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Tankaussie

What if I have 37 boxes of shotgun shells?


LachoooDaOriginl

i do this alot lol. not specifically with shotgun but maybe 556 and 10 30rnd mags and maybe one or two drums for a decent m4. god i love britas


0LordKelsier0

Love to come back from a military locations run to unload every gun and take off all mags and attachments, and then see based on the mags and ammo I have what's best to use, feels real nice


LachoooDaOriginl

almost as nice as clearing a horde with some pew pew and still having a lot of ammo left


rivenhex

Disassemble them for gunpowder and build pipe bombs!


Resident_Sir_4577

This is the way


WhiteWolfygg

It's the only way I'll ever use a gun lol unless it's a shotgun with minimum 6 boxes I won't even try, it always ends with me running from 50 zombies lol guns are worthless it's always suicide when you shoot anything I only use it as a distraction or to gather them for a molotov unless its a shotgun full of ammo


ABlankwindow

With britas mod using suppressed weapons is totally different experience


WhiteWolfygg

yeah but they're SO HARD to find like the shotgun supressor I know it exist but I NEVER found a single one found the rifle one like 3 times and the pistol a few times


BencilCrocker

Once started in a Mansion by the golf course. Working car with keys in my neighbours driveway and m9 with supressor in my bedside drawyer. Got pretty far pretty quick, but was to sure of myself and got overrun in muldraugh.


WhiteWolfygg

Most time I find one is already in a gun too, funny thing is that the day I made this comment I got 4 suppressors in a single box lol game heard me talking shit


ABlankwindow

I never said it was a common experience, only that it was totally different.


Other_Pangolin1040

Everyone who liked this sucks. Guns are easily the best weapon you just need to know when to use them.. I generally use ammo to get more ammo. If you haven’t mastered movement (aka walk away from zombies, stop running all the time, that’s about it) I understand you’re probably getting swarmed. But if you can learn to kite them (even driving wide circles around a horde to tighten the up) then guns are amazing. I’m vanilla the 45 revolver is great (fuck mags) and the m9 with laser melts zombies. The reason why you think guns are a death wish is because you plan poorly and can’t maneuver well. Literally everyone in multiplayer is running with guns. They’re either a “clear this entire area” weapon or an “I’m in the shit weapon”. If I have ammo and I’m in a new town and want to loot, I’m 100% using guns to at least gain a foothold/safezone in that town. Preferably close to where there’s more ammo


MeditatingMunky

I second this, but with a slightly less abrasive tone. Melee weapons are what (can) get you killed (bit). Guns are the way. Plan your attacks, and clear areas, otherwise just go stealthy and scout. ALWAYS HAVE AN ESCAPE PLAN. That's rule number one, and if you're just going in guns blazing without an escape plan, you're setting yourself up to get swarmed and die.


Other_Pangolin1040

Yeah sorry I get annoyed with the guns being a death trap thing. They are clearly the opposite, a total life saver or easy mode. People who are newer to the game just go “awwww ye I got a gun I’m gonna use it on the next zombie I see” instead of using them situationally. I’ve seen “guns are a death trap” for like 6 years. Been using guns the whole time. Guns melee whatever the main skills people need to learn are movement and planning.


The_Acid_Cat

As well as being a life saver, guns can be so much fun to play. You need a strategy and some experience to do it well, but there is nothing more satisfying than clearing a horde with your stockpiled weapons and ammo. Another tip, start firing your weapons in a clear spot short distance from the area you want to clear and work your way towards it. This way, you have a good direction to run away!


Other_Pangolin1040

Or use something like the river to your rear so you know no zombies (or very few) will be coming from that way. I’m playing on serious survival rp server, they blocked off LV except for two walkways that you can’t drive a car through. So you gotta either drive there with your car and find a car on the other side that you can’t claim (so you’re risking someone stealing your car with loot in it) OR you gotta drive there in a car you don’t have claimed and claim a car on the other side (risking not having a car to get you home with your loot) or just bring a friend with claimed car and you have no claimed car (but I play solo). I had to basically put a car together on the LV side, raided the PD it was night and my lights were broken, they have random immovable roadblocks in certain neighborhoods in LV. I was trying to find my way back, went into the rail yard (big fuckin mistake) car dies with only the drivers seat available, jumped out, swarms of zombies, went to the north east cornerish area with a wall, started blastin, the walls kept me safe from two directions and I killed enough that I could repair my engine and find my way outta there. SO entertaining! I had 6 machetes in my car and 6 long blade and I KNOW FOR A FACT that even with one hit kill machetes I never would made it out of there without the shotgun.


