What you can carry

The default. Fast to draw, forgiving to reload, unremarkable in every other way — which is the point.

Service pistol pulled off the cordon. Slightly steadier than the Glock and slightly slower on the swap.

Tighter groupings at range. The sidearm you keep once you stop panicking with it.

Absurd, loud and heavy. Drops an armoured infected in one if you hit the head, and announces you to the whole block if you do not.

Controllable on full auto and shares ammunition with your sidearm — the reason it stays in the loadout long after you can afford better.

Flat, predictable and easy to feed. The rifle every other rifle gets measured against.

Hits harder, climbs harder. Rewards short bursts and punishes holding the trigger.

Same rifle, seventy-five rounds. Heavy, slow to swap, and the correct answer when a horde comes through a doorway.

The steadiest full-auto platform in the game. Comfortable, unglamorous, quietly excellent.

Modern and modular. Fast handling with the best iron sights on any rifle here.

Battle rifle. Fewer rounds, far more authority per round — built for the long approach roads, not the alleys.

Detachable box magazine, so you are not thumbing shells in while something crawls at you. Ends any argument under ten metres.

Modelled and in the project. Not yet wired up for the current build.

Bolt action. One shot, one infected, and a very long second between them.

Anti-materiel. Goes through the first thing it hits and keeps going. Bring it for the Hulk.

Semi-automatic, so a miss is not fatal to the whole engagement. The practical marksman pick.

Belt-fed suppression. Holds a street corner on your own for as long as the box lasts.

Heavier round, heavier gun. Chews through cover, props and the infected sheltering behind both.

Quick and quiet. Clears a single wanderer without waking the street.

Slower swing, much more of it. Also the reason some doors are no longer a problem.

Straightforward. Thins a pack, wrecks the props they were shambling around.

Buys the squad four or five seconds. Sometimes that is the whole extraction.

Denies a doorway or an alley mouth. Fire damage keeps working after you have moved on.

Breaks line of sight both ways. Cover a downed teammate or cover the retreat.

Placed, timed and detonated on your call. Objective demolition, or a very deliberate ambush.

Three variants. Seal the route behind you before you commit to the route ahead.