Why even removing it in the first place. Their accuracy is already nerfed.
Can’t REALLY risk allowing a new player to have some fun, huh?
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MG nests were cancer in the early days but they’ve been balanced quite well as lately. However, the removal of zooming is downright stupid.
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Think its for balancing purpose. I could set it up in an window before and snipe people with it from afar which made it even more OP. Sure they sniped me pretty fast back at times or an Tank HE in to it, so idk…But think thats why they took it away to make it harder
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fun what is it? here there is only grinding and it’s not fun!
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I think if you are to nerf them. The better option would be to limit them to 300 ammo or something. Removing the zoom is just such a strange thing to do
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Yes, it feels strange. Maybe bring back the zoom, set a limit of 3 belts á 250 Rounds and decrease the build up time?
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Good riddance to the zoom honestly
I’m tired of my entire squad getting mowed down by some asshole 2 miles away.
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Never walk in the open field!
You don’t need zoom to wipe a squad in an open field
So basically they made the nests like most of the Bolt action rifles where the front sight post appears to be 3 miles away from your face.
If the nests are a problem add a reload animation every 100 rounds plus the overheat. Something besides putting the front sight post 15 feet away.
I apsolutelly LOVE how devs make nerfs in the most bullshit way possible.
We need to nerf semi auto rifles? Let’s limit their rof!
Because when soldier is stressed, the spirit of the machine sences it and decreases rof. And it’s the spirit of semi auto rifles and carbines only. MGs, select fire rifles and pistols don’t have such spirit of a machine.
It’s not like rapid shots cause extensive recoil and decrease of accuracy, no no no no. What a stupid thought!
Or this one.
MG nest OP? Let’s decrease it’s zoom!
LMGs (that are identical to the MG nest) can zoom normally but yyyy… but they aren’t on sandbags! Yes! And sandbags cause soldier to loose focus (sand is getting into his boots) so he can’t zoom.
What? MG nests have unlimited ammo and don’t have to reload? Nonsence! This can’t be the case!
I don’t even mind if those nerf are needed or not, but they are made in a such idiotic way.
Why use comon sence? Why use logic? Why check what are the actual, real world downsides of a weapon?
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LMGs arent identical in ex Moscow. Cant speak for the other campaigns. An MG 42 there which is the nest are more accurately and devastating then an fully upgraded mg38 at an distance + you can lay down more consecutive rounds before it overheats when small bursting which you should being as accurate as possible and all you need
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i couldnt care less.
but as “new players” argue , a new player have a eng 2? or will be playing against a mg nest?
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well they do have the stationary ones which usually dont last long ^^
oh yeah
thats right. didnt even consider them
thx for pointing out.
no zoom for them too? i did only considered the buildable ones.
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no clue havent tried them yet after patch
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And whitch of those things makes MG nests unable to zoom in comparison to LMGs?
I agree that they are different in terms of performance. I meant that they both are theoretically the same weapons as MG nest is an LMG on a sandbag. (I know it’s a placeholder but it’s >1 year old so we can concider it a feature.)
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Yeah i get that but…balance i guess ^^ How ever usually your mg nest will get shot at quite quickly cause of kill cam and pissed of team on the other end, so i dont see the big thing trying to balance it since its so easy to put down by either tanks and snipers and heck ive even got hit with an reg rifle once from long range.
They do have some weird hitbox defence though at times that you cant penetrate. Tried to snipe one guy at an angle slight from the side once at his MG nest and just couldnt hit him. Like he had an invisible shield and i could see it splashing in the air in front of his head
Visually i dont like it either since it breaks the immersion when focusing of you hammering justice on them with an slight bit of zoom (perhaps they should dropped the zoom 50% instead or something) and also involve your aiming skill perk stam which might been there before asw cant remember the details rn ^^…but i can understand it for balance purpose
Im not worried about the zoom reamoval instead of that i would like see 250 round magazin belt/unlimited ammo . And a barrel replacment after bewen 1000-2000 shot due to oveheating. Random jams as well ( mg 42). Mostly i would like to see that different nations different mg , it look stupid that the us and comis have mg42 nests. ( we should change the nest mgs rate of fire higher rate of fire = more probably will jam)
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Logic >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ballance.
If they wanted to nerf MG nests, they could have given them ammo for example. Like others under this post suggested and like it was suggested countless times before.
I’m not arguing if this nerf was needed or not. I’m arguing that it was nerfed in so IDIOTIC way, it’s unbelievable.
Like, we may as well give PPSh with drum 30 rounds in mag. It’s complete bullshit that is ahistorical and doesn’t make any sense but we will do it because of BalLanZ.