If most of the soviets have high capacity machine guns and smgs lategame, the germans should be allowed something good too, not that ugly mg15.
I think a belt fed mg42 may solve this, 75 or 100 rounds but with worse reload speed.
I do have a question though, why is mg42 reload significantly slower than mg34 patronnelmag? It does not make sense and its reload should be buffed, definitely not to mg45 level but somewhere inbetween.
because the 42 is fed by a belt, don’t believe 34pt is
Makes sense, but even then why is the premium mg45 reload done in 3 seconds? P2W?
Lets add belt fed MG42 with 250rounds into the game, while it can’t aim when it is not set up, like RO2, it will be cool.
That is a horrible idea, the soviets will cry
I don’t understand why the MG 42 needs to have one of the longest reload times in the game despite not being too functionally different in the motions necessary to reload the gun.
For reference, even a 100rd Browning 1919A6 can reload under 5 seconds while an MG 42 with half that ammunition count needs roughly 5.6s.
I don’t see a need to compromise on the reload. If anything, all high-capacity LMGs should have very similar long reloads. The DT-29 is a blatant outlier with a 3 second reload.
German mgs eat up ammo very fast and they are harder to control than soviet ones.
Extra 25 bullets wont change anything
Oh man I love those guys. They can also build both light and heavy MG nests
I thought MG 42 belts only came in multiples of 50 rounds irl
A German squad circa 1941 had a gunner with loaded 50-round Gurttrommel, an assistant gunner with 4 more 50-round drums and a 300-round ammo box. Then there was an ammunition bearer with 2 more ammo boxes.
The ammo box had one belt of 4× 50-round segments on top oriented towards the direction of fire, and one belt of 2× 50-rounds below that.
from battlefield reddit.
I’d love for most MGs and definitely AT rifles to behave like this
Didn’t the 50 round belts link together? Or am I maybe confusing it for the MG3?
they did, but cause of non disintegrating belts they werent used that much.
They did.
And MG3 is esentially MG42 rechambered for nato rounds + some minor improvements.
Looks has no impact on performance.
Nope, the MG15 has unique spread feature that other MG doesn’t have
I recognise, that currently the only way to add something to one faction either through events or campaign levels.
A new mg for both sides is tricky since Soviets have nothing they could add and western allies already have all of their good machine guns.
But there is no reason Germany couldn’t get a belt fed 100 round MG42 after the merge.
The demand for it is quite big, besides Germany is the only faction that won’t get anything new when the merge drops.
If MGs can’t shoot from the hip or ADS when not mounted then MG gunners would be almost useless most of the time because of 3 things.
The bipod or mounting mechanic in the game doesnt work properly (Some MGs can’t aim downward at all)
Those guys would be almost defenceless prior to getting into position and then they set up stop moving and get headshot because they are a stationary target that gave away their position.
The dispersion of most MGs in the game is really bad since nerf and they would not be as effective as you think they would be at long range.
Increasing the mag size won’t change this. Just build a HMG if you want infinite ammo those guns are better than any MG that infantry can carry.
I’m talking about practical use.
A massive AA sight and unique bloom mechanics that only exist for that particular MG?
Also featuring: Worse handling characteristics, reload, and an unnecessary rate of fire- But hey, you get 25 more bullets in the magazine!