game. It gains hidden detection at Level 1, though unlike most other splash towers, it cannot damage lead enemies.

The Paintballer is mostly regarded as an early game tower due to its extremely cheap placement cost and upgrade prices, but low DPS.

Upgrades

Stats Table

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page.

RegularPVP

Level	Total Price	Splash Damage	Firerate	Range	Explosion Range	Max Hits	DPS	Max DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$100	1	1.7	7.5	3	8	0.59	4.72	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$169.49
1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$125	1	1.7	9	3.5	8	0.59	4.72	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$211.86
2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$275	2	1.4	9	4	8	1.43	11.44	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$192.31
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$875	3	0.7	9	4	8	4.29	34.32	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$203.96
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,375	8	0.7	10.5	4.5	8	11.43	91.44	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$207.79
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$5,975	20	0.7	10.5	5	8	28.57	228.56	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$209.14

Level	Total Price	Splash Damage	Firerate	Range	Explosion Range	Max Hits	DPS	Max DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$200	2	1.6	9	3	8	1.25	10	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$160
1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$325	3	1.6	9.5	3	8	1.88	15.04	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$172.87
2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$825	6	1.3	9.5	3.5	8	4.62	36.96	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$178.57
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,625	8	0.9	9.5	3.5	8	8.89	71.12	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$182.79
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,125	12	0.75	11	4	8	16	128	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$195.31
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$6,125	18	0.6	13	4.5	8	30	240	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$204.17

Skins

To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the gallery page.

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Skin	Red	Bunny	Green
Rarity	Common	Event	Common
Daily Store Cost	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1,250	N/A	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 85
Obtained From	Basic Crate	Bunny Crate	Premium Crate

Strategy

• The Paintballer's extremely low placement cost allows you to spam loads of them, makes it very useful in the early-game.
  • Its cheap upgrade costs and splash damage can deal with weaker enemies like the Abnormal or Heavy. Even a couple of Level 0 Paintballers can hold themselves very well for the first few waves.
  • Later on, its DPS becomes ineffective against higher health enemies such as the Normal Boss or Elite Abnormal as it is meant to be a splash damage tower. It can however be useful in dealing with summons from summoner enemies like the Necromancer (Modern Enemy)'s Skeletons.
• The Paintballer gains Hidden Detection at Level 1 for an extremely low price, making it a nuisance against hiddens relatively early on.
  • However, it cannot fare against hidden enemies with higher health like the Hidden Boss due to its low DPS. You should use towers with high DPS like the Minigunner to counter this obstacle, since they are more efficient.
• Unlike other splash damage towers, the Paintballer does not have lead detection, so you will need to use other towers to deal with Lead enemies.
• The Paintballer can be used to mislead enemies with stunning abilities such as the Warden and the Executioner, preventing them from stunning important towers like the Turret
  • This is also useful if you have a group of high DPS towers that would most likely be vulnerable to stuns, hindering their DPS capabilities. Though, this tactic is not required for towers that cannot be stunned at all like the Accelerator.
    • Keep in mind that certain enemies with stomp abilities will still be able to stun everything within their radius, neglecting this strategy.

Trivia

• When the game was in Alpha, the Paintballer's upgrade stats were not displayed on its upgrade description. It was simply referred to as "sans gun".
  • When the game was released into BETA, this was changed to "sans paint gun".
• The Paintballer was added before John (now called the Militant) and was formerly "JOHN ROBLOX's" until John was released.
  • This used to be redeemable with the code JOHNROBLOX, making it the first ever tower that could have been redeemable by a code.
• The Paintballer is the cheapest tower to unlock in the game.
  • Its placement cost is also the lowest out of any tower, just Error creating thumbnail: File missing$25 ahead of the Scout's placement cost.
    • Moreover, the Paintballer's Level 1 upgrade price is the cheapest in the game.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