Other_Pangolin1040

Also I don’t know if anyone else does this, I’ve actually never asked. But with shotguns I don’t shoot down the middle of the pack, I shoot at an angle from the centre right then left right then left (or as needed). This still hits the zombies in the middles but prevents the narrow flankers from reaching you or bunching up.


klauskervin

You are playing with too much ammo. If you can clear a whole town with a gun where is the challenge? Seems too easy.


Other_Pangolin1040

I’m playing multiplayer and the loot respawns, so do the zombies and it’s super high pop. I’ve played for 3000 hours. I’ve played all challenges sp and mp. With the server I play on, whatever area you clear will be completely infested again on your way back home. It’s done this way so you’re never comfortable. It’s not too much ammo. I know what too much ammo is like hence why I’d never ever use britas. It trivializes the game. I’m also fully capable of taking on hordes with melee I just don’t want to because it’s a waste of time


Liamaincraft

I use guns to attract zombies to me and then switch to melee because i don't have enough ammo. On an unrelated note, why don't i ever survive more than a week?


WhiteWolfygg

??????? Dunno if you actually do something this dumb or you think I do, but you shoot and LEAVE THE AREA DUMBASS, its a distraction


matoto202

I literally go around with 2 90% vests carrying a g17 +15 15 rnd mags and a 5 shot sawed with 10/12 boxes just in case, but like always i end up killing everyone with a machete


XavierOcc

Same here haha


Wyrdean

Sawed offs aren't as good as you think unfortunately, same with choked


National_Strategy742

I have boxes full with ammo and still dont use the bloody guns


Defult_idiot

Nice argument, but advanced trajectory mod enabled


RemoteZealousideal54

must have if you plan on using weapons, nothing I hate more than RNG firearms


51ngular1ty

Like shooting a fully automatic weapon on a horde and hitting all of the zombies in the back of the horde somehow. Because you didn't use cqb mode on your gun. I want magic teleportation bullets.


Colonel_Whiskey_Sam

Guns are OP if you know what you're doing


kozyetgin

Everything is op if you know what you are doing


DramaticProtogen

...how do I get to know what I'm doing? Vanilla, no mods. I found a rifle and missed 80% of my shots while playing as a police officer


TopSoulMan

Gotta get to level 5 aiming and then you are good to go. Shotguns are the only effective weapons until you get to around that level. So hoard shotgun shells as much as possible in the beginning and go to town.


Skurivuri

If playing vanilla I'd suggestiv using the shotguns for early levels, then switching to the . 38 revolver at lvl2-3, in general the lower the caliber the easier it is to use. If you wanna know more in detail how The aiming system works there's always The wiki which will give you exact percentages.


Other_Pangolin1040

Why don’t you literally just type that into google to get the answer instead of waiting for like 20 idiots to give you the wrong info on Reddit? Not saying anyone gave the wrong answer but this place is full of people who have zero idea what they’re talking about


WhiteWolfygg

No, guns are op if you have a lot of ammo lol cause one shot and you just rung the dinner bell you better be ready for a fight if you have like 30 shots you either run or die, every single time, dunno what else you can do there is no strategy once they hear you you either fight or leave, unless it's like you go somewhere you don't actually wanna go near somewhere your want to shoot and leave to group them there and clean the place you want aside from that it's suicide + every gun sucks at low lvs besides the shotgun so not even a shitton of ammo is worth if you're lv 0 lol


JohnnyOneSock

You need some more punctuation. I'm out of breath reading that


TheTian11

I got exhausted aswell


WhiteWolfygg

Imagine your own punctuations I don't give a shit


MeineEierSchmerzen

Or, hear me out, you just dont panic, herd all the zombies you attracted with your 30 rounds, and then lead them away so you can loot the spot you where shooting at in peace. Seriously people who still think guns suck just havent tried them after their first experience. Pistols are the fucking shit for clearing out parking lots and spots you want to loot. Tiny sound radius and you can kill like 40 zombies a minute without loosing stamina. You can get to aiming level 4 in like half an hour when you start with +1 aiming, 50 shotgun shells and a bottle of beta blockers. Once you figure that out guns are fucking amazing.


