The Barrel Attachment Guide (Updated For Velvet Shell!)

A small guide about the barrel attachment including a general description and a comparision of all the guns in the form a video on how they act on two fire modes - burst and full auto spray.

Video - Comparsion (Velvet Shell Updated!)

This video is a detailed comparison of all guns in 5.2 update between the compensator, the muzzle brake and the flash hider while shooting them in bursts and in a full spray of a mag.
Results are shown below.

Video by VarsityGaming

This video is only for the guns added on the Velvet Shell update.

Video by VarsityGaming

Video Summary - General Concept Of The Barrels

Flash hider's first three bullets generally have less horizontal deviation and vertical jump compared to the others. The groupings are tighter.

Compensator has less horizontal "waggle" throughout the mag dump though it has some notable vertical jumps between shots and more horizontal waggle in the first three shots than the flash hider.

Like watch some of the burst clips and in your head play "connect the dots." Usually the flash hider is more or less a straight line with maybe a tiny bit of variance but the compensator's first three shots sometimes form a triangle shape.

Muzzle brake is the de facto "best" attachment for DMR and pistol. Best for tap firing.

Best Attachment Based On The Recoil Pattern - Full Auto

The results on the best attachement for full auto, shown as both a list and a picture from the video.

Compenstaor:

• C7E (with a vertical grip)
  
• PDW9 (with both grips)
  
• AUG A2
  
• AK-12
  
• 416-C Carbine
  
• 9X19SVN
  
• SMG-11
  
• G8A1
  
• 556xi
  
• G36C
  
• M249
  
• Para-308
  
• MP5K
  
• TYPE-89
  
• L85A2
  
• MP7
  
• R4-C
  
• MPX

Muzzle Brake:

• C7E (with an angled grip)
  
• CAMRS
  
• OTs-03
  
• SR-25
  
• 417
  
• C8-SFW

Flash Hider:

• MP5
  
• F2
  
• UMP45
  
• P90
  
• FMG-9
  
• 552 Commando
  
• Mk17 CQB

Silencer:

• Vector
  
• 6P41
  
• AR33

Extended Barrel:

• 9MM C1
  
• M12

Best Attachment Based On The Recoil Pattern - Burst

The results on the best attachement for burst mode, shown as both a list and a picture from the video.

Compensator:

• M249
  
• P90

Muzzle Brake:

• C7E (with both grips)
  
• PDW9 (with both grips)
  
• Vector
  
• 552 COMMANDO
  
• C8-SFW
  
• AK-12
  
• 416-C Carbine
  
• 9X19SVN
  
• F2
  
• FMG-9
  
• M12
  
• MP5
  
• 556xi
  
• G36C
  
• Mk17 CQB
  
• CAMRS
  
• MP5K
  
• 417
  
• SR-25
  
• AR-33
  
• TYPE-89
  
• L85A2
  
• OTs-03
  
• MP7
  
• R4-C
  
• UMP45
  
• MPX

Flash Hider:

• AUG A2
  
• G8A1
  
• PARA-308

Silencer:

• 6P41

Extended Barrel:

• 9MM C1

Compensator

Anything that capitalizes on high ROF, because those guns eat through ammo easily and you want your "extended sprays" to be accurate.

Flash Hider

Low ROF weapons are going to inherently be about making as many opening shots count as possible, so you'll want to burst them. You'll by nature of the ROF have less opportunity to mag dump.

Muzzle Brake

Anything semi-auto, so all DMRs and pistols. Anything automatic I would exclude unless you have a particular strategy in mind, for example you're on Oregon with Buck's C8 and you want to be able to tap-fire a peeker hiding in the tower. So yeah. Tap firing.

Heavy Barrel

High Risk/High Reward Attachment #1.

While the fall-off bonus benefits you at long range, you're probably going to see the most use out of heavy barrels at mid-range, where the jump in recoil is still manageable enough to let you land steady DPS; Over a long range you would have to let the crosshairs resettle, effectively making the heavy barrel a tap-fire attachment, but at mid-range you could still burst and just get a flat damage bonus if your aim is good compared to other attachments.

Also one of the better attachments for players who spray the body instead of head hunting.

Good for players who yell in disbelief "OMG, I shot him so many times!" upon dying and discovering their enemy has a tiny fraction of health left. Also ideal if you damage enemies and they consistently manage to scurry behind cover to get DBNO-revived or healed by Doc. A good attachment if you plan to encounter enemies head-on since if all things are equal, you will have DPS on your side.

Suppressor

High Risk/High Reward Attachment #2.

Drastically reduces the white fire indicators and noise, making it ideal for anyone planning to go rogue on attack or defense and who doesn't necessarily want aggro.

For example I'm not sure why anyone would equip this on Blackbeard since you want to invite encounters (I once read someone purposely attaches laser sights to BB for this purpose), but if you are Thermite and you want to stay stealthy until you get the plant off, or you are Caveira, the silencer makes sense. In my experience, silencer increases the time it takes for unaware opponents to "snap" to your location with a wrist flick, making it great for flanks. But for head on encounters where enemies know your approach, silencer is IMO the worst attachment.

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What about the ARX200?

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I'm really loving this guide man, keep up the great work!

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Thank you for making this great guide, it helps tons!

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Watch Rogue9's video on the subject. It's neato accurato burrito.

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