Maybe the MGs in the game need more specifications on what type they are?

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OK sad short story of a german main:
i was playing moscow (the new map) all normal the russians were opening our asses (without vaseline) when suddenly a german player starts spamming in chat
"why mg34 sucks"
taken by interest I answer him
"what’s wrong?"
he answers
"mg34 sucks as soon as I move it doesn’t hit a dick anymore, why does it work when others use it?"
at this point I reply very calmly that mg34 / 42 if they are not upgraded and your soldier does not have the perk for the recoil they cannot be used for the run and gun and you have to use them stationary and I advise him to go back to the mg13 which instead works better for the run and gun, which he replies thanking me for the explanation and saying that the game is a shit and that after having lost all that time to have mg34, and now he has to waste more time to be able to use it he no longer wants to to play and that he would not have played anymore (in the middle there are several insults at the game) while he was talking the game ends so the discussion.

now

this made me understand one thing that the mg lacks the classification based on the type, light / heavy MG, the light ones type mg13 are more suitable for run and gun, the heavy ones like mg34 instead require a more stationary gameplay, but here is not written nowhere, and this gives problems because if you only notice the statistics between the two mg, the best statistics have mg34 but mg13 even with worse statistics works better

I request a brainstorming if it is necessary to open a suggestion post for the classification of MGs

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Yes definitely. They should have sub classes. Same could be true for assault rifles that should have different attributes then a pistol caliber SMG.

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MG-13 weighs 12 kg, it’s definetely a weapon that you will run and gun with.

But things like BAR, Chauchat, Madsen and ZB-26 should definetely work better in move, especially BAR.

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MG34 and MG42 are general purpose machine guns.

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The browning 1919 is currently comical with how much it weights with 100 rounds but is fired like a BAR

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Tbh it always makes me wonder, if people want to run and gun with MGs, why they don’t try to for example snipe with shotguns? Why there are no other cases of misusing weapons?

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In real life? Yes.
In the game, no. They are normal LMGs. There is nothing special about them.

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One reason is the shit bipod mechanics. I dont run and gun with them and the bipod makes me rage so I currently simply avoid most MGs

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exact they work better but in the game there is no clue, even if they have worse stats than mg34 / 42 it would take a nice classification based on the type as suggested by @44854715

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in game are classfied only MG i think we need more classification based on their type, so player wo dont know a shit of ww2 weapon can pick the rigth choice

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They can’t be said to be completely light machine guns, but it’s more strange to put them in the same category as DShK or M2HB.

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maybe because on COD shotguns are shit, let’s be honest new players go from cod where they use mg42 as an assault rifle, to enlisted where they need to be used more accurately it confuses them, a simple hey this is a heavy / light mg in the stats it doesn’t kill and so maybe we avoid seeing people jumping around with a mg42 trying to hit something

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Depends on the game. There was the 750 in MW2019 which was known for being a headshot sniper wunderwffe.

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The ww2 series

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Oh yeah.

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I agree but I doubt we will see any more advanced MG clasificaion than we have now (light/heavy).
Things like MMGs or GPMGs just don’t fit the game (even though I wish they did).

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Battle rifle: BARs, FG42 and Chauchat
Light machine gun: MG13, MG26/ ZB, Bren, Vickers, Madsen, MG30(?), Breda 30, DP-27, DT-29(?) and DPM
General-purpose machien gun/ medium machine gun: M1919, MG34 and MG42.
Is such a classification logical here?

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Actually I’d move DP-27 to LMG class.
It just feels right to me.

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DT-29 is a light MG

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I’d leave this one as MMG.
Again, based on a feeling.

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