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All Perk List

Perk 1 List

Perk	Description Notes	Unlock Level
Double Time	Double the duration of Tactical Sprint. Increase crouch movement speed by 30%	1
E.O.D.	Take reduced damage from non-killstreak explosives and fire. - When picking up frag grenades, reset the fuse.	1
Scavenger	Resupply ammo from dead players. - Scavenger packs provide throwing knives.	18
Cold-Blooded	Undetectable by AI targeting system and thermal optics. Does not trigger High Alert warning. - Still visible to Recon Drones, but cannot be marked.	29
Kill Chain	Multiplayer: Killstreak kills count toward your next killstreak. Only applies to killstreak earned this life. Warzone: Increases your chance of finding killstreaks in supply boxes. No effect in Warzone Rumble. - Cannot killchain with killstreaks from another player's care package. - Killchain kills don't help earn nukes.	34
Quick Fix	Killing players immediately starts health regeneration. Capturing and holding objectives increases your health regeneration rate. - Health regeneration delay is skipped on gun, melee, and throwing knife kills. - Health regeneration rate is doubled while carrying, capturing, or holding an objective.	42

Perk 2 List

Perk	Description	Unlock Level
Restock	Multiplayer: Recharge equipment over 25 seconds. Warzone: Recharge equipment over 50 seconds. - Throwing knives can recharge 1 extra knife. - Decoy Grenades and Stim recharges twice as fast.	1
Hardline	Multiplayer: Your killstreaks cost 1 less kill. Warzone: 25% off kiosk prices for killstreaks, field upgrades, and armor plates. No effect in Warzone Rumble. - Reduces specialist perk cost by 1.	1
Overkill	Carry Two primary weapons. - Cannot equip two of the same weapon. - Secondaries cannot be equipped.	8
High Alert	Your vision pulses when enemies outside of your view see you. - Triggered by enemies controlling Chopper Gunners, Wheelsons, IAVs, and APCs.	11
Ghost	Undetectable by UAVs, Radar Drones, and Heartbeat Sensors. - Still appear on killstreak radar when firing a weapon. - Detectable by Advanced UAV, but removes direction.	24
Pointman	Multiplayer: Killstreaks are earned through game score instead of number of kills. Warzone: All members of your team earn more money from completed missions. No effect in Warzone Rumble - Counter UAVs and UAVs only give 100 score max per use. - Advanced UAVs and White Phosphorus only give 150 score max per use.	49

Perk 3 List

Perk	Description	Unlock Level
Tune Up	Reduce the charge time of field upgrades by 40% Warzone: Reduce revive time by 25%.	1
Amped	Faster weapon swap and rocket launcher reload speed. - Does not affect swapping to pistols and knives. - Most equipment is used faster.	1
Shrapnel	Spawn with an extra piece of lethal equipment. Explosive damage delays enemy health regeneration. - Regeneration delay is 3 seconds.	13
Battle Hardened	Reduce strength of enemy flash, stun, EMP, and gas effects. Immune to Snapshot Grenades.	26
Spotter	See enemy equipment, field upgrades, and killstreaks through walls. Mark them for your team by aiming down sights. Hack enemy Claymores, Proximity Mines, C4, and Trophy Systems. - Advanced UAVs cannot be marked.	38
Tracker	Enemies leave behind a footprint trail. See markers at enemy death locations, and hide the death markers of enemy you kill.	51

Best Perks To Be Equipped

Best Perk 1 Perks

Perk	Description
E.O.D.	Take reduced damage from non-killstreak explosives and fire. Hack enemy Claymores, Proximity Mines, and C4.
Scavenger	Resupply ammo from dead players.
Quick Fix	Killing players immediately starts health regeneration. Capturing and holding objectives increases your health regeneration rate.

E.O.D. Protects Against Explosives

Getting blown up often? Prevent being killed by Claymores, Proximity Mines, and C4 with the E.O.D perk! This perk will let you to take less non-killstreak explosion damage, allowing you to survive such attacks.

Keep Up The Fight With Scavenger

Weapons with a high fire rate might run out of ammo in the middle of a Killstreak. Replenish your ammo from enemies using the Scavenger perk to keep the streak alive, and avoid the getting a higher chance of being buzzkilled!

