Stalker 2 - Weapons Tier List

[@neilthepeel5831]

Just a little nugget of knowledge for you reap, the drowned AK is the only other gun in stalker (except Skif's pistol) that never really jams. I have done a run using only the ak's, and this is my breaching gun because it never breaks nor jams.

[@ReapeeRon]

I did not know that!

[@neilthepeel5831]

@ The more you know :)

[@basicallybacon2593]

​@@ReapeeRon Fun Fact Valiks AK-74 (No AK-74U) has a bugged jamming probability that makes it capable of jamming at even 100% durability instead of the average 70-80% needed for jamming to start, it also has less damage than the Base AK-74. Funny

[@UniversallyHated720]

@@neilthepeel5831 Drowned definitely jams, it was jamming on my playthrough post recent patches. It never breaks though which is really nice.

[@josephjucker5620]

@@basicallybacon2593 Not a bug, it's just Chinese

[@BreamVR]

The combatant doesn't come broken anymore. It's at full durability when you receive it.

[@ReapeeRon]

That would make it better.

[@2.0_The_Ghost]

Rat killer should be cheeki breeki it has by far the lightest ammo in the game penetration on par with endgame rifles and holds so much ammo it's ridiculous, it absolutely trivializes the endgame Edit: also something you didn't really take into account I think you should have is the availability and weight of ammo

[@PsyTramper]

He did took availability of ammo into account when he talked about Buket and Dragunov for example. For me weight of ammo never made me reconsider bringing a specific gun with the only exception being Dnipro upgraded to 7,62x39, because this ammo is significantly heavier so I carry less of it.

[@subpar5360]

Man has a tier called "zone classics" and then forgot the name of Cordon not even 5 mins in

[@ReapeeRon]

Been drinking to much of my anti rad meds.

[@liamgadsden8570]

For me the clusterfuck goes into the top tier, best usability of any long range weapon by far. Aim for heads and it far surpasses anything else in that category imo. The durability isn’t that noticeable unless you use the flat ammunition or even AP but genuinely it doesn’t need it the standard ammo does the job for me. It’s so abundant that you have no issues with making sure you have enough or spending all your money to buy more

[@DukeShambles]

Drowned should be in Cheeki Breeki tier. As long as you don't repair it, it barely ever jams, making it an effectively unlimited durability AK which can carry you for a long time and save you a ton of coupons. It also has the coupled mags, which is the best mag attachment for the AK.

[@fluffywolfo3663]

I am kicking myself so goddamn hard for not just stealing Drowned lmao

[@FriendlyTourist-6ie]

I found the Spitter to be pretty effective early to mid game actually, since it actually seems to inflict more damage than most ARs. As for the Integral-A (Vector) having .45 conversion, I can confirm. The ammo conversion results in a slight damage increase. But I still find it silly that its mag capacity is only 20 by default.

[@ReapeeRon]

That's awesome, I didn't use the Spitter too much but I did really like it.

[@swordlion294]

I have some gripes with the list, other than that it's solid. SVU lower than Vintar or emr? SVU one shots exos with normal ammo hs and has rapid fire, much higher dmg and pen than all those others. 9x39 should be really buffed.

[@mr1357989]

yeah, i think the upgraded SVU is one of, if not the best weapon in the game honestly

[@iamtreetry6666]

The unique Groza rifle takes 5×45 ammo instead of the 9x39 And the Drowned AK never jams.

[@fluffywolfo3663]

On the one hand the mag-fed pump action fires drastically slower than the SPAS. On the other hand, I _really_ do not like getting caught with my pants down trying to reload the SPAS while dealing with mutants. I'm sure the Saiga nullifies this, but I also do not _have_ a saiga yet lmao

[@amiratavosoughi]

Ranking drowned so low is criminal

[@ReapeeRon]

I wasn't aware about the no jams, that does make it nice.

[@phillipfernandez5533]

Buket with AP rounds 2 taps Exo suit armor late game. Its honestly 1 of 3 of the best SMGs in late game. Also really cheap to repair with tons of ammo. RPG is very mid. It doesn't kill mutants faster than any other shotgun.

[@2.0_The_Ghost]

RPG basically one shots Faust so it's useful for that and the rat killer is easily the best SMG in the game and frankly I'd almost argue it's better than assault rifles since it's penetration is on par with the endgame assault rifles and since it's 9x18 you can hold a shit ton more ammo and it has by far the most readily available ammo in the game with no need for ap ammo even against endgame exo enemies

[@ReapeeRon]

That's fair, the AP ammo is really good for most of the end game enemies.

