It’s a decent bet that from all the weapons you’ve picked up from fallen adversaries in Call Of Duty MW3, probably less than one in a hundred times you’ve ended up with the L86 LSW in your hands! It’s the very first light machine gun that is accessible in the game which leaves most people assuming it isn’t great.
It is honestly a seriously heavy and slow gun with lots of recoil and hardly anyone will bother levelling it up to the time at which the most awesome attachment unlocks. The odd thing is that this attachment is otherwise not very easy to use on many other guns! So what do you get when you cross the worst machine gun with the worst attachment? Just the very best combination in the entire game!
That’s right, put the Thermal Scope on the L86 LSW and it will become a machine gun sniper. Using this scope in combination with the Grip attachment will mean you can be standing fully erect and be opening fire on a person at the other end of the map and your aim will stay completely on target. Some have suggested it’s like a lazer, I prefer to think of it as a machine sniper!
I actually like to run this LMG without the grip, instead using the silencer (with the attachments perk). The the recoil is still heavily suppressed by the thermal and having the silencer you can sneak around the map picking people off from the shadows. No red dot on the map from me thanks very much!
I have in fact completely included this gun with my “ghost” class, combining it with Blind Eye Pro, Assassin Pro and Stalker Pro. Like this I stay off the map, off the radars and with the additional damage to air support that blind eye pro grants you makes it a quick job to pick them off out of the sky.
So what are you waiting for? Slip in your MW3 disc and begin levelling your LSW up so you can get that thermal scope going on and you can start pwning all the noobs!