FG42 should we scrap the weapon from our inventory?

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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Well technically (in real life) it is an “all purpose rifle”. The Luftwaffe, asked for a weapon that is as accurate as the Kar 98 (the FG achieves that as it shoots with an closed bolt on single fire) but also to some extend the MG34 (in auto it fires with an open bolt).