Better Weapons these days?

[DB]

Whats the general conscencus on best weapons, both melee and ranged, since 1.0? I used to always roll sledgey/shotty but not played since A19. Sledge feels weak from start now?

[(NFH) Chojin]

I prefer Sledge Hammers

[Crashtian]

Early game sledge suffers from stamina usage these days.

Fists are still the late game king, but everything is "viable" these days unless you are playing on Insane.

I have no opinion on guns... none of them in 7dtd really feel that satisfying to use... I usually end up with shotties and machine guns.

[Serious]

There is no best.
At least in end game builds. From m60, auto shot over clubs to stealth builds with crossbow and smg, everything works very good.
For early game it's most likely stun batton and pistol or ak47.

[cw4est]

Each build type seems to have their best weapons. Strength build favors sledge & shotgun. I'm stuck on Agility which is good with Machete & Desert Vulture. I've seen some people destroy it w/ Intelligence & Stun Batons! (Jawoodle claims he will use Batons once he hits 100k subscribers on YT which should be entertaining)

[Chaoslink]

Never really saw a use for sledges personally, and the rifle category of guns seems rather pointless compared to other options, but aside from that basically everything is good for one reason or another.

[JimmyIowa]

Opinions will be all over the map on this, but early game I like the pipe baton. Good range, fast attack low stamina requirements.

Late game, stun baton with top mods is probably the most reliable and safest.
Fists are the most fun.

[Ak-87]

for melee i like the steel axe or all axes really if you got miner 49 it cost like 7 stamina for a swing you can do it all day easy and my favorite gun will always be the shotgun but i wait till the pump to start using them i crafted my pump shotgun on day 5 still before the first horde night was awesome

[Powerferret]

I really like spears, not sure why nobody uses them. With the perk books you have armor piercing, stab through multiple enemies, chance to slow, damage bonus on downed enemies and with all, you get 100% stam refund on every kill. It has great range and with weighted head mod, knocks things down pretty consistently.

[Ak-87]

Originally posted by Powerferret:

I really like spears, not sure why nobody uses them. With the perk books you have armor piercing, stab through multiple enemies, chance to slow, damage bonus on downed enemies and with all, you get 100% stam refund on every kill. It has great range and with weighted head mod, knocks things down pretty consistently.

I'm going to be honest I dont think i have ever used a spear sound pretty good what stat is it in?

[thestile]

I think fists become the best, especially since you can make a ton of beer and stay buffed. Fists are really fast and hit really hard.
Early game, fists are very weak if you play on the higher difficulties.

Early game, I would say the stone sledgehammer dominates. By the time I can get that 3rd perk point into sledgehammers, which doesn't take long, I can kick a$$, even on insane. Stone sledge is an awesome early game weapon.

I can't decide on ranged, they are all awesome. I'm loving the sniper rifle with perception tree right now. It's very ammo efficient because it hits really hard.
Purple sniper rifle plus the commando gear👍👍

[Chaoslink]

Originally posted by Powerferret:

I really like spears, not sure why nobody uses them. With the perk books you have armor piercing, stab through multiple enemies, chance to slow, damage bonus on downed enemies and with all, you get 100% stam refund on every kill. It has great range and with weighted head mod, knocks things down pretty consistently.

You also get a bleed in there somewhere as well as spears can take the burning shaft mod so it can function as a torch, fire weapon and bleed weapon with armor piercing.

[Troa Barton]

The pipe shotgun :P

[LukyMSant]

The best melee weapon for me is the Stun Batton, i can deal with horde nights just by stunning and downing them, it isnt a fast killer option, but it will make it very dificulty for zombies to kill you.

The best mid-range obviously is the autoshotgun, it can easily deal/one shot almost everything, even doing some overkill and blowing up blocks behind the zombies, all that while holding 32 shells

The best long range would be the M60, perfect combination of high capacity and high damage with the thriling bonus of just holding the trigger down and cutting down through the zombies, tho you will quickly go through your ammo and durability doing that

honorable mentions:
- The Machete have very high damage potential agains single targets, even one shoting most zombies in the late game, but it doesnt do well aainst large amounts of zombies
- Desert vulture is basically the sniper rifle, but in pistol format, very High damage, very abundant ammo at later game stages
- SMG you basically have infinite ammo, 9mm is the most abundant ammo you will find around there, tho the durability is a downer
- Bow/Crosbow have some insave damage multipliers when in stealth, but they lack in supression against hordes

Early game melee i would say its between either the combat knife, the bone knife and the stone axe, even tho they don't do much damage, they all attack very fast and have relatively low stamina usage, the knifes with an upperhand because of better damage multipliers and the chance of bleeding. An honorable mention to knuckle wraps as they have a decent stun odd, plus lower stamina usage compared to bats. My midgame option is an iron axe, best all arounder while being usefull when gathering

Most early game ranged options are just bad, its either the bow and arrow, or the pipe machinigun, none of the other pipe guns are worth it. I would recomend just skipping the early options and trying to get any mid game options instead, either a regular pistol, an AK, double barrel shotgun, etc.

[DB]

Think Sledge is feeling so subpar due to the removal of "T Rex" perk for Stamina

[Nimbull]

Stone Maul early on for head shots and super easy repairs. Once you pick up a steel axe slap the burning mode on it and a few others while letting your dwarven battle rager run free.