Acid Rounds are garbage

[Tyler McRae]

I just used 2 acid rounds on a generic-ass zombie, and it didn't do anything. It still took another 3 shots from a handgun to kill it. What the crap, why are these things so useless?

[Justinyl]

acid rounds dissolve zombie legs, while flame does overall body damage.

[淵 Magia Baiser]

Cause you can craft them unlike fire ones.

[Roflmeow]

Acid rounds stun G3, they're about the best use for them.

[Tyler McRae]

Originally posted by Onikaroshi:

Acid rounds stun G3, they're about the best use for them.

G3? OH, Tyrant. Really? That's... that's their -only- use? Christ, what a waste of gunpowder. I'm going to save it all for SMG ammo, thjen.

[CLO]

They melt lickers AND William Birkin.

[Explodium]

Haven't you ever listened to Barry's advice?

"It's REEAAAALLY powerful! Especially against living things!"

In short: good against non-zombie enemies.

[Chibi Life]

Let's just say... the last boss was p easy lol. These acid rounds kick ass during the boss fights to be honest.

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[Greb]

They're pretty lackluster, yeah. They emphasis damage over time, vs straight instant damage, which can lead to you getting hurt while dealing with enemies.

They're basically shotgun shells, in Claire's scenario, but usually just for removing zombies from the equation by headshotting them with one so their arms, torso and head melts off and kills them.

However it's typically better just to make SMG ammo instead, for the final bosses. Need that DPS. You find more than enough flame rounds on the side, too.

[evilmark443]

Originally posted by Onikaroshi:

Acid rounds stun G3, they're about the best use for them.

SMG is the way to go for G3, allows you to quickly put tons of damage into his eyes. On my Assisted Claire run I used acid rounds and the fight took forever, on my Standard run I used the SMG instead and he just melted.

[Sifer2]

I have not really checked to confirm since I only started Claire campaign today. But in the original the different types were better at different enemies. I seem to recall Acid was strong on Lickers. Flame was good on boss/Tyrant. But could be wrong.

[ProxyJames]

Originally posted by Tyler McRae:

Originally posted by Onikaroshi:

Acid rounds stun G3, they're about the best use for them.

G3? OH, Tyrant. Really? That's... that's their -only- use? Christ, what a waste of gunpowder. I'm going to save it all for SMG ammo, thjen.

they deal alot more damage to birkin, Mr.x and lickers while doing less damage to zombies and ivy. I have been playing on hardcore and acid rounds are lifeblood, they down Mr.x faster (who also walks faster on hardcore) 2-3 shots lickers (it takes 3-5 flame rounds to kill them on hardcore) and it stunts birkin in all his forms, also it leaves a DoT on everything it hits so sometimes you can hit Mr.X twice and the DoT will put him down, also on a few runs I killed g3 and 4 while running away because of the DoT.
the only thing you should use your white gun powder for is acid rounds.

[stevo]

They're essentially pointless for all but one or two parts of the game, mainly clearing out the lickers in the lab, and wasting the ammo to stun zombies in areas you just wanna get past while you still have left over ammo. (You shouldn't be attacking Tyrant at all)

Considering the shotgun can 1 shot zombies most of the time, making certain areas a breeze, I'm often surprised why people prefer Claire. Even with bosses, the normal weapons, hell, even the knife, are faster.

[Coffee]

Both get Knife and Knife = Best Weapon in the game (not counting the bonus ones)

[Catpuppy]

Acid rounds are decent for just shooting a zombie in the legs and running past. Still faster than a pistol!

[Reanu Keeves]

They are not that bad... And you can have a lot of 'em. I would feel better if they were regular grenades, instead of acid ones