Just crossed 1000 hours and I have never seen an M16

[hyp]

What am I doing wrong? On my last playthrough I looted every gun location outside Louisville (including the army base, prison armory, hunting stores, etc) and came up with nothing but mags and ammo

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by hyp:

What am I doing wrong?

Probably nothing.
Over my 2000 hours in steam and 2000 in GOG... I have found only a hand full. Guess what? I never fired one anytime ever.

Ask yourself if it an item you really really need.

[Larus]

M16 and M14 are rare spawns but not that rare. I don't know what you did in those 1000 hours but it looks like you didn't spent too much time actually looking for them. You should have come across severas of theme by now. But I suppose that's the problem with RNG, even when you roll a 1d6 dice, you can always keep rollining 1s times and times again.

[ProtecTron]

Firearms B41 (and deactivate AR15). My vanilla save has that issue too, not a single M16...

[Grishnerf]

i cant find the info atm but m16 will only spawn after a while in the world in maptiles you havent been. i cant remember if it was 3-4 months or something.
but if you loot military base before your world is that old you kinda destroyed a potential chance of spawning.
and it can only spawn in military bases and very rare chance of special displaycase in a gunstore.

[Animalman]

You get them in metal only containers! Sometimes I believe possible in boarded up homes. But ultimately you want to check metal gun cabs. Or metal gun crates. The glass cabs will never have one. Few gunshops have metal cabs. Most of these cabs and crates are at the military checkpoint, but there are other military surplus shops that may have one.

Youl be disappointed when you get one though. Yeah it kills pretty nice. But doesn’t last long. It’s only worth doing if you have good maintenance I think. So take repair guy with Hunter. And grind that maintenance to 5 or something and you might have a good run with it. Not sure really though.

[=JpS=Red5]

I have 400 hours and have found them a few times.

The first time was the first road-side hunters camp site I had ever found. There were two M16 there. That made me chuckle.

[Shady Allie]

Originally posted by =JpS=Red5:

I have 400 hours and have found them a few times.

The first time was the first road-side hunters camp site I had ever found. There were two M16 there. That made me chuckle.

I think that was a spot I found one of mine too. Thanks for the memory jog.

[hyp]

Originally posted by Grishnerf:

i cant find the info atm but m16 will only spawn after a while in the world in maptiles you havent been. i cant remember if it was 3-4 months or something.
but if you loot military base before your world is that old you kinda destroyed a potential chance of spawning.
and it can only spawn in military bases and very rare chance of special displaycase in a gunstore.

This is probably the answer. My games rarely go past 2 or 3 months. I did go 7 months in the last game but I looted most of the gun stores in the first few months. I had about a dozen m14s and a whole duffel bag of m16 ammo but never found the gun itself.

[Kasper]

I use this mod to add loot pools to the zombies, since they're supposed to be people who were doing stuff before they died. You can manually tweak percentage chances for every loot category, so you can make everything rare-but-possible, and will eventually come across someone who died with a rifle slung over their back.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2892563252

[TomizZ]

I have played like 70 hours and found a couple accidentally when I stumbled in to the military base. Ur just unlucky I guess.

[galhalatine]

If you're not taking the lucky trait try that. I have less than 1000hs and I've found 3 or 4 M16s but all using the lucky trait and in one of the two "vetran's houses" in Westpoint.

[Y1N9]

Meanwhile... In my current playthrough I decided to raid the Rosewood police station and found an M4A1 and G33 (from Brita's weapon pack) with tons of bullets. My character is a long blunt/axe wielder with no points in firearms.

[Greb]

I usually find them strapped to zombies backs, but I'm also not sure if that's from a mod or not. The only time I ever used one was on a test character with 10 Aiming 10 Reloading though, and the thing began jamming on the second magazine lol.

So you're probably not missing out on much!

[_TheBunnymaster_]

You can find these at a few military locations, and the Mall Gun Shops.
You won't be able to hit ♥♥♥♥ with them until you're much higher aiming level.

[LCD]

Originally posted by ProtecTron:

Firearms B41 (and deactivate AR15). My vanilla save has that issue too, not a single M16...

lol M4A1 but i get your point.