The BEST Gun Guide for Project Zomboid

whoa fella you got a license for that thing didn't think so well guess what i do and i'm gonna use it to teach you everything you need to know about guns and where to find them in project zomboid it's no big secret that i caution against using firearms they often cause a small case of death the reason i've always said this is because with an aiming level less than 2 you simply miss 100 of the shots you take for the record that's an exaggeration you only miss 80 percent of the shots you take there is a way to bypass this handicap with minimal effort on your part and that's by starting as a police officer or a veteran these professions will boost you to an aiming level that turns guns from fancy dangerous paperweights to fancy dangerous guns man these darn things are loud thankfully i lost my hearing in the war don't ask which one all of them speaking of every war if you take the veteran profession it gives you the desensitized trait which prevents you from becoming panicked ever this profession does come at a high cost so a majority of your trades will be spent making up for that deep negative eight cut but you could always run deaf and blind okay hang on it's gonna be easy it was not easy oh oh it was anything but i don't advise that you do that but you can now starting as a police officer is a little more manageable only robbing you of four skill points instead of eight and although it doesn't give you a neat panic-free experience it does give you an extra point in aiming and i'd consider that a trade-off it's okay since the most efficient way to level aiming requires you to be good at aiming but never getting panicked negates one of the two major damage reductions for guns i'll speak more on that later but for now the winner is clear if you can deal with all the negative traits i would take veteran over police officer every day to make up for that slight blunder however when you take the police officer profession it gives you a slight chance to spawn inside the local police station that's only if you choose rosewood or west point i have not had any luck with muldrow or riverside and i don't trust the wiki anymore even if you don't spawn inside the station i'd advise you plan out your looting trips to eventually hit them for those sweet sweet guns unfortunately all the good stuff is locked behind an impenetrable door but that's not really a problem obviously the stations are a good source of firearms and ammo but they aren't the only source much like a balanced diet you're going to need to expand your palate let's be honest this isn't enough to satisfy your appetite we're looking to become doom slayer this is making us look like duke nukem irrelevant now i heard somewhere that you can find more guns than you can carry inside the military base north of rosewood but let's reel it back and start a little smaller like i said police stations are a good starting point but you need to expand you can try the shooting range on the way to louisville there's a couple guns there and some good attachments if you can fight your way through several hordes then you can head to the rosewood penitentiary there's an armory on the second floor with some firepower but these places are higher risks for relatively low rewards somewhere i can confidently consider an even risk for an even reward is the gun store in west point you can go to the one in louisville but that's going to be a little more risk let me explain yes there will be a large hoard between you and these gun stores but realistically you can get from spawning in west point to the gun store in under 5 minutes if you book it and it took me less than 15 minutes while panicked and a little exhausted to direct and dispose of an impressive conga line of zombies so if you find yourself in west point or louisville pay a visit to these businesses they are locked up a little tighter than the police stations so a shotgun isn't going to help you here but where a shotgun fails a spicy sledgy picks up the slack you can find these sledgehammers in industrial buildings keep in mind they are very rare but there is a warehouse just south of the gun store in west point there's a very good possibility you've got a sledgehammer there and with that gate taken care of all that's left for you to do is stuff your van full of unlicensed firearms and make your getaway now there is a chance that you ran into a couple attachments in the gun store and if you've got a screwdriver you can attach to or detach from the appropriate guns there is a small problem though not all these attachments work as intended right now the red dot attaches to all handguns and all rifles this attachment improves your aim speed by 5. you'll notice the aim outline starts red or orange normally but with this attachment that outline starts at yellow and quickly becomes green the laser attachment works with all pistols and both assault rifles this one works similarly to the red dot but it improves your hit chance by 5 not your aim i suppose it would make sense to pull the trigger when you see the laser on the zombie's forehead now iron sights work with all handguns and all rifles and will improve your maximum range by three tiles okay what are tiles well you ever click walk to or try to place an item down that's a tile i bet you didn't expect this game to run on the same grid system as minecraft most games do that that joke didn't really work speaking of things that don't work the first attachment that i noticed wasn't really working the way they ended was the recoil pad this pad is supposed to reduce the recoil rate of all rifles but i just don't see a difference and another one i noticed wasn't working as intended but there's a twist i don't think i need to explain to you what a scope is we've all played fortnite apex it's all the same game super animal royale that's the best one the two times four times an eight time scope helps you aim further and further respectively and they attach to all rifles while increasing your max range to pluto the scopes also give you a minimum range with your chance to hit gets lower as the target gets closer i ran a couple tests on this and i found that at aiming level 10 the minimum didn't matter at all at level 5 the minimum still barely mattered and at level 2 i was finally missing shots i would say level 4 is around the time that you can forget to take your scope off and it won't really affect your aiming next up the fiberglass stock only works with the hunting rifles and it will decrease the weight by 0.5 and increase your hit chance by 8. it's very straightforward in the same vein the sling is just a basic weight reduction for the js2000 and both hunting rifles the fun part is that you can attach both the sling and the fiberglass stock to your hunting rifle for a total of 0.8 reduction that's not huge but it's not bad when you consider how many cigarettes you just made room for the answer is 160. that is so many cigarettes this is the final one that doesn't work the ammo strap there's no real