The Burst Rifle is a variant of the Rifle featured in Dead Island and Dead Island: Riptide. It can be sold by select merchants or found in Metal chests or on killed Zombies.
Overview[]
Like any other rifle, the Burst Rifle is a powerful firearm to have in your arsenal due to the high magazine capacity and damage offered. It is a sort of intermediate rifle, between the Single Shot Rifle and Auto Rifle in terms of how it functions and its role. The rifle fires in an automatic 3 round burst each time the trigger is pulled, but it is not fully automatic. As such, whilst it is not as accurate or suited in a sniping role like the Single Shot Rifle, it is quite good for crowd control instead, as the three round burst is usually capable of taking out Walkers or Infected, and it can also make short work of harder, higher health enemies like Thugs or Floaters. Being a three round burst, it is also quite good for conserving the scarce Rifle Ammo that it uses. As such, the rifle is a good alternative to the Auto Rifle if ammunition conservation is prioritised, even if the Auto Rifle is better for taking out larger groups of enemies.
Mods[]
- See also: Mods
As a rifle, it can accept all the rifle mods:
Notes[]
- Very few Merchants can sell Burst Rifles:
- Arthur in the Prison Canteen can sell one.
- Wes Tweddle in the Bloodbath Arena lobby can rarely sell one.
- Some Raskols will carry rifles, as well as Jungle Muggers.
- Prison Guards and BIDF Soldiers can carry Burst Rifles as their primary weapon.
Trivia[]
- In the original versions of Dead Island and Riptide, the Burst Rifle uses the model of an M16SP1 rifle.
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