M417 Combat

"Refitted with a longer barrel to increase muzzle velocity, the M417 Combat cuts through more armor and bodies than its standard counterpart."

- Weapon Description

Overview
The M417 Combat is a Black Market Cosmetic Variant of the M417 and was released during the 12/09/09 patch. It has a slight damage boost from the normal M417, but besides that, all stats are the same.

Ingame
The M417 Combat is better at long range damage because unlike other guns, its bullet damage doesn't decrease. This makes it debatably better than the M416. However, many complain about the strange recoil pattern, which could cause most of your shots to miss or even allow a lucky headshot. One of the best ways to counteract recoil on this, and indead most other high recoil guns, is to aim your mouse in a small circle at short to medium ranges, this will counteract the recoil as such that you can spray fully automatic and get kills very quickly. For long range, tapping is always recommended.

Differences
The M417 Combat has a noticeably longer barrel than the standard M417, and the original shape of the M417 seems to have changed quite alot. However, saying this, it's still easily identifiable.

Cost
1 Day - 900 NX

7 Days - 3,400 NX

30 Days - 6,500 NX

90 Days - 11,900 NX

Permanent - 24,900 NX

Variants
This gun is a variant of the following:


 * M417
 * M417 SB

Trivia

 * For the week of 2/3/10 to 2/10/10, it was offered as a permanent weapon for 24,900 NX.
 * It is one of three Black Market Assault Rifles that are come with a pre-attached scope.
 * In real life, the HK417 is the battle rifle version of the HK416, a Carbine style rifle. similar to the relationship between the M16 and the M4 Carbine