[@uzzi3822]

@@ReapeeRon It's because of the 9x18 AP ammo, it's got a higher damage multiplier than other AP ammos it seems. Most guns drop at most 1 shot to the head to kill against a late game exo, the Buket goes from 4 headshots to 2.

[@nathangregory_]

I find it interesting how players in this game utilize their weapons. For instance, I usually go out with the DMR and shotgun and very rarely with an assault rifle. Don't get me wrong, I have a couple of ARs that I enjoy using, but the DMRs will always be my weapon of choice. What I wish they had as a weapon would be a BAR. It would never leave my side. Question. How do you convert your MP5 using .45 ammo type or any other weapon?

[@ReapeeRon]

Yeah the DMRs are awesome! You can change the calibers at techs that can change them. No every weapon can do that but weapons like the MP5 can be .45 and the Fora can be 5.56. The Rhino can also be 12ga.

[@ForgottenGamesAndMods]

Best pistol I found is an upgraded APSB, which basically you can shoot at extreme speed and it has a high cap mag. The by far best gun in the game I found to be a modified Zubr (rat killer with urban camo) with a mag size of 50 (under-barrel type) made to use 9x18mm just like the APSB. This can be used 99% of the time in the game. No other gun is needed. Even at the endgame I used this as primary and railgun only if enough ammo.

[@volrath77]

The only thing I hate about the Saiga is that it is stuck on semi-auto only and doesn't have full auto fire select unlike RL Saiga.

[@kuro_neko5863]

I would definitely put both Drowned and Clusterfuck in at least Stalker's Delight. On the other hand I'd probably put Sofmod in Zone Classic, that red dot kinda sucks. Predator unique shotgun has eight round capacity rather than six, but can't take the magazine upgrade.

[@lepepelepub12]

Pretty easy to rate what is a top tier weapon, any weapon with a penetration state more than 2 is S tier b/c all the end game enemies like Exos and elite mutants have a lot of armor. You can see this with assault rifles where the main stat difference between early and late game assault rifle is penetration, everything else stays relatively the same including damage.

[@googoobarman]

You got the names of the unique pkm's mixed up. The first unique is the beast and the second one is the glutton.

[@ReapeeRon]

Thanks for pointing that out.

[@googoobarman]

@@ReapeeRon No problem.

[@jakewhite4321]

Where is Chance’s knife?

[@extra_nicc]

💀💀

[@All-Fur-Coat_No-Trousers]

The colander sight, for when you need to poke a bunch of holes in aomebody 😉 i really like your idea about colapsing or adding stocks, too.

[@BreamVR]

Yeah there are a ton of unique weapons missing from this list too. On top of that, plenty of the guns you did mention, you omitted unique aspects of them (like the drowned), or just objectively put them above other weapons which are categorically better. This is genuinely meant to be constructive criticism, but I encourage you to do a bit more research, play the game more, and watch more of other people's videos. Then perhaps come back to redo this video later once you have a better grasp of things.

[@2.0_The_Ghost]

He said he wasn't including the dlc or pre order uniques

[@ReapeeRon]

I'm not including any weapons that you need to pay more money for or need to pre order. Most aren't going to play the game like that.

[@Scatt2k7]

Wow how rude can you be, the video was informative and a good watch, if you don't like the content go elsewhere 🤦.

[@BreamVR]

@ That part I must have missed, mb. Despite the wall of criticism I subscribed because I still think you're entertaining, and I wanna potentially see more Stalker content as time goes on. I hope I wasn't too harsh in my original comment. Have a good one!

[@antbord_5640]

Yeah, the Shah's mate being below the M10 hurts a little to watch, also yes he excluded many unique weapons that are in the base game

[@AndreiDeiu13]

The Gauss it's the best weapon against Chimera and pseudo giant

[@PentaSquares]

I remember having to climb onto a heli in pripyat to take out a Chimera that wanted to maul me to death. The Gauss took a while to kill it but it was faster than anything else

[@NetNeelsie]

Jip, never played sniper till this game.

[@NetNeelsie]

Also unique shotgun never spawned for me.

[@Vladi_AK47]

Cheeky Breeky 🤣

[@Crettybocker427]

bro that nose is wild im never partying with you .