Dagger Directive Weapon Tier List

Fifty-four-plus official weapons is a menu, not a meta. This list ranks the jobs you actually take after Version 1.0: stay unseen, take a courtyard, or hold a ridge. Pair it with Role builds for pouches and with Ballistics if your letter grade is losing to drop.

Letters are per job. An M32 can be S on a loud Global Ops clear and C on a grass insert. Read the column.

Stealth primaries

S — suppressed SMGs and short rifles. They keep the first two rooms quiet and still work if a hut goes wrong. Attach a can, a simple optic, and a light you will not turn on. The P90 added at 1.0 lives here if you like the magazine and can control the noise of a dump.

A — suppressed mid rifles (including MK18). Better at the unexpected 80-metre sentry. Worse in a closet. The MK18’s three colours do not change the job; the can and the trigger finger do.

B — pistols as a planned primary. Fine for a melee-first ghost who wants a tiny silhouette. Not fine as your only answer to a courtyard.

C — belt-feds and launchers. You can challenge-run a stealth map with a SAW. You are not stealthy. You are making content.

Melee still beats a canned shot when the sentry is alone. Stealth is the reason this column exists.

Assault primaries

S — rifle plus underbarrel, or a rifle you trust plus a dedicated breacher secondary. The first door is the fight. An underbarrel shotgun or a ready frag is the difference between a stack and a reset.

A — SAW / belt-fed. Excellent at the break-contact downhill on Bering. Heavy, loud, and hungry. Bring a pistol because reloads are a speech.

A — M32, M203, and MK19. 1.0 put a scoped M32 and an automatic MK19 on the shelf. They are S if you lase and respect fragments. They are a self-kill if you hip them in a hut. Ballistics is required reading, not optional flavour. The M2 belt-fed sits with the SAW: excellent at break-contact, useless at staying unseen. The M7 (scoped, canned) and XM8 (launcher plus glass) are mid-rifle answers that still need a job.

B — battle rifles without a plan for the first room. They win streets and lose stairwells.

C — long bolt guns. You will be holding a doorway with a two-round argument.

Overwatch primaries

S — a rifle you will actually zero, plus a rangefinder. Plus and minus are not decoration. If you will not lase, do not take this job.

A — designated marksman setups with a mid optic. Kinder on Europe courtyards than on Bering kilometres.

B — high-magnification glass on a map you have not walked. You will range the wrong roof.

C — SMGs. Overwatch with an SMG is just assault from farther away and sadder.

A recon drone is part of this job even though it is not a gun. Drones and Gear explain why the mark matters more than a third magazine.

Sidearms after 1.0

The M17 arrived with the finished launch. Treat 1.0 pistols as the gun you draw when the primary is empty or too long for a closet — not as a joke slot. If you never practice the swap, you do not have a sidearm. You have a paperweight. Put the swap on a bind you will hit while scared; Controls is where that bind lives.

Attachments that move a letter

• Suppressor: required for stealth S, optional vanity on assault.
• Underbarrel: moves a mid rifle into assault S.
• Optic: only as good as your LRF habit.
• Light: useful in interiors, a stealth leak if you leave it on.
• Extended mag: Workshop STANAGs exist; official mags still win if you cannot reload under a window.

What we will not rank

Community Workshop guns. They change by subscription and they share vanilla projectiles. Workshop is the install guide. If a custom rifle deletes your recoil, enjoy it, then go back to an official rail when you host strangers.

For a packed kit, leave this page and open Role builds or the loadout planner. For a theater that hates your S-tier, open the Walkthrough and change the job, not just the rail.