What to Avoid - GZ weapon augments guide 

theres augmentation glitches, if you don't have enough crafting material, 😊 pressing R2 + X at the same time

I usually use extended mag with prone specialization, which is OP on any machinegun, and weapon disarmer with extended mag with Pvg 90, very good against Tanks and Reapers. Haven't yet gotten the minigun, but when I do, its either extended mag plus prone, or health stealing and prone Edit: Honest opinion, don't waste resources on Titan topper, just use weapon disarmer, then target weak spots

One particular use I found for the Oversized Magazine augment is to put it on a shotgun. The extra recoil matters a lot less than it would with the automatic weapons or more precise rifles. I get 10 shells before I have to reload with my semi-auto shotgun. Overall though, this is a great guide!

KVM 59 /89 with healing and either stabilisation or oversized magazine is excellent from my experience. It has kept me in a fight much longer and allowed me to face tank quite a bit more then I realistically should be haha. And if you do have it, health and overmag is completely broken on a 5 crown minigun, its actually ridiculous lmao

Fun Fact: If you are playing single player, it's ok to use Cheat Engine program to increase the amount of resources

Showing recoil when you have full skillset of recoil reduction: "Look, no recoil anyways" 😄 Thanks!

Informative video, thank you for your hard work and your generosity in sharing it with us. ✌️😎👍

Once you unlock the gold augment you should just be able to reapply it whenever you want, and not have to repay for it over and over. These kind of changes need to be done in this game or it's going to end up way to grindy and turn people off from it..

I've been playing this game for ages, I've got gold titan topper on majority of my fav weapons but think as you are saying its only 20% max so not really worth it in hindsight. I look forward to seeing your tips in the video 😊

still doesnt explain how to mark them. with binoculars with the marking enemy skill or what? its very obscure and vague compared to others. just tell you to mark an enemy this many times. the only machine that needs to be marked multiple times is the reaper or most rivals because if you choose the skill tree that increase damage taken by a marked enemy then its kinda useful? ofcs it makes more sense with a party of 4 players one being the one using scoped weapons to mark enemy with the same skill and all... i dont think they planned clearly enough about the augments that help with qol gameplay or not.. smh.. i can see this game dying cos all they do now is pushing out dlcs to players to trying to survive

I wish you had tested the acidic. Are you positive it only works on reinforced plates on the machines like the knee armor you mention? My understanding was anything that wasn't a component was "armor" - ie. the body and "components" were the internal organs.

Put health stealing on the N60 or the Minigun. It is a mod that benefits hitting a lot in a short amount of time

Thank you Dudu for the very comprehensive and informative video! Just got back to GZ after 8 months and had no idea about anything related to these augments. Now I know, and I am prepared to build!

Holy shit a lot of these are underwhelming and/or trash. How deflating. I do like EMP. That's it. Unstoppable, I guess, for Perfect Dark cheat gun.

Why are they all almost fully useless

You sound a little bit like Londo Mollari

You need to test unstoppable shells. I use these on almost every weapon, and they melt enemys. I believe they give extra damage depending on how many layers you can make the bullets go through. If you can flank a tank you get full damage on each leg, and each weapon, in total 400 % damage (if you get the bullet to go through them all). I dont have component vision to confirm this though. I also only uses fmj bullets, because the do more component damage, and the bullets go through all armor anyway. As soon as i open up with a smg or lmg, there are blue sparks everywhere. And with hip fire, I can move around the machines faster than when ads.

21:33 I've yet to work out armor piercing rounds vs FMJ and how good APR is, I think I might just stick to FMJ and trying to get more lead as ran out

19:08 I've been trying to find a 5 star Pvg as not feeling the benefits of the Experimental version, I dont shoot through walls etc

I prefer the experimental one, you can hit the pieces in the back without being behind, I use the piercing one on rifles guns and with the piercing vision to hit tanks from dogs quickly from behind a wall. By the way did they nerf the pv 90? And did they remove the faster bikes , They haven't given me any faster just colors in a new run.

Hip Shooter I a good choice for SMGs. It keeps SMG accuracy high without needing to take the time to ADS. It can also control RPG spread in jump shots.

3:13 I found this structure destructor amazing for my gold crown Pm-71 machine gun, melts structures along with oversized magazine

34:44 thanks for the recommendations! I will give Uranium infused a go once I have unlocked it

28:28 Yes I have ran 400,000 metres 😂 I usually don't use the bikes, found them useless but they seem better than they used to be

23:16 Yes extended magazine is amazing and the extfa recoil isn't really that bad

When you said you can shoot through mountains and rocks with unstoppable augment I literally busted out laughing, yeah that is awesome.

7:46 I still to this day don't even know how to find the machines components

Titan toppler and sound muffler is what you want.

Thanks for the vid. For the PVG 90 are you still running uranium infused? I liked the sound of sharpshooter as I usually use other guns for closer range but I'm wondering if there is much point now. Perhaps titan toppler would be best as it helps with damage against the reaper too with no downsides. I wonder if the extra 20% is better than the EXP PVG 90? The Scorcher one for the PVG90 sounds like it would impact close range too, especially if you are just quickscoping runners or hunters without very careful aiming? It's a shame they cost so many components to augment, and then you lose it all when changing............

Great gide Dudu!! Saves me a lot of trouble, especially weapon components. I also like your personal opinions on the upgrades :) Do you have any idea whether you get some of the resources back when you remove a disappointing augment? I already made a big mistake installing the golden stabilization augment.

I will say that the 5 crown pm-71 with gold health steal is really great on adventure mode, or adventure with scaling. However, beyond that it really is diminishing returns sense the difficulties of skirmish and gurerilla reduce damage output. It makes the augment very insignificant on guerrilla and you have to rely heavily on resources like health or paramedic packs at that point. I have found that both my most useful augments are the gold uranium infused and the gold emp, both on PM-71 are great. The 5 crown pvg 90 with gold unstoppable shells is great as well. For ducking behind cover and shooting the enemy. I think most of what you said is absolutely spot on! My next objective is going to be to make 7.62 shock ammo and see if the increased damage does better with health steal.

This is really useful information for all GZ players, thanks a lot for working this out and posting!

Very cool guide! Thank you.

Great job, man! Thanks. I have a question about Scope Scout upgrade: are you sure it counts towards +10% skill damage for highlighted enemies? In skill description clearly mentioned that binoculars has to be used. I'm not argue, just confused a bit. Also health regeneration is quite good augment. It doesn't prevent from using meds, but cuts usage for like half. And that is a lot, cuz textile is almost impossible to obtain in combat and I hate scavenging.

Did you try health stealing on com-10?

Helpful thanks!

Mounted weapons aren’t components?

I use extended mag on the AI 76 despite the recoil because I also use it with small fryer. Those two put together make it utterly useless for everything else but against any small machines it kills them so fast that the increased recoil doesn't matter. I'll give the 5c pvg a try. I was still on the experimental, but once I unlock unstoppable shells 3 I'll test with both. An extended mag on the pvg would be nice if the recoil isn't too bad. I still run other exps, like the kvm 59 since no augments replicate how useful it is against groups.

To clarify on the experimental pvg doing more damage to armor: I can't find anything on the wiki or anything else that says this. From my personal experience using it, it seems to be that way, but I could be wrong. I could be getting confused by the recent buff to armor piercing 50 cal rounds. I'm not entirely sure. I'll probably do more testing with it when I have the time.