MK22
MK22 is a sniper rifle in WARDOGS, chambered in .308 Win. It does 45 damage per round at 46 rounds per minute, with a muzzle velocity of 894 m/s and an effective range of 1000 m. It weighs 6.3 kg. It costs $6,400 and unlocks at Recon Lvl 25. On the tier list it is B tier.
Details
- Category
- Sniper rifle
- Price
- $6,400
- Share of $10,000 budget
- 64%
- Unlocks at
- Recon Lvl 25
- Unlock cost
- $150,000
- Rewards
- Recon XP
- Weight
- 6.3 kg
- Tier list
- B tier, #23 of 37
Weapon stats
- Damage per round
- 45
- Rate of fire
- 46 rpm
- Fire modes
- Semi
- Muzzle velocity
- 894 m/s
- Effective range
- 1000 m
- Accuracy
- 0.16 mrad
- Deviation
- 4°
- Zeroing
- 100–300 m
- Melee damage
- 40
- Suppression
- ×1.6
The platform's own figures from the game files, before any attachment moves them. 1 mrad is about 10 cm of spread at 100 m.
Shots to kill
| Target wears | Body shots | Body TTK | Head shots | Head TTK |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No armour | 2 | 1,304 ms | 1 | Instant |
| Level 1 | 3 | 2,609 ms | 1 | Instant |
| Level 2 | 3 | 2,609 ms | 2 | 1,304 ms |
| Level 3 | 4 | 3,913 ms | 2 | 1,304 ms |
| Level 4 | 4 | 3,913 ms | 2 | 1,304 ms |
Every round on target, standard (FMJ) ammo, zero range, 100-health target. Head hits use the helmet of the same level. Damage falloff is not decoded, so long-range figures are a floor.
In-game vendor card
MK22
Sniper rifles
6.3 kg
$6,400
- –Bolt-action / Magazine fed
- –.308 Win
RewardsRecon XP
Precision sniper rifle that excels in taking down armored individuals over long distances.
Reach Recon Lvl 25
Unlock: $150,000
The vendor's own card, as shown in the Closed Alpha. The level it opens at and the one-off unlock come from a progression snapshot dated 2 September 2026, and are reported rather than confirmed.
Attachments
Magazines
1Changes aim time, horizontal recoil and vertical recoil. The build names the attributes; it does not publish the amounts, so neither do we.
| Magazine | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| $30 | ||
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Optics
15All 15 change ADS zoom and aim time. The build names the attributes; it does not publish the amounts, so neither do we.
| Optic | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| $820 | ||
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| $580 | ||
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| $520 | ||
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| $840 | ||
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| $650 | ||
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| $640 | ||
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| $740 | ||
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| $880 | ||
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| $860 | ||
| $1,650 | ||
| $680 | ||
| — | ||
| $1,800 | ||
| — | ||
| $850 | ||
Foregrips
1Changes aim time, horizontal recoil, spread and vertical recoil. The build names the attributes; it does not publish the amounts, so neither do we.
| Foregrip | Price | |
|---|---|---|
| $1,400 | ||
| View attachment | ||
These are the attachments the game pairs with the MK22 in the alpha. The pairing is the game's own rather than a menu we opened, so read it as what the game associates with this weapon — accurate to the build, and worth checking in game before you plan a loadout around it.
Ammunition
The MK22 fires .308 Winchester, bought separately from the weapon. Which weapons take which calibre is the game's own association rather than a menu we opened, and it agrees across all three places the build records it.
The MK22 itself costs as much as 160 boxes of what it fires, at $40 a box. The spread across calibres runs $10 to $250, wider than the gap between most of the rifles that fire them, so a cheap weapon on an expensive calibre is not a cheap loadout.
| Load | Per round |
|---|---|
| $4 | |
| $18 | |
| $7 |
Per-round prices are arithmetic — a loaded magazine's price minus the empty one's, over its capacity. How much difference each load makes has never been published. Everything we have on .308 Winchester.
At $6,400 the MK22 is 64% of a full loadout budget, leaving $3,600 for everything else you carry. What a complete kit costs.
What “Recon XP” means on that card
WARDOGS has no fixed classes. Progression runs on six XP tracks, and Bulkhead has confirmed they are earned by using specialist gear rather than picked from a menu — so the REWARDS line is not flavour, it is the rule. Carry the MK22 and the XP goes to Recon, whatever the rest of your loadout is doing.
That makes the vendor tab a progression choice as much as a combat one. Every weapon we saw in the alpha pointed at exactly one track, and the tracks split along the vendor tabs: rifles fed Assault, SMGs fed Medic, shotguns and LMGs fed Support, everything long-range fed Recon.
Which is the argument for picking a weapon by what it leaves you rather than by what it does: what a full kit around the MK22 costs decides whether the track is affordable to grind, and where the MK22 lands once cost is the tiebreak is a different question from raw damage.
Six tracks and gear-driven progression are confirmed by Bulkhead. Which weapon feeds which track is our Alpha 1 reading, and it can change.
Other sniper rifles in the vendor
The rest of the tab the MK22 is sold under, cheapest first.
Also earns Recon XP
Different vendor tabs, same progression track — carry any of these and the XP goes to the same place.
Guides that cover the MK22
Where this weapon sits in the game
Where the MK22 ranks
The tier list, and why cost decides it more than damage does.
Complete builds by what they cost
What a full kit around this weapon leaves in the balance.
Every weapon we have recorded
The full Closed Alpha roster, by category.
What a round actually pays
One complete payout, line by line, and the loadout refund on death.