Snowbreak: Containment Zone Weapon Tier List
Snowbreak CZ has a large variety of weapons to choose from and you can freely swap them between operatives, as long as they can use the specific weapon types. Weapons are not locked behind certain characters making them quite versatile and universal. However, their rarity and tier will still matter as higher rarity weapons will always outperform low-tier ones. In our Snowbreak CZ Weapon Tier List, we will rank the various weapons in the game and provide brief descriptions about our top choices.
Do you want to know the ranking of operatives? Please check out our Operatives Tier List .
Snowbreak: Containment Zone Weapon Types
The game has different weapon types:
Pistols:
- Good range and damage
- Good penetration (less ricochet)
- Slow firing rate
- Very accurate
- Low ammo magazine size
- Decent stopping power
Submachine Guns (SMGs):
- Effective at medium or short range
- Decent damage and high rate of fire.
- Decent magazine size and reload speed.
- Low penetration (very high ricochet)
- Low stopping power
Assault Rifles (AR):
- Effective at medium and long range
- High and consistent damage
- Good rate of fire.
- Decent penetration (high ricochet)
- Good magazine size and reload speed.
- Decent stopping power
Shotguns:
- Extremely effective at short range.
- Very high damage at close range.
- Accuracy and damage decreases significantly the farther the target is.
- Very high penetration (low ricochet).
- Slow rate of fire.
- Outstanding stopping power (they can interrupt enemy advance and soften up or completely break shields).
- Can do staggered reloading (reload one shell and shoot immediately).
Sniper Rifles:
- Very effective at long range.
- Damage is consistent at all ranges.
- Has the longest of out of all weapon types.
- Very slow rate of fire and reload speed.
- Excellent stopping power.
- Highest penetration out of all weapon types.
Weapon Improvement and Modification
You can level up your weapon to improve its stats, ascend to reach higher level limits, customize it with different unlocked parts, and many more. These methods significantly improve the performance and effectiveness of a weapon in combat. We have covered these weapon improvement options in a dedicated article but for the sake of the tier list, we have considered the weapons' effects, overall utility, and specific factors which we will include in the description of our top choices in the tier list.
You can also check out our article for various methods of acquiring new weapons for your operatives.
About Signature Weapons
Certain operatives have their own signature weapons that complement their skills. These weapons usually have the same damage type as them but this doesn't mean that they're good only when their respective operatives are using them. In fact, signature weapons can be used by other characters, even when they have different damage types. However, this won't be optimal since the weapons will only become simple "stat sticks" instead of using their beneficial effects. There are also certain manifestations or neural skills that get activated when the operative is using a weapon of a specific damage type.
Snowbreak: Containment Zone Weapon Tier List
Here is our weapon tier list. Like before, we will only provide detailed descriptions for weapons in the SS and S tier. It is obvious that the top tier weapons are dominated by 5-star ones though there are also some 4-star weapons that are considered good options, especially if you're able to Modify them using their duplicates.
Assault Rifles
SS Tier
- Anti-Evil Ward
S Tier
- Old Alley Cat
- Wild Leer
- Ashen Fortress
A Tier
- Lava Bones
- Trial's Eve
- Indicator
- Strawberry Shortcake
- Fury
B Tier
- Comfort Zone
- Foul Butcher
- Duckling
C Tier
- Warhammer
- Ender
- Icey Dunes
- Ashen Dog
- Discipline
- Foundation
Pistols
SS Tier
- Pine Aurora
S Tier
- Star Ocean
- Prismatic Igniter
A Tier
- Yojimbo
- Lucky Times
- Nexus
B Tier
- Wild Construct
- Aye, Aye, Captain!
