All Modern Warfare 3 Perks: Gear & benefits explained

❘ Updated: 2024-01-03T21:49:59

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Modern Warfare 3’s Perks can drastically change how you play and make for some interesting combinations. Here’s a breakdown of every piece of Gear in MW3, including all their benefits.

While running the best weapons in MW3 is essential when building a loadout, choosing the right Perks is just as important. Sledgehammer Games’ multiplayer launched with plenty of Gear options and even more have arrived since in updates.

So, here’s every Perk in Modern Warfare 3 Season 3 Reloaded as well as the effect of each one.

Every Perk in MW3: All Gear
Is Dead Silence in MW3?

Every Perk in MW3: All Gear

The Perks are broken down into Gear in MW3, and there are four slots for Gear altogether. These four slots are Vest, Gloves, Boots, and Gear. Here’s a full list of them all:

Every MW3 Vest Perk

Here’s every MW3 Vest Perk:

Demolition: Resupply Lethal and Tactical equipment every 25 seconds.
Gunner: Two Primary weapons, deploy with max ammo and improved reload speed.
Engineer: Spot enemy Equipment, Field Upgrades, and Killstreaks through walls. Aiming down sights marks them for the team.
Infantry: Increases Tac Sprint duration and reduces refresh time.
CCT Comms: Increases duration enemies stay on radar and zooms out radar for you and nearby allies. Enemies you kill drop intel packs, which generate a radar ping for you and nearby allies when collected.
Overkill: Mastery of weapon mobility. Increased weapon swap speed. Reload while sprinting. Duplicate effects do not stack.
Assassin: Immune to UAV and enemy radar effect (including while stationary).
Ninja: Eliminate footstep sounds. Grants immunity to movement reduction effects. Bonus Throwing Star and Throwing Knife ammo, resupply every 25 seconds.
Gunslinger: Secondary weapons only. Refreshes stamina after Primary, Secondary, or Throwing Knife/Star kill. Faster reloads. Increased weapon swap speeds. Deploy with maximum Pistol ammo.
Modular Assault Rig: Deploy with max ammo for all Primary weapons and Pistols.
Compression Carrier: Regen health after Primary, Secondary, or Throwing Knife/Star kill. Capturing objectives also starts health regen. Reduces effect of Stun, Flash, and Gas Grenades. Immunity to Shock, EMP, and Snapshot Grenades.

Every MW3 Glove Perk

Here are all the Glove Perks available in MW3:

Quick-Grip: Increased weapon swap speed.
Scavenger: Resupply ammunition and throwing knives from dead players.
Commando: Reload while sprinting.
Ordnance: Throw equipment farther. Reset fuse timer on thrown-back grenades.
Marksman: Reduced sway and flinch while ADS.
Assault: While jumping, accuracy and time to ADS are improved.

Every MW3 Boot Perk

Here’s every Modern Warfare 3 Boot Perk:

Lightweight: Increases movement and swim speed, and reduces noise while swimming.
All-Terrain: Significantly increase movement speed. Disables Tactical Sprint.
Stalker: Increased strafe and ADS movement speed.
Tactical Pads: Increases slide distance and allows for full ADS while sliding. Increases stance transition speeds and crouched movement speed.
Covert Sneakers: Eliminates footstep sounds
Running Sneakers: Increases Tac Sprint duration and reduces refresh time.
Reinforced: Immune to movement reduction effects.

Every MW3 Gear Perk

Here are all the Modern Warfare 3 Gear Perks:

EOD Padding: Reduces damage from non-Killstreak explosives and fire.
Tac Mask: Reduces strength of enemy flash, stun, and Gas Grenades. Immunity to shock, EMP, and Snapshot Grenades.
Mission Control Comlink: Reduce Killstreak cost by 1. Reduce Scorestreak cost by 125.
Bone Conduction Headset: Reduces combat noise, allowing improved identification of enemy footsteps and gunshots.
L/R Detector: Warns of hostile laser and radiation sources
Ghost T/V Camo: While moving, blocks detection from UAVs, enemy radar sources, and Heartbeat Sensors.
Mag Holster: Improved reload speed.
Blacklight Flashlight: Shows recent enemy footsteps.
Threat Identification System: While ADS, automatically pings enemy locations in crosshairs.
Data Jacker: Enemies you kill drop a smartphone. Collecting the smartphone generates a radar ping from that location.
Signal Jammer: Emits a signal disrupting placed enemy claymores and mines. Warns of nearby enemy equipment.
Hijacked IFF Strobe: Undetectable by AI targeting systems and thermal optics. Does not highlight in enemy Tactical Cameras or Recon Drones.
High-Gain Antenna: The minimap is zoomed out for you and nearby teammates. Enemies firing unsuppressed weapons stay on minimap for longer. You and nearby allies see radar pings from Data Jacker and Signal Jammers.

The Gear Perk system is more contextual, as the Perks you gain from the Gear relate to the area of the body they have been added to. While the Boots will aid movement, the Vest will give you benefits such as Resupply, as your Operator will hold Equipment in their Vest.

Is Dead Silence in MW3?

Yes, Dead Silence is in Modern Warfare 3 as a Field Upgrade. You can also get a similar effect with the Covert Sneakers.

If you’d like to see more guides on MW3, make sure you check out: