M14

The M14 is a semi-automatic assault rifle featured in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, Call of Duty: Black Ops , Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance, Call of Duty: Black Ops II, Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, and Call of Duty Online. It was cut from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
"Single-fire with high power. Effective at medium to long range."

- Weapon description

The M14 cannot be obtained in the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare singleplayer campaign, however, it can be in multiplayer. The M14 in-game is featured as a semi-automatic rifle, with high damage, accuracy, and recoil as well as a longer effective range compared to other assault rifles. It can be modified with a Grenade Launcher, Red Dot Sight, Suppressor, and an ACOG Scope.

Multiplayer
The M14 has substantial strengths and weaknesses. Players will usually place the M14 on two extremes as a preferred (for high stopping power) or a non-preferred weapon (for high recoil and manual rate of fire). With Stopping Power, it can kill in two hits at any range, or one hit if shot in the head within its maximum damage range. However the M14 benefits less from Stopping Power than most guns. Similar to the G3 in Hardcore mode, it is a popular weapon, due to the fact that it can drop any player in one shot. Unlike the G3 it will also, without Stopping Power, kill a player with Juggernaut in one shot at any range in Hardcore, unless the player is using Last Stand and is shot somewhere other than the head, and/or if he/she is shot through enough cover.

The iron sights are obtrusive, so adding a sight to the M14 can improve its performance. The Red Dot Sight is more commonly seen in multiplayer due to the versatility of the red dot over the ACOG, which significantly increases recoil and therefore requires a lower fire rate, lowering the M14's time to kill closer to weapons such as the G3, the M14's main rival.

Adding the ACOG Scope to the M14 makes it very similar to an M21 with the ACOG, but with less damage and more recoil. For this reason the M21 with an ACOG Scope is considered superior by most, as its cons are lower hip accuracy and less ammo, which are worth lower recoil and higher damage for long range combat. Also, on the SAS/Spetsnaz matches, a player using an M21 with an ACOG scope gains the ghillie suit, while a player using an M14 with ACOG Scope does not, making the M21 a better choice. However, the ACOG equipped M14 prevails in Hardcore mode, where it has triple the reserve ammo compared to the M21, the fact that it is capable of killing a player with Juggernaut even without Stopping Power at any range, and Hardcore makes almost every weapon a one hit kill, making the recoil issue not much of a problem as long as the player is a good marksman.

The M14 with a suppressor is the closest to a silenced sniper rifle the player can get. However, this tactic is more suited to mid to long range sniping as opposed to very long range sniping due to the lack of an actual scope, the bulky iron sights, and the lack of a one shot kill ability. The suppressor can also be helpful with clearing the iron sights. When used, it eliminates muzzle flash, providing for better target visibility.

The above does not count as much when playing in hardcore, where the M14 can kill any player at any range as long as there is no solid material between the player and the target. Still, the iron sights lack of zoom can stand in the way of some of the longest shots being made. The higher damage than the G3 allows the player to use the M14 with the security of having a one hit kill under any condition without needing stopping power, allowing the use of a perk like UAV Jammer or Juggernaut. UAV jammer allowing for an extremely stealthy class capable of combat virtually any range, and Juggernaut allowing the player to survive under more fire.

The M14 shares ammo with the M40A3, R700, and M21, which can be very beneficial because the M14 has 160 spare ammunition and so with Bandolier and Overkill, the M40A3 has 160 rounds as long as the player's other weapon is the M14. However, this is not commonly seen, as Stopping Power is almost essential when using the M40A3. The M14 has a fast reload rate that benefits greatly from Reload Canceling.

Weapon Attachments

 * M203 Grenade Launcher
 * Red Dot Sight
 * Silencer
 * ACOG Scope

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
M14 was cut from the game, however, several textures remain in game files

Call of Duty: Black Ops
"Single-fire with high power. Effective at medium to long range."

- Create-a-Class 2.0 weapon description

The M14 is featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops. Its appearance is different from its Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare counterpart, having a wooden stock and vented handguard instead of synthetic furniture and rails. In addition, it has a rear pistol grip and a folded, unusable bipod not present in its Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare variant, being very similar to the M14 EBR from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.

Campaign
The M14 appears in the level "S.O.G.," and is used by various US soldiers, mostly with an ACOG, a Grenade Launcher, or no attachments. It also has Dusty camouflage applied. Aside from being dropped by friendly soldiers, one can be found beside an M16 in one of the ammo bunkers before throwing the napalm barrels down into the NVA trenches.

Multiplayer
The M14 is the third assault rifle and the first semi-automatic assault rifle unlocked, costing and it may be purchased at level 9.

The M14 has a moderate firecap at around 625 RPM (if the player can pull the trigger fast enough). It is best to not shoot the M14 this fast, as its very small 20 round magazine will be rendered empty within seconds.

