As we all know, machine guns can provide us with powerful fire protection and suppression, but the rapid replacement of the barrel is also fascinating. For example, mg34, 42, zb26, Bren all have the ability to quickly replace the barrel. I hope that in the future updates will be rapid-fire. After adding the barrel replacement, the fixed machine gun should not be silly and waiting to cool down. There is no mg42 that does not prepare a spare barrel.
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These kind of mgs should be belt fed. They should allow variants with varying fire rates
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Allied player in D-day Normandy campaign:
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Gunners’ MGs don’t really need that in game because they already have to manage magazines, reloading and limited ammo.
If this becomes a thing for fixed MGs, there could be some kind of a tradeoff.
Let’s say that once the MG overheats, you either have to wait for cooldown like it is now, or you can choose to replace the barrel, which gets the MG ready to fire in half the time, BUT during the process you are forced into the replacing animation, unable to shoot and exposed.
There’s already a lot of inaccuracies in how firearms work in enlisted.
Bolt actions: you have 4 bullets in your magazine and want to reload one. Opening the slide should EJECT 1 bullet, thus you’d need to reload 2 and lose 1 good bullet. Unless they add the control over the bolt, allowing you to reload before chambering a new bullet, thus only ejecting the empty casing.
Semis, namely g41. You have 9 bullets left. You reload… your guy fill two 5 ammo clips in… ??? The mechanic of the gun is like if it was magazines. If you have 4 bullets left in gun and only 5 in reserve, your guy will Switch “mags” and you will get 5 in gun 4 in reserve… while reloading 2 full clips…
Lmgs: many lmgs don’t even have fire selectors. The mg34 for example, should be able to fire semi if desired.
My point to all this? It’s doubtful the devs would add such advanced mechanic as barrel switching and overheating if what I mentioned above is too complicated… 
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In my opinion even hand held MGs could have overheating. Simply because barrel changing looks cool.
Also, correct me if I’m wrong but I have never heared of this:
And for sake of propaganda and self advertising:
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Of course you haven’t heard of it, it’s nowhere outside the realm of imagination yet.
I was theorizing a barrel change mechanic allowing MG nests to recover faster from overheating, but a soldier would have to do it manually while standing by the MG, and being vulnerable in the meantime.
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This makes sense, but changing ammo made me wondering.
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