AVT-40 and MKB 42 are a little bit confusing for new players and were confusing for most of players when Stalingrad was released. There are many issues with these two weapons and I don’t want to talk about balance between these two, but rather balance between them and the rest of the game. First, I will present my problems with them and at the end propositions how to fix them.
Assault "not-Engineers"
First issue and most important is that Engineers have access to “assault rifles”. Like their main goal is to engineere, not to be front line assaulters. It makes Assaulter useless (if you are high-level) as Assaulters will use the same weapon as Engineer. It just makes Engineers over-powered, it is distracting player from engineer’s main purpose (which is building) and makes assaulters useless.
Different Engineers
In every campain Engineers use the same equipment as any other basic soldier, so it’s confusing that in Stalingrad, Engineers can use assault rifles. I remember that when they first annaunced levels for Stalingrad, I felt surprised as MKB 42 “was supposed to be given to every soldier”. I was thinking "Yeah, AVT-40 is battle rifle in Berlin so I guess Maschinenkarabiner 42 (which translates loosely as battle rifle 42) will work the same as AVT-40 in Berlin. So I was wrong as propably many players as many beginners will be.
AVT-40’s duality
In Berlin it’s battle rifle or as Darkflow prefers “semi-automatic rifle”, in Stalingrad is assault rifle. It is weird and it sticks to argument above. As it is making situation only more confusing. People might think it is like in Berlin and might not play in Stalingrad as they might think high-levels will be unbeatable (they are as in any other campain, but we will skip that) as everyone can have MKB 42 and AVT-40 and people who bought full-version would be dissapointed as it looks like “Creme de la creme” of whole campain and it just leaves us with hands full of shit from our disappeared excitation.
AVT-40 is weaker than MKB 42
The last argument and least important is that MKB 42 is much better than AVT-40. Well, Both Soviets and Germans have access to PPSH 41 which is valid opponent for MKB 42 so it isn’t game-breaking.
Solution
When the new update comes with new levels for Stalingrad, please add real assaulters III with MKB 42 (for Germany) and Fedorov Avtomat (for Soviets). What with Engineers II? Soviets would get normal working AVT-40 like in Berlin while German situation is much harder. I don’t remember any German battle rifles, however many people mentioned automatic ZH-29 which would be perfect opponent for AVT-40. Battle rifles (AVT-40 and automatic ZH-29) would be available for all soldiers and Engineers wouldn’t have access to assault rifles.
I don’t think so, Both are Similarly good. AVTs had higher RPM and DMG instead of smaller bullet capacity, and MKB had higher bullet capacity instead of lower DMG and RPM. Both are distinctive guns, but one cannot be said to be inferior.
Both rifles are individualistic, not one of them perform poorly. Each has its own characteristics, and if you use both, it’s a good gun.
Especially at Stalingrad, AVT’s recoil got extremely buffed so that it can more equaly compare the MKB, so I don’t see a big issue here.
And about Full-Automatic ZH-29, I’m not sure even did it have ever existed.
I can’t find any clue or source of it but this photo, which is just regular ZH-29 with ZB-26 magazine.
If MKB42 is restricted to assaulters then nobody would ever pay any penny to darkflow anymore, I think they should be trooper weapons just like in the beginning.
But since Stalingrad has been a dead soviet botfarming town for months, I give no shit
Well, for me MKB feels easier to control, making it easier to auto shoot at longer distances, while AVT-40’s devation is not good both in semi and auto mode
mkb is straight up mediocre and overrated, especially in the map settings of stalingrad. half time in cqb combat its getting one hit by bolts when u fight in a building or getting out performed by smgs and then outside buildings bolt campers/avts being more effective. when i used avt i havent even faced an mkb user that made me think the gun was good either, its simply overrated. mp43 is WAY BETTER than the mkb42. that said its a good suggestion to add f2p sf into stalingrad in later levels
I dont think what they can add more in stalingrad outiside plane and tank the tech tree is completely rushed and in 24 level you reach berlin endgame weapon, so i dont even think stalingrad reach 40 lv maybe stop at 30
