How to create the very best BAR loadout in Call Of Duty: Vanguard
Want to know the best BAR loadout in Call Of Duty Vanguard?While the BAR fires extremely slowly, you only need to land a few shots to understand why it’s one of thebest Assault Rifles in Vanguard. It has the highest damage of all the ARs and minimal horizontal recoil, making it powerful and precise. With the right attachments, you can push the BAR even further and create an unstoppable killing machine. Below, we cover everything you need to know to make the best BAR loadout in Vanguard Season 1.
With Season 2 set to launch at the start of February, we expect frequent balance patches to impact the currentCall Of Duty: Vanguardmeta. If any changes impact the BAR or this setup, we’ll update this guide to let you know.
Best BAR loadout in Call Of Duty: Vanguard
While your first instinct might be to boost the fire rate, this actually makes the BAR much weaker. Instead, our BAR loadout focuses on pushing the damage even further while maintaining minimal recoil, making it highly accurate and extremely deadly. With this setup, you can kill enemies with just two shots, allowing you to rip through entire teams with ease.
The cornerstone of this BAR loadout is the.50 BMG 30 Round Magsattachment, which increases the damage-per-shot of the BAR from 40 to 60, and allows you to kill an enemy with two shots to the body. Just like that, the gun’s base time-to-kill has gone from 450ms down to a far more respectable 328ms.
There’s a fair amount of extra recoil associated with this magazine conversion, which is why we’ve also attached theCGC 27'' 2Bbarrel, theM1941 Hand Stop, and thePistol Grip CustomStock to keep the BAR within the realms of easy control. Another thing that helps in this regard is attaching theG16 2.5Xoptic, which decreases recoil a little further while also providing a very clean 2.5x sight to help you land those ideal shots at medium-to-long range.
TheMercury Silencerkeeps you off the enemy’s radar while also providing even more recoil control (hey, you can never have enough with a weapon like this). This silencer does decrease our effective range a little, but thanks to our barrel attachment it’s still higher than the base BAR’s effective range. Some increased responsiveness is in order at this point, so attach aFabric Griponto the BAR’s Rear Grip slot to speed up its sprint-to-fire and ADS speed. After that, theLengthenedAmmo Type gives us a bunch of extra bullet velocity for free.
Finally, we can dramatically reduce the effect of bullet flinch with theFocusProficiency attachment, and increase our ammo reserves with theFully LoadedKit attachment to make sure we never have to stop spitting two-shot-kill bullets down the major sightlines of any Vanguard map.
Use this gun as though it were a nippierLMG: locking down sightlines and punishing enemies that poke their heads out at you. With a 2.5x optic and two-shot-kill capability up to a decent range, there won’t be much that can stand against you with this BAR loadout. A word of warning though: several of these attachments negatively impact the hipfire accuracy of this gun. Since the BAR really isn’t the sort of Assault Rifle you should be running-and-gunning with, that isn’t a big deal. But be aware that if you try to hipfire, you’ll be leaving your fate very much up to chance.
This BAR loadout is incredibly powerful, but don’t forget that it is slow and clunky. You can easily pick off enemies in the distance and drop them in two shots, but that becomes much harder when enemies move closer. To deal with nearby enemies, you’ll need a strong short-range secondary. TheCombat Shotgunis a top-tier close-range weapon and currently thebest gun in VanguardSeason 1, but you could also try anSMG, such as theMP40orM1928, if you’d prefer something automatic.
These are the ideal perks andequipmentto use alongside the above BAR loadout:
Ghost,Radar, andOverkillare among thebest Perks in Call Of Duty: Vanguard, and there’s no reason in this BAR loadout that would cause us to deviate from our standard perk choices which allow us to see enemies on the radar, hide from enemies' radars, and equip two primary weapons. Those three benefits are just too useful to pass up.
TheFrag Grenadeis universally useful, and the versatility is only increased by the ability to cook frags for as long as you need before throwing them. The Tactical is less important in Vanguard, but for this loadout I’d opt for theStimsimply to help you recover from painful engagements slightly more quickly.
That’s everything you need to know to make the best BAR loadout in Vanguard. If you want to see how other weapons compare to the BAR and understand the Vanguard meta, check out ourCall Of Duty: Vanguard weapon statstables. If you want to try out some other long-range weapons, take a look at our lists of the bestSniper RiflesandMarksman Riflesin Vanguard.
