Weapons — Wiki

Every weapon side by side, and how damage, recoil, spread and speed work.

Each nation has its own guns, so your side decides your arsenal. Everyone carries a pistol and a knife, and the cheapest SMG is free. The rest cost tokens (see Economy). Prices are in tokens.

Allies (US)

Axis (Germany)

Both sides have the Knife: 100 damage from any side, so one stab kills, within 1.28 m (0.9 m crouched).

Damage

A gun does its full damage up to a set distance, then less in a straight line down to its lowest damage further out. Each weapon's page has its chart. Where the bullet hits matters for the head and the neck, and for the rifles below, the arms and legs: every other hit counts the same.

Four rifles do less to the arms and legs:

Some guns shoot through walls, and four can hit more than one player with a bullet: see Wallbangs and collaterals.

Recoil

Every shot kicks your aim, and the kick moves your real aim, not just the camera. Automatic weapons kick in a fixed pattern, the same every spray; the others kick by a random amount within a range. The kick fades in a few hundredths of a second, then your aim eases back to where you started, but never past it. Stop firing for a quarter of a second and an automatic weapon's pattern starts again from the first bullet.

In practice, sprays climb almost straight up: sideways they move less than a degree. Recoil never takes your aim more than 40° above where the spray started, or 10° to either side.

Worked out from the game's own recoil rules, without touching the mouse. Your frame rate changes them by a few percent.

Spread

Each bullet leaves in a random direction inside a cone around your aim. Fully aimed, your first shot after a second without firing has no spread at all: it goes exactly where you aim. Shots within a second of the last one leave within the gun's aimed cone. From the hip the cone is much wider, and every hip shot widens it further, up to a limit; crouching keeps it a little tighter. While you're aiming in, the cone shrinks from the hip's to the aimed one. In the air the aimed cone grows by up to the "in the air" figure, the faster you're moving.

The cones are full widths in degrees; "cm at 20 m" is how far from the aim point a bullet can land at 20 m. The hip figures are standing; the first hip shot uses the low one.

Speed

You run at 4.75 m/s, times your weapon's own multiplier, and sprint at 7.12 m/s whatever you hold. Aiming slows you to 40% of your run speed, times the weapon's aiming multiplier. Heavy guns slow you only through those multipliers.

More on moving in Health and movement.

Compare two guns

Pick two guns, a distance, the part of the body you hit and any wall in the way: the damage of one hit, the shots it takes to kill from full health, and the time from the first shot to the killing one.