If you’ve an appetite for destruction, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is blessed to supply a near-infinite proviso of guns which you tin customize to an absurdly delightful degree. Seriously, this is astir arsenic amusive arsenic sorting my nail polish colors.

But it’s not astir making each the different worker guys, gals, and non-binary pals envious of your brutal styles; determination are a ton of stats you’ll privation to wrapper your caput astir too. For each attachment you slap connected a gun, determination are wide pros and cons. And erstwhile you deed max level with immoderate fixed firearm, you unlock limb tuning, allowing you to tweak however guns consciousness and execute adjacent further.

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Modern Warfare II gives you a batch of country for freedom, style, and min/maxing, truthful portion clip volition archer what the god-tier meta ends up being, don’t beryllium acrophobic to leap successful and experimentation with a setup that helps you ascent the scoreboard portion looking chill and fitting your benignant of play.

This usher solely focuses connected firearms you constituent and shoot, meaning your superior and secondary weapons. Let’s excavation in.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II Guns 101

As soon arsenic you load into the crippled you’ll spot a acceptable of tabs astatine the top: Play, Weapons, Operators, Battle Pass, and Store.

Selecting Weapons volition instrumentality you to wherever you tin benignant your Loadouts, Killstreaks, and Vehicle Customization. In Loadouts, you’ll announcement you tin person up to 10 customized configurations, truthful don’t interest astir needing to perpetrate to a constrictive selection. A loadout is made up of six items: You’ve a prime of a Primary and Secondary weapon, arsenic good arsenic your Tactical and Lethal Equipment, your Perks, and a Field Upgrade.

Your loadout is laid retired successful a horizontal barroom connected the “Edit Loadouts” screen. Selecting a circumstantial loadout volition fto you configure each of the six types. Some of your disposable weapons are dictated by what Perks you person progressive for that loadout. Primary weapons person the pursuing types:

Primary Weapon Types

• Assault Rifles
• Battle Rifles
• SMGs
• Shotguns
• LMGs
• Marksman Rifles
• Sniper Rifles
• Melee

There are lone 3 types of Secondary weapons.

Secondary Weapon Types

• Handguns
• Launchers
• Melee

Weapons further interruption down into Platforms, which laic retired overmuch similar a accomplishment histrion successful an RPG, indicating attachments you tin unlock for immoderate fixed weapon. When looking astatine a limb successful either the loadout oregon limb paper screen, you tin presumption the Platform progression by pressing V connected keyboard (touchpad connected PlayStation, presumption fastener connected Xbox).

The M4 Platform, for example, is simply a household of weapons that consists of the M4 battle rifle, 556 Icarus LMG, FTAC Recon conflict rifle, M16 battle rifle, and the FSS Hurricane SMG.

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You level up each weapon by getting retired determination and scoring kills. Some guns from a circumstantial Platform are locked down a limb level. For example, to get the Bryson 890 shotgun, you request to physique your Bryson 800 to level 16. You tin besides level up each idiosyncratic limb for adjacent much attachment customization.

Customizing weapons and attachments with the Gunsmith

When viewing a circumstantial loadout successful the menus immoderate guns volition person a “Gunsmith” option. Here you tin alteration up however your weapon is built.

In Gunsmith’s “Build Weapon” tab you tin instal galore antithetic “Modifications” to the weapon’s optics, muzzles, magazines, stocks, and ammunition types. You tin prime up to 5 modifications astatine immoderate clip and tin besides swap retired the gun’s receiver—essentially its halfway that everything other attaches to—for others successful the weapon’s Platform family. (Note that not each limb modifications wrong the aforesaid level are intercompatible.)

After making Gunsmith changes, you tin leap straight into the Firing Range to trial retired the look and consciousness of the caller modifications. It loads successful beauteous speedy too, truthful portion you can’t straight A/B comparison definite mods, you tin inactive get a bully consciousness for each enactment without spending everlastingly trapped down a loading screen.

Each modification affects stats successful unsocial ways, and determination are circumstantial pros and cons to each. The 419MM EXF Barrel, for example, volition boost your Damage Range, Hip Fire Accuracy, and Bullet Velocity (Pros), but astatine the outgo of Aim Down Sight Speed and Hip Recoil Control (Cons).

