Maybe I'm not thinking enough.I disagree, you are overthinking it. Chances are if you find some nice brown high damage weapon, its going to have poor degradation, range, etc leaving the player with an interesting choice of using that rusty piece of crap that breaks down on you frequently, kicks like a mule, but it got its nickname ol' painless for a reason.
In A17 at least breaking down of weapons doesn't matter much as I have enough repair kits (too much oil to find in the game maybe?). I don't notice weapon recoil at all since I prefer single shot even for the AK which is enough to stop even a group of glowies (maybe I'm constraining myself here but it feels like any well placed headshot is always better than a spray of shots into the body of a zombie). If I shoot burst in close combat I usually try for the body anyway and then recoil doesn't maater much again as the body is big enough.
And as a further tidbit: I am absolutely sure that most players will subjectively judge a weapon mostly by damage, even if that would be objectively wrong
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