Underrated weapons: the Sig Spear aka XM7

TRIGGER WARNINGS – gameplay contains aim assist and high kills in bad lobbies, if you don't like those things please look away now 😁 if discussions over broken AA are your thing I direct you to a previous thread where I tried playing on controller with AA turned off, no need to rehash that discussion here today:
– https://www.reddit.com/r/CODWarzone/s/fAiL6mDyIP

Anyway, back to the gun… also known in-game as the Bas-B of course!

We all remember this gun being dominant meta at both long range and close range when the MW3 era of Warzone began. But since it was nerfed into oblivion, this has been a forgotten weapon for a long time. Even though they completely reworked the gun into a different role (slow firing, extremely accurate) with the s3 update, I haven't seen anyone running this gun in months.

I saw a couple of videos about the new US Army rifle that the Bas B is based on and decided to try and make imitations of those real-life builds work in-game. I really enjoy the outlandish blueprint guns too, but sometimes when the mood takes me I like to try something a little closer to the real deal!

I managed to get a 30+ kill game in solo v quads with a build based off the typical suppressed build you see of the gun in real life, e.g.:
– https://www.forbes.com/sites/erictegler/2023/09/22/firing-the-armys-new-rifle–machine-gun-is-a-weighty-experience/

I also got a 30+ solo trios game (in Loaded Resurgence before that went) with a build based on a CQB short-barreled variant called the Spear Assaulter, featured recently by Garand Thumb on YouTube:
– https://images.app.goo.gl/BwUf6eL6cp6Yc4vm8

These are the actual builds I was using – obviously had to make a few tweaks from the real-life versions to make them Warzone viable (specifically the optics and extended magazines):
– https://imgur.com/a/C4xy1Ml
– https://imgur.com/a/KbF0ISo

To be 100% clear, these are absolutely not meta builds or the best way to use this gun in Warzone. I just wanted to try something a bit different and make a sub-optimal (but cool looking!) gun build work.

It's a fun gun to use, it feels satisfying to shoot with a slow fire rate and easy recoil pattern even with less-than-ideal attachments. One of those guns that feels better than it's on-paper TTK suggests because it is so easy to use so the practical TTK is often at or close to the on-paper one. Great bullet velocity by default too.

It's in a spot right now where it will probably never get nerfed again so it's a decent fall-back option for when s4 goes live and we're waiting to see what new long range meta emerges. Plus it looks cool and that's really what is important…