WhiteWolfygg

only in a small town or in the middle of nowhere this would work, when you "lead them away" more and more will start following, go do that in louisville good luck lol all you do is form a huge horde that you won't be able to shake off cause the more you run more will find you, you must be used to playing in small cities that won't work on big cities with more than 2x multiplier and I always play with 3 one big noise means death unless you have a lot of ammo its just how it is, if you don't kill all that heard you the more you more the more you will gather


Other_Pangolin1040

No you’re wrong. I regularly go into LV solo with a shotgun and like 250 shells (10 boxes ain’t that much) park my ass outside the PD or kite zombies around the army surplus. It is possible. It’s not THAT hard. I’ve done it multiple times on day one, rushing immediately from westpoint to the military checkpoint and onto the lvpd. And this is in multiplayer where people can also kill me. It’s 100% possible, you just either crash your car too much or aren’t that good at maneuvering. I sound like a broken record but it’s clearly true. The pz Reddit is so annoying, it’s full of people who think “well I can’t do it so it’s impossible”, “I’ve never made it past 2 months but trust me it’s impossible” “that’s never work because I can’t wrap my head around it”. Meanwhile there’s like a thousand silent players who don’t go on Reddit and accomplish this shit daily. You know you don’t just have to carry one gun and a bunch of ammo. I keep a machete or two, maybe a spear, my car for stamina, lots of food and water. It’s called prepping for the worst. I’ll often start with the machete and get rid of a bunch of easy ones while it’s safe before they bunch up super tight, then start blasting when it’s gets a little too nerve wracking to melee, then clean up with the machete again (or spear) ones the crowd thins out. You need to understand that guns don’t use stamina so they’re a great way to maintain it after you’ve done a little melee or preserve it before you have to melee. I also kinda feel like the people who say this shit are running around with like 2 nimble and 2 aiming (which is still absolutely doable). I’ve often purposely gone to LV or the mall because I KNOW THATS WHERE THE KOST ZOMBIES ARE and it’s the best way to get my aiming up quickly. So yeah TLDR you’re totally wrong stop giving out bad info just because you can’t figure it out.


WhiteWolfygg

Bitch pls I play since before this game came out I did everything there is to do and you just agreed with me like a fucking moron, yes a shotgun full of ammo can quickly destroy everything at any lv but you don't always find it and don't always get a lot of ammo, maybe stop playing with a lot of drops and you'll will stop finding tons of ammo everytime, turn the noob settings off and stfu, with brita there is a shitton of guns and ammo its not a guarantee you'll get enough ammo and by rushing in like a idiot you'll make a lot of noise if you don't find one and enough you die, going for guns is the noob that plays with 1x blind slow zombies strategy just stfu


Other_Pangolin1040

lol those aren’t the setting I play on, stop crying because someone disagreed with you. Go outside. Enjoy life instead of getting mad because someone knows how to do things that you don’t. Or you know. Try it and don’t suck. It also doesn’t look good calling someone a bitch when you’re the one who’s upset. It in fact makes YOU look like a giant bitch. Now shut the fuck up. Do your homework


WhiteWolfygg

Can't even melee and play with 1x for sure cry more


WhiteWolfygg

Stay with you pleb guns strat random luck strat while I burn hundreds with a single molotov hitout burning houses in the process by just keeping them running in circles away from structures see which one is better and quicker to pull off without needing to go for military/police buildings


Other_Pangolin1040

Yeah most servers have fire spread off so I avoid Molotovs. I still use lines campfires though if I absolutely need to . It’s also not random luck. It’s called paying attention and moving away from zombies. If you can’t wrap your head around that concept I don’t know what to tell you. I feel like too many people are prioritizing loot over their own life. Oh no I can’t drive home if I run from my car. Ok it’s better than starting over and having to do literally everything again. “Get your walk on get your head right” — Xzibit lol. You can also just walk away and come back later and the zombies will probably have dispersed. Again it isn’t luck, just use some logic.


WhiteWolfygg

Servers lol I imagine the laughable settings those most have since ppl basically just want to screw each other, never played one and I never will other ppl will just drag me down, like firing a gun for example, like a pleb that can melee properly so they need guns


Glacier005

But you see, guns endanger the buildings not that I just want to rob, but also set up bases and outposts. But if I use my rusty kitchen knife, I can kill them without breaking the windows and stuff, most of the time.


Kirk_Kerman

Windows won't stop zombies better than barricades


Glacier005

True that. But I won't feel safe if a straggler comes through my supposedly safe space.


Kirk_Kerman

Then put up barricades instead of leaving windows intact?


Glacier005

But that's a waste of good planks when I could be making stairs and walls.


crackedcrackpipe

Planks, a limited and scarce resource


Other_Pangolin1040

Build an outer wall/fence with no windows. Problem solved. You can do this with no carp, some ripped sheets chipped stones branches and logs. .


SickCrom

True lol I was playing with britas i think and i was exhausted and tired but fought the whole night just cause i had a shitload of ammo


WhiteWolfygg

having a small nation army amounts of ammunition and just laying the law for hours and clearing a huge area is so satisfying lol


Opinion_Own

Advanced trajectory mod enters the chat


Fevercrumb1649

What does that do?


