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Ok so as many of you know, the M4 carbine is not present in MW2 and was instead replaced by the M4A1...but on a couple of occasions while playing MW2 I actually picked up the M4 carbine from a dead player and used it...I thought that this gun wasn't present in the game...does anyone know how to unlock it?



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They're essentially the same gun.  What you picked up was the M4A1. 



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M4A1 is a Carbine.

The entire M4 nomenclature is a carbine version of the M16 seriers.

I believe the A1 and A2 desigators are for 1 being fully automatic (A-1 MW version), The A2 is what is standard issue in the army, 3 -round burst. I am an officer in the Army and I do not know of any units that are actually issued the Fully Auto version. However, I am sure Special Forces and such have the option to get it (they get pretty much whatever they want)

I am friends with some Rangers, and they were not issued A-1s, I am sure the reason IW choose the A1 was to make it more distict from the M16 A4



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KylieDog said:

Possibly some dev only thing, in Battlefield Bad Company 2 you cannot put scopes on the G3 or M4 but I've picked up the kit of a dev a few times and found a scope on one.

I want to knife a dev =( Too bad they don't fix it...

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I've solved the conspiracy!



Final-Fan said:

They're essentially the same gun.  What you picked up was the M4A1. 


They are very similar, but I'm sure what I picked up was the M4...I'm not sure how people get their hands on it



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stewroids said:
Final-Fan said:

They're essentially the same gun.  What you picked up was the M4A1. 

They are very similar, but I'm sure what I picked up was the M4...I'm not sure how people get their hands on it

You looked at the text description and it said "M4" not "M4A1"? 



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Final-Fan said:
stewroids said:
Final-Fan said:

They're essentially the same gun.  What you picked up was the M4A1. 

They are very similar, but I'm sure what I picked up was the M4...I'm not sure how people get their hands on it

You looked at the text description and it said "M4" not "M4A1"? 

Yes...I am absolutely, 100 percent sure that the text description said M4...when I picked it up, it was the M4 carbine from COD4 in MW2, with the ACOG scope attached to it.



hmm I never noticed that....



How'd you get my gun....

um what was that screen tearing you say?