This was your first mistake and the Soviets LOVE trainstration due to how many opportunities to spawn camp there is.
I’m grinding VG-1-5 and the 144k experience it requires is taking me 3 times as long as it does to grind as Soviets.
It’s honestly awful and the most unbalanced campaign in the game.
beretta m38 (40 rounds) is a strong (late campaign) ppd rival:
either way. vg1-5 is a good gun. isnt ment to close quarters as a ppd. but its a good one non the less.
if I join germans I am instantly put into a match, one that is usually already being lost. If I join soviets I spend a few minutes matchmaking before getting put into a surefire victory. :l
“just slog through and get raped for 24 campaign levels then you get something remotely close to a PPD xDDDD”
not a solution.
i know… when we loose, we loose big time. we are crushed. but when we win its usually on the first or last checkpoint in invasion.
there is no mid term in this game. either win by a large margin or loose like a retard.
there is no in-between balance.
well right now is… a late late late solution…
It COULD be a good weapon if it were in the hands of troopers… but why sacrifice a fully automatic smg on one of your few assaulters to give them a sub par semi auto weapon? It’s what I don’t get…
donno. i only had it on a few of my soldiers. trully because i enjoy to play with it. but you are on point. there is no reason to sacrifice a assaulter with it.
would be a great gun as a trooper one.
if stg comes as alpha did only as an assauter weapon, there ill be no reason to run smg’s on assaulters. making both (vg1.5 and smg’s) obsolete.ence some people asking for a separated type of class just for the assault guns (stg’s ,mp43s /I , fedorovs, avs and so on)
also, some people rightnow run shotguns on their assaulters … 
i m noticing them more and more…
Ah yes, the lvl 29 SMG is a good match for the sovjets lvl 20 smg… While the sovjet lvl 29 gun is a good match for this
I really want to know how many people will ever grind through this hell hole of glorious sovjet masturbation aid, just to get a gun that is equal to a sovjet gun that is almost 1 mio. XP before it in the sovjet progess (and I am not kidding, its 972’000 XP difference)
And the 2 Mag MP40 isn’t really up there either, since you have to fiddle around with your gun after the first 32 bullets (which you cannot do earlier than after full depletion of your first mag, so if you have a few bullets left in your first mag, you either waste those or do a long reload).
And there are a few things that make it obvious that the devs DONT WANT the VG1-5 to be useful in any way… I mean why does the 7.92 kurz have smoke trails? after 5 rapid shots you can only guess where the target has moved. Answer me just that… Why the goddamn smoke trails…
lol X) its actually level 25, but i get your point, and as i stated "a late late late counterpart ".
its too late to be efective on large scale. but non the less. its an effective gun.
if i recall correcly , smoke trails were present in alpha in all weapons / grenades, and tank shells / mgs.
even mortars had smoke trails making them visible in the sky. (depending on your grafical setings ingame)
the model probably did come as it was from alpha. thats the reason. would probably be revised at later update coz its the only one doing it as all alpha weapons did a year or more ago.
Feels SO good to be on the right side of history and literally crush people without even trying lmao.
current win streak with soviets: 5
Longest win streak with soviets: 11
as i stated, its the right time to grind soviets, and will probably be for a long long time.
I didn’t know that, thanks for the explanation about the smoke.
However the Thompson and the VG1-5 are the only ones I have, that seem to produce these smoke trails and I don’t think they are the only guns that made it into the beta ^^
Still, I am absolutely convinced that shirtless putin was standing behind the devs with a Makarov in his right and a bottle of vodka in his left, whispering into their ears to remind them in what glorious country they live in, when they released the last update for berlin.
Beretta is a disgusting weapon. T-shaped sight, huge muzzle flame, visual sight shake (although recoil is minimal), and only 3 magazines to spare.
I played with M38 in Normandy and my assaults have MP35 because it is much better - more damage, more convenient sight, no visual shake of the sight when shooting, 5 magazines of ammo in reserve
I absolutely do not understand why it is a level 29\26, even though the weapon is extremely uncomfortable.
i disagre. but thats just my honest opinion. i find it to be the best smg right now on axis side in berlin (after my trusty mp40/I). but, thats just me… in normandy a schmeisser mk36 is by far my favorite, mp28 (extender mag) from the premium squad or zk-383 as non premium are strong candidates.
as the berreta m38, the T shaped sight its also usefull (imo) to place a good concentration of shots in a target… also having 40/200 with large ammo pouches its a good setup to run and gun like a retard.
this is just some random playtest of mine:
i donno if its exacly the same as normandy, didnt even check it, but its a nice one to have in berlin.
vg1-5 was also avaiable to radioman back in alpha…
I felt the same way when I first unlocked the M38 (my favourite was the ZK-383 before).
But after some time with it I mostly favour the M38, but i find myself often swapping it in and out again for the ZK-383.
Running the ZK-383 just gives you the option of bringing 3 explosive charges for those really annoying tanks. But when they are dumb enough that 1 is enough, I like to run the M38.
And I agree with Shiivex Schmeisser Mk36 for life! (I got 3 of them ^^)
It’s probably also because the newbies who left ‘pick any team’ on are mostly getting placed into the Axis team on Berlin.
Yeah bro totally the 1.8 extra damage totally ones shots people to the chest, poor Germany suffers it’s totally not like the German 9mm parabelum guns has way better controllability and firerate, or that Germany outclasses or is at least equal to the US in all firearms except the PIAT vs the sturmpistole which might not even be classified as one
Germany only main of course he’s not
same for me over some comments where i needed to stick pictures, and on a post as well.
( and a little reminder, the forum got updated today 
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either way, LF for berlin is somewhat similar, expet germans do not lose every single match.
VG1-5 should have been the gun everyone gets instead of the FG42 tbh