• 14 June 2019 - BETA v1.0.0
  • Paintballer added.
• 16 June 2019 - BETA v1.1.0
  • Code expired, unlock cost is now Error creating thumbnail: File missing 750.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$650 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$700.
      • Splash damage increased from 0 to 1.
      • Firerate increased from 0.7 to 1.05.
      • Explosion range increased from 0 to 2.
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$150 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$200.
    • Level 2
      • Range decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Direct damage increased from +0 to +1.
      • Fireate changed from to 1.05.
      • Explosion range increased from 0 to 2 > 4.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,650.
      • Direct damage decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Firerate changed from 0.55 to .
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,500.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Direct damage decreased from +3 to +2.
      • Explosion range increased from 0 to 3 > 4.
      • Splash damage increased from +0 to +1.
      • Firerate changed from 0.55 to .
    • Level 5
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$6,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$7,500.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Direct damage increased from +2 to +5.
      • Explosion range changed from 5 to 4 > 5.
      • Splash damage decreased from +4 to +3.
      • Firerate changed from 0.55 to .
    • All levels of Paintballer now deal splash damage, instead of just Level 5.
• 16 June 2019 - BETA v1.1.0a
  • Code expired, unlock cost is now Error creating thumbnail: File missing 750.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$700 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000.
• 15 August 2019 - BETA v1.10.0
  • Unlock cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing 750 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing 150.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$400.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,650 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$700.
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,500.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$7,500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$5,000.
• 13 October 2019 - Release v1.0.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Range increased from 6 to 11.
      • Base splash damage increased from 1 to 2.
      • Firerate increased from 1.05 to 2.05.
    • Level 2
      • Splash damage increased from +0 to +1.
    • Level 3
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 4
      • Splash damage increased from +1 to +2.
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$5,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,500.
      • Splash damage increased from +3 to +5.
      • Firerate changed from to 1.05.
    • Now uses the new projectile and explosive system.
      • Direct damage and splash damage deal the same amount of damage instead of splash damage being half of direct damage.
• 24 December 2019 - Release v1.5.0
  • Direct damage removed.
• 12 January 2020 - Release v1.6.0
  • New skin: Red
• 6 April 2020 - Release v1.9.0
  • New skin: Bunny
• 29 October 2020 - Overhaul v1.0.0
  • Upgrade names added.
  • Splash damage equation reworked.
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Skin rarity added to Basic Crate and Premium Crate skins.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 2.05 to 2.03.
      • Hidden detection removed.
      • Lead detection added.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$200 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$100.
    • Level 3
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from to .
  • Bug: Projectile and explosion are invisible.
  • Bug: Explosion range is set to 5 on all Levels, making it much larger than intended on earlier levels.
• 8 May 2021 - Overhaul v1.3.0
  • Paintballer now ignores defense.
  • Splash damage reworked. Now the explosion is separated into two spheres. Inner sphere deals 100% of the stated damage while the damage in the outer sphere decreases linearly.
• 12 March 2022 - v1.1.0
  • The Paintballer now uses a path based movement prediction, causing it to hit enemies more accurately.
  • Projectile speed increased.
  • The Paintballer's firerate is no longer affected by the projectile's travel time.
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being made less severe.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 2.03 to 2.025.
    • Level 3
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from to .
  • Bugfix: Projectile and explosion are no longer invisible.
• 21 December 2022 - v1.6.0
  • Skin rarity added to all skins.
• 31 May 2024 - v1.23.5
  • No longer bypasses defense.
• 7 June 2024 - v1.24.0
  • New skin: Green
• 21 June 2024 - v1.25.0
  • Bug: Green skin is unable to attack enemies at Levels 3-5, as the weapons for those levels are not anchored.
  • Bug: Damage is no longer boosted by Damage Buffs.
• 19 July 2024 - v1.26.0
  • No longer deals reduced damage to enemies in the outer explosion sphere, now it deals the same amount of damage to every enemy hit by its explosion.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 0
      • Firerate decreased from 2.025 to 1.625.
      • Range decreased from 11 to 7.
      • No longer has lead detection.
