what does leveling weapons do?

[Acacia]

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[Tauriz]

Unlocks a new type of the same weapon with some bonuses, such as increased accuracy, higher damage, etc. In short, you play with some weapon, lvl it up, buy the new type, repeat till maxed out. You can check your levelling progress by holding TAB, in the bottom right corner.

[Tauriz]

Also, when you reach the max amount of XP for particular weapon - it'll stop gaining XP till you buy a new type.

[(MI) Mission Incredible]

I paid the 10 extra bucks and I got to use a lot of different unique weapons from the git-go, so it eliminated the need to upgrade most. It also added some new skins and hack and slash weapons, so I am OK with it.

[100% Recycled Awesome]

Originally posted by (MI) Mission Incredible:

I paid the 10 extra bucks and I got to use a lot of different unique weapons from the git-go, so it eliminated the need to upgrade most. It also added some new skins and hack and slash weapons, so I am OK with it. :hfbrawn:

this only really applies to tier 1 and tier 2 weapons. If you want the best tier 3, you're going to have to level. Although, there's one particularly good melee weapon that is DLC only that is great for slasher. But melee don't get leveled.

[You Kissed a Boy and Liked It]

It's padding / filler for a shallow game. It's poorly implemented to boot: if you upgrade a weapon, it's stats are almost always better across the board, making the previous iterations of the weapons all but pointless. Only the "silenced" weapons have any purpose; and given you don't want to attract hordes, silenced weapons are the only ones you tend to gravitate towards -- limiting the non-novelty utility of 90% of the weapons.

The 'progression' system in the game is as ill-conceived as its character 'customisation' and 'selection' are.