Negev

The Negev is an Israeli machine gun featured in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

Overview

               The IMI Negev is available for both Counter-Terrorists and Terroriststo purchase. It carries a 150-round magazine, has a higher fire rate than the M249, and only costs $2000 after April 12, 2017 (originally, it had the price tag of $5700), compared to the M249's $5200 price tag, but is initially a lot less precise. However, with enough sustained fire, the Negev becomes very accurate and easy to control. This tempts the user to pre-fire the weapon from around a corner to catch enemies by surprise and continue firing until they kill their target.

               When held, the player's movement speed is 150 units per second, meaning they suffer 40% reduction in speed (the highest in the game, even more than the AWP and semi-automatic sniper rifles).  This weapon was not available in Competitive Matchmaking after the March 24, 2017 update, but it was added back following the April 12, 2017 update.

Advantages

Large magazine capacity

Deadly in close range

Very high rate of fire

Instant kill if a headshot is scored (at close range), regardless if a target has a helmet or not

Good for penetrating through walls

Great for eliminating clustered groups of enemies and discouraging enemy rushes

Highly controllable recoil during automatic fire

Overwhelmingly accurate after 10 shots

Great for holding corners

Very cheap

Disadvantages

Highly inaccurate when burst fired.

Extremely inaccurate on its first 15 shots.

Very high intial spread

Extremely heavy

6 second reload time

Example of Negev skin

1. Negev Default

2. Negev Power Loader

3. Negev Loudmouth