All Black Ops 7 guns explained

The full selection of Black Ops 7 weapons spans 30 guns, launchers, and melee weapons, including old favorites and futuristic newcomers. With Black Ops 7 featuring global progression and unlocks, you'll also be able to use and level up these guns across multiplayer, Zombies, Warzone, the co-op campaign, and Endgame, so it's important to what your options are for your loadouts. With that, here's a list of every gun and weapon in Black Ops 7, explaining how they all work and at what level you unlock each one.

Although, if you want to know which guns are best, we've been testing lots of different weapons and keeping an eye on the Black Ops 7 meta for the strongest loadout picks.

Black Ops 7 Assault Rifles

• M15 Mod 0 (Unlocked by default): Very basic assault rifle that deals relatively low damage but has a high fire rate and low recoil- good for pretty much any of the Black Ops 7 maps.
• Peacekeeper Mk1 (Unlocked by default): Packs a devastating punch up close with its rapid fire rate, but it kicks hard and has poor range.
• AK-27 (Level 4): Punchy but unwieldy assault rifle with slow handling and recoil that can be difficult to counter.
• MXR-17 (Level 16): Powerful and accurate but its relatively slow fire rate isn't ideal.
• X9 Maverick (Level 28): Potent three-round burst rifle that's fairly unremarkable otherwise.
• DS20 Mirage (Level 37): Another fairly average assault rifle but it comes with an integrated grenade launcher which isn't spectacular.

Black Ops 7 SMGs

• Ryden 45K (Unlocked by default): All-rounder SMG with a solid balance of firepower, handling, and recoil.
• Dravec 45 (Unlocked by default): Low recoil and good range make this an ideal SMG for medium-range gunfights.
• RK-9 (Level 7): Three-round burst SMG with excellent damage and mobility but it's range and recoil are subpar.
• Razor 9mm (Level 19): Very high fire rate but low damage and limited range.
• Carbon 57 (Level 46): An SMG with solid stats and a massive 50-round magazine.
• MPC-25 (Level 55): High-damage SMG with good handling but poor range and recoil.

Black Ops 7 Shotguns

• M10 Breacher (Unlocked by default): Standard hard-hitting pump-action shotgun, and you can hold the trigger to tighten the spread before firing.
• Echo 12 (Level 22): Double-barrel shotgun with relatively good range and a rotating chamber for rapid firing.
• Akita (Level 40): Snappy, fully automatic shotgun with great handling, recoil, and accuracy but low damage and range.

Black Ops 7 LMGs

• Mk. 78 (Unlocked by default): High damage with a solid fire rate, great range, and large 75-round magazine, but it's not the easiest to handle with lots of horizontal recoil and awful mobility.
• XM325 (Level 31): Low-damage, rapid-fire machine gun that has relatively good mobility and handling for an LMG.

Black Ops 7 Marksman Rifles

• M8A1 (Level 10): One of the most iconic weapons from Black Ops 2, the M8A1 fires rapid four-round bursts with stats more like an assault rifle than a marksman rifle, but it's balanced by a slow burst delay, so you'll lose gunfights if you don't land all four shots.
• Warden 308 (Level 25): Semi-automatic, long-range rifle with very high damage that makes it more like a sniper rifle, but you need to compensate for its double-action firing delay.
• M34 Novaline (Level 49): Two-round burst rifle with best-in-class range and great damage but a poor fire rate that can be punishing if you miss shots.

Black Ops 7 Sniper Rifles

• VS Recon (Unlocked by default): Bolt-action sniper that rechambers surprisingly quickly, helping it keep up with Black Ops 7's fast-paced action, and can reliably one-shot kill from the torso up.
• Shadow SK (Level 13): Semi-automatic sniper rifle with great damage, manageable recoil and good mobility but not the best range.
• XR-3 Ion (Level 43): Burst-fire sniper rifle that fires three rounds ridiculously fast for easy one-burst kills, but it has poor mobility and a short firing delay as it needs to spin up every time it fires.

Black Ops 7 Secondaries

• Jager 45 (Unlocked by default): Reliable with a fast fire rate and low recoil, as a sidearm should be.
• Velox 5.7 (Level 13): High-damage, three-round burst pistol with high but controllable recoil
• Coda 9 (Level 34): Fully automatic pistol with good damage and a high fire rate but balanced with low range and lots of recoil.
• AAROW 109 (Unlocked by default): Powerful missile launcher that can lock onto enemy vehicles and scorestreaks and fired freely.
• ARC M1 (Level 25): Not much of a launcher as it fires a charged energy beam, but still serves the same purpose as the AAROW.

Black Ops 7 Melee Weapons

• Knife (Unlocked by default): Standard knife that's good for stabbing, as you'd expect. One attack is enough to kill standard enemies and you move quickly while carrying it.
• Flatline Mk.II (Unlocked by default): A baton that's slower to swing than the Knife but has marginally better reach.

Want to play BLOPS 7 on PC? Then you'll need to know how to enable Black Ops 7 Secure Boot before you can jump into combat.

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