Custom SMG

The cheapest SMG, with a very high rate of fire: great for close fights and throwaway kits, weak once the target is far away. Needs a Level 2 workbench.

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Characteristics

Category: Weapon

Stack size: 1

Durability: 100

Workbench: Level 2

Craftable: Yes

Researchable: Yes · 60 Scrap

Damage: 30

Fire rate: 600 shots/min

Magazine: 30

Reload: 4 s

Overview

In-game description

A rapid-firing Machine Gun. Sacrifices accuracy and distance for speed.

The Custom is the gun you hand out when you expect to lose it. Oil Rig runs, a quick roam to the nearest monument, the locker kit by your back door: it shreds anyone inside a building and costs little enough that dying with it does not sting.

Pros

Cons

Very high rate of fire, so close fights end quickly
Cheap to build once you have an SMG body
Bigger magazine than the Thompson

Low damage per bullet, and recoil builds up on a long spray
Spray scatters badly at range
Burns through pistol bullets fast

Its real rival is the Thompson. Both sit at a Level 2 workbench and both fire pistol ammo, but the Thompson is the one you want when fights happen across a road or a compound. Take the Custom for corridors and the Thompson for anything farther out. The MP5A4 later beats both, but it waits behind a Level 3 bench.