This tier list doesn’t take cost into account - just the strength of each gun.

It has incredibly ugly ironsights so see to it you add a 2x optic to it before dropping.

After that you’ve got a very powerful bolt-action rifle for use on unsuspecting enemies.

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Bulldog

The Bulldog is small but startlingly mighty.

This punchy shotgun-pistol can two-tap an enemy all the way up to blue shields.

But it’s a cheap and easily unlockable ICA weapon that can serve you very well into the mid-game.

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Lacerator

A lot of people don’t get on with the Lacerator.

But once it clicks and you start to reliably land your shots, it’s a menace.

What’s more, with the latest 1.3.0 patch, it has reduced recoil and absolutely no damage falloff.

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For the price, it’s really quite good.

Shattergun

The Shattergun is an absolute beast, and the best shotgun in the game by far.

Its tremendous damage allows it to one-shot a white-shield enemy, and two-shot anything else.

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It’s a veritable fight-ender if you might get close enough to the enemy.

The Kinetic Arbiter is a terrifying weapon to come up against, even with the best gear.

With three quick body shots, you’ve killed a purple armour enemy.

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Now that’s a scary thought.

And the KBR is so easy to use that this is hardly a tall order.

Voltaic Brute

The Voltaic Brute is the scariest automatic weapon in the game in my opinion.

It comes with a pleasantly large mag size for an SMG, and its DPS is best-in-class.

Hammer

The Hammer is the hand cannon of The Cycle: Frontier.

It’s essentially a DMR compressed into a pistol package, with added style.

That wraps up our guide to the best weapons in The Cycle: Frontier at the moment.