The idea behind the revamped Gunsmith 2.0 revolves around the addition of a weapon platform system. A platform, like the M4, can have up to five variants (or receivers, as they’re called in-game) that turn them into an entirely different type of weapon (ie, battle rifle).
As you play, you unlock attachments that upgrade your weapons. If you want all attachments for a platform, you need to level up the base weapon and then its receivers using them in the game. With the exception of some snipers and shotguns, you’ll start with a basic assault rifle and move up to a submachine gun, battle rifle, or assault rifle receiver. This means, for example, you’ll need to play with a submachine gun to get attachments for an assault rifle. (Don’t ask. It doesn’t make much sense to us either.) This particular mechanic has drawn some ire from players for having to use a weapon type they don’t like in order to upgrade the one they actually want to use. .
Each weapon only increases by 20 levels, which is a lot less than the roughly 70 levels for each weapon in Vanguard. To unlock all attachments for some platforms, you need to pass at least three weapons, adding up to 60 levels. In general, it is not this much of a change, but at least you’ll save up to 10 levels.
At launch, there are 49 weapons to unlock across 18 platforms in Modern Warfare 2, which means you’ll need to tear through some multiplayer if you want to get everything maxed out and ready for Warzone 2.0″ or DMZ. We’ve compiled a few ways to level up quickly and strategically.
No, I’m not talking about players who have zero awareness. In Invasion, a new mode that functions as a large-scale team deathmatch, the developers have added computer-controlled soldiers that become increasingly difficult to kill over time.
When it comes to weapon leveling, these bots give almost the same experience as normal kills. They are also much easier to kill than human-controlled soldiers.
James “JGOD” Godoy, a content creator known for his Warzone loadout guides and cast, recommended that players roam the outskirts of the map and find where bots spawn. Create a loadout with an ammo box to refill ammo and a tactical insert to spawn nearby and spray.
Get hardpoint and XP with it
Hardpoint is a classic Call of Duty game mode that is a mainstay of competitive play. It’s also a good way to rack up tons of kills and thus weapon experience. Every 60 seconds, a new hard point, a small area of the map, becomes available. As long as you or one of your teammates is in that spot, you grab it and start racking up points. If an enemy enters the point, it becomes contested and no one scores.
Hardpoint is five minutes long, but the clock stops every time a point is captured. This means that the actual game time increases, giving you more time to use your weapon of choice and level it up.
Once you’re comfortable with a map and its strongpoint rotations, you can start preparing and holding chokepoints. I find that I can get up to 60 kills per game; others who are better than me can find more than 80 eliminations. Additionally, every kill you get near the point gives you extra experience.
Level up with Confirmed Kill
Kill Confirmed is another classic game mode that can help you level up weapons. The goal of Kill Confirmed is to eliminate enemies and confirm that elimination by running over their dog tags, which drop when they die.
According to Modern war zone, a Call of Duty Twitter news account, the Kill Confirmed game mode gives you experience for the kill and each dog tag you recover. You also get points for denying an enemy from collecting your friends dog tag by collecting them first. This is a great way to level up weapons if you prefer the classic feel of team death. The games aren’t as long as Hardpoint, making this my second favorite base game mode to help unlock attachments.
Chances are, you won’t be using every pistol, shotgun, and battle rifle available in Modern Warfare 2. I plan on getting many, but not all, of the weapons I level in multiplayer in Warzone 2.0.
Based on the first War Zone, I know assault rifles, snipers, light machine guns, and assault rifles will be king. And you can limit it to weapons that are already strong in multiplayer games, like the M4, Tac-V56, and Kastov 762 in the assault rifle category, or the Fennec 45, MX9, and Lachmann Sub in the submachine gun category.
If you only have a certain amount of time to play and can’t grind all the weapons, it’s better to prioritize the ones you know will be good in the future and come back to the rest when you you can.
Newly discovered bugs can help
I’m hesitant to include this because I’m not a huge fan of exploiting bugs in the game, but a player recently discovered a cheeky way to get weapon experience in the Invasion game mode.
You first equip a crush mine as you upgrade your field. Once you have it available in a match, you place it on top of a robot on an enemy tank. Since they can’t get out they are constantly crushed, gaining nearly 100 experience per second. For some reason, that experience goes to your weapon and it levels up in no time.
That said, I tried to replicate this and it’s a lot harder than it sounds. You must reach the enemy tank without being killed by the enemy team. By the time I successfully entered the enemy base (dodging snipers), the game was over and there was not a tank in sight.
Don’t forget to use your tokens
Those who bought the $100 edition version of the game will get 10 hours of double experience tokens and 10 hours of double weapon experience tokens. When Season 1 starts on November 16th, I’m sure you’ll have more opportunities to either buy more Dual Weapon Experience or earn it through battle.
As you can imagine, having double experience makes the process of leveling weapons much easier. Despite the game’s difficult user interface, tokens are surprisingly easy to find. It’s to the right of the “match search” section.
