Weapon Types Explained: Rifle, Suppressor, Grenade

Buy the category that fixes the round you keep losing, not the one with the biggest number.

• Rifle = winning the fight; it is the only purchase you keep using
• Suppressor = not being located after firing, not extra damage
• Grenade = moving someone off a spot, one use at a time

Doesn't apply when: You are playing with bots in the practice range, where none of the three matters and aim practice does.

The shop in REALISTIC HOME DEFENSE sells three things, and they do not compete with each other. Treating them as a ladder (cheap gun, better gun, best gun) is how players end up spending three rounds' income on a marginal upgrade while still losing to the same doorway every time.

Here is what each one actually does, and the mistake players make with each.

Rifles: the only purchase you keep

A rifle is the base of a loadout. It is the thing that decides whether you can win a fight at range, and it is the thing you still have in round five.

The important detail is not the model. It is the fire mode, which has its own binding (V on PC, RB on console). A game does not bind a fire-mode key for decoration. If it exists, at least one weapon has more than one mode, and the mode you are in changes how the weapon behaves.

Source: reasoning from the documented fire-mode binding (V / RB), not from weapon stat data checked 2026-10-25.

The practical advice is boring and it works: check your fire mode when you spawn, and check it again when the range changes. A player who leaves the weapon on single and then tries to clear a room dies to the second person in the room, not the first.

Suppressors: information, not damage

This is the most misunderstood purchase in the game, because in other shooters a suppressor is a stat trade-off. Here, its function is about information.

A suppressor does not make you invisible and we have no evidence it reduces damage, range or handling. What it does is change how easy you are to locate after you fire. On a map where fights happen at doorways and the same angles get held every round, that matters more than damage. The player who can hear exactly which room you are in can pre-aim the door you will come through.

Think about it in terms of who knows what:

That last row is the whole purchase. A suppressor buys you the half-second where the other player is not sure whether you moved. In a three-minute round, several of those add up to a round you win instead of lose.

Grenades: the tool for a stuck round

A grenade is not an entry tool. It is a way of changing where the other side is allowed to stand.

The mistake is throwing one at the start of a push, before you know where anyone is. A grenade thrown blind does nothing except tell the other team that a push is coming at that entrance. The reason to buy one is that you have already hit the wall: a doorway is held, you have tried it twice, and you need the person holding it to move.

For defenders, remember what the win condition is: three minutes elapsing with the house still held. Anything that costs the attackers time, including a grenade into a corridor they are using, is worth more to you than a kill might be.

How the three combine

A loadout is not a list of three purchases. It is an answer to the question "how does my round go wrong". The table below maps the failure to the purchase.

That last row is not a joke. In a round-based economy, saving is a purchase. If your income is lower than your spending, the fix is fewer purchases, not cheaper ones.

What we have not verified

We are deliberately not publishing a weapon table with names, damage values and prices, because we have not been able to verify one against the current build. What that means for you:

• No price list. Numbers exist in other guides, but they cannot all be right, and we have not reproduced any.
• No damage or rate-of-fire figures. Measuring those properly takes a controlled test, not one round of impressions.
• No named model list. We describe categories because categories are what the shop and the game's own description support.
• No tier ranking. A tier list without price and damage data is an opinion wearing a table's clothes.

If you want the buying decision rather than the mechanics, the weapons hub covers the three questions to ask each buy phase. If you want to know which game you are even looking at, start here.

Related pages

• Weapons hub — the three questions to ask each buy phase.
• Money and multipliers — how the purchase is funded.
• PC controls — fire mode, aim and lean on the keyboard.
• Maple Street — where a grenade is worth buying.
• How to play your first round — the order to learn these in.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does the suppressor actually do?

It makes you harder to locate after you fire. It is an information tool, not a damage modifier, and we have no verified evidence that it changes damage, range or handling.

How do I switch fire mode?

Press V on PC or RB on console. The binding is documented on the game's own Roblox page, which is why we treat fire modes as a real mechanic rather than a guess.

Are grenades worth buying every round?

No. Buy one for the round where an entrance is actually held. A grenade thrown before contact tells the other team where you are coming from and achieves nothing else.

Is there a best rifle?

We have not verified a price or damage table, so we cannot rank rifles honestly. Practically, the best rifle is the one you can afford every round without going broke for the next two.

Do weapons carry between rounds?

Money is paid at the end of a round and spent between rounds, which is the loop the game describes. The exact boundary of what persists is something we are still checking, so treat "carries between rounds" as likely but unconfirmed.