The best Cooper Carbine loadouts for Warzone

How to get the most from Vanguard’s shorter-ranged AR.

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I’ve really enjoyed using the Warzone Cooper Carbine so far in Pacific. It’s a versatile weapon that you can quite easily kit out to be a powerful sidekick. It’s a shorter-ranged AR than other guns of its type like theNZ-41andAutomaton, but with the right loadout, it packs a serious punch.

So, here are the best Cooper Carbine loadouts for Warzone. One’s a mid-range sniper support build and the other changes the Cooper Carbine into a pseudo-SMG. Both are really fun to play with, so here’s how to give them a go.

The best sniper-support Cooper Carbine Warzone loadout

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Every attachment we’re using here is to ensure the Cooper Carbine is the perfect complement to theSwiss K31—my favourite quick-scoping sniper. Of course, theKar98kis still more than viable in this situation too.

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Like all the Vanguard weapons added to Warzone Pacific, you can chuck a whopping ten attachments on the Cooper Carbine, and since we’re looking to boost the gun’s accuracy at medium ranges, it works well as a sniper-support gun, theMercury Silencerand22" Cooper Customare the first steps to accomplishing this, particularly since the weapon has a great deal of mobility already. We’re sacrificing a bit of that to maximise the Cooper Carbine’s strength at range, but the silencer does a good job of keeping you off the enemy radar when you fire.

The main perk of the Cooper Custom barrel? It boosts your fire rate, essentially improving the amount of damage you’re dealing per second and speeding up your time-to-kill. Further, theCarver ForegripandPine Tar Gripboth help improve your gun’s accuracy whilst compromising ADS speed, but the Cooper Carbine aims down sights pretty swiftly in its original form, so it won’t feel like you’re taking years to get sights trained on your enemy after tagging them with a sniper shot.

As with any Vanguard assault rifle, I’m going with theLengthenedammunition type. It’s hugely powerful in Warzone Pacific compared to its performance in Vanguard because of the longer ranges across which you need to fire.

Then there are the.30 Carbine 45 Round Mags. It’s important to have as much ammo capacity as possible on the Cooper Carbine. This mag is unique in that it houses larger calibre ammunition, meaning you have a slightly lower fire rate, but that’s offset by the Cooper Custom barrel anyway. And it improves bullet damage, velocity, and range.

Finally, I’d like to mention theVitalperk: it boosts the damage you do to enemy torsos at the cost of a bit of recoil control. We’ve already been boosting the Carbine’s accuracy big time, so there’s no need to worry too much about it, and grabbing that extra damage when you aren’t hitting the enemy in the head is so powerful at longer ranges.

The best SMG-style Cooper Carbine Warzone loadout

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With this Cooper Carbine’s SMG build, you’re going for close-range damage at the cost of ranged prowess. That’s why theSTG44is the secondary of choice: You need something that beefs up your ranged potential and destroys your targets where the Carbine is too weak.

So, what are we doing to maximise damage? The22" Cooper Customis still here—it’s not great for sprint-out time, but the increased fire rate, combined with withRecoil Boosterand theCompressed Roundsand their fire rate boosts, mean your damage values will be utterly wild.

Of course, your accuracy is disgustingly bad with the Cooper Carbine’s SMG loadout, but that’s not what you’re here for. This loadout is all about speed. TheRagdoll G45 Skeletalstock,Fabric Grip, andM3 Ready Gripabsolutely shred your recoil control. You shouldn’t care about this though, especially when your ADS speed and general movement speed is so much faster. Even theFleetperk will help with this big time: your movement and weapon-swap speed can be increased with it.

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