Books (Dead Rising 3)

 are items found in Dead Rising 3,   Magazines increase the player's abilities in different ways, so long as they are in his inventory. Magazines are equivalent to books in Dead Rising.

There are an unknown number of magazines available in Dead Rising 3. In comparison, Dead Rising had 24 books and Dead Rising 2 had 28 magazines. Magazine's effects are cumulative, meaning the same effects the magazines provide build upon each other, increasing with each magazine. If another player is carrying one in co-op mode, copies will not appear.

Different magazines have different effects. Press when the player is holding the magazine in his hands to see the book's effects. None of the magazines have any effect on the durability of combo weapons.

Stacking
Magazine bonuses stack multiplicative for weapons, which means if one magazine affects a weapon, it's 3 times the durability, 2 magazines is 9 times, and 3 magazines is a whopping 27 times! Weapons that can be triple-booked are:

PC files source
In the PC file items.txt, each magazine has a BuffType number, each weapon that can be effected by a magazine has a AssociatedMagazineType.

For example:


 * Every weapon which has AssociatedMagazineType of AssociatedMagazineType0 = "9" is effected by the building magazine.

There can be: If there are all three lines, as ONLY the case of these (unknown number of) weapons:
 * 1)  AssociatedMagazineType0 ,
 * 2) AssociatedMagazineType1,
 * 3) AssociatedMagazineType2,