Today I was playing a fellow, by the name of Continuum 2, a pretty good player, prestige 2, level 47, who had quite a few level 5 weps, like tunneler, and wall, and also claimed most everything else was, except like heavy shot, roller, back roller. I said I didn't believe that he could level up these weps without being a much higher prestige or having bought wep upgrades, he said he did it just by shooting them. He also said that he didn't wait on prestiging, so...Idk. He was genial enough, but I just have my doubts about that, I don't think you can. what are your guys thoughts on this?
Continuum 2 been there for really long time before the prestige system comes, so it's not that hard to believe that he has these regular weapons at level 5, plus anyone can actually buy weapon upgrade tokens and upgrade them at anytime.
I think any possible answer has been stated already above. I'd like to say though I laugh at the people that actually pay to upgrade shots like shot.
Honestly, I'm almost prestige 3 and I have most standard weapons at 5 or almost 5. But... I didn't have any extra weapons until I was halfway through prestige 1, so I had to use the standard weapons lol.