Zombie Army 4: Dead War

Zombie Army 4: Dead War

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ZA4 Weapon Mastery
By rosy
A little guide to help you know what weapons are easiest to master for you so you can use your upgrades wisely.
This will help with the 2 weapon mastery achievements Weapons Expert and I can do anything I want, I got guns!.
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Weapon Mastery (Base game)
I've tried to put these in order from simplest/easiest, to the hardest/longest time to master.
Plus a few tips for them.
Pistol/Sidearm . . .
M1911
Get 200 headshot kills
This is the easiest mastery out of the 3 base weapons, self explanatory, just have a steady aim and ping their heads off.

WEBLEY MKVI
Get 200 double kills
This requires you to kill 2 birds with one stone 200 times.. aiming for the head will make this a lot easier, but it will still take some time because the zombies are often limping around and don't line up very often for you.. It's best to set up your enemies to 4 players and rinse and repeat checkpoints.

C96 PISTOL
Get 200 ricochet kills
All you have to do is get kills by spraying at something else near them or they can naturally ricochet off of eachother, someone suggested a good way is to spray at a hard stone floor or barrels (good spots in chapter 2:dead ahead) in front of a gathering of zombies. make sure to have Full auto, Drum Magazine, and Damage Mod equipped to make this easier.
Secondaries . . .
MP44
Get a kill every 2 seconds for a total of 30 kills
This for me would be the easiest one to master, Just load up Hell Machine, set the enemies to 4 players, and start popping heads off (Make sure you have extended magazine III equipped as this gives you 45 shots instead of 30, just incase you're bad at aiming)

M30 DRILLING
Kill 250 zombies by dismembering limbs
This is quite an easy one to do, it might take a bit longer but as its a heavy shotgun, shooting off limbs won't be hard at all, just get yourself lots of enemies crowded up, make sure you aim at their feet for more guaranteed dismemberment, and you will eventually get this mastery.

THOMPSON
Shoot and dismember the legs of 200 zombies
All you have to do is dismember the legs of zombies (using actual bullets and not the melee attachment) Some upgrades can help you with this one, I used Rapid fire bolt III and just sprayed at the FEET of large groups of zombies, This one is more difficult because you're not always guaranteed dismemberment, sometimes you might see a leg fly off but it doesn't count sometimes (at least that's what happened to me) that's why this is one of the harder ones.

Trench Gun
Get 200 triple kills or above
This is quite a powerful weapon so it doesn't sound too hard, but getting triple kills isn't that common, so if you want this one just aim for the top half of zombies and hope for the best, It doesn't have to be done all in a row so this will just come with time.

Rifles . . .
MOSIN-NAGANT M91/30
Kill 200 enemies with headshots from at least 50m away
I found this to be the easiest, If you load up the level Hell Machine, the first part where the zombies are coming down the hill out of the smoke is 50m away so you can just rinse and repeat this part of the level until you get it.

GEWEHR 43
Kill 10 snipers through their scopes
It does sound like it's going to be difficult but as long as they're aiming at you, you should be able to get this pretty easy if you just aim for their sniper scope. I wouldn't put this as the easiest as they don't stay in the same place for long, so it could get quite frustrating. 'Hell base Chapter 1', or 'Zombie Zoo Chapter 4' would be good places to try this on.

M1 GARAND
Kill 100 heavies, officers or screamers by shooting their weak spots
This is definitely the hardest out of the three base weapons purely because this would take a long time (unless you want to reload checkpoints after a gathering of heavies or officers)
screamers are out of the question, it's basically certain death if you're trying to kill one with a sniper.
A good place to get this one is the mission 'Zombie Zoo - Chapter 4 - 4 Player setup' there will be a good number of Necromancers there which count towards this (thanks problemlemon)
DLC Pistol/Sidearm . . .
SHOTGUN PISTOL
100 Dismemberment kills whilst scoring a kill every 4 seconds

WEHRMACHT P08
Get a kill every 2 seconds for a total of 25 kills

CROSSBOW PISTOL
Get a multi kill every 4 secs for a total of 6 multi kills

7.65MM POLEIZEIPISTOLE
100 headshots without changing weapons or using melee

NAGANT M1895
Get 7 kills within 1.5 secs of eachother at 20mm distance

DLC Secondaries . . .
FG 42
Get 20 kills all under 60 secs

PPSH-41
Get a kill every 2 secs for a total of 40 kills

SHOTGUN MORTAR
Get a dismemberment kill every 4 secs for a total of 60 kills

STEN MKII
Get 100 kills without changing weapon or using melee

M3 GREASE GUN
Get 50 critical hit kills under 7 seconds without changing gun or using melee attacks

EGGARS BOMB LANCE
Get 10 Multi kills without changing weapon or using melee attacks
DLC Rifles . . .
M1895 REPEATER
Get 50 kills without missing a shot

M1 CARBINE
25 headshots without missing a shot

BIG JOE CROSSBOW
Get 3 triple kills without missing a shot

LEE NO.4
Get 25 headshots over 25m without missing a shot

SVT-38
Get 50 headshots with no more than 4 secs apart


Hope this helped a little bit!
27 Comments
RupalPunk 17 Jul @ 11:52pm 
У меня не получается выполнить испытание для платины на polize pistol. Убийства просто не засчитывает
kzy2500 6 Nov, 2024 @ 6:31am 
Every “Get a kill every X seconds for a total of XX kills” without demanding specific part can be simply done by throwing a bait onto an explosive barrel and wait till they gather and just shoot the red barrel. (By the way so did the “dismember the legs/arms” mastery) Remeber to set 4 player enemies in easy mod to make it efficient.
rosy  [author] 10 Dec, 2023 @ 7:56am 
Thanks, i've updated the C96.
fyi there's probably a lot of new additions to this game since i've played it so i'm sorry if it's not a completely helpful guide anymore :)
Anonim 9 Dec, 2023 @ 10:01am 
C96
200 ricochet kills

It super easy. You can ricochet barrels and another explosive stuff and it still count. Dead ahead chapter 2 and shoot this hanging chests at beginning +/- 40 kills
Don't_Feed_The_Yao_Guai 6 Jul, 2023 @ 11:53am 
"C96 PISTOL
Get 200 ricochet kills"

Very easy. Works godly on creapers. Make 4players/brutal enemy setting on a map where a lot of them are spawning. Done.
MegaFooby 1 Oct, 2022 @ 2:24pm 
For guns like the MP44, P08, Nagant revolver, FG42, and PPSH, they can be completed on mission 7 chapter 4 just by shooting the barrels in the middle of the crowd at the start
Mycroft 10 Aug, 2022 @ 8:42am 
Once you mastery a rifle(or sth else), it gives u the skin and says the damage increased. Can I enjoy all the increased damage meanwhile i use one in game if I mastery multiple rifles.
:steamthumbsup::steamthumbsup::steamthumbsup:
(Blue Blur)Heroboy99 2 Apr, 2022 @ 6:50pm 
Over at the FG 42 the fastest way to beat with this is Maximum Ammo capacity, Full Dmg and line the Zombies in a Tight Lane (Like between 2 Trains) and use Weapon Focus to Slow time down and Give faster Reload Literally the easiest Among the Secondary line best if aim for the head to speed it up since you got a Min of time to Spare that can be ALOT if u got weapon focus on.
=^.^= Pumpshotgun Kitty Overbeck 4 Jan, 2022 @ 10:25am 
You missing one: Mp.1940
Ainzelfall 27 Dec, 2021 @ 8:30am 
gj :GAThell:
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