Is HP ammo worth it?

[Volpone]

It costs one more bullet tip per round. Is it worth it?

[aY227]

Not really - invest in AP

[Humpenstilzchen]

From my experience it isn´t worth it

[Volpone]

Why is AP better?

[PinkPanther]

Because it's ARMOR PIERCING ^^

[aY227]

Originally posted by Volpone:

Why is AP better?

HP just gives you more damage - while AP guarantees 1 target penetration and lowers armor value of targets.

[BGratz]

I use HP for my Hunting Weapon. Everything that helps to onehit the bear before he starts attacking you is very helpfull.

[Andi]

HP rounds deal more damage than the standard rounds to 'soft' targets like the weaker zeds. Party Girl, Steve, Moe, Joe, Yo you know...
AP rounds are more effective against those AND the armored zeds as soldiers, demolition zombies, also penetrate multiple targets, depending on skill. AP is even more expensive to craft than HP, but absolutely worth it, if you have a surplus of the needed materials.

[mathaniel]

When I get started it`s AP all the way. Why fiddle with different crap? One size fits all and the material cost is trivial a,d can`t recall but trader cost is prolly minor, I buy lots. I mean, dang, out of ammo and bear on my ass, do I stop to switch to HP? Well? Do I? Just sayin lol.

[Crater Creator]

It depends on how valuable the raw ingredients are to you, I’d say.

If you’re a serious miner, you can likely come up with whatever quantity of lead, nitrate, and coal you need. That just leaves brass to make ammunition, which is designed to be the bigger bottleneck. Putting more bullet tips or gunpowder into each round means using proportionally less brass, which in the long run should line up better with the inflow of resources. Not that brass is hard to acquire either, but mining the other ingredients is really straightforward.

[Reeva!]

Originally posted by Volpone:

Why is AP better?

AP rounds work with The Penetrator perk, even with 0 levels in that perk it can pierce through zombies, hitting one target behind them, and it carves through armour rating, making military zombies and demolition zombies weaker to your gunfire.

HP rounds... one shot unarmoured zombies, with the drawback of doing almost no damage to any sort of armour. If you shoot a zombie with any sort of armour value, HP rounds multiply that armour value, so 50 armour is actually way more for HP shots.
At endgame you can mostly one shot zombies with high-end tier 6 modded weapons, HP rounds aren't really necessary unless you don't aim for the head.

[Amins]

FYI, HP doesn't mean "Hollow Point" anymore. They changed it to "High Power" and it makes no difference whether the enemy is armored or not. It'll still do more damage. But AP is still superior and makes HP rounds obsolete.

[Jezz]

AP just causes more block damage to your base

[Reeva!]

Originally posted by Amins:

FYI, HP doesn't mean "Hollow Point" anymore. They changed it to "High Power" and it makes no difference whether the enemy is armored or not. It'll still do more damage. But AP is still superior and makes HP rounds obsolete.

Ahhh right I had an older mod that didn't implement the change, just noticed it...

[Amins]

Yeah, it's kind of disappointing as there's really not much point to HP rounds anymore. They're just a mid-tier before AP that you're better off ignoring. I still have 10 boxes of HP 9mm I made before I made that realization that I need to use up. Would have been great if I could have put it in my smg turrets, but apparently that's not allowed.

[Reeva!]

Originally posted by Amins:

Yeah, it's kind of disappointing as there's really not much point to HP rounds anymore. They're just a mid-tier before AP that you're better off ignoring. I still have 10 boxes of HP 9mm I made before I made that realization that I need to use up. Would have been great if I could have put it in my smg turrets, but apparently that's not allowed.

Really hope they change turrets one day to be able to use improved ammo types, or they add turrets that only use that ammo type even, but the first change would probably be better and avoid the same problem.