HDK Swordfish

The **HDK Swordfish** (known as the Swordfish in the game files) is a submachine gun in BlastGen. It appears in the first game and its remastered version.

## Campaign

The HDK Swordfish is a rare weapon, sometimes appearing in weapon caches on various missions. Unlike the Multiplayer counterpart, the HDK Swordfish in the Campaign is fully automatic and fires at a rate of 988 RPM. The fast fire rate easily makes it a powerful gun, but it quickly chews through its 25 round magazine and ammo for it is very scarce, though to compensate for this, it starts with 300 spare ammo, or 12 total magazines.

## Multiplayer

The HDK Swordfish is unlocked at Level 9 and is the third submachine gun unlocked. It is unique among the submachine guns, being the only burst firing SMG in the entire game and as such offers slightly more accuracy than other SMGs. The HDK Swordfish fires in 4 round bursts, with each individual bullet in each burst dealing a tiny 15 damage per bullet, or 60 damage if the entire burst connects. This damage profile is awful, even for an SMG, killing in 2 bursts to the chest or just one to the head. Although what it lacks in damage, more than makes up for it in the accuracy department. The HDK Swordfish has very minimal recoil per shot and has just a slight kick to each burst. As such, the HDK Swordfish functions well even in medium range combat which other SMGs would be less effective, though the hip fire cone is rather high, and expands very quickly when firing rapidly. The HDK Swordfish also sports the best range in its class, with damage starting to drop off at about 70 meters. Despite the HDK Swordfish being a burst firing weapon, the fire rate of the HDK Swordfish is rather quick. While the fire rate within the burst is a blistering 1000 RPM, the burst delay is only 1.7 seconds long, making it extremely easy to pull off follow up bursts. The HDK Swordfish has a magazine size of 32 rounds, allowing for 8 bursts to be fired before reloading. This is the second largest ammo capacity for an SMG, with only the KSR-24 surpassing it by just 3 rounds.

The HDK Swordfish has the standard attachment selection for SMGs. Optics are an interesting choice, as they allow the HDK Swordfish to be even more accurate at range, The Foregrip is entirely unnecessary, as the recoil values of the HDK Swordfish are already very low, and as such, it merely works only as decoration. The Suppressor silences the HDK Swordfish and hides the player from the radar when shooting but lowers the damage drop off range to about 60 meters. This decrease is hardly noticeable and is a good fit on the HDK Swordfish. The Laser Sight is good for run and gunning players who desire more accuracy when on the move. Extended Mags increases the magazine size to a gargantuan 48 rounds, for a total of 12 bursts before reloading. This is the highest possible ammo capacity for a SMG with Extended Mags, but is only second to the KSR-24. Overall, the HDK Swordfish is a rather odd weapon in the SMG class, and is a popular yet underrated weapon, but is easily bested by the M16A3 due to its higher damage output.

## Zombies

The HDK Swordfish is one of 3 submachine guns available in the sole future map Dead Future. It can be found as a wall buy in the destroyed residence for 1000 points. It functions the same way it does in Multiplayer, being a 4 round burst submachine gun.