MAG Guide - Skills and Items

Newly created characters start off with a limited number of weapons, attachments, and gear items available to them. With each new level, you are awarded a skill point which enables you to unlock various items and skills in the Barracks area of the Main Menu.

Skills take 1 point to unlock, weapon attachments and gear items take 2, and weapons take 3 points.

This skill category unlocks items and skills related to assault rifles, improved assault rifles, and battle rifles (collectively called assault rifles).

 · Tier 1

o Assault Rifle: Reload Speed – cuts down the time it takes to reload assault rifles

o Assault Rifle: Foregrip – unlocks foregrips for assault rifles

o Assault Rifle: Reflex Sight – unlocks the red dot sight attachment for assault rifles

o Improved Assault Rifle – unlocks improved assault rifles

o Assault Rifle: Improved Stability – reduces recoil when firing assault rifles

o Assault Rifle: Bipod – unlocks bipod attachments for assault rifles

o Assault Rifle: Steady Aim – reduces the amount of barrel wander while using a sight mounted on assault rifles

o Assault Rifle: ACOG Sight – unlocks the ACOG scope attachment for assault rifles

o Battle Rifle – unlocks battle rifles

o Assault Rifle: Suppressor – unlocks the suppressor attachment for assault rifles

o Grenade Launcher – unlocks the grenade launcher attachment for assault rifles

o Grenade Launcher Reload Speed – makes if quicker to reload grenade launchers

Personal Defense

The Personal Defense category unlocks items and skills related to backup weapons and knives.

o Side-arm: Reload Speed – cuts down the time it takes to reload side-arms

o Side-arm: Swap Speed – reduces the time it takes to swap to your backup weapon

o PDW – unlocks the Personal Defense Weapon (PDW) for use as a backup weapon

o Side-arm: Refire Time – increases the fire rate for side-arms

o Side-arm: Suppressor – unlocks the suppressor attachment for side-arms

o Knives: Improved Swipe Speed – reduces the time between knife attacks

o Knives: Expanded Reach – increases the range that knife attacks hit a target

This category affects base damage resistance and other physical attributes of a character.

o Impact Damage Resistance – reduces the amount of damage taken from falling and vehicle collisions

o Improved Shot Detection – increases the range at which you detect enemy fire

o Increased Endurance – increases the time you can sprint

o Explosives Resistance – reduces the amount of damage taken from explosions (grenades, mines, rockets, etc.)

o Advanced Paratrooper – gives you more control of your parachute when dropping into a mission area

o Chemical Damage Resistance – reduces the amount of damage taken from chemical weapons, like gas grenades

o Improved Stealth – reduces the range that enemies can detect you based on sound and masks you from motion sensors even while running

o Increased Health – gives you more health

The Close Quarters category unlocks items and skills related to shotguns and submachine guns.

o SMG – unlocks the submachine gun

o Shotgun – unlocks the pump-action shotgun

o Close Quarters: Foregrip – unlocks the foregrip attachment used on shotguns

o Shotgun: Improved Stability – reduces the amount of recoil when firing shotguns

o Close Quarters: Reflex Sight – unlocks the reflex site attachment for both shotguns and SMG’s

o Shotgun: Reload Speed – increases the rate at which you reload your shotgun

o Close Quarters: Suppressor – unlocks the suppressor attachment for SMG’s

This category unlocks electronics-based gear items. See the Gear section earlier in this guide for gear descriptions.

The Marksman category unlocks items and skills related to sniper rifles.

o Sniper: Reload Speed – increases the rate you reload sniper rifles

o Sniper: Low Power Scope – unlocks the low power scope

o Assault Rifle: Foregrip – unlocks the foregrip attachment for the designated marksman rifle

o Sniper: Bipod – unlocks the bipod attachment

o Sniper: High Power Scope – unlocks the high power scope

o Improved Sniper Rifle – unlocks the improved sniper rifle

o Sniper: Suppressor – unlocks the suppressor attachment used on designated marksman rifles and sniper rifles

o Sniper: Variable Power Scope – unlocks the variable power scope

This category unlocks items and skills related to machine guns and rocket launchers.

o Machine Gun: Reload Speed – reduces the time it takes to reload machine guns

o Machine Gun: Foregrip – unlocks the foregrip attachment for machine guns

o Machine Gun: Reflex Site – unlocks the reflex site for light machine guns

o Machine Gun: Improved Stability – reduces the amount of recoil when firing machine guns

o Medium Machine Gun – unlocks the medium machine gun

o Machine Gun: Bipod – unlocks the bipod attachment for machine guns

o Rocket Launcher: Reload Speed – reduces the amount of time it takes to reload rocket launchers

o Guided Rocket Launcher – unlocks the guided rocket launcher

The explosives category unlocks items and skills related to explosives. See the Gear section earlier in this guide for gear descriptions

o Mine: Anti-personnel Mine – unlocks anti-personnel mines

o Advanced Grenades – increases the range you can throw grenades

o Mine: Anti-tank Mine – unlocks anti-tank mines

o Advanced Explosives – reduces the time it takes to plant charges at objectives as well as disarm enemy charges

o Poison Gas Grenade – unlocks the poison gas grenades 

o Gear: Medical Kit – unlocks the medical kit gear item

o Improved Repairing – increases the rate at which you repair vehicles and destroyed mission assets

o Resuscitation – allows you to revive incapacitated teammates with the medkit

o Improved Healing – increases the amount that you heal teammates with the medkit

o Improved Resuscitation – revives incapacitated teammates with more health