Remington 870 MCS

""Pump action shotgun. Strong damage and range.""

- Description. The Remington 870 MCS is a pump-action shotgun that appears in Call of Duty: Black Ops II. It has an eight shell tubular magazine.

Multiplayer
The Remington 870 MCS is the first shotgun to be unlocked at Level 4. It possesses high range, getting one-shot kills in close-medium range with ADS. It also has a rather quick pump-action, but it still has a slower fire rate than most shotguns in the game. It has slightly higher ROF than KSG.

The Long Barrel attachment is an excellent attachment, increasing its already good range to exceptional ranges for a shotgun. Fast Mags is a good attachment to mitigate its rather slow reload time, but if you reload in between kills, this is not necessary. None of the optical attachments confer any tangible advantage over the iron sights other than an increase in zoom but as shotguns are only really potent at close-medium range, any additional zoom is unnecessary and sometimes a hindrance at such ranges. The Laser Sight is useful at close range as the spread on the Remington 870 MCS is relatively high compared to its peers which means it's only really effective firing from the hip at point-blank range. The Laser Sight is a good asset to increase the consistency of this shotgun up close but given that aiming down the sights greatly reduces the spread coverage area, more so than the laser, it may be best opting for another attachment. The Suppressor is quite effective, as it still has a decent one-hit-kill range.

Zombies
In TranZit mode, the Remington 870 MCS is available off the wall in the barn for 1500 points. It is also available off the outside wall of the building in the survival map Bus Depot. It has a 6-shell capacity, as opposed to it's multiplayer counterpart's 8-shell capacity. It is not as powerful as the Stakeout was, taking two shots at rounds as early as 6. Double Tap is essential for later rounds, because you fire two shots at once without taking another shot, unlike it's predecessor which only increases the fire rate. This gun, after the original 5000 point upgrade, can be upgraded in the Pack-a-Punch Machine numerous times for only 2000 points to cycle through attachments. Once Pack-a-Punched, it becomes the Rettified-870 Mechanical Cranium Sequencer and has a very high one-hit-kill potential at close range.

Attachments

 * Reflex Sight (unlocked weapon level 2)
 * Long Barrel (unlocked weapon level 3)
 * Fast Mag (unlocked weapon level 4)
 * Laser Sight (unlocked weapon level 5)
 * Adjustable Stock (unlocked weapon level 6)
 * Suppressor (unlocked weapon level 7)
 * Extended Clip (unlocked weapon level 8)
 * Quickdraw Handle (unlocked weapon level 9)
 * MMS (unlocked weapon level 10)

Trivia

 * The Remington 870 MCS features a shellholder on either side which the two to the left hold three buckshot shells and at the right, two breaching rounds, none of which can be used.
 * The words "REMINGTON MCS RAIL SYSTEM" are on the side of the rail.
 * The slug shells are upside down in the spare shell holder.
 * There is a design on the right side of the gun that says "THIS LIFE OR THE NEXT", with what appears to be a devil's tail in the middle. Below that is "VENGEANCE, BLACK OPS 2"
 * The Remington Firearms logo is on the right side of the gun.
 * The Remington 870 MCS uses iron sights very similar to the ones on the Model 1887 from MW3.
 * The Remington uses the Quick Draw handle model for its hand grip.