FG42 should we scrap the weapon from our inventory?

FG 42 is still good, it’s just total garbage for anything past 50 meters.

I still run entire squads with it for the simple fact that most engagements happen under 50 meters, you’re rarely at distances where that dispersion genuinely becomes a problem.

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where are you getting these numbers from?

damn, alright. seems reasonable since its an lmg. really didnt think the devs cared enough to give them different values

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mind telling us how you get them?

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I have a squad with FG42s in Normandy and I don’t see a problem on the gun itself other than actually a killing machine.

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Garand clip caught in 3.6k.

Glossing over how that response to the post you’re replying to doesn’t make sense…

Is he handing you a garand clip, or is it just… floating out of the gun through his hand?

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I have a feeling that OP is focused on the FG42 II sniper rifle. Can’t outfit an entire squad with sniper rifles I could be wrong, but yeah, the FG42 rifle is a great weapon. Not sure if I’m alone in this but when I outfit a sniper with the FG42 II, I 1st remove the scope and use him as a rifleman.

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Yeah, the FG42 is a great weapon, and it wouldn’t be OP if it were limited to gunners. Being able to put them on snipers too just exacerbates the spam problem. I can’t deny, it looks fun, and I understand why axis players do it, but it’s damned annoying to fight against a guy who’s stacked his teams with FGs.

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there almost impossible to defeat

FG42 spammers in Berlin can be fought with PPSh as Soviets but Normandy is a different story since the Allies don’t have something other than the Thompsons and the M2 Carbines that were limited by the magazine capacity.

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I still don’t undestrand why they made the fg42 the standard battle rifle, wtf the gewher is there for?

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Yeah, the soviet arsenal in berlin has plenty of answers for the FG42, but you’re right, Allies Normandy just … doesn’t. It outranges the Thompson and has lower TTK, it outranges the M2 with a faster TTK and significantly better recoil. Our closet competition for it is the BAR, and we can’t throw enough of those at the wall to make them stick.

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TS is probably speaking about sniper FG 42 II which was nerfed heavily with LMG nerf.

If devs didn’t change anything then FG 2 in Normandy really has big dispersion and it’s hard to hit targets on mid-long distances. In Berlin it works fine as first version FG.

i dont see what is the problem here. in normandy i use both kar98 scoped and fg42 II simultaneously for sniper. fg42 II is perfect for close /mid range sniping and when capitalist are running too far ill just switch to kar98 and no problem

This, I think a lot of players confuse that high tier stuff always has to be better. That is also why I mostly use the Kar 98 scoped in Normandy as well, because it is way more reliable than the FG 42 II is (at distance!).

It’s a select fire battle rifle. It should be rare and not useable by most troops but it shouldn’t be randomly nerfed.

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It’s about as accurate as bara1 with dispersion

Yep, that’s true. Luckly the Fg 42 is no mg but an assault rifle.

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