Maybe because one is a sniper weapon, the other is a gunner weapon? At least the BAR comes with more than 40 bullets.
Also the M1 Garand sniper which is to match the FG-42 sniper comes with 32 rounds.
8 and 24 spare.
and russian mp’s are not op?..
Oh yeah the Russians have cracked guns, best selection in the game no questions. I mainly reinforce the idea of the US vs Axis weapons.
Oh I do have to agree the Garand is worse than the FG-42. But the FG is nowhere near being the god weapon people claim it to be.
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No, Normandie is perfectly balanced. And m3 grease and M2 carbine are also great weapons, even a little bit OP.
We can talk about the mag yes , but the M2 carbine is 2 shot kill and has 50% more ammo in the mag BUT about 25% more recoil , but needs 100% more ammo to kill ?
I don’t understand why you would prefer this , over FG.
M1 + M2 Carbine are better used to hipfire and spray like a SMG. Lower tier to mid tier M3 Greases are horrific compared to the MP-40. The iron sight is just the icing on the
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The automatic mode of FG42 is junk and it’s nothing but a G43 with a larger magazine.
We can talk about many things but you happened to select those. Yes M2 looks crap stats wise, maybe it is a crap and you shouldn’t use it, or look for the ways how it can be used.
When it comes to MG, in Normandy they are kind of useless, there are very few places where you can deploy them and because of that people tend to use them as SMGs, at which point those stats are not so relevant. They are worse than a dedicated SMG anyway.
At the same time, you have other stuff in Normandy like Jumbos, which require extra consideration to kill, but don’t require any from Jumbo tankers. Then 2 vs 1 air presence and currently broken rockets on BF110. Then PIAT vs Sturmpistole and Greasy gun vs MP40. Which ever stat you find better on German side, you can find another on american.
No. With the fact that LMGs down in a single hit, you can just strafe down a full squad one hit per soldier. Atm, they are at least as effective, if not more effective than SMGs
THANK YOU MAN you got it , you got one of my main point. It’s hard for ViiK to understand apprently
So Viik simply doesn’t understand your truth while you are ignoring some really good points he made?
OK I’ll give you a personal and such subjective view on my experiences with the guns from both sides.
I’m lvl 26 (Ger) lvl 14(US). Bare with me I’ll get into the details and might end up with a wall of text.
First of all the bolt actions. This is probably one of the more subjective matters but I higly prefere the Springfield, Ross and Enfield to any of the german equivalents besides the Mannlicher which is on the same level for me. The reason for this are the iron sights. The Springfield M1903 with probably the worst of the US iron sights is still magnificent for long range shooting because the post is quiet slim and doesn’t completly cover my target which is a problem for me with a lot of the german sights. The sights on the Ross are good and easy to use for all ranges and the Enfield is just perfect.
The next ones are the Gewehr and the M1. The Gewehr has 2 more bullets in the mag than the M1 in it’s clip but that’s a trade I luckily take! The sights on the G43 are imho terrible While the M1 gives me a great sight picture which makes follow up shots very easy while the recoil behaviour of the G43 together with it’s fat post in a tiny notch sight makes follow up shots not as easy. Oh and of course I’ll be a bit faster on target with the M1 compared to the Gewehr 43. So in my personal opinion the 2 shots less per reload are worht the advantages. Furthermore the G 43 seems to have more dispersion than the M1 but that needs further testing. The G 43 is a good rifle but the M1’s handling beats it.
Thir point: Sniper Rifles: M1903A1/M1903A4/M1+scope vs K98+scope/G43+Scope/FG42 II.
The M 1903A1 is better than the K98 and the A4 is debatable also the better pick compared to the G43 even though both are two different pairs of shoes. Why? The K98 has a x4 Scope while with a bit of historicaly inaccuracy the M1903A1 in an army regiment has a x8 scope which wasn’t used by the Army but my the USMC. x8 instead of X4 is quiet useful and the FoV with the x8 is still good. Omaha is one of the most played maps in the Nomrnady campaign and the x8 can use it’s full potential especially on this map. On top of this the 1903A1 has a noticable higher bullet velocity - a very handy plus on moving targets and also less bullet drop.
