When the first screen shots appeared, i thought, cool, finally a new type of sight but why the hell does this thing come with an Osprey pistol silencer? Some googling then showed me that this is no pistol silencer and it is in fact available to the UMP45. Another oddity is that the Ump45 in the game has a 30 round magazine which is possible, yet very uncommon. All this makes me want to give the developers a lot of credit for not just copy pasting cooky cutter versions of guns but actually taking the time to come up with less common variations. Well played devs..well played! Restecp!
Okay, So, the UMP looks cool as fuck, but then screen shots appeared showing the collimator's true beauty and i got to admit, i got a funny feeling in my weenie. I'm usually a big eotech fan for my guns but damn...this collimator rocks, not only does it show well when using thermal vision, it also does not obstruct your view.
Soon after the screen shots, the first in game video's appeared and this got me even more curious, people were hip firing this thing and dropping people with ease. Furthermore, the videos showed that the UMP had a very easy wtask of only 10 triples. So, to make a long story short, i bought this gun the second it was available. And i tasked it... twice! (damn progress saving bug reset my wtask..thxdevs :p ).
So, the gun is pretty and has an awesome collimator, but is it any good?
To answer this, i have to give you my opinion about the game's current condition. I (mostly an evac player) am convinced that after the new level brackets Contract wars has become a battle of the dps. The higher dps a weapon has, the higher your KD Unless you are a pro shot (which I'm not). And i have been experimenting with the highest ranking dps guns.
The UMP's stats.
Accuracy can be pumped to 98% when tasked, this is enough (SR3M has worse accuracy but still rocks) The UMP45 is accurate enough to hip fire up to medium ranges.
Recoil, pretty high, but when firing in bursts, very manageable and when using firestab; very sweet! Since i decided to unlock firestab, a little recoil is something i actually like in my rifles.
Mobility and reload speed are very decent, but one should expect this from a SMG
DPS (damage and fire rate combined) is fairly low. I have tasked the gun and did some comparing on both evac and interchange, where i would get 2.5-3 K/D with the UMP, i would under the same conditions get a 4-7 K/D with my p90 Devgru or X95.
The range of the UMP45 is also very low. This being said however is that it's minimum damage is higher then the As VAL mod 3, Noveske and P90 Devgru and only 1 point less then the Sr3m, meaning that even at large range, this gun is still deadly, especially with damage buffs!
Penetration, is fairly high but this is needed to compensate for it's lack of dps. (yeah i know, i had el buffo del penetracìon.... rented it to speed up the wtask process. Penetration and even boosters dont appeal to me no longer since i'm extremely busy with other duties i perform for the CW community..these duties cause my buffs to expire without the chance of actively using them)
Wtask : 10 tripplekills, which mean 5 tripplekills with wtask mastery and this in return translates into 2 Banana's so this wtask is easy as hell! (unless you do them on TUR servers and find yourself stripped of all progress)
Conclusion : In the hands of a pro, this gun is extremely deadly, in the hands of a big old noob like me, this weapon is not the most ideal gun.
As i said before i am a firm believer that DPS is what you want and when it comes to dps: Sr3M > x95 > AsVal mod3 > P9devgru >= Acr-C >Noveske>mp7>9a-91>>>Ump45 (skipped a few weapons that had no silencer or are less popular or will litter your facebook account with false friends)
What does surprise me is the fact that this gun has a slightly better dps then the Vityaz. Sure the Vityaz mobility and reload speed are superior to the UMP's but compare the damage drop vs range of the Vityaz. No mobility or reload speed can make up for this huge loss of damage!
Also, the Vityaz has 1 recoil, making it a good weapon for people without firestab, but to those who know how to burst or have firestab, the UMP is superior. In fact, stats alone make me feel the UMP has made the Vityaz an obsolete weapon.
To me, the UMP will probably end up in my "toys" section and will not be the viable multipurpose weapon i hoped for. Mind you that the UMP in the hands of someone with better aiming qualities then me will most likely find this one powerful gun.
