Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 – Best VS Recon Sniper Loadout

Welcome to our VS Recon Loadout guide for Call of Duty: Black Ops 7. In this guide, we will provide you with a powerful and beginner-friendly loadout for the VS Recon. The VS-Recon is a powerful sniper rifle that can kill enemies in one hit with body shots. As you would expect, this loadout excels at long range, but with some practice you can make it work in close quarters, too.

We cover the best weapon attachments, perks and upgrades for your loadout.

If you want to come up with your own loadouts, you might also be interested in our Top Five Weapons and Top Ten Best Perks for Black Ops 7.

Table of Contents:

• VS Recon Loadout Summary
• VS Recon Loadout – Slot Choices
  • Best Weapons
  • Best Field Upgrade & Grenades
  • Best Perks & Wildcard
• VS Recon Loadout – Best Attachments

Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 VS Recon Loadout Summary

The VS Recon is a powerful bolt-action sniper rifle. This gun is capable of killing enemies at range with a single body shot, but this is offset by its low firing rate and moderate recoil. In this loadout, we will play to the strengths of the weapon by making it faster to aim and more accurate, and negate the negative aspects as much as possible.

We’ll be using the Gunfighter Wildcard to add as many bonuses as possible to the VS Recon.

This loadout will also make use of Dexterity, allowing you move around quickly and aim down your sight when you are jumping, diving and sliding. Once set up correctly, this build is quite versatile and very easy to play, but more skilled players can push it to its limit with expert use of Dexterity’s benefits.

If you like the sound of this, then read on below and I will explain every aspect of the loadout.

Black Ops 7 VS Recon Loadout – What To Put in All Slots

To begin with, we’ll look at the basic elements of the best VS Recon loadout for Call of Duty 7: Black Ops 7. I.e. the weapons, wildcard, grenades and perks.

Best Weapons

You can slot two guns and one melee weapon.

Slot	Weapon	Description
Primary	VS Recon	The VS Recon is a very strong bolt-action sniper that deals lethal damage to enemies with a single shot.
Secondary	Jäger 45	The Jäger 45 is, in my view, the best secondary weapon in the game and can even be used as your main weapon for an off-meta pistol build. But for this loadout it’s purely there as a backup.
Melee	Any	Your melee weapon is not super important. I recommend trying them all out and just using the one you like the most.

Best Field Upgrade & Grenades

You can augment your Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 loadout with a field upgrade and choose one tactical and one lethal grenade.

Slot	Item	Overclock
Field Upgrade	Assault Pack	Lucky Ammo (Additional score on kills)
Tactical	Stim Shot	Combat Performance Boost (Adds a move speed boost)
Lethal	Cluster Grenade	Tighter Packing (One additional mini grenade)

The Overclocks are unlocked by using the items in games. When you reach a high enough rank with the item, you will unlock the overclock. Remember to open the item in your Loadout menu and equip the desired overclock!

The Assault Pack allows you to spawn ammo and equipment to resupply your team. The Lucky Ammo overclock passively increases the amount of score you earn from kills.

The grenades are largely a matter of personal preference and you can change them if you want, but the speed boost from the Stim Shot’s performance overclock is very useful in a game where fast movement is one of the most important qualities of an efficient player.

Best Perks & Wildcard

You can choose three Perks and one Wildcard to fine-tune your loadout. You also unlock one Combat Specialty which depends on the colour combination of selected Perks.

Slot	Item	Description
Wildcard	Gunfighter	Doubles the amount of attachment slots on your guns, which will allow us to stack as many buffs onto the VS Recon as possible.
Perk 1	Flak Jacket	Reduces the damage you take from fire and explosive damage.
Perk 2	Tech Mask	Resistance to enemy flash, concussion and gas. You cannot be EMP’ed or hacked.
Perk 3	Dexterity	Reduces weapon sway. More importantly, allows you to aim down your sight when sliding, diving or wall jumping.
Combat Specialty	Tactician	When you earn assists, earn bonus score from bullet eliminations for 10 seconds.

The Gunfighter Wildcard and Dexterity perk are essential for this Loadout to work properly, and I don’t recommend changing them.

Flak Jacket and Tech Mask give you resistance to some of the most common tactics that enemies will use to suppress your deadly firepower. You can swap Tech Mask to Looper if you want to play into killstreaks as much as possible, but this will leave you more vulnerable to grenades, EMPs, etc.

For the Comabat Specialty, we have a mixture of red and green parks so we will get the Tactician specialty. This isn’t a big deal with this setup, but it’s something extra that you automatically get based on your chosen perks.

See also: What Are Combat Specialties in Call of Duty: Black Ops 7?

Black Ops 7 VS Recon Loadout – Best VS Recon Attachments

Now that the rest of the build is created, all that remains is to customise the VS Recon itself to ensure this powerful sniper fulfills its potential. As mentioned above, you will need the Gunfighter Wildcard to slot all of the attachments mentioned below. You also might need to play the game for a while to unlock everything here. If selecting a placeholder attachment (because an advised option isn’t available yet) avoid anything with negative effects, particularly if they reduce your speed, stability or accuracy.

If you prefer to play as stealthily as possible, you may want to remove the laser attachment. This is because the laser can give away your position whenever you aim down your sights.

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