Damage is the highest in its class, killing in around two to three shots, depending on range and multipliers. It has a 1.5x multiplier to the neck, which can create a deadly combination at long range: shoot the enemy in the neck, and allow the recoil to pull up towards the enemy's head, effectively scoring a two shot kill. At shorter ranges, it will always be a two shot kill.

Accuracy is rather poor. The recoil has a strong upward bias, and the iron sights are pretty blocky. Due to this, the combination of Warlord, the Red Dot Sight/Reflex Sight, and the Grip is a very common and effective one with the M14 users.

The M14 gets an unusual assortment of attachments. The Grip is added in, but Dual Mags is absent to compensate. The only ways to alleviate the small magazine capacity are through Sleight of Hand or Extended Mags. Extended Mags makes a 30 round magazine, which is very large for the M14. However, many players don't use it, as they will go after other attachments the M14 needs.

The underbarrels are available, and can bolster the M14's performance up close, or from afar. The Masterkey makes for an effective alternative up close, but the Flamethrower can serve much more effective in Hardcore game modes, where it can burn multiple enemies with ease, so long as Flak Jacket Pro isn't in use. As well, it receives the M203 Grenade Launcher. However, due to the M14's effectiveness at medium and long range, it can be of less use, especially with Flak Jacket users. A major weakness with these, however, is their incompatibility with other attachments, making their use much less common on this weapon.

Optical attachments are frequently used to bypass the M14's blocky sights. The Red Dot and Reflex Sights serve very good at medium range due to their clarity. The ACOG Scope can work wonders on the M14, as it won't kick like a mule on this weapon if properly controled; and if combined with the grip, can make for a very accurate marksmanship class.

The Suppressor makes for a very poor attachment option on the M14, as less accurate players will find much more three shot kills, and players will have to resort to the neck and head combo to get a two shot kill much more often.

In conclusion, the M14 is a weapon where the player must adapt to it. It can have shortcomings with its accuracy and up-close engagements, but makes up for it with devastating power at medium and long ranges. If one can learn and utilize its strengths, players can find themselves pumping out massive amounts of damage from any range.

Attachments

 * Extended Mags
 * ACOG Scope
 * Red Dot Sight
 * Reflex Sight
 * Grip
 * Masterkey
 * Flamethrower
 * Infrared Scope
 * Suppressor
 * Grenade Launcher

Zombies
The M14 appears in all Zombies maps excluding Dead Ops Arcade. The M14 is a fairly decent weapon to start with since it can be purchased off the wall in all six of the maps for 500 points in the first room, along with the Olympia. Note that it rapidly loses its usefulness since it has an eight-round magazine instead of 20. The one-hit-headshot potential of the M14 lasts up to, and including, round three.

Locations

 * Kino der Toten : At the top of the stairs on the right side of the starting room.
 * "Five" : On a wall to the left of the starting room (next to a door that can be opened for 750 points).
 * Ascension : Facing the Lunar Lander station in the starting area.
 * Call of the Dead : Can be acquired from a wooden panel on a bridge that lead towards the power switch.
 * Shangri-La : In the spawn area, near the debris leading to the Mine Cart.
 * Moon : After exiting the Receiving Area, on the external wall of Tunnel 11.

It is best used in the early rounds as in round 5, it takes more than half a magazine (of body shots) to kill a single Zombie, but one can hold off for a few more rounds if going for headshots. Ammo can be bought off the wall for 250 points as well as upgraded ammo for 4500 points.

The M14 has a particularly long empty clip penalty, and benefits greatly from reload canceling. The knifing speed is not very fast, but not impossible to manage. Speed Cola and Double Tap Root Beer, along with Deadshot Daiquiri, are ideal perks; Speed Cola shortens the reload, Double Tap Root Beer to allow a higher rate of fire in close quarters situations, and Deadshot Daiquiri to take advantage of the headshot multiplier.

When Pack-a-Punched, it becomes the Mnesia. Its one-hit-headshot capability lasts until round 13. The Mnesia gains a grip to reduce recoil and a 16-round magazine, with 192 extra rounds. The Mnesia is one of the strongest wall guns in terms of the damage done per shot, especially due to its high multipliers.

This weapon seems to trigger quotes from all of the characters, usually dealing with its weight. In comparison, the M14 is almost equivalent to the M1 Garand as their iron sights are the same, they both have eight rounds, and they are fairly decent for the early to medium rounds.

Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS)
The M14 appears in the Call of Duty: Black Ops (Nintendo DS), as one of the rifles available to the player. The M14 comes in a regular version or with a Scope or Silencer.

Campaign
The M14 is a starting weapon in several levels and can be found at various locations in other levels. It has medium recoil, similar appearance and sights to the console version, has a 20-round magazine, and can kill in one shot anywhere to the body on Recruit and Regular mode (on Hardened mode it will be a two-hit-kill unless a headshot is made).

The scoped M14 has numerous advantages over the other sniper rifles, mainly the fact that it can be fired as fast as the player can pull the trigger (this is not recommended, as recoil will greatly upset aiming unless shots are carefully timed.) and that it can be used effectively when hip-fired.

Multiplayer
In multiplayer, it still retains its power and attachments, as it can still be added with a silencer or a scope, and if fitted with Stopping Power, the M14 will kill in one shot (unless the target is using body armor). The M14 used without Stopping Power can be difficult to use at distance for inexperienced players due to one having to put two shots into an opponent to kill him (the medium recoil can make hitting the opponent twice a difficulty at long range).

Zombies
It appears in the Zombie mode for 1,800 points in the first room of all 4 levels. It is good to use the M14 in early levels instead of the M1891/59 once the player's Makarov is out of ammunition because of its semi automatic fire mode and large magazine.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3: Defiance
The M14 appears in the singleplayer missions: "In The Wild", "Isolation", "Overwatch" and in "Oil, Fire, and Ice". It is very similar in aspect to the Black Ops DS' s version, with the same model, attachments and firing sound, but now has a black finish making it look like the Call of Duty 4 version, and a redesigned scope when ADS. Also, the iron sights of the Standard M14 are slightly misaligned.

Campaign
Interestingly during campaign, the player never starts off with the standard M14. The M14 is seldom encountered and is often found leaning on a walls in various levels. The player's character are often equipped with its suppressed counterpart rather than equipped with the standard model.

Multiplayer
The M14 retains most of its stats, taking two to three well aimed shots to down an opponent. The M14 is not initially unlocked and takes 250 kills with the Simonov SKS to unlock. Once the player has obtained it, they can unlock the Scoped M14 with 250 kills, and with the Scoped M14 can unlock the Scoped/Suppressed M14 with 250 kills.

Attachments

 * Scope
 * Suppressor

Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified
The M14 returns in Call of Duty: Black Ops: Declassified, performing similar to its Black Ops counterpart. The M14 uses the Black Ops II weapon model though, giving it a synthetic finish instead of its normal wood finish.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II
The M14 reappears on in the Zombies mode of Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It looks and performs much the same as the M14 from Call of Duty: Black Ops but with a synthetic body rather than a wooden one and different sounds. It also does not feature a bipod underneath the barrel.

The M14 costs its same price of 500 points and is available across from the Stamin-Up machine in Town, in the starting room in TranZit, on the back door of the bus in Nuketown Zombies, next to the Quick Revive elevator on the top floor in Die Rise, next to the metal door in the starting room in Mob of the Dead, on the wall in Processing in Buried and on the wall in the starting room next to a shovel in Origins.

When Pack-a-Punched, the M14 becomes the Mnesia. The Mnesia is statistically identical to its previous incarnation in Call of Duty: Black Ops, as well as sharing the same mechanics, such as knifing, and not being able to be Pack-a-Punched multiple times. It is very effective in later rounds when combined with Double Tap Root Beer.

Attachments

 * Foregrip

Call of Duty Online
The M14 was available in the Cyborg Rising mode of Call of Duty: Online, where it could be bought off the wall for 500 points. However, it isn't available anymore, since off-wall weapons have been removed from this mode.

Call of Duty: Black Ops

 * The weapon's wooden furniture is replaced with synthetic material when camouflage is applied, and its sling changes color as well. On the Nintendo Wii version, however, only the metal iron sights and top perforations are colored.
 * The pick-up and killfeed icon for the weapon shows it without the pistol grip and uses a different stock.
 * Similarly, in Zombies, the M14's chalk outline on the wall depicts the weapon without the pistol grip. This is fixed in Call of Duty: Black Ops II.
 * The M14 acquires a heat shield when the Flamethrower or Grenade launcher attachment is equipped.
 * When using the M14 with ACOG and Grip, the character model's hand in Create-A-Class clips through the weapon.
 * The M14 would have appeared at some point mounted with a bipod, as the mounted version is still in the game files.
 * When Pack-a-Punched, the gun becomes the Mnesia. Mnesia is a play on words of Amnesia, a medical condition where the victim loses their memory.
 * The words "7.62 rifle US Armory" and "20100402" can be seen if looking carefully at the rear sights.
 * If one looks closely while reloading, they can see that the M14's bipod is missing its right leg.
 * in Call of Duty: Black Ops Zombies, in first person view the front sight is missing.

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

 * The M14 lacks a colored icon when approaching the weapons chalk drawing in Green Run, reusing the Black Ops pick up icon, but it uses the HUD icon in other maps.
 * Even though it is classified as an assault rifle, Marlton says it is a sniper rifle upon buying it off the wall in Buried.