Best assault rifle in the game

[Eyşan Kuneri]

Stat wise. Don't think about how easy to come across the ammo or repair cost. The rifle needs to have automatic fire capabilities.

[thebiggestoneg]

I would say the dnipro and the ak-74 simply because of ammo availability. Yeah as Val might have good stats, but the ammo isn’t found regularly out in the world and you have to buy bulk ammo which can get expensive anytime you’re about to head out. The 5.45 can literally be found on every enemy you loot. Just an hours worth of gameplay and you can find yourself about 500 rounds of 5.45.

[Dr.Abscondus]

Didn't find any of them much use, especially in the later game. Head shots with a scoped rifle (EMR, Vintar) distance and shotgun up close. Fora is nice for those fast moving mutant packs early on because of it's high rate of fire, but later on it didn't seem powerful enough so I just used the Saiga-D12. Before I got the Saiga I used the Cracker, modified with a box magazine. Saiga fires faster which is essential for putting down Bloodsuckers.

[Baron01]

Dnipro for your every-day use.

SA-U looks like interesting unique version of AS Lavina. I just got it so I'm not sure what sights or scope can go on it.

AR of choice for me must be able to mount scopes as my other weapon would be shotgun so I need something I can use to snipe from distance. I like Fora-221, particularly its unique version called Decider, but it is not viable past mid-game as its low penetration require multiple headshots to down any armored enemy. Even Dnipro takes 2 headshot to kill exosuits enemies when you start beefing with Ward.

[seven_stars]

Does not seem to come with auto, but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is a great 5.56 rifle

[Crochwhisle purple]

Messaggio originale di seven_stars:

Does not seem to come with auto, but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is a great 5.56 rifle

great at draining your bank account. If you upgrade it and then break it to 75 it will cost you 55k to repair because the game counts this rifle as a dmr just because it has a scope on it

[impactos_enredos0i]

Messaggio originale di seven_stars:

Does not seem to come with auto, but the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is a great 5.56 rifle

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and Cracker to me, both fully upgraded.

[TriGGrPuLLa]

Messaggio originale di TriGGrPuLLa:

Messaggio originale di Grubbs008:

GP37 with a Holo Sight, Armor Piercing bullets, fully upgraded with an under-barrel shotty and laser pointer.

That's what I roll with. Good weapon. M860 Cracker, fully upgraded as secondary. 👍👍.

[_Synt3rax_]

I use the Kharod, modified to shoot 5.45 Ammo. Has a much nicer feel to it than the Dnipro.

[cafric]

wondering the same, I use mix of G37 or Valnik 74s (depend on ammo available) along with a RAM2 (all with max upgrade), I did stumble accross all sort of guns like Dnipro, SOFCOM, Kharod, that many mention to be best guns specially for end game, but even when these are upgraded I don't see significant difference with my original guns. Specially G37 has max accuracy that I can't attain on any others, sure SOFCOM has slightly better penetration but costs of upgrading a new gun against benefit is not too clear to me at the moment, so I keep them in my private stash. I found the 60 rounds mag that fit on the SOFCOM, so tempted to exchange for G37 but I don't really like the scope on it and it's fixed.

[TurboDell]

Messaggio originale di Treusch:

Sorry. Bucket is the sub machine gun based on the scorpion. I know it's not an assault rifle but if you want full auto by the stats.

akshually! it's based on a more recent SMG OTS-02 , that is only used in russia

[No Exit]

I got a lot of mileage out of a fully upgraded Rhino.
like a shotgun for low tier mutants and can put humans away at close range with a headshot.
Also very light and ammo is everywhere.

[𝕊𝕋𝕌ℝ𝕄-𝕂𝔸𝕋]

Messaggio originale di Eyşan Kuneri:

Stat wise. Don't think about how easy to come across the ammo or repair cost. The rifle needs to have automatic fire capabilities.

This is very subjective.

There is no single answer. You could have something with more damage, stat-wise, but then another rifle with lower damage but more penetration, which then beats the one with higher damage.

Then you have combat style. Something with very little penetration and damage could have an extremely high fire rate, and therefore deal more damage per second, overall, (DPS).

To attempt to answer the question, You'd probably want to go for something with high penetration, low recoil, high range, with low damage drop off (see how this gets complicated to narrow down?), and high accuracy.

It's all very well if something can spit out heavy calibre bullets at a high fire rate, like the Groza S-14, but it's another thing when you can have an accurate, low recoil rifle, like the Dnipro score 5.45mm headshots at long range.

So the answer really depends a lot on your own combat style, but not only that, it depends on the conditions you're in, ranges, and ALL of the characteristics of the weapons compared to one another and then compared to the above conditions.

TL:DR
The Dnipro.

[Poop Chute Lawsuit]

Ratkiller or Buket S-2 with AP rounds cause silly 1 shot headshots till probably a fix eventually Id assume for it doing way more damage than it should.

If they ever fix pistol AP rounds then definitely the Dnipro only because unlike the Kharod it can have a dual mag for faster reloads but if they ever put the Kharods in the game (and fix the longer reload times) itd probably be better besides the higher weight only because of the Kharod having much less recoil.

Runner up with be Integral-D because of the laser beam accuracy

[NEZILVINS]

Early in game guns with higher damage works best when enemies has no armour, later in game when enemies gets heavy armoured penetration is the key, as far as i found out so kharhod is the best rifle later in game together with dnipro(fully upgraded) from shotguns is saiga, smg will be integral-a and from dmrs is whip, thank me later :D

[Shark-3dfx]

Dnipro looks bad ass but I prefer the Kharod for a better stability. I also have a big soft spot for the Zubr-19 with the extended mag and 2x scope with full upgrades, 65 accurate bullets for non stop action.