- Tiny Tool
- Rotten Orange
C Tier
- Halftorch
- Skywall
- Pisco
- Muddy Snow
- Hammer Hit
- Stubborn Elder
Submachine Guns
SS Tier
- 100 Battle Veteran
S Tier
- Stardust Memory
- Atrium Frontline
A Tier
- Work-in-progress
- Frigatebird
- Homecoming
B Tier
- Hypochlorous Acid
- Arctic Fox
- Ionized Jellyfish
- The Past's Sigh
C Tier
- Safety Line
- Napoleon in Black
- Tension Headache
- Iron Guardian
- Quiet Lightning
- Friendly Neighbor
Sniper Rifle
S Tier
- Space Cowboy
- Horn of the Orca
A Tier
- Olympus
- Wetland Park
- Mark of Mesmer
- Sweet Soul
B Tier
- Crystal Drill
- Disco Confusion
- Infernal Decade
- Site of Racket
- Deep Sea's Call
C Tier
- Steel Birch Forest
- Raven Feather Tempest
- Snowbound Valkyrie
- Mulberry
- The Wrench
- The First Brave
Shotgun
SS Tier
- Tiny Grains
S Tier
- Sunny Payback
- Full Alert
- Mechanized Cop
A Tier
- Precious Baby
- Discordance
- Neon Tube
- Lapis Lazuli
B Tier
- Ambergris
- Valkyrie 2056
C Tier
- Malbec
- Silenced Truth
- Flock of Birds
- Brutish Folk
- Knock Knock
- Road Roller
Snowbreak: Containment Zone Top Tier Weapons
Anti-Evil Ward
This assault rifle increases Electrical DMG and CRIT Damage. Each electrical damage it deals stacks up "Crimson Cloud". Once the maximum number of Crimson Cloud stacks are collected, the stack is cleared and the user gains a significant ATK bonus for a brief period. Crimson Cloud stacks can still be collected while the ATK bonus period is active.
This is the signature weapon of Chenxing - Ethereal Cloud and complements her ability to mark multiple targets and deal electrical damage to them simultaneously. Even when used by other characters, the good rate of fire that's innate to assault rifles will still allow the user to build up the Crimson Cloud stacks fairly quickly.
Pine Aurora
Pine Aurora is an outstanding Frost pistol that increases frost damage and boosts the entire squad's damage by a certain amount each time a support skill hits an enemy. This effect can be stacked as well. This is a good weapon for Acacia-Kaguya as well since her support skill has a high chance of hitting enemies multiple times in a short amount of time.
Star Ocean
This 5-star pistol focuses on boosting the user's Skill DMG. When the user's active skill hits the target, the weapon deals bonus Kinetic DMG for a few seconds. The duration of this bonus damage will reset as long as you hit the target.
100 Battle Veteran
This 5-star submachine gun has a universally-useful effect that buffs the user's attack and further increases the ballistic damage dealt by the weapon based on the number of bullets left. This damage boost can go from 42% up to 70% when the weapon is fully maxed out.
Tiny Grains
This 5-star shotgun is an amazing weapon that increases the user's ATK and applies debuffs to enemies around the user. When the user is hit, it slows down the movement speed of all enemies around the user while also increasing the damage they'll take.
Atrium Frontline
This 4-star SMG's effect grows along with your operative since it can increase the user's ATK based on the operative's level x 1.5 every second. So for example, you gave it to a LV50 operative, that operative will get a 75 ATK boost (50*1.5) which will stack up to 450 ATK bonus (75*6) after just six seconds. When fully modified, the maximum stack is going to be 10 stacks, which will give a LV50 operative a 750 ATK bonus.
Horn of the Orca
This 5-star sniper rifle boosts CRIT DMG and standard ballistic DMG, and replenishes a bullet whenever a standard shot hits the target. The bullet replenishment gives the user more chances to shoot before reloading.
Space Cowboy
This 5-star sniper rifle boosts Thermal DMG and increases the damage of the next shot by a huge amount. This is the signature weapon of Yao-Winter Solstice but it can be used by any DPS sniper and still take advantage of its effects.
FAQs
What is the best weapon in the game?
It's hard to pick one definitive best weapon in the game, but above you can see that we have listed the Anti-Evil Ward, Pine Aurora, Star Ocean, 100 Battle Veteran and a few others as our selections for the top tier weapons, and the best weapons in Snowbreak Containment Zone.
- How to get 5 star weapons in Snowbreak?
There are a few ways, and we do list them all here in our guide onHow to get powerful weapons in Snowbreak. But basically, one option is to go to Shop > Circulation Hub menu and if you have enough Reward Codes you can get a 5 star weapon.
Conclusion
In conclusion, there are a ton of great weapon choices in Snowbreak. Eventually getting a good 5 star weapon should be your aim in order to play this game most effectively, but you should also realise that getting a 5 star weapon in Snowbreak can take some time.
Because of this, set your sights in the best 4 star weapons in the game early on and try to work out which are the best ones for you to suit your play style and the objectives of the game where you are currently at.
If you enjoyed this article and would like to read more Snowbreak CZ content on our website, then try heading over to our guide on How to Improve Weapons in Showbreak or check out our Operative Tier List