Lightweight

Lightweight is a Tier 2 perk featured in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and a Tier 1 perk featured in Call of Duty: Black Ops.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
In Modern Warfare 2, it allows players to move faster. It is available at the start of the multiplayer game, in the First Recon default class, and at level 4 when Create-A-Class is unlocked it is also immediately available.

The perk currently allows players a 7% movement speed increase, following a discovery that the PC Patch 1.06 decreased it from its original 10% speed boost. When upgraded to Pro, after sprinting 30 miles with the perk equipped, users are able to fire their weapons faster after sprinting. It cuts the time between sprinting and firing in half, similar to how Sleight of Hand halves the time taken to aim down the sight. The description, however, on the multiplayer screen states it provides "Faster ADS after sprinting", which is misleading to some players.

Sprinting 30 miles with Lightweight activated completes the Lightweight Pro IV challenge. The Lightweight Pro VI challenge unlocks the Perk picture as an Emblem and also gives the Title "Pathfinder", and is unlocked after sprinting 250 miles with the perk.

Call of Duty: Black Ops
Lightweight returns as a Tier 1 perk in Black Ops. Its effect is unchanged in that it still increases the user's movement speed, but by how much is dependant on the mobility of the weapon equipped.

If Lightweight is selected as the Tier 1 perk, the player's character model will appear to be somewhat 'lighter', not unlike to the appearance of the Militia in Modern Warfare 2.

Lightweight
Move faster.

Lightweight Pro
Just like Modern Warfare 2, after sprinting, the user's weapon will re-adjust to firing position quicker.

The pro version of Lightweight is unlocked by completing three challenges.


 * Escape Death: Escape death 5 times after being shot.
 * Melee: Unknown. Presumably for getting melee kills with Lightweight.
 * Offense Medal: Unknown

Modern Warfare 2

 * This perk was seen in the teaser trailer in early 2009 on the sign hanging over the security checkpoint.
 * The icon for this perk is roughly modeled after the winged shoe of the Greek god Hermes.