difference in reloading but when they fix it the ammo strap should decrease your reload speed for the hunting rifles and the js 2000 shotgun by five i would be so interested to see how this plays with level 10 reloading our final two attachments are the choke tube full and the choke tube improved the choke tube full only attaches to the js2000 and increases the shotgun's damage by 0.5 however it also decreases the spread by 0.1 on the other hand the choke tube improved does the opposite increasing the shotgun spread by 0.1 and decreasing the damage by 0.5 now the shotgun only hits four targets maximum anyway and we've all seen a horde of zombies following us they don't tend to spread out very far i wouldn't recommend using the choke tube improved personally despite its name suggesting it's better what i would suggest is you either stick to the choke tube full or keep your shotgun free of any choking hazards with the attachments out of the way let's talk about damage one of the biggest draws to using guns whether you're choking or not is the damage doesn't fall off when you get tired or exhausted however the damage drops dramatically when you're panicked or your arms are badly injured these are the only two things i've found to affect your damage output significantly and panicked can be entirely negated by just dealing with some negative traits and taking veteran if you're planning to exclusively use guns please take veteran over police officer and learn to love the ability to never get panicked just don't let any harm come to your arms once you get a few lacerations you'll be dealing single digit damage and at that point you may as well be using a spear it is the actual best weapon in the game i'm not wrong why would you suggest such a thing speaking of doing no damage you can't hurt what you can't hit and if you didn't start with either profession i talked about earlier then you'll likely have zero levels in aiming and reloading but that's okay i'm going to teach you how to grind these skills starting with reloading the fantastic thing about reloading is that you do not need a gun for this you could use a gun like the hunting rifles you can just load the ammo right into that thing but if all you have is a magazine and some ammo you are good to go you're just you can stand there and load and unload the magazine until you level up 10 times or die of boredom gain arthritis to your heart's content now aiming is a little more involved than that at level 0 you're not gonna hit much i'm not even sure you could hit the zombie if it was asking you to shoot it let me put this into perspective i had 130 bullets with aiming level zero i killed one zombie i thought i got five no i only got one now in all of that in 130 bullets i was able to get one skill in aiming so if you want to do it the very very slow way there you go but if you want to power level this skill you'll need a shotgun plenty of shells a car and some willing contestants from the audience roll down your window rally the good sports and let your trigger finger go if you start to get overwhelmed just drive away it's foolproof i mean look i did it this strategy comes with the added benefit of leveling reloading at the same time so maybe don't waste your whole life standing in one spot slowly contracting arthritis instead do what i did and ram your car into the nearby tree line while you're reloading your shotgun now what level of aiming do you need to be to start getting consistent well i checked out the wiki which i don't trust anymore and once you get to aiming level 3 you should be all right to start hitting most of your shots the game gives you a 200 multiplier to your chance to hit at level 5 you jump up to a 3 000 multiplier effectively turning you into an efficient killing machine you can go even further up to a multiplier of four hundred percent at level seven and five hundred percent at level nine but i'm gonna be honest with you i have not felt much of a difference between five and ten once you hit level five aiming i would argue that you're good to go anything after that is just genuinely a bonus so once you're comfortable with how accurately you can shoot zombies it's time to start thinking about the big hall the military base just past rosewood on the highway keep going down this road and you'll hit a dead end that's what makes it a secret go down this path take a left straight right forward swing left under the tree a little nudge to the left go straight hit a small patch of dirt we will wobble this way turn the wheel left 15 degrees now a sharp 20 degrees hit some asphalt follow through and you've made it it's easy now erosion will kick in eventually but if you've got it for this spot pun intended in the first month or so that won't be a huge problem the problem comes when you're taking this hiking trail several months or maybe a year into your game then driving a car is impossible the strategy here is to take an axe hammer and some nails with you and cut down the surrounding trees to create small resting spots where you can hide away from zombies to do that just build two walls on each side don't bother with a door maybe build a crate to store some extra supplies and don't think about how many zombies are waiting for you on the outside in total you'll need 32 planks roughly a box of nails per safe house and to even construct these in the first place you'll need a carpentry level of four now the hard part once you get to the military base you're going to see that it is overrun with zombies i need you to keep these three things in mind when you get to the military base one the loot isn't going anywhere if you have to run away that's fine just don't forget to grab your i didn't survive the military-based t-shirt at the tollbooth two you might get stranded or lost make sure to bring enough food water medical supplies and some backup weapons to keep yourself alive for a day or two and if you do get lost pick a direction and stick to it just don't pick west three there are more zombies out here than you realize but all you have to do is organize your group please turn off your lights boy i don't think i have to justify that actually we're going to go arrest the military right now but yelling get them to the base genuinely don't know if i'm going the right way me either man i'm like canoodling around is there a brown streak on the map that you can follow bro i'm following the brown streak but unfortunately i was pulling the one in my pant and not on my mini you're not wearing pants your wife took them why would you bring this up to me when you know how i feel i found a concrete road what's how far ahead are you oh i made it man i did take the wrong path communicate very clearly yeah probably for the best we cleared that out and you're shooting so they're gonna come from all sides wonderful okay and make sure no one does anything they might regret okay well i guess we're not coming back huh

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Length: 12min 19sec (739 seconds)

Published: Sat Feb 26 2022