best starter weapons to upgrade? (edited added another question bounties?)

[a man and his harem]

wheres the best area to look and find bountys and of the like for the drops and stuff?

i haave the DLC free shotgun and upgraded it once (from what i hear im some comments it can become a beast once upgraded )

i still have the starter pistol and SMG im thinking about upgrading them also dono if i should tho.. any thoughts?

[venom]

Hi, finished the game on Hard and here is what i can tell you. If you want something that hit hard early game, find HEAT pistol, located on the lower left of the map. But if you want something that can spray lotta bullet, Dread is great. However, if u want both of the 2 world, i recommend sneaking into the area next to the second quest, there you should find lvl 22-25 Corp grabber or something and there should be 2-3 chests located in the area. One of them contains a unique 20 explosive shots semi auto gun. This gun will probably carry you to mid - early late game.

[Zaukodar]

I used the Dread until I got the Dominater. The Dominater is arguably the best all-around gun in the game.

[a man and his harem]

Originally posted by venom:

Hi, finished the game on Hard and here is what i can tell you. If you want something that hit hard early game, find HEAT pistol, located on the lower left of the map. But if you want something that can spray lotta bullet, Dread is great. However, if u want both of the 2 world, i recommend sneaking into the area next to the second quest, there you should find lvl 22-25 Corp grabber or something and there should be 2-3 chests located in the area. One of them contains a unique 20 explosive shots semi auto gun. This gun will probably carry you to mid - early late game.

2nd quest? what that would be?

im level 4 and getting my @$$ handed to me fighting agesnt a gang thats lvl 17-20 while i feel there in the starter area. i was trying to to the LEVEL 2 quest but i had no way of getting in there even after hacking the door it was like a wall i could not see in front of me.

[BER]

Anabolic Express is not lvl 2 mission.
You get access to the Node only at 3rd main mission.

Weapon upgrade to tier 5 use common components, so can be done to any weapon.
T10 upgrade best for digital shootgun, EBR rifle, Magmamaker and Dealmaker.

[Fury of Stretch]

My comment, don't bother upgrading any of the early guns. They are fine till you get the later tier weapons. The dominator is maybe the first one I'd consider upgrading. My current playthrough I didn't upgrade anything till end game and was fine.

[frank]

Play on Hard. Dread is pretty much the best early weapon. Get it to Mark 4 and you can breeze through early levels. I only used Dread on my 2nd run until level 15 without doing much story missions, and I had like a hundred thousand ucreds.

[BbNaB]

Originally posted by Zaukodar:

I used the Dread until I got the Dominater. The Dominater is arguably the best all-around gun in the game.

My 2nd build is Dominator and Dread. Bullets everywhere.

[BbNaB]

Originally posted by Eden:

RRG23 asap instead.

Yes! My first build I got it dropped early and it was always my secondary after that. Not only is it a killer it just sounds nice.

[Delerium75]

Originally posted by Zaukodar:

I used the Dread until I got the Dominater. The Dominater is arguably the best all-around gun in the game.

+1

After reaching highStreet Arcology, immediately head for the Cosmodrome; the enemies on the way there drop Dominators like candy. The gun is quite powerful and extremely efficient, especially when applying single shots.

[Baron01]

You can easily afford to upgrade early weapons to MK.4 without jeopardizing your ability to upgrade mid-to-late game weapons later. I would strongly suggest to upgrade HCF Heat pistol. It is a weapon that packs a punch against flesh/humanoids. It will start falling behind at later stages mainly due to its slow reload speed but it absolutely carry you until mid-game.

[❀Eden❀]

Overwhelmer directly replaces HCF Heat later. All the pistols have no use later too. I strongly suggest to not bother with anything except RPG23. Otherwise you will end up with upgraded and dead weapons in your inventiory which you never want to use again.

[Veolfen]

Just upgrade what you want early, just don't go above mk4 (when it cost 5 basic component, don't do that upgrade, find the weapon you like first).

-Best rifles midgame are Dominator & P9000.
-All the miniguns are good too (except the one shooting rockets, the first one you'll find normally)
-Handsguns fall off pretty hard, so don't bother too much.
-Bitsplit (the free DLC shotgun you get early) is a very good shotgun to use vs robots thanks to its digital damages (suck vs everything else), but robots represent half the ennemies mid to lategame, so a weapon worth considering to upgrade. (remember using shotguns at melee range for their full potential, dispersion too high outside of cqc).


In the end, you get enough ressources to upgrade quite a few weapons, test them out in mk4 till you find the one that suit you. You can later freely upgrade to mk7-mk8 almost any weapon you like.

[BER]

Named enemies drop lvl 1 component.
Siege and and Arachno Robots drop lvl 1,2.

So you can upgrade any weapon to tier 8.

Lvl 3 drop from "boss" combats, so game cap T10 weapons to 4.

[Umie]

All the weapons are great. I ended up fully upgrading the DLC shotgun to mow down robos, and the P9000.

[a man and his harem]

Originally posted by Eden:

Dread is one of the worst weapons in the game. Futhermore the upgrades adds only +1. Get RRG23 asap instead. It drops from the big guys on level 5. Btw they suffer from Bitsplit because they are cyborgs. You can complete whole game with it, so why not to upgrade it.
Dominator is a loosing side too. It's worse than RPG23, you get it only later and P9000 Roomsweeper is directly better.

thanks for the idea sadly enough i think i leveled my 3 or 4 main guns to level 3-4 (i think. the one i am loving for the most part is the firegun u find from a quest in pizzarea and i am also using the lightning gun with dread. dread i mostly use where theres to many for the pistols fire i found to be the best pistol. tho i dono if ill ever finish the return of that gun tho im loving it to much. lol xD)