Silencers - Yes or No?

[Just a Chico]

There are two guns with detatchable silencers in CS:GO. These guns are the M4A1 and the USP. I usually take the silencers off. What do you usualy do? What are the Pros and Cons of both sides? I'm eager to see what the general comunity does with the silencer.

[›Kolanaki]

The silencers increase accuracy while decreasing damage. But the damage reduction is so small, there really is no good reason to take the silencers off.

There was something not too long ago that showed the moving spread of the M4A1-S without the silencer on was better than with it on, but, personally, I have not seen this ever be true in actual play.

I am not sure about this, but it may be true that in GO, unlike the previous CS games, removing the silencer makes the world model smaller, so you can sit closer to a corner without your gun poking out. I haven't really noticed or thought about this until now, though.

[Steelocation]

If you even read the gun description, the silencer keeps the recoil down so it's a better weapon that way but less ammo

[spiderman]

well im not sure 100%, but I think taking off the silencer makes it less accurate. Also a reason why the silenced weapons are so good is when you shoot someone, its difficult or them to track where the shots are coming from as there is little noise. But some people like to take off the silencer because they like the feel of the gun more. If it helps you to take off the silencer then go ahead

[Eno]

There are no pros to taking off M4's suppressor. If you do that, you're better off using A4.

[Loop]

I personally use unsilenced for both guns (p2k and m4a4)

[Guy Lesao]

Originally posted by › The Cool Side of the Pillow:

The silencers increase accuracy while decreasing damage. But the damage reduction is so small, there really is no good reason to take the silencers off.

Wrong. The Silencer does not reduce damage.

I keep the silencer, because it looks awesome decreases recoil and it looks awesome.

Some people tend to remove the silencer to not be seen around corners because of the long silencer. But then you can take P2000 / M4A4 if it worries you so much.

Since USP-S and P2000 (or M4A1-S and M4A4) have the same damage values there is only one decision to make:

do you want more ammo/bigger magazine or do you want to be quiet? ;)


EDIT:

The M4A4 has higher recoil, lower accuracy and a larger fire spread compared do the M4A1-S.

The M4A1-S unsilenced has higher recoil.

Source:
http://counterstrike.wikia.com/wiki/M4A1-S
http://counterstrike.wikia.com/wiki/M4A4

[BOBdotEXE]

taking the silencer off is pointless,
you get crazy recoil and a louder gun,

I guess it's good for distractions though..
The pros that use the suppressed guns leave the suppressor on.

[DOFR]

Silencer - recoil reduction, sound reduction
No silencer - firerate higher (on USP for sure), smaller model

[athena]

There's no point in taking the silencer off the M4A1-S, it just ruins the point of using the weapon in the first place. If you like the feel, using the unsilenced USP-S is really good.

[Cooperal]

Removing the silencer only has one objective pro. You give off less of a visual profile when hiding. You can tuck yourself into more hiding spots without being seen while still being able to look the right way.

You may also consider it a benefit to be able to draw attention to you over your teammates if necessary but this is highly situational. Certainly a matter of opinion.

But really you should keep the silencer on at all times.

-It reduces the kick of your recoil pattern.
-It has no negative impact on your damage or effective range.
-It replaces your muzzle flash with subtle barrel smoke.
-It causes your weapon to give off no bullet tracers. (This and the one above are huge boosts when returning fire against enemies through smoke.)
-And of course the gun is 100% silent from mid-range and beyond so people will need to rely on a combination of map knowledge and bullet impact noises to discern your location.

Combined, you remove some pretty major advantages by taking the silencer off. Without, you effectively have an M4A4/P2000 with less ammo.

[bob]

What's a silencer?
The thing you guys are talking about is a suppressor and there is no reason to remove it.

[Hop-Lite]

You should never take the silencer off your M4A1-S but more importantly you should play with the M4A4 instead even though the M4A1-S is mechanically superior in nearly ever regard it only carries three 20 round clips. M4A4 carries four 30 round clips. That's twice the number of bullets which allows you to pre-shoot corners. Unless you want to bring a knife to a gun battle.

[›Kolanaki]

Originally posted by ﾟωﾟ:

What's a silencer?
The thing you guys are talking about is a suppressor and there is no reason to remove it.

A Silencer is the original brand name of the suppressor. They are one in the same.

[›Kolanaki]

Originally posted by ..::cяyвz::..:

Originally posted by › The Cool Side of the Pillow:

The silencers increase accuracy while decreasing damage. But the damage reduction is so small, there really is no good reason to take the silencers off.

Wrong. The Silencer does not reduce damage.

Even more of a reason not to remove them in GO. Seems pretty stupid to even have the option.

[neexbeast]

I prefer playing with a silencer.
There's no need to take off silencer