Silenced Submachine Gun

"I guess it'll do. Yeah, whatever, it's a machine gun."

- Ellis

The Silenced Submachine Gun is a submachine gun variant in Left 4 Dead 2. It holds 50 bullets with 650 in reserve, although it burns through ammunition quickly due to its high rate of fire. The Silenced Submachine Gun has greater stopping power than the normal Submachine Gun, but has lower accuracy and higher kickback that makes it a poor weapon for long distance shots.

Tactics

 * Fire in short bursts to conserve ammunition, as it's easy to burn through your ammunition quickly.
 * The lower accuracy of the Silenced SMG requires you to crouch to get any shots at medium range. Avoid shooting long-distance targets, as it's usually a waste of bullets.
 * The Silenced SMG tears through hordes efficiently, as the lowered accuracy doesn't hurt as much.
 * A Magnum works well with a Silenced SMG, giving you a useful long range secondary weapon to snipe Special Infected with, although you can pick up a melee weapon to save ammunition as well.
 * The Laser Sight helps the Silenced SMG significantly, allowing it to pull off longer-distance shots much more easily and take out Special Infected with greater precision.
 * Explosive ammo and Incendiary ammo don't benefit the Silenced SMG as much as they do the normal SMG, as the Silenced SMG's lower accuracy makes it more difficult to get the most out of the upgrade magazines, and the Silenced SMG has more stopping power anyways.

Trivia

 * It is modeled after a MAC-10 with a suppressor attached.
 * The MAC-10 is actually a machine pistol, as seen in Whitaker's gun shop.
 * Despite most weapons being based on guns from Counter-Strike: Source, the Silenced SMG has higher damage and lower accuracy as opposed to silenced weapons in Counter-Strike being more accurate and weaker.
 * According to Valve commentary, the Silenced SMG comes from the criminal underground, which is why it has a suppressor. However, this contradicts the fact that it is available in Whitaker's Gun Shop.
 * Unlike the Submachine gun's flashlight, the Silent SMG's flashlight is attached to the side via cable ties. There is no gameplay difference, however.
 * The fabric strap doesn't seem to move at all, although E3 videos showed the strap moving when running or turning like the rag on a Molotov.