The ref gun is essential to battlefield. It can either send out radio signals or use its own infra red beam to do various tasks. Like all other guns, it has a trigger, LCD screen and 2 buttons to cycle through screens. However, it is the only gun to not have a muzzle flash.

Radio functions:

• Start / stop game
• Pause / resume

IR functions:

• Set HP – can be from 1 to 99 (or even invulnerable) with set intervals such as 5, 8, 10, 15, 20 etc
• Set difficulty
• Change emulation
• Interrogate – find out the current HP, hits and kills of a user by shooting at them
• Shooting mode
• Killing mode
• Jam weapon
• Revive – only works if the player has started the current game and has 0 lives.
• Reload – fill up a user’s magazine allocation, useful for when guns have a glitch and are set to only 6 reloads
• New mission – completely resets a user’s score and HP. Can also be used to start a player’s gun if it does not respond to the mission start radio signal. Also used when a game mode requires one team to be started before another (e.g border or base assault)