Weapon damage & enemy health wiki/guide?

[Clor]

Hi, I finished the story and I'm starting on No Return. Now that I'm not worried about spoilers, I'm trying to find info online about enemy health and weapon damage, and I can't find much, and that's making it hard to evaluate upgrades. So for example, there's a shotgun upgrade that does 30% more damage I think. But a shotgun already 1 shots every normal human and lowerer infected, so what's the benefit of that upgrade? Does it kill a bloated in 4 rather than 5 shots, for example? Similarly the revolver, what shot:kill threshold do I pass by upgrading it?
Also using the bow and crossbow, what are the odds of the arrow breaking after misses, body shots, and head shots? Would be very helpful for planning how many arrows I should buy before starting the next encounter.
If anyone can point me to a guide with that sort of info that would be very helpful.

[Frag Maniac]

Most of what you're asking depends on difficulty mode. I generally upgrade capacity and damage first on any weapons I can. On harder modes, just being able to 1 shot a Clicker in the head at close range with the shotty, is as valuable for time reasons as for ammo, like when there are waves of enemies coming at you.

Arrows and bolts are much more salvageable on lower difficulty modes, especially if your reticule gives you the red * vs + indicator. On higher modes I've seen many times the red * shots did not yield a salvageable arrow/bolt. Last night though I was able to salvage an arrow playing as Ellie in the final area infiltrating the resort, and the guy even had a helmet on.

There seems to not be an exact rhyme or reason to it at times, especially on harder modes, which I think is intentional to keep things unpredictable and suspenseful. Don't underestimate the value of a good, enhanced melee weapon, like a machete, particularly if you have the skill that gives you one more hit with it.

BTW, the range finder for the bow helps a lot. It kind of does it weirdly via a moving dot, but it helps to get headshots. The rifle and hunting pistol scope also help quite a bit for headshots. The only silenced shot you can do at decent range (quickly anyway) is with the crossbow when scoped. I've shot fairly distant shots with the silenced pistol as well, but you need to be prone and wait for the reticule to shrink.

I take it you meant how many arrows you can craft? The skill to craft more with the resources you use helps. Nothing though helps as much as playing the game enough to know where to craft things. Otherwise you might craft something that will soon be available as a pickup as you progress. That's more valuable info than you'll get from a guide really.