The brand-new JAK Maglift Kit has released for the Haymaker, catching a few balance changes within hours of its release! The JAK Maglift ups the Haymaker's magazine capacity to a whopping 60 rounds and adds a Binary Trigger - which means you fire on both trigger pull and trigger release, doubling the Haymaker's rate of fire. It might have been difficult to get used to the Binary Trigger on the COR-45, but the Haymaker doesn't require silly things like skill and aim to use, so just spam the trigger as fast as possible and laugh as your targets fall over.
Best Haymaker Conversion Kit Build
While the Advanced Stats may report funny things about the damage profiles, what you need to know is that you're looking at an approximate 5 shot kill up to 21 meters with an approximate 480ms TTK - according to shotgun fanatic Elgoomtaf's early testing. 480ms is a completely uncompetitive TTK so this might sound fine, but the Haymaker can literally be used on autopilot. It has a massive magazine and exceptional Hipfire performance along with the enhanced mobility and reaction times that come from a Hipfire-only playstyle.
- Conversion Kit: JAK Maglift Kit
- Muzzle: SA Schweigen DX
- Laser: Verdant Hook Box Laser
- Stock: No Stock Mod
- Grip: Molten Assault Grip
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Base | New | Base | New | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Pellet Spread | 3.0° | 2.4° | Capacity | 8 rounds | 60 rounds |
Hipfire Min | 5.8° | 1.8° | Movement | 4.9 m/s | 5.2 m/s |
Hipfire Max | 7.3° | 3.2° | Sprint | 5.5 m/s | 5.7 m/s |
Sprint to Fire | 262ms | 175ms | TacSprint | 6.9 m/s | 7.2 m/s |
About the Haymaker Build
To state upfront, this is a Hipfire-only build, but we won't be using too many Hipfire attachments for reasons I will cover soon!
The JAK Maglift Kit itself adds a 20% reduction to your Pellet Spread - half the strength of the best-in-slot Crown Breaker Choke, but it also grants absolutely massive Hipfire and Tacstance bonuses. To briefly speak on TacStance - don't do it; not even once. Tacstance is always 12% faster than ADS, and the ADS with this build is 469ms. It has been purpose-built for Hipfire, so stick to Hipfire - even on distant targets. You don't need accuracy when you have raw power, so maximize your mobility by keeping it at the hip.
Since we aren't forced to use a choke, we can instead use the SA Schweigen DX Silencer - one of the most important parts of this build. People are going to be very annoyed by anyone using this Shotgun and hyper-alert of the recognizable doof-doof-doof-doof and will definitely play differently to counter this weapon. Adding a suppressor in place of a choke allows your shots to get lost in the chaos of battle and of course, keep you off the minimap - upon hearing the Haymaker, any decent player will immediately check their minimap for it.
The SA Schweigen DX is also doubly effective considering that it adds 7% recoil reduction across the board, which is helpful in mitigating the recoil penalties of No Stock. While it does slightly reduce your Damage Range, -3% is the smallest, most forgettable penalty, and it doesn't even make a difference anyway. Your 4-shot kill range is a paltry 2.3 meters, and everything beyond that is 5 shots up to 21 meters. Losing 3% of 2.3 meters is math not even worth calculating. No Stock has multiple important uses, and naturally it helps to offset the mobility loss of a 60-round drum, but most importantly adds a massive 19% reduction to your Sprint to Fire time - and S2F is of utmost importance to the Hipfire playstyle.
The Molten Assault Grip adds the next-best reduction to S2F available and synergizes well with No Stock by adding an additional reduction to recoil. Don't underestimate the recoil: with the elevated fire rate and No Stock exasperating kick, the muzzle will actually climb so fast it will outpace your Hipfire reticle - meaning your pellets will start to land above your reticle. This is easily compensated for by simply pulling down on your thumbstick or mouse, but there's also a fair amount of horizontal kick - so lightly mitigating the recoil with a few attachments goes a long way.
Finally, the Verdant Hook Box Laser is the best, most balanced laser, adding a great amount of S2F (top priority) and outstanding Hipfire bonuses - a perfect compliment for our playstyle. While I would strongly prefer not to have a visible laser, there realistically were not any other options at this point - the short barrel adds a bit too much recoil, and no Underbarrels increase both S2F and Hipfire performance.
Now, why didn't we use more Hipfire attachments - namely the Bruen Bastion Angled Grip, the best Hipfire & TacStance attachment?
The JAK Maglift Kit does a ton of heavy lifting with both Hipfire and Pellet Spread, and if you add an actual Shotgun choke, such as the Crown Breaker, the Haymaker will actually become too accurate and humorously too hard to use. The spread will be so tight that trying to place shots on rapidly-moving targets is... rather unideal - so you actually don't want the Haymaker on its best Hipfire and Pellet Spread performance. Instead, we can really dial in on S2F and accentuate the Hipfire playstyle as best we can.
Our Testing Process: What does "Mathematically Optimized" mean?
It means that I have personally conducted over 30 hours of dedicated testing across the entire MW2 & 3 attachment set, endlessly consulted high-quality external resources and databases, and tirelessly tested performance across separate attachment combinations to produce what I believe to be the optimal build of a weapon for a specific purpose. Weapons are carefully crafted considering every possible detail - attempting to deliver the mathematically best possible performance in every category - mobility, handling, recoil, range, and accuracy.
With my builds, I believe you should see creative, never-before-seen uses of attachments that create incredible weapons. Do keep in mind that these weapons will not do the work for you - while they have all been precision-crafted to reduce horizontal recoil as much as possible, some of them still have quite noticeable vertical recoil, and it is on you to manage that vertical recoil correctly. I sincerely hope you enjoy reading about this build and every other build I have to offer on Fanbyte!
DISCLAIMER: If you test these in the Firing Range, please note that the Firing Range is currently glitched and shows more visual recoil and different damage performance than actually experienced in-game; it is best that you test these in a custom match or online.
