HV 5.56 Rifle Ammo

Load HV when you plan to hit someone a long way off. The round flies faster, so it drops less, arrives before the target has moved as far and keeps slightly more damage at distance. In a bolt action rifle or an L96 that means less holding over the head and fewer misses on a player running between rocks.

Up close none of it matters. In a compound fight or during a raid the enemy is twenty metres away, and normal 5.56 rifle ammo does the same job for a cheaper craft. Plenty of players keep both: regular for the AR, HV for the sniper.

Then there's the bench. HV needs a Level 3 workbench, while regular 5.56 comes at Level 2, so early in a wipe you won't have it unless it drops from crates. Even after that it eats more gunpowder than regular rounds. Don't burn sulfur on HV for a gun that never shoots past your own compound wall.