Recover Faster For Doing What You Always Do

Conditions that trigger the Quick Fix perk are: killing players, capturing objectives, and holding objectives. These are what you do most of the time during a match. Heal faster for doing nothing other than what you normally do in a match!

Best Perk 2 Perks

Perk	Description
Hardline	Your killstreaks cost 1 less kill.
Ghost	Undetectable by UAVs, Rader Drones, Heartbeat Sensors, and High Alert. Hide the death markers of enemies you kill.

1 Killstreak Cost Could Be Huge

The Hardline perk lowers the cost of your Killstreak by 1, which could be the difference between getting a sweet sweet Infantry Assault Vehicle, or getting respawned empty-handed. It also greatly lowers the bar for Personal Radar to just 2 kills to use.

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Also Helps With Specialist Perk

Hardline also reduces the requirement for specialist perks (see below) to take effect. In other words, you will only need 1 kill to activate your first specialist perk!

Avoid Digital Surveillance With Ghost

UAVs and personal radars are the easiest killstreaks to get, meaning that they will frequently give your position away. Hide your presence from them with the Ghost Perk.

Best Perk 3 Perks

Perk	Description
Shrapnel	Spawn with an extra piece of lethal equipment. Explosive damage delays enemy health regeneration.
Tracker	Enemies leave behind a footprint trail. See markers at enemy death locations, and hide the death markers of enemy you kill.

Extra Lethal Can Be Handy

Who can say no to another Lethal Equipment? Having 2 Molotov Cocktails, 2 C4s, or 2 Claymores will greatly increase your tactical options.

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Stop Kill Markers Of your Kills With Tracker

Tracker perk lets you see enemy tracks, giving you a heads-up on where they can potentially be. The biggest advantage however is being able to hide the death markers of your kills, thus not alerting the enemy team of your whereabouts.

Perks Explained - How To Unlock & Use

Perks are like a buff/debuff which passively effects you or your opponents while playing multiplayer. You have 3 perk slots and you can choose 1 perk per each slots according to your style of play. Change them out at Custom Loadouts.

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Unlock Perks

Leveling up your rank will unlock various Perks that you can use in various multiplayer game modes. These include Perks, equipment, weapons, and more.

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Warzone: Only Get Perks Through Loadout Drops

Only way to get perks in Battle Royale Mode is through Loadout Drops obtained from Buy Stations. It costs cash looted in-game to acquire.

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What Are Specialist Perks & Mode?

More Perks That Activates Every 2 Kills

Perks That Activates Based On Your Killstreak

With Specialist Mode is tuned on, you get 3 Specialist Perks that activates when you reach the kill count within a match. A Specialist Bonus is provided after 8 kills. Their benefits are lost when you are killed, and has to be re-established.

Unlocked At Rank 29

You can unlock Specialist Mode & Perks upon reaching Rank 29 of the Enlisted Ranks. You get 3 Specialist perk slot, which activates in sequence of 2, 4, and 6 kills. Designate them in your Custom Loadouts.

Choose Any Perks You Want

Unlike normal perks, Specialist perk slots are not restricted by the perk category, so. you can choose any perks you have unlocked to occupy a Specialist perk slot! However, you must have unlocked the perk first in order to choose it.

Killstreak Is Disabled With Specialist Mode

When Specialist Mode is activated, Killstreaks are disabled. You can offset this by preparing another custom loadout that has Specialist Mode turned off that you can switch to if Killstreaks are needed.

Not Available In Warzone

Keep in mind that the Specialist Perk will not have any affect in any of the Warzone game modes. If one of your loadouts has Specialist, it would be better to switch to another loadout, or swap out Specialist with a different Perk!

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Best Specialist Perks To Be Equipped

Perk	Description
Double Time	Double the duration of Tactical Sprint. Increase crouch movement speed by 30%
Scavenger	Resupply ammo from dead players.
Tune Up	Reduce the charge time of field upgrades by 33%
Battle Hardened	Reduce strength of enemy flash, stun and EMP effects.

Perks That Provide Benefits Instantly

Choose specialist perks that will be able to provide you with instant benefits, or boost your defenses. This is because by this time, you should have already made a perk build.

Avoid Assigning Essential Build Perks As Specialist Perks

Don't put perks that are essential to your build into Specialist Perk slots, as this will make the build unreliable. For example, don't put Ghost perks into your Specialist perk slot when you're making a stealth build hoping it would work.