Loud build

+30% Damage
+50% Enemies
-3 Harvesting at the end of a wave

Unlock and starting weapons Open Combat Shotgun in the calculator Loud on Danger 5

How players win with Loud Community consensus

The extra enemies supply materials, so skip Harvesting and pick weapons that handle crowds: Spear, Jousting Lance, Lightning Shiv and Thief Dagger for melee, Double Barrel Shotgun, Shredder, SMG or Slingshot for ranged. Take items that add more enemies.

Stats: Ranged Damage, Melee Damage, % Damage, Attack Speed, Life Steal, Crit Chance. Weapon classes: Primitive.

Avoid: Harvesting.

Brotato + DLC!! - Danger 5 Runs and Tips (All Characters) +UPDATES (B the No-Self) (posted 2023-08-12; last updated 2026-11-05): Character sections are undated and many were written before Update 1.2 (2 Nov 2026); Danger 5 wins.
Beginners/Achievement Guide - How To Win As Every Character (+D5 Tips) - Brotato (AdamsIdeas) (last updated 2026-02-12): Predates Update 1.2 and Primal Dread.
ArosRising's Brotato Character Guide (undated; written before Primal Dread): Danger 5 oriented Google Doc; the author says it has not been updated for Primal Dread or Update 1.2.

Summarised in our own words on 13 November 2026; check the patch date of each source against PC 1.2.

Weapons Loud boosts most Computed from rules

Loud: ordered by how much Loud's modifiers raise each weapon's damage compared with a character without modifiers, then by damage per second; weapons Loud doesn't boost fall back to raw DPS. Reference profile: Loud's own stats plus 20 points bought in the weapon's main scaling stat, both multiplied by Loud's modifiers; one weapon, its highest tier, no items, single target, every projectile hits. 89 of 95 equippable weapons scale with a stat Loud can raise.

#	Weapon	Boost	DPS	Main stat	Hit	Cooldown
1	Combat Shotgun IV	×1.31	460.2	Ranged Damage	42 ×8	0.75 s
2	Machine Gun IVStarting option	×1.32	330.5	Ranged Damage	29	0.09 s
3	Minigun IV	×1.30	297.6	Ranged Damage	26	0.09 s
4	Obliterator IV	×1.30	290.2	Ranged Damage	910	3.23 s
5	Flaming Brass Knuckles IV	×1.30	221.4+ burn 9×18	Melee Damage	130	0.59 s
6	Power Fist IV	×1.30	221.4	Melee Damage	130	0.59 s
7	SMG IVStarting option	×1.29	207.7	Ranged Damage	31	0.15 s
8	Double Barrel Shotgun IVStarting option	×1.31	195.7	Ranged Damage	38 ×6	1.20 s
9	Fist IV	×1.30	185.7	Melee Damage	109	0.59 s
10	Revolver IV	×1.30	180	Ranged Damage	104	0.59 s

Starting weapons by the same measure

Legendary-only weapons

These exist only at tier IV, cost a Legendary shop slot and carry the Legendary set penalty of −20 Max HP per weapon of the class. At the same profile: Chain Gun 953.4 DPS; Gatling Laser 641.1 DPS; Excalibur 543.6 DPS; Scythe 316.2 DPS.

Items for the stats this build buys Computed from item data

Ranked by points per base material after Loud's multiplier; prices rise each wave. Downsides are listed because they hit other stats.

Ranged Damage main stat of the top weapons

What the modifiers change Computed from rules

Loud has no stat multiplier, so the weapon decides the stat. At the reference profile the highest single-target damage comes from Combat Shotgun IV (460.2 DPS).

Loud has no stat multiplier, conversion or class bonus. Pick weapons by the stat they scale with and buy that stat.

Assumptions and method

Damage per hit = round(trunc(base + Σ stat × scaling) × (1 + %Damage/100 + class %Damage/100)); crits average in as chance × round(hit × multiplier). Formulas are datamined from the game code; weapon numbers come from the game-file tables.
Cooldown is the tooltip value, which includes the attack animation. Reload weapons average the long cooldown over its shot count. Attack Speed divides the tooltip, an approximation: the game divides only the cooldown frames.
Not modelled: pierce, bounce, explosion splash, knockback, on-hit and kill-count effects, structures, and how often the weapon actually reaches enemies. Multi-projectile weapons assume every projectile hits the same target, which favours shotguns.
Version: Brotato PC 1.2 with the 12 November 2026 patch. Reviewed 12 November 2026.