Foregrip or Compensator?

[Special Agent Randy Beans]

Which do you prefer and why?

[smgunsftw]

Neither, once you know how to properly control recoil for all of the guns, you understand that foregrips and compensators are useless training wheels. You'd be much better off spending those supply points on a suppressor or grenades.

But overall, the foregrip tends to reduce more recoil than the compensator.

[NWI killed competitive mode]

Originally posted by Joe:

Which do you prefer and why?

Foregrip cause of the bigger recoil reduction.

[NWI killed competitive mode]

Originally posted by smgunsftw:

Neither, once you know how to properly control recoil for all of the guns, you understand that foregrips and compensators are useless training wheels. You'd be much better off spending those supply points on a suppressor or grenades.

But overall, the foregrip tends to reduce more recoil than the compensator.

For some guns this is true, but using the fal or mk14 without a foregrip in full auto is recipe for disaster. At pro lvl in competitive some even use foregrips for smg s so that they can become laser beams ;)

[Mr Dakkyz]

Compensator is side to side recoil which no gun really has, so always forgrip silencer.

[smgunsftw]

Originally posted by $aN¡tY PunK:

Originally posted by smgunsftw:

Neither, once you know how to properly control recoil for all of the guns, you understand that foregrips and compensators are useless training wheels. You'd be much better off spending those supply points on a suppressor or grenades.

But overall, the foregrip tends to reduce more recoil than the compensator.

For some guns this is true, but using the fal or mk14 without a foregrip in full auto is recipe for disaster. At pro lvl in competitive some even use foregrips for smg s so that they can become laser beams ;)

I suppose in competitive more points are spent on weapons and attachments rather than grenades, armor, gas masks, and carriers right?

[NWI killed competitive mode]

Originally posted by smgunsftw:

Originally posted by $aN¡tY PunK:

For some guns this is true, but using the fal or mk14 without a foregrip in full auto is recipe for disaster. At pro lvl in competitive some even use foregrips for smg s so that they can become laser beams ;)

I suppose in competitive more points are spent on weapons and attachments rather than grenades, armor, gas masks, and carriers right?

You are 50% right. In comp we actually need smokes and frags and also gas masks. Smokes are used to cover your movement, frags for prenades and gas masks are used for not making breathing noise inside a smoke grenade. Some use carriers for an extra nade, but it s kinda rare. On the armor part you are right thaught, no one uses armor so that they can be as fast as possible.

[NWI killed competitive mode]

Originally posted by Mr Dakkyz:

Compensator is side to side recoil which no gun really has, so always forgrip silencer.

The compensators are pretty good for lmgs, but yeah, not that usefull on other guns.

[Special Agent Randy Beans]

Originally posted by smgunsftw:

Originally posted by $aN¡tY PunK:

For some guns this is true, but using the fal or mk14 without a foregrip in full auto is recipe for disaster. At pro lvl in competitive some even use foregrips for smg s so that they can become laser beams ;)

I suppose in competitive more points are spent on weapons and attachments rather than grenades, armor, gas masks, and carriers right?

Is competitive still a thing? i tried looking for a match but just spent like 20 minutes on elapsed time with no luck

[Moral Supp0rt]

Foregrip reduces vertical recoil, compensator reduces horizontal recoil.

Foregrip is more important since it is what prevents your gun climbing too much.
You can ignore compensators, since horizontal recoil is only a big thing with MGs and pistols.

Having said that, you can ignore foregrips if you use weapons in semiauto mode.
On the other hand if you often fire 1/3 or 1/2 a magazine in one continuous burst, then foregrips are practically obligatory, until you learn to be more conservative of your ammo.

[NWI killed competitive mode]

Originally posted by Joe:

Originally posted by smgunsftw:

I suppose in competitive more points are spent on weapons and attachments rather than grenades, armor, gas masks, and carriers right?

Is competitive still a thing? i tried looking for a match but just spent like 20 minutes on elapsed time with no luck

Yes. Add me if you wanna get a taste of it.

[Redscale83]

With SMGs Compensator reduces BOTH vertical and horizontal recoil. With any other weapon Foregrip is a better choice.

[Nerve]

I've posted this on Reddit not long ago, I'm posting it here aswell in case somebody finds it useful:

I've been thinking about this for the past week while testing some weapon configurations, trying to pick only one, either compensator or foregrip (since under competitive settings, it's not viable to go for both). I'd say it's more likely a matter of preference, but there are some factors that I believe they should be taking to account, such as caliber, rate of fire, firing mode and player's sensitivity.


After some testing, I'd say the vertical grip is still a better option on most cases (AKM, FAL, G3A3, M16...) but on a few other rifles (M4A1, G36K...) I could notice a slight improvent when going for the compensator, basically I'd say because their vertical recoil is easier to handle even with no grip, while the comp will allow you to full auto your targets for a longer period of time at further distances, tracking their movement while shooting and actually getting the kill.


On submachine guns the foregrips and compensators are probably not worth it, since most of the engagements happen within a really close range, I'd suggest playing them with a suppressor and trying to play a bit aggressive on the flanks, the suppressor can delay the enemies reaction time to where you can quickly engage 2-3 targets at a time.


But in the end it's a matter of preference, you can always find out what works best for you.

[Rabbit]

Foregrip, it actually works

[Prelude]

Compensator are the mark of a newbie. As everyone knows, they only reduce horizontal recoil, which isn't what is important. The foregrip is better but both are just training wheels. That's a good analogy from smgunsftw.

[Paco]

Neither