7 Days to Die Ranged Weapon Guide Alpha 21

The bows have a strange bug with their hit box recognition

I like shotguns & snipers due to their ammo efficiency. Shotguns will melt everything if one picks up the agility hip fire accuracy perks, same with snipers & red dot sights + their respective ammo mods. Pistols are usually the second weapon I spec into due to their high damage and ammo availability late game.

another fact, pistol makes the least amount of noise with a silencer mod on, followed by pipe rifle which only does a little less noise than the hunting rifle and from there on the silencer is getting less effective really quick ^^
But if you want to be as silent as possible then any bow is the most silent ranged weapon followed by crossbows

(tested at night with 5 perks in stealth, all perk books, military stealth boots with Advanced Muffled Connectors mod on the boots to make less noise on and ghilie suit in a single player playthrough endgame)

Is it just me who uses machine guns like large capacity marksman rifles? The AK47 is OP relative to it's stage. . .

Thanks!

This man must hate silencers

There's quite a spread with rate of fire of purple machine guns. You can actually hear the difference if you get one with a higher rate of fire. But usually if they have a higher rate of fire they'll do less damage. Finding one with both high damage and high rate of fire is really rare. I like to use 5 M-60's with drums on a blood moon horde. That's 600 rounds before you have to reload anything. Load up with Recog, AP rounds and you're getting around 600 kills at least with that load out.
I like the desert vulture for its fast reload. It's the best gun for when you get a horde pinning you in a small space and you need that near instant reload speed. The reload speed of weapons is one of the most important things in the game.

On the .44 Desert Vulture you should get the mag extender mod, you can equip it since the gun is a pistol and not a revolver

Just the video i was looking for. Thanks for this

i think early game pipe machine gun is best. outmatches others by a lot. stays the same up to ak. then i think pumpgun takes over due to very efficient ammunition use. later on i think smg and m60 take the late game. they have about the same dps (one have to take into account the 1/3 more damage due to every 3rd shot dealing twice the damage of pistols). maybe with the edge to smg as you can control the recoil better.

doing a perception build, with spears. but I definitely run MG with sniper, because of that shared ammo pool. [if only it stacked higher than 150 rounds by default. [may have to mod that, ngl[ and if sniping and stealth worked better I'd lean on the compound crossbow a lot more.. that said...if you're in the waste land. getting an "opening shot" with a compound crossbow, while stealthed...you can do some HUGE damage to a zombie bear. and finish off with machine gun or rifle.

Good helpful video and well presented, thank you.

bow weakness? a21 XDDDDDDD

to many trigger rooms / spawn shit while u pressed a button

Very helpful thank you!

This guide helped me a lot this video made me main the machine guns and shotguns

love it

amazing video

Great video didn't see what mods I should use with .44 magnum, what would you recommend?

Fully auto mod is a must for ak47 and tac assault rifle

Hey man. What alpha is playstation on? I feel im missing out!

The pipe shotgun sucks soo much but you can have multiple in your hot bar and use them like flintlock pistols, but always have a melee weapon to fall back on.

Fully modded pipe pistol Looks so wrong to me

I feel like weapon sights used to line up, now it feels way off!

Great video, thank you! :)

for me personally my go to mods for guns are

rifles: 4x/2x + bipod + barrel extender + mag extender/laser
shotguns: choke + tube extender/drum mag/mag extender + cripple mod + laser/retracting stock/rad remover/fore grip
machine guns: 2x/4x/reflex + full auto mod/semi auto mod(for better firerate) + laser/bipod/retracting stock/rad remover + drum mag/mag extender
pistols(9mm): mag extender/drum mag + 2x/reflex + full auto mod/semi auto mod(for better firerate) + laser/foregrip/retracting stock/rad remover/silencer
pistols(magnum): barrel extender/muzzle brake + 2x/reflex + mag extender(for deagle)/laser + rad remover/silencer/semi auto mod(for deagle)
bows: "same as the video"
robotic turret: mag extender/drum mag + full auto mod(for better firerate during deployed/handheld) + muzzle brake + rad remover/laser/fore grip/retracting stock

Ótimo vídeo e obrigada pela legenda em português! :)

it's cool that I basically already used one of the optimal kits (crossbow and smg) without even knowing it lol

ive always liked bows ,pistols and knivesfor insane nightmare, not as good as strength but theyre so good for clearing pois

Good job bro, very helpful guide

Nice video! Any tips for weapon usage/mods in pvp?

Is a level 1 Assault rifle better than a level 5 AK47?

Rad remover. Is it useful?

Really not considering the silencers for stealth athletic builds. With high level builds, a silenced vulture 1 shots almost every sleeper and is quiet enough it doesn't wake the rest of them up. It works best on t4 and t5 POI's when the zombies are a bit more spread out and we're talking its 90% rad sleepers.

My build when I play with my friends, strength/Athletics hybrid. Since stealth is so broken in this game, and the pump shotgun is amazing in head height fun tunnels.

Thanks bro I use the shotguns because of your video

burning shaft yeah it's called gonorrhea

I like putting a full auto mod on the "auto shotgun" to make it feel like what it shoulda been and not a semi auto shotgun lol

good video thank you

I've played an agility build assassin for several years. You can put a 2x or 4x scope on any crossbow but you can't put a scope on any bow. This is a much better choice than the reflex sight because it allows the assassin to make long range headshots with pinpoint accuracy that you cannot get with the reflex sight. Combine the scope with the exploding crossbow bolt and use that for anything that absolutely positively has to die in one head shot. The exploding ammo is your RPG. It's a good idea to speck in handgun and bows because you find yourself in situations where you have a lot of enemies that you must deal with quickly and the bow is too slow. The end game assassin should be in compound crossbows and the .44 Magnum desert Eagle. Both with scopes. If I could put a scope on a bow, I would stick with bows because I enjoy bows. It's a personal preference that gets overruled by practicality.

10q

Love how beautiful you've explained it all I'll sub🎉

What would you recommend for a stealth bow player on horde night

I got lucky and found a few treasure maps that allowed me to buy a assault rifle on day 12 , its saved me more than once ha

Useful video thank you, I just got a pump action shotgun and wasn’t sure what mods am i able to add

Laser sight on a zip gun (pipe pistol) made me laugh.

I've come back to this video and rewatched it a dozen times as I build my load-outs and research the best weapons. Truly a great video for 1.0!

1 downside is that they made the SMG-5 (A.K.A. the MP5) ugly looking

If you want power, don't use a Magnum, your shots will be blocked by a reservoir at the end...

I really think they should add a wooden crossbow that you can unlock after reading 3 bow hunter magazines. I just think it's kinda dumb that you can craft crossbow ammo right at the start, but can't use it (unless you just happen to find an iron crossbow) until you've read... I think it's like 20 bow hunter magazines. The wooden crossbow could do slightly more damage than the primitive bow. Somewhere around 12.7 - 13.2 damage to make it a feasible option with a slightly slower reload speed than the primitive bow, but faster reload speed than the iron crossbow. And less damage and slower reload than the wooden bow. You could call it the primitive crossbow instead of wooden. I also think it would be kinda cool to have a special crossbow (the bone crossbow) that you could make using bones as the limb. It could do slightly more damage than the wooden bow with a slower reload speed but less damage than the iron crossbow with a slightly faster reload speed. Again I would suggest these changes because personally I think being able to craft crossbow ammo right away but being unable to use it for a good portion of the early game (barring a stroke of luck) is just really stupid.

Weapon stats are randomized, so I pulled several level 6 weapons and used the average of these for some of the stats in the video.