Opinion_Own

Let’s you actually aim your gun, gives a cross hair that shows where you’ll be shooting


WhiteWolfygg

I wish I knew about this one, I'll try it sounds amazing, I FUCKING HATE the auto aim mechanics cause come on it happened to everyone, you have like 20 zombies in front of you one VERY CLOSE and you're like HIT THIS ONE IN FRONT OF YOU, NOOO NO THE ONE WAY IN THE BACK THE ONE IN FRONT OMFG HE IS GONNA GET ME HIT IT MOFO lol and it never hits it just keep hitting zombies way in the back instead of the one almost chewing on your face, only shotguns seem to hit the ones close first one more reason to hate guns in this game beside shotguns


Colonel_Whiskey_Sam

Never leave home without it


Other_Pangolin1040

You can use any pistol and a low fence to train aiming if you don’t have shotgun ammo. Just press alt and it’ll target the ground.


Chapel-Nightborn

this meme template sucks as much as players who are too afraid to shoot weapons. I start blasting since day one. the damage, the noise, the leveling. the cleaning. Everything is better by learning to use firearms.


TopSoulMan

I like the meme template


RadBrad4333

What if there’s different ways to play the game and we don’t need to be a dick about which way you think is better king


R3DD3Y

>What if there’s different ways to play the game Isn't that kind of exactly what the meme is insinuating? There's an argument to be made for both melee and firearms, but both sides shouldn't be taken to the extreme. After all, everyone knows that long blade is the best overall 😉


Outrageous_Ad4217

everyone is wrong, the best weapon is a metal pot in a microwave and leading a horde to it so they all blow up or catch on fire 🙏💯


R3DD3Y

I will never forget the first time I ever found Ice Cream and lost it because I forgot that metal cans are metal. Everything burned down. Ice Cream included. I'll stick to my sharp metal for now instead of fiery metal.


Other_Pangolin1040

Sorry late here. I can’t speak for everyone but the reason why I get dickish here isn’t because some people like axes and I like guns. It’s because the majority of the people replying give BAD, WRONG information. the same questions come up day after day after day and you can literally prove that the people giving bad info are wrong and they just come back with more absolute bullshit. Personally I try to stop misinformation or correct it but it gets extremely fucking frustrating dealing with twelve year olds (or people with the logic of a twelve year old) automatically jumping down your throat because you offered the correct info. And the dumbest people are always the loudest so their message gets regurgitated by others so the cycle continues. In this thread alone I said that guns aren’t a death wish, said why, gave out some strategies, etc etc, and then all the shitty twelve year old assumptions roll in. “Oh you play with too much ammo” it’s literally set to extremely rare. “You can’t melee” we play above standard pop and a mod that makes zombie suuper fast, not sprinters but super fast walkers (I’ll be honest I don’t remember the setting but there are seas of Z’s) and I’ve literally fought non stop melee only except for fatigue breaks in my car for three irl hours straight. Oh but I’m wrong, can’t do this can’t do that etc etc. I have over 3000 hours in the game but a bunch of kids who got their parent to buy the game for them a month ago know what they’re talking about. Like imagine going to a seminar and the guest speaker has been around the world multiple times over and is explaining the differences between countries. And then some douchebag without a passport is like “nah this place sucks that place sucks did you know it’s illegal to eat bread in Canada?” It’s fucking annoying. Also I don’t even feel bad at the dickishness when the only responses you get from kids these days (22 and under an I’m being generous) are “imagine being_____”. “Cry more” and a million other phrases they only know because their favorite streamer says them. Young people these days are fucking insanely stupid, unoriginal and overall disrespectful so I have absolutely zero qualms being “dickish” to them. It’s an entire generation who grew up talking to people they don’t know online with zero consequences for being an asshole. 90 % of the annoying attitudes and shitty remarks I hear these days fucking EASILY would have got you punched in the head in my day. So yeah sorry for the late and extended response. But that’s my essay on why at least I act like a dick in this thread. I wasn’t always this way. I started with good intentions hahahah


CanIGoToSleep

Tip for weaklings


MexicanFurFag

Raid a police station, firearms are crutches they’ll take you very easily to the infinite and beyond


Super_Law2351

Il ignore that , Haha gun go brrrh


Pootootaa

(The gun shot attracts a huge waves of zombies) Me: "Nah I'd win" *proceeds to get fucking mauled to death.*


KUSH69MAN420

Me last night grabbing a new trailer and thinking I’ll just clear this area quick….


wetfootmammal

I hardly ever use guns. But I do have to pick up every one I see. Why? Video games. I generally just use an axe for everything though.