The 2nd tab successful the Gunsmith interface is “Customize.” This is wherever you tin use antithetic limb charms, skins, stickers, and much specified things. Each camo tegument volition person antithetic requirements, but it’s precise akin to unlocking attachments: Just gain limb XP by scoring kills and completing circumstantial challenges noted nether each camo skin. There are besides Weapon Mastery challenges for you to implicit erstwhile you’ve unlocked Gold, Platinum, Polyatomic, and Orion skins.

The higher you level up a circumstantial weapon, the much attachments you’ll summation entree to. Once you deed max level with a circumstantial weapon, you tin commencement tuning those attachments to instrumentality adjacent greater power implicit its performance.

Weapon tuning successful Modern Warfare II

Weapon tuning lets you further tweak the pros and cons of each attachment. Remember, you request to deed level 20 with a circumstantial limb successful bid to tune the modifications.

You can’t tune each attachment, but ones you tin volition connection 2 sets of sliders that fto you spell each successful connected a weapon’s strengths, oregon locomotion backmost the cons a bit. Keep successful caput that these are each fine-tuning adjustments. If you privation to max retired your Aim Down Sights Speed, for example, you’re amended disconnected going with modifications that prioritize that arsenic opposed to trying to marque up for slower ADS speeds via Weapon Tuning. That said, the precocious TTK complaint of Modern Warfare II means that adjacent the finest adjustments tin marque a quality successful the vigor of the moment.

Weapon tuning is truly champion taken vantage of erstwhile you’ve gotten a bully consciousness of the guns and modifications you like. This signifier of limb customization is much an creation than a science, truthful expect to instrumentality your clip figuring retired what works champion for you.

Weapon leveling successful Modern Warfare II

Maxing retired your weapons is 1 of the game’s large goals, and you’ll marque the astir advancement connected guns you actively use. Keeping a weapon holstered oregon slung implicit your enarthrosis won’t chopped it; to level up a weapon you request to beryllium retired determination utilizing it to enactment pb into your enemies.

With truthful galore limb choices, it’s not a atrocious thought to instrumentality to a mates of guns, 2 oregon 3 astatine most, erstwhile starting out. Playing with the Overkill Perk equipped (available with the Assault preset package) is simply a bully mode to spot however it feels to wield 2 superior guns astatine once.

Don’t hide to instrumentality vantage of Weapon XP boosts arsenic well. You tin prime these successful the multiplayer matchmaking screen. Be cautious though, arsenic your XP boosts number down successful real-time extracurricular of matches. That successful mind, it’s champion to prevention XP boosts for usage successful playlists which aren’t arsenic dense successful hold times.

Quick Play and Ground War typically person quicker queues. However, support successful caput that the 32v32 modes specified arsenic Ground War mightiness person you engaging successful gunfights little often arsenic you’ll often walk clip moving betwixt objectives. On the different hand, that tin beryllium a bully accidental to level up a sniper oregon marksman firearm arsenic you’ll person much region to enactment with. If you’re looking to level up close-range weapons similar shotguns, smaller 6v6 games mightiness beryllium your champion bet, but your mileage whitethorn vary.

One happening I similar to bash is set speech a loadout specifically for limb leveling. Label it “Leveling” and conscionable usage that to swap successful immoderate guns you privation to progress, leaving your main loadouts untouched and escaped to prime erstwhile you privation to alteration up your playing benignant successful a match.

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If you swap retired a weapon successful a loadout you program to usage regularly, each modifications volition reset, which isn’t ideal. A dedicated “Leveling” loadout volition fto you prioritize your remaining 9 loadout selections with the guns, modifications, and tunings you prefer. You whitethorn besides privation to prioritize definite Perks that tin marque leveling a spot easier. Overkill, for example, volition fto you person 2 Primary weapons connected the field, truthful you tin marque advancement with 2 astatine erstwhile (though again, you request to beryllium actively utilizing a fixed weapon to gain Weapon XP connected it.) I besides similar to person Fast Hands equipped for a leveling loadout, arsenic it allows for quicker swaps betwixt guns, adjuvant erstwhile you’re trying to springiness some a workout. Scavenger is different bully Perk to person for leveling guns, since you’ll beryllium capable to root much ammo during a game.

Modern Warfare II did not disappoint erstwhile it comes to delivering a ton of amusive weaponry to sprout and stroke crap up. Spend a spot of clip kitting retired your guns, and you’ll apt play amended and look cooler portion retired determination connected the field. And erstwhile you person a consciousness for the weapons and modifications you prefer, don’t hide to springiness limb tuning a changeable to further tweak however the crippled feels for you.