G43 and 1903A4 are harder to compare because it’s a semi auto vs a bolt action. First of all I don’t like the sniper variant of the Gewehr 43. On distances where I would use a scoped rifle the G43 only downs with one shot ( if it’s not a headshot) and doesn’t kill. This eats up you ammo and often give the victim a chnace to crawl back behind a corner or into a crater and use his medkit with a good chance that he’ll know where I am and will either avoid my line of sight or will reposition and try toget my ass from a better and maybe unexpected position. The last nail in the coffin for the G 43 as a Sniper is that it essentially needs to be 3 or even 5 star because to get the -15/-35% for accuracy. The A4 is no semi auto and also “only” a x4 Scope but has a really fast time to aim and a different behaviour while switching to the scope sight. It zooms straight in while instead of some milliseconds blackscreen before the scope lowers to the middle of your view. I can’t give you a perfect explanation for it my second language skills are in the way here but GOD this makes “quick scope” easy.
So while the FG42 might have an advantage over the sniper M1 the advantages of the other two rifles keeps the scale in balance. Because even at level 26 with the Gemrans I still use K98 snipers besides FG42 because the FG 42 excells as what we nowadays would call DMR but has to much bullet drop and damage falloff for beating the bolt action at long ranges.
Now SMGs: To get this out f the way in advance: because BETA the Thompson isn’t here yet. The one in the Training area seems to be a CQB monster (assumed it keeps the .45 ACP dmg from the M3) with good burst capability on medium ranges, but we will see when it arrives.
The M3 is a bit a special snowflake for me. It lacks the rof I would like to have for close encounters but a 3* M3A1 solves that problem. 6.8 dmg is amazing and makes it quiet a potent weapon on unexpected ranges IF you get used to the low bullet velocity and the bullet drop. It’s no godlike Russian drum feed laser from Hell but I would prefere the M3 over a MP 28 and a M3A1 over a MP 40 except indoors. Ad doesn’t matter what the numbers say the recoil is very controlable even on the M3A1 with higher rate of fire and it is as accurate as it gets while only the bullet drop keeps it from being laser like.
MGs is a hot topic because of the simple fact that the MG 34/42 are GPMGs and there was no equivalent in the US arsenal ( a literal handful of “in the field” modifications aka “Stinger” excluded). It anyways stands out, that when people are complaining about said MGs being usable like SMGs, they ignore that the soldier carrying it becomes slow as a turtle, that 900rpm on a 12 dmg weapon is no advantage but an ammo drain leading to a 5+ seconds reload. Add terrible gunhandling (e.g. time to aim) and the sorry state of weapon mounting.
The BAR is no equivalent to it and is also not inteded as such. It is far more mobile, has a better gun handling, half the reload speed. It is a mobile supportweapon and every time I get a second hand one no hostile assaulter is safe anymore! Working with a Bar feels much more agile,
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Madsen is crap compared to what the MGs the Germans have in Moscow.
At the end the BAR is a automatic rifle with a bipod and not a real machine gun.
Well… Moscow is still far more balanced than D-Day (not considering Air).
Talking about the LMG, why dont they just put the Browning1819 recoil on the german LMG and lower the browning1819 recoil ?
I used german’s LMG that i found on the ground and i can single fire it very easily or small burst across the map even full auto, and with the browing1819 its almost impossible to spray someone 50 m away too much recoil, and it is firing a smaller cartridge than the MG 34 and 42 but still twice as much recoil.
I dont call this balanced at all on this point
This kind of effortless troll post in not wirth a serious answer but here is one at least based on facts:
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It’s the Browning 1918. In 1819 John Browning was not even born.
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Because the BAR has the advantages of being a automatic rifle: faaar better movement speed, SMG level of reload time, ADS time. You also fail to understand the corellation between RoF and the bare recoilstats.
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If you can’t hit bursts with the BAR @50m I doubt you do better with a MG.
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.30-06 ( 7,62 × 63 mm. M2 Ball: 3,601 J) compared to 7.92 Mauser: ( 7,92 × 57 mm. S.m.E. 3380 J)
You don’t check if stuff you are claiming is correct or not do you? You just make it up like it fits your point!
I am pretty shure “balance” is not what you are really careing about.
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