Today I bought my first premium squad (after 6 months of playing lol), the MP-18 squad. I decided to do a review on this squad as it is in my opinion a ‘‘perfect and balanced premium squad’’
I also want to thank devs for introducing such a cool and fun squad without making it p2w
Price
Mp-18 squad only costs 875 Gold, I bought this squad after passing 30 levels in the premium battle pass.
The price for this SMG is quite fair
Performance
Mp-18 has similar performance compared to stuff like Mp-28 and Mp-34.
Using this gun on medium range can be quite devastating to the enemy team, Mp-18 has less RoF than the Mp-34, resulting in less recoil. For closer range, MP-40 is still better and that’s why I love the Mp-18, it’s not OP
This gun uses the ww1 era drum magazine, despite the looks of it, this magazine holds only 32 bullets. In real life, this drum magazine was extremely hard to load but thankfully we don’t have this problem in Enlsited.
But the stick mag on other MP’s is still much better because the drum takes a lot of screen space
(I can’t upload the picture because forums are in their worst stage right now )
Conclusion
In conclusion, this squad is extremely fun and relaxing to use. If you like playing on medium-close range and don’t plan on wasting a lot of money, I suggest you to take a look at this squad
Premium squads where very handy when grinding up to semi autos in Normandy but now I don’t use any premium squads in my lineup just due to the more power I get from leveled uped squads
I’m a bit suprised by your conclusion about the Mp 18. The MP 18 in my squad has 20 horizontal and 20 vertical recoil. The vertical is inline with it’s relatives but the horizontal recoil is nearly double that of the other SMGs and is quiet noticable in game. It’s the only SMG I’ve played out of both campaigns which is nearly uncontrolable. You can counteract the vertical recoil but the unpredictable horizontal recoil leads to a pattern where the first shot is on the target, the second is left to it, the third above and the fourth ends on the right side. Any other SMG and I would’ve used that squad more than four matches but the MP 18 makes this squas wasted money for me.
Ok, I just used the Mp-18 on D-day and here are the results:
When the enemy is too far away, I used the ‘‘2-shot burst’’ method. I killed a whole bunch of enemies and found my self on the top of the score board. Later I thought that I get kills because my Mp-18 is maxed out but I also have maxed out MP-40 and MP-34 who both deal 6.8 damage just like Mp-18 does.
So I don’t see any recoil problems when using the ‘‘2-shot burst’’ method
Could you take a look at the stats of the gun if the recoil is 20/20 for you, too? Maybe it’s because I’ve bought the pack right on the first day of OBT and it’s some kind of legacy version?
On everything above 10-15m If the first shot goes to the chest, already the second willmiss to the left or to the right. Kneeling down brings the recoil roughly to the level of the MP 34…
But compared to other Germans SMG’s, most German SMG’s have higher vertical recoil than the horizontal recoil while MP-18 is a bit balanced between these 2 types of recoil.
But the main reason why MP-18 felt good in my hands is because low RoF negates this fairly high recoil.
Although you could be right because I play enlisted since closed alpha and already learned how to control the recoil so that might be the reason why I have no problems with this gun
Vertical recoil is easy to control, horizontal recoil is controlable if it’s predictable but in thi s case you even don’t know if the secon shot goes to the left or to the right
The Sten gun is with 18/18 another one wit equally vertical and horizontal recoil. Sadly I’ not lvl 22 yet with the US and can’t comprare them. But no matter what the MP18 can
t do anything which another german SMG can’t do better. Low fire rateand easy to conrol ? The FNAB has a low rate of fire, too additionally a very predictable and mild recoil and as a bonus 40 beans in the magazine. The MP 34 is literally the child of the Mp18 and pretty much the same gun just with less horizontal recoil.
Did some rounds with the Mp18 today and with single taps or 2 shot bursts you cna make kills, yes. But with every other SMG it would’v been simpler…well maybe the beretta is on the same level if the enemie isn’t close.
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