No More Room in Hell 2 Inventory, Weight, and Ammo Stacks
Specialize calibers, respect stack floors, and keep enough free weight to sprint to extract.
Inventory is how No More Room in Hell 2 turns eight players into a logistics problem. Weapons have mass. Every cartridge has mass. Medicals, batteries, radios, and carryables all compete for the same bar. After Armageddon 1.0 you still cannot “just pick up everything.” After Hotfix 1.0.4.0 you also cannot spam-fire a fat backpack of mixed pistols and expect the new spread values to forgive you. This page is the loot contract: what to keep, what to pass, and why a second ammo type often costs more space than it is worth.
If you are brand new, finish Training Grounds and Getting Started first. This guide assumes you already know the compass on C and that extract is how XP actually banks.
The stack-floor rule (why mixed ammo wrecks you)
Ammunition is not billed as one bullet, one kilogram. Each caliber has a base stack size: a handful of rounds occupies the same inventory footprint as a nearly full box of that same caliber. Cross the threshold and the stack grows. Practical consequence: ten rounds of seven different calibers costs far more space than seventy rounds of one caliber.
Community measurements players actually use in 1.0 lobbies (treat as teaching numbers, not a datamined table Torn Banner published):
- Many pistol and rifle calibers behave like a ~20-round floor (1–20 rounds occupy similar space).
- Some light calibers (including .22-class stacks) allow a larger floor before the bar jumps.
- Lever and hunting stacks can sit near ~50 before the next step.
You do not need to memorize every step. You need the habit: specialize in one or two ammo types the squad is actually shooting. If nobody brought a shotgun, leave the shells. If two Responders run 9 mm, feed them and stop pocketing orphan 5.56 “just in case.”
Weapons are a quarter of your life
A typical assault rifle is not a souvenir. In the common beginner example, an M7-class rifle plus optic already eats a large slice of carry weight before you add a second long gun. Two rifles plus mixed ammo is how people stand in a doorway unable to pick up a medkit. Pair one primary firearm with one reliable melee. Two-handed melee and two-handed guns also fight the flashlight: press Q (or the flashlight bind) to drop the light and fight, then raise it again to loot dark rooms. Leaving the light on drains batteries; dead light in a Raven Rock corridor is an infection roll.
Read Weapons Database and the Weapons Tier List after the 1.0.4.0 spread pass. Tight first-shot spread does not mean you should carry three rifles. It means the one rifle you kept actually hits.
What belongs on a working Responder
A stable mid-match kit looks boring on purpose:
- One melee you can shove-cancel with (Stamina, Shove & Kick).
- One firearm whose ammo you can find on this map.
- Medicals you will use — Phalanx Pills and the two-shot gene-therapy cure on How to Treat Infection. Hoarding three kits while a grabbed teammate dies is how permadeath spreads.
- A radio if the squad is split, not four radios.
- Flashlight batteries as a consumable, not a permanent glow.
- Objective carryables (fuses, canisters, keys) on the person with a clear path, not on the slowest mule.
Drop duplicate melee. Drop the third pistol. Drop the empty gun you “might reload later.” 1.0.4.0 made picking up a carryable cancel healing — if you grab a generator mid-bandage, you wasted the item. Finish the heal, then pick up.
Sharing is inventory too
Eight-player co-op means the ground is a shared warehouse. Pass shells to the shotgunner. Pass 9 mm to the SMG. Pass pills to the person who just coughed. Co-op Teamwork and Voice Chat & Callouts exist so you do not need a spreadsheet. Call “dropping 12-gauge at the diner door” instead of dying overweight in a stairwell.
Weekly Assignment hunters: the Fierra DB12 now counts as a shotgun for weekly tasks after 1.0.4.0. If you are forcing that gun for Weekly Assignments, budget its shells and do not also main a second shotgun caliber.
Extract weight
Helicopter pads punish greed. If you cannot sprint a short gap, you will miss the board. Dump low-value ammo, extra melee, and “maybe” attachments before the finale. Scenario early green-hatch (three or fewer Responders) still forfeits some supply value — read How to Extract. Survival extract after three speaker waves has even less time to sort bags; pre-sort between waves.
Loadout shop items from Loadouts & Credits should fix a failure mode (light, melee, Beacon), not add a second rifle you cannot feed.
Practical checklist
- Choose one primary caliber before you leave the first named building.
- Keep melee plus one gun; flashlight off unless looting.
- Pass orphan ammo; do not start a new stack “for later.”
- Heal before you grab carryables.
- Empty junk before the LZ.
Inventory is not a collection game. It is how you still have stamina and a medkit when the runners hit the pad.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers for Responders preparing for the next deployment.
Why does a few rounds of many ammo types fill my bag?
Each caliber has a base stack footprint. Mixed leftovers pay that footprint many times. Specialize in one or two types the squad is firing.
Should I carry two rifles?
Usually no. One firearm plus melee leaves room for meds, batteries, and objective items. Two longs plus mixed ammo is a common wipe setup.
Does 1.0.4.0 change inventory rules?
Weight rules are the same. Spread rebalance makes junk guns worse to keep. Carryables now cancel heals if you pick them up mid-use.
Where do I put Weekly Assignment shotguns?
If you need the Fierra DB12 for shotgun tasks, budget its shells and skip a second shotgun caliber. It counts as a shotgun after 1.0.4.0.
When should I drop loot?
Before finales, before long sprints, and whenever you cannot pick up a medkit or carryable the squad needs.