Gravhounds Loadout Preview

Gravhounds does not ship a public weapon spreadsheet yet. What it does ship, in official language, is a mid-shift mutation: Reward Pods containing randomized weapons and upgrades, plus longer-term unlocks of Gravhounds, weapons, and upgrade paths between jobs. Xbox Wire says you might lean mobility, raw firepower, defense, or an unusual combination, and that both you and the opposition get deadlier as the shift holds. This page ranks ideas, not legendary names we would have to invent.

Pair it with the crew preview so you do not confuse a hound identity with a pod stack. Pair it with How to extract so the stack has somewhere to go.

The two clocks

• During a shift: pods reshape the loadout. This is the roguelite snowball.
• Between shifts: unlocks persist. Failed extracts can still feed meta progress. Exact stash rules wait for the client.

A loadout page that pretends you keep a perfect min-max gun from minute one is describing a different genre.

Preview stacks

S — Mobility, if you still staff the pipe

Boost, hover, pipe-grind, and any pod that makes repositioning cheaper. Official movement copy is already an S-tier system: unlimited boost on pipeline, jump jets, vertical play. Stacks that make you faster are only S if someone still sockets turrets. A mobility-drunk pack outruns its own factory. See How to build.

A — Defense, on jobs you intend to linger

Turret uptime, generator redundancy, kits in hand. Defense stacks match long greedy shifts. They are overkill on a short quota grab. Dozer mines rhyme with this stack but are not a replacement. If the spine is already pretty, spend the next pod on a leave, not a prettier spine.

A — Firepower, for wildlife that ignored the plan

You will still shoot. Pods that make shooting ruder help when the swarm has already arrived. They tempt you to ignore the Grav Beam. The beam is still how kits and pickups move. An A-tier gun stack with an F-tier logistics brain is a wipe with nice tracers.

B — Weird combinations

Holmes wants players to surprise the designers. Unusual stacks are the point. They are B in a preview because we cannot name them. When a cursed combo is public and repeatable, it can jump. Until then, treat “weird” as permission, not a build guide.

Baseline — Grav Beam and kits (not optional)

If a pod asked you to give up the beam, it would be a trap. Nothing in official copy suggests that. Logistics is the loadout. Everything else is seasoning.

How to pick a stack on the clock

1. First pod: patch whatever your pack is bad at. No mule? Take throws/mobility. Pipe on fire? Defense. Wildlife already in the living room? Firepower.
2. Second pod: double down only if the extract is still far. If the job is done, take whatever helps you walk home.
3. Late pods: mobility and peel. Greed stacks at minute twenty-five are how co-op voice chat becomes a documentary.

Solo players should bias defense and earlier leaves. Packs can afford a specialist stack if hats are named.

What we will not list yet

Weapon names, rarity colors, exact upgrade modifiers, secret best legendary. Steam and Xbox Wire did not publish them. A fake table would fail the first patch. When Early Access drops a roster of guns, this page should grow a real chart and keep the stack philosophy at the top.

Terraform-between-missions is a pre-drop loadout cousin: you tilt the planet before the pods even start. Coverage mentions it; we do not have a terraform menu to screenshot. Use it when the client explains it, then come back here.

For hound identity, stay on the crew hub. For the calendar of when numbers get real, Early Access. For the muscle memory that makes any stack work, Getting Started.

Stack bonuses. Reshape the loadout. Still hit quota. COSMO does not grade fashion.