By John Schutt

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Dying Light: The Beast introduced guns to the series, and while I don’t recommend using them on the infected, there are enough human enemies around that firefights are bound to happen. You can’t shoot a gun without ammo, and in the zombie apocalypse, bullets can be hard to come by. Here’s how to quickly stock up on ammo in Dying Light: The Beast.

How to get ammo in Dying Light: The Beast

There are three main ways to get ammo in Dying Light: The Beast.

Buying it from vendors
Looting it from the Baron’s soldiers who use guns
Looting it from military truck convoys.

Of the three, buying ammo is the easiest but gets expensive quickly, especially if you don’t have a large stock of Valuables to sell or are trying to pinch pennies.

Looting ammo from Dead Baron soldiers isn’t immediately possible, but becomes so after about five hours or so into the campaign. However, I don’t really think it’s worth the trouble. You rarely get more than a few bullets for whatever gun the soldier was using. There’s also the fact you’re liable to use as much ammo killing the gun-toting enemies as you’d get from their bodies.

That leaves the military truck convoys scattered around the map, which not only award ammo but also purple-rarity weapons, Military Medkits, and other goodies. You will need to kill at least a few infected to get in, so your melee weapon’s durability will take a hit, but you shouldn’t need to fire a single shot.

Be aware that as you progress through the story, more and more difficult infected will start appearing near convoys, forcing you to expend additional resources to get to the juicy loot.

One final note: there’s a mid-game quest called Precious Cargo where you go and hunt down a cargo container full of ammunition. Completing it causes the survivors at the Town Hall to award you with regular stipends of ammo. It isn’t much, but it’s something.

There’s a moral choice you need to make at the end of the quest that affects how much ammo you get. I chose to be nice to a group of people who were sticking me up, and I was only awarded two boxes of Pistol ammo every few days. I imagine not helping them and keeping all the ammo for yourself won’t win you any friends, but probably provides a larger reward later on.

Those are the best ways to get ammo in Dying Light: The Beast. For more on the game, check out our page dedicated strictly to it.