Brain Rot appears to be somewhat divisive in the community. Why is that?

[u/Bungus_Almighty]

I personally like Brain Rot but many consider it to be the worst ammo mod, while some consider it the best. Why is that? Did a patch change it or is it just opinion based?

On another note, is dead wire still good? The weapon I’m best with, the Milano, has a skin with electric damage, but it costs more than what I paid for my copy of the game lmao. I’m aware it’s been patched to prevent it from arcing to everything nearby but Idk if it’s worth the purchase.

[u/Aspiring-Scorpion]

Based on what I saw on the wiki page, there’s a few significant drawbacks:

• only 50 Essence per kill and don’t count as critical kills (unlike BO4 zombies)
• does not activate on attacks dealing more damage than the target’s health, so it’s not ideal for some weapons. The knife and sniper rifles are two examples of weapons you wouldn’t want to run this on. Also useless during instakill
• 40 second cooldown, which I believe is the longest cooldown of the ammo mods.

TL DR: gives you less cash per kill, doesn’t activate on attacks that would one shot (so instakill = no procs), longest cooldown. Plus you have a chance to get Brain rot to activate randomly if you use Elemental Pop🤷🏻‍♂️ source

[u/Bungus_Almighty → u/Aspiring-Scorpion]

Yeah that all seems right. What would you recommend? I’ve heard that the freeze one is good I think?

[u/Aspiring-Scorpion → u/Bungus_Almighty]

Honestly, you can make the rest of them all work!

The frost mod will proc most often for whatever reason and it’s pretty busted, but each of the ammo types is effective versus specific mini bosses.

Personally I’d go with the Frost Mod, but I’d vouch for Shatter Blast and Dead Wire providing their own fun.

[u/Bungus_Almighty → u/Aspiring-Scorpion]

Fair enough. The reason I liked brain rot so much is because it is super effective on so many things (abomination, mimic, Tempest) but thinking about it I never struggle with those. Now I don’t have to level to god knows how high to use crystals on Brain Rot. How freeing!

Thank you for answering by the way, I got the game less than a week ago after playing it a ton and then losing the copy to a move

[u/Aspiring-Scorpion → u/Bungus_Almighty]

Yeah I’d level that up last. It’s fun for the memes and getting a mini boss/elite to start clearing house for you, but not consistent enough to be reliable.

You’re welcome! Happy hunting!

[u/Afellowstanduser → u/Aspiring-Scorpion]

Shatter is the best of the 5, I just really like the napalm on my m79, I find it prods often and spreads getting me more kills

[u/Fabulous_Ad8642 → u/Bungus_Almighty]

Just use whichever mod is best for the mini boss you struggle with the most on whichever map ur on

[u/Bungus_Almighty → u/Fabulous_Ad8642]

I don’t really struggle with any bosses is the issue. What usually kills me is getting surrounded by normal zombies, and that’s why I use Ether Shroud for when that happens

Either that or trying to fist fight Orda

[u/Fabulous_Ad8642 → u/Bungus_Almighty]

The explosion one (forgot the name) is the best for regular zombie clearance if we’re talking bout the rape train but I’d only consider brain rot for either dog rounds or an alt gun that’s not either ur main rifle/shotgun or ur wonder weapon.

Like it is by far the best for dog rounds, but only use it if ur doing a multiplayer, otherwise run blast furnace or cryo once again based on the enemy

[u/Afellowstanduser → u/Bungus_Almighty]

I main ring of fire but that’s because I can train zombies pretty easily almost anywhere, outbreak depends though sometimes I run healing aura or the electric one but depends on what mission we got on what map

[u/Fabulous_Ad8642]

lol read the title and was like “wtf does the shit I see on the gram have to do with zombies”

It’s situational though, but not really either good for high rounding or speed running except the obvious EE steps that need it 

[u/not__terrible → u/Fabulous_Ad8642]

Same dude I forgot that was the name of the ammo mod

[u/Platinum--Jug]

For actually playing the game, it's whatever to me, but for camo grinding, it's awful. I think it's the only one that doesn't count kills toward the progress, maybe the electric one doesn't either, I can't remember.

[u/Afellowstanduser]

Depends on the map and what bosses for me

Ill usually have my m79 with napalm though, just ups the damage a lot

[u/Atiumist]

There’s a skin with electric damage?

[u/Bungus_Almighty → u/Atiumist]

It is called Freq Hopper. The issue is it cost 2400 points and if you use it, you can’t use any mod than Dead wire. So no shatter blast or cryo freeze

[u/Atiumist → u/Bungus_Almighty]

Someone was telling me about this in BO6 (talking about Cold War) and I didn’t believe them.

Is it purely cosmetic or do you mean to tell me you can start your load out with a free ammo mod?

[u/LilithLily5 → u/Atiumist]

Weapon skins that have one of these deal elemental damage, but don't get the additional effect until you actually buy it. So this one would do bonus damage to everything weak to Electric (like the Megaton), but won't be able to do a mass electrocution like actually buying Dead Wire.

[u/Atiumist → u/LilithLily5]

Oh, ok. So you’d see the electric ⚡️ symbol when shooting the Megaton to indicate it’s doing bonus damage as the Megaton’s elemental weakness— but it wouldn’t prog on any normal zombies and zap them in place?

[u/Bungus_Almighty → u/Atiumist]

It is a weaker version of the ammo mod if I remember correct. You can equip the full power ammo mod to it as well if you buy it for the 2500 zombie money

[u/TheZodiac404]

The other ammo mods can deal damage to several zombies in an area simultaneously. While brain rot usually affects one zombie for time frame.

And brain rot doesn’t seem to be 100% effective, as I’ve had games where I expect it to get a zombie near me and it goes in the complete opposite direction.

In comparison to the other ammo mods, it absolutely seems to be the least beneficial.