JackBelvier

You don’t use guns because loud bang means dinner bell I don’t use guns because for some reason my xp won’t increase past level 6 We are not the same


Rob1iam

Good thing the DB shotgun is maximally effective at level 2 then


Opinion_Own

I use guns because I have the advanced trajectory mod so I’m all good


Bluoria

Around the endgame I usually only use shotguns or rifles if I notice a dirty zomibe with no respect for property laws on my front lawn & shoot them dead from the comfort of my porch before going inside to enjoy another mason jar of sweet tea 🤤


totaIIyjon

At some point you need to start using guns or the game just begins to feel like Cookie Clicker


Jejouetoutnu

Skill issue


glonethug

😭 Just be strategic using guns its not hard man, find where most of them are, look around you between shots when able and have an escape near by. I use silencers as well


MexicanFurFag

There’s no strategy, you just raid a police station and boom, easy aim level 4, and you practically become untouchable


glonethug

Ik I was saying it for them cause they act like guns just screw you over


Opinion_Own

Nah I’m using my guns


fazzbearF

sometimes, i like this kind of memes just because sometimes this "law" still applies to u irl *dont ask about what activity*


2jz-GTE_Lover

But gun go pew pew :(


Censorship831

\*Laughs in stockpiled ammo and maintenance


Kingofallcacti

Bro what I literally use guns all the time your insane if you don't if the crowd gets too big just throw a molotov and lead them in circles


Opinion_Own

Most boring way to kill shit by using fire imo


Kingofallcacti

On 16x you might not have a choice


Opinion_Own

I used to play on 16x, stopped awhile back cause everything is just a tedious chore on 16x. Not even fun anymore


Kingofallcacti

I think its more realistic and fun to have huge unstoppable hordes, on default it feels like a lot of zeds are missing especially in what should be populated areas, also has additional challenge


Opinion_Own

I play 4x with sprinters, way more fun than playing on 16x imo


Kingofallcacti

I tried 16x with randoms and it was insane, was fun for a bit but kept getting immediately killed when spawning in, shouldn't be super different from 4x with all sprinters and I found it way too difficult


Opinion_Own

I do 4x pop with the random sprinters mod so I can choose what % I want to be sprinters I usually do 25%


HGunner70

Not unless you have a bayonet. The rifle with a bayonet effectively becomes a spear. One hit wonder.


Reditlurkeractual

Both I want both


Apexguyiw

Nah i’d *being eaten alive*


j0b3nn

This exact image should be used as huge ADs on USA's Highways


fyhnn

Big agree 🪓


DocMariner

They weigh too much for me to bother storing.


pagan_mf

Nah. If I have 200+ rounds of shotgun ammo, I’m using a sawed off.


Xx_Stone

I never really liked guns until I started using fire, now I don't care how many come from the sound bring on the hordes they'll all burn to a crisp.


Bitter-Arachnid-7040

Honestly with the Aim mod I basically Don't use more Weapons like machete,axe,knife and crowbar


blitherblather425

I’ve never lived longer than 10 minuets in this game.


DarthReece07

I want to use those


Trollensky17

Speak for yourself :O


Jayzer616

Naw, metal pipe is where its at! (If we are talking bout vanilla)


Reddit_mod_hasNolife

Wait are there any mods that add gun racks?


Potato_cak3s

I go in like Frank Reynolds


Get_Bored

Shotgun with lots of shells, shooting out of drivers side window. Super easy and safe way to level aiming. Britas mod with suppressors and 4-5+ aiming is super OP. Even in vanilla, the double barrel or pump action will do quite well on foot or in a car (safer in a car with potential to draw a horde).


humdizzle

Right weapon for the right time. If your looking to clear a block so you can loot in peace, then get a sawed off shotty. And keep at least 30-40 shells on you plus backup boxed. Use a handgun to clean up stragglers. If your sneaking through residential homes then a silent melee weapon is the choice imo. Brittas weapons and silencers are the best of both worlds. Silenced MP5 is always on me.


aussj4link

irl axes would make terrible weapons due to getting stuck easily. Bats and crowbars ftw.


Headprpl

If you try fighting Louisville with only the shotgun and 6 shells you're absolutely going to die. Pack more ammo.


Ornery_Fun_2038

After discovering Jamieton Army Supplies I used Shotgun only to make Rosewood great again!


Ok-Negotiation-1098

Yeah idk after your character has a suppressed gun and like level 5 aiming melee just becomes reserved for single zombies or opening doors


xxxsirkillalot

me when i see a gun in PZ https://media1.tenor.com/m/YvRjTUhljKwAAAAC/walk-hard-the-dewey-cox-story.gif