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$100 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$200.
      • Damage increased from +0 to +1.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +1.
      • Now has hidden detection.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$675.
      • Damage increased from +1 to +3.
      • Explosion range changed from 2 > 3 to 2 > 2.5.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$700 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000.
      • Firerate changed from to .
      • Range decreased from +2 to +0.
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,250.
      • Damage increased from +2 to +4.
      • Firerate changed from 1.525 to .
      • Range increased from +0 to +1.
      • Explosion range changed from 3 > 4 to 2.5 > 3.
    • Level 5
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$4,000
      • Firerate changed from to .
      • Range increased from +0 to +1.
      • Explosion range changed from 4 > 5 to 3 > 3.5.
  • Bug: Paintballer no longer deals damage at Level 0.
• 23 July 2024 - v1.26.2
  • Bug: Paintballer no longer deals damage at all levels.
• 24 July 2024 - v1.26.3
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Max hits of 3 added.
  • Bugfix: Paintballer now deals damage at all levels.
  • Bugfix: Paintballer's explosion now matches its visual explosion instead of always being set to an explosion range of 5.
• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • Bugfix: Damage is now boosted by Damage Buffs.
• 21 August 2024 - v1.28.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Max hits increased from 3 to 5.
      • Explosion range increased from 2 to 3.
    • Level 2
      • Explosion range changed from 2 > 2.5 to 3 > 3.5.
    • Level 4
      • Explosion range changed from 2.5 > 3 to 3.5 > 4.
    • Level 5
      • Explosion range changed from 3 > 3.5 to 4 > 4.5.
• 25 September 2024 - v1.33.0
  • Unlock cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing 150 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing 100.
• 6 November 2024 - v1.40.0
  • Bugfix: Green skin now can attack enemies at Levels 3-5, as the weapons for those levels are no longer unanchored.
• 9 April 2025 - v1.60.0
  • Offense role added.
• 23 July 2025 - v1.71.0
  • Statistical changes (PVP):
    • Base
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$400 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$200.
      • Range increased from 7 to 9.
      • Max hits decreased from 5 to 4.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$200 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$125.
      • Range decreased from +1 to +0.5.
    • Level 2
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$675 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$500.
      • Firerate changed from 1.625 to .
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$800.
      • Damage increased from +0 to +2.
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,250 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,500.
      • Range increased from +1 to +1.5.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$4,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,000.
      • Damage increased from +5 to +6.
      • Range increased from +1 to +2.
• 28 January 2026 - v1.84.0
  • Description changed.
  • Statistical changes (Regular):
    • Base
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$400 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$100.
      • Damage decreased from 2 to 1.
      • Firerate increased from 1.625 to 1.725.
      • Range increased from 7 to 7.5.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$200 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$25.
      • Damage decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Range increased from +1 to +1.5.
      • Explosion range changed from 3 to 3 > 3.5.
    • Level 2
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$675 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$150.
      • Damage decreased from +3 to +1.
      • Firerate changed from 1.625 to .
      • Explosion range changed from 3 > 3.5 to 3.5 > 4.
    • Level 3
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$600.
      • Damage increased from +0 to +1.
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,250 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,500.
      • Damage increased from +4 to +5.
      • Firerate changed from to 0.725.
      • Range increased from +1 to +1.5.
      • Explosion range changed from 3.5 > 4 to 4 > 4.5.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$4,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,600.
      • Damage increased from +5 to +12.
      • Firerate changed from to 0.725.
      • Range decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Explosion range changed from 4 > 4.5 to 4.5 > 5.
• 5 June 2026 - v2.0.0
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being fixed.
  • Statistical changes (Regular):
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 1.725 to 1.7.
    • Level 2
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 3
      • Firerate changed from to .
  • Statistical changes (PVP):
    • Base
      • Firerate decreased from 1.625 to 1.6.
    • Level 2
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 3
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 4
      • Firerate changed from to .
    • Level 5
      • Firerate changed from to .

Notes

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