The Auto Rifle is a variant of the Rifle featured in Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide. It can begiven out as a quest reward, sold by select merchants and found in Metal chests or on killed Zombies.
Overview[]
The Auto Rifle can be seen as the most universal of the rifles, since it can shoot fully automatic, be single shot or burst fire depending on how much the player keeps the firing button pressed. However, at the end of the day, the Auto Rifle is just that, an automatic rifle which fires in one continuous burst. As such, it has the best fire rate of all the weapons in the game, at the cost of by far the worst accuracy. It has moderate damage and the same reload speed as the other rifle types. For taking down a horde, or a high health enemy like a Thug or Wrestler, there's no better firearm than the Auto Rifle as its high rate of fire means you'll likely kill all the zombies before they reach you. However, the poor accuracy, even when firing it single shot, means it's unsuited for anything other than close range combat. Additionally, the high rate of fire means you'll likely burn through your precious ammunition reserves quickly, meaning the Auto Rifle will get little use without a reliable source of ammunition to keep it going.
Mods[]
- See also: Mods
As a rifle, it can accept all the rifle mods:
Variants[]
Notes[]
- A couple of quests will give out an Auto Rifle as a quest reward:
- Matutero will give one for completing the main quest Chasing Shadows.
- In Riptide, Trevor Rogers will give one for completing the main quest The Crash.
- A couple of merchants can sell Auto Rifles:
- Arthur at the Prison Canteen can sell one.
- Wes Tweddle in the Bloodbath Arena lobby can sell one if the DLC is installed.
- When going to the Supermarket for the first time, the two named punk leaders will carry the weapon. Zipper will be inside a storage unit while Wolf is near the place where the Striker Gun Mod is located.
- Various Jungle Muggers and Afran's Soldiers will carry Auto Rifles and they can be collected after they are killed.
- Both Afran himself and Vargas will carry one, which can be looted after being killed.
- Prison Guards will usually carry an auto rifle to be collected upon death.
- After finishing the main quest Boat Supplies, the player can go back to the container, and open boxes of metal, which has great chances of generating a common auto rifle or a variant of appearance.
Trivia[]
- The Auto Rifle variant with wood-effect furniture appears to be based on the AKS-74U carbine, AKS-74 and the AK-74. For more information see the AK-74 Wikipedia article.
- The Auto Rifle variant with polymer-effect furniture appears to be based on the AK-104, AK-74M and the AK-105. For more information see the AK-105 Wikipedia article.
- Auto Rifles are easily the most expensive weapons in the game. Resale values are usually around 4 times that of a good melee weapon, 3 times that of a good pistol, and 1.5 times that of another rifle. Due to the high rate of fire and low accuracy on full-auto, they are also hard to maintain, as ammunition can quickly run dry.
- All auto rifles are a mix of AK-104's, AK74's, AKS74's, AK74M's and AKS74U's.
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