Are guns useless because they're too loud?

[Durrvish]

Everytime I think about how many zeds are around an area, it makes me realize how quickly you'd be swarmed of you used a firearm. Firearms just seem like an easy way to get yourself killed, am I wrong?

[Durrvish]

Originally posted by Ken-sama:

They've been toned down from how they were before, but it's still a terrible idea to use anything less than a shotgun with a ton of shells on hand until you've racked up several skill points in aiming.

So ya whole town of infected won't show up now?

[Retro]

Am I the only one that doesn't need or use guns?

[admos]

Originally posted by Retro:

Am I the only one that doesn't need or use guns?

Seems irrelevant to the post.

As per OP: gun loudness has decreased a ton.
But ofc you still wanna level up aiming before using handguns/rifles.

[Aidal]

Guns are useful, but late game useful. They require huge investments.

Shotgun is better used as a training weapon tbh, it seems to cap at around 2-7 kills depending on luck and shooting rank in my experience.

once you get high enough of a level, I'd try using an assault rifle, better range, and roughly the same amount of kills per magazine.

But honestly though, the biggest bang for your buck is just parking two cars next to eachother in a manner that prevents the zombies from getting to the driver side door, starting a long lasting fire in front of your car, and then just holding the horn down till the fires stop.

[Shenji]

For me, the problem for guns is I can never find enough magazines. So I mainly focus on revolvers and shotguns. I think guns will be much more important when NPC introduced, for hostile NPCs who have guns.

[Andy Mil]

Shotgun for clearing horde if you got ammo for it

[Nordil(Hun)]

Actually guns are still useful.
For instance if you live in a semi-remote area, and the chopper brings you a lot of friends it is a good way to get rid of all the zombies, and the ones that were brought nearby but stopped someplace within earshot, but are not yet noticeable.

In one of my 1 peaceful year challenges (the save is not compatible anymore sadly) i had about 500 zombies visit a semi remote area i lived in due to one of the chopper events. Without shotguns, pistols it would have taken over a week to clear them out via melee. Also with using the guns i was able to clear out all the zeds in the vicinity and within earshot of my base. So i could focus on all the stuff i was forced to abandon because all of the friends that came to pay a visit.

[TomGoodwrenchSK]

Originally posted by Retro:

Am I the only one that doesn't need or use guns?

Yes, out of 8 billion people you are the only one to do that thing.

[Dave89]

Theyre more useful now, since loudness drecreased. First learn aiming and reloading by shooting small groups of them that are seperated from other zeds. After leveling up more and more and getting more ammo, you are able to take off bigger groups lategame

[Greb]

Nah they're too useless because managing magazines and the frequent jamming at <85% condition just makes them annoying to use, especially in conjunction with all the other many ways you can lose accuracy (and thus damage) on each shot.

Shotguns are great though that are breach or tube loaded don't have the problems though and are thus incredible, so long as you have the ammo you can easily wipe out a whole town with a shotgun, even on Fast Shamblers. Sprinters are another story though.

Even with 10 Aiming and 10 Reloading, the magazine fed semi automatics will let you down pretty quickly, but a shotgun won't let you down at all even at 0 in both. Unless you forget to rack it at an inconvenient moment, anyway. Or when it decides to aim at zombies across the street instead of the ones directly in front of you. Y'know, #JustZomboidThings.

[Grizzly]

Originally posted by Greb:

Nah they're too useless because managing magazines and the frequent jamming at <85% condition just makes them annoying to use, especially in conjunction with all the other many ways you can lose accuracy (and thus damage) on each shot.

Shotguns are great though that are breach or tube loaded don't have the problems though and are thus incredible, so long as you have the ammo you can easily wipe out a whole town with a shotgun, even on Fast Shamblers. Sprinters are another story though.

Even with 10 Aiming and 10 Reloading, the magazine fed semi automatics will let you down pretty quickly, but a shotgun won't let you down at all even at 0 in both. Unless you forget to rack it at an inconvenient moment, anyway. Or when it decides to aim at zombies across the street instead of the ones directly in front of you. Y'know, #JustZomboidThings.

they are not useless lmao, level up your skills and take a shotgun on your back, if you ever get hurt so that you cant run anymore you can shot and then hide. saved my late game char 3 times and now he is close to 1 year life time

[GΔЯGØYLΞ'ร BITE]

Originally posted by Aidal:

Guns are useful, but late game useful. They require huge investments.

Shotgun is better used as a training weapon tbh, it seems to cap at around 2-7 kills depending on luck and shooting rank in my experience.

once you get high enough of a level, I'd try using an assault rifle, better range, and roughly the same amount of kills per magazine.

But honestly though, the biggest bang for your buck is just parking two cars next to eachother in a manner that prevents the zombies from getting to the driver side door, starting a long lasting fire in front of your car, and then just holding the horn down till the fires stop.

Huge investment, 10 minutes of killing a few hundred zombies with a shotgun for level 4 aiming and reloading. 10 minutes to round up the zombies and lose them in the woods so you can loot a police station. Not much of an investment imo 😀

[Quineloe]

Day 7, I just gunned down the swarm with the M9 pistol that the chopper brought me. Around 200 killed.

I guess you could just kite that nonsense with a spiked bat around the block until you die from exhaustion, meh.

[Greb]

Originally posted by Grizzly:

they are not useless lmao, level up your skills and take a shotgun on your back, if you ever get hurt so that you cant run anymore you can shot and then hide. saved my late game char 3 times and now he is close to 1 year life time

Did you even read my post

[Quineloe]

Originally posted by Greb:

Originally posted by Grizzly:

they are not useless lmao, level up your skills and take a shotgun on your back, if you ever get hurt so that you cant run anymore you can shot and then hide. saved my late game char 3 times and now he is close to 1 year life time

Did you even read my post :captainclown:

Yes, it's full of bad and an enormous desire to git gud. If you can't even handle anything other than a shotgun at 10 aiming there's something seriously wrong with the way you play.