Its an emplaced MG, let it fire nonstop if it wants to, especially since the maxim can struggle otherwise vs other emplaced MG’s.
At least the maxim’s overheat time is very high so you can still lay down a lot of fire with it.
Better question is whether you played anything other than soviets
I’ve played RD-44 and it is the best MG in the game without a doubt. It is great for exactly the same reasons why BAR is such a great MG on BR3
RD-44 has better recoil, better dispersion, TWICE the ADS speed and 80% sprint factor. The lower damage means nothing because you still need to 2 tap an enemy to kill them with any MG and the damage is still high enough that you need to shoot an enemy at a distance OF 215 METERS to not 2 tap them. All that advantage at the cost of ~15% RoF compared to MG42 100 (830 vs 990), which again isn’t even that big of a detriment because you tend to bleed some bullets due to MG42s high RoF
Idk what to tell you man, what does make you think that MG42 is better somehow?
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What it feels like to charge with the the RD-44
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Just buff the alr existent Maxim tokarev and problem solved
Then I want to tell you:
1.Upgraded MG42 can definatly use one bullet to kill one soldier,but RD44 cant
2.You think 100rpm “isn’t even that big of a detriment”??? I have to quetsion that have you ever use an RD-44 to fight against a bunch of MG42(100)? one is 100rpm less,then 3 gunners is 300rpm less? This is not BattlefieldV!
3.Although RD-44 IS CONTROLABLE, but MG42 WONT BE THAT UNCONTROLABLE. In battle this doesnt make sense!
All in all, RD44 is good, but a lot weaker than the things which Germans have got.
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Well you can just pull out your knife and you can fly on the ground even with an MG on the back lol
Neither can kill a soldier with vitality when upgraded. The vitality perk gives 35% more health, the default health is 10.0, so with vitality you have 13.5 health. The MG42 as well as all other MGs, with the exception of the fedorov MG, only do 13.2 damage maximum. So no, an upgraded MG42 cannot one shot soldiers, people will be running vitality especially at BR5.
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Again you are missing key points
First of all:
A soldier with vitality will withstand both MG42 shot and RD-44 shot. As most weapons on BR5 one shot or drop you down to very little HP, the only case where MG42 has an edge over RD-44 is when enemy doesