Ripper (submachine gun)

"The latest in modular weapon design with an integrated Hybrid Sight that toggles between SMG and AR combat modes."

- Description

The Ripper is a submachine gun featured in Call of Duty: Ghosts. First announced March 5, 2014, it will initially be available only to Xbox season pass holders starting March 6, but will later be released with the Devastation downloadable content pack.

Multiplayer
The Ripper has the ability to switch between submachine gun and assault rifle combat modes by toggling the integrated Hybrid Sight. Due to its special integrated sight, however, the Ripper cannot accept optical attachments. The SMG mode gives the weapon a high rate of fire and excellent hipfire spread, but with small lower range. When in AR mode it has longer range, allowing for 3 shot kills out to a respectable distance, its rate of fire is lowered, hipfire spread slightly widened, and recoil is slightly increased, but managable due to the lower fire rate.

The Ripper has the movement speed, ADS movement speed, and hipfire spread of an SMG at all times, even when in Assault Rifle mode. These characteristics make it a highly mobile weapon in both modes. Stalker (perk) isn't needed to move quickly while ADS in AR mode, and the overall movement speed may diminish the need for Agility, freeing up perk points to use elsewhere. An interesting stat is its aim down sight speed, which is set at .23 seconds. SMGs normally have .2 seconds, whereas Assault Rifles normally have .25. This value is likely to balance between its SMG and AR modes.

Rapid Fire has a unique effect on the Ripper. Rather than increasing the rate of fire in both its SMG and Assault Rifle modes, only the AR rate of fire will be affected. Due to its low fire rate when in AR mode, Rapid Fire is not a bad choice to use, as it will make the weapon more competitive in close engagements when the player doesn't have time to switch to SMG mode.

Integral

 * Hybrid Sight

Barrel

 * Flash Suppressor
 * Suppressor
 * Muzzle Brake

Under Barrel

 * Foregrip

Mod

 * Extended Mags
 * Armor-Piercing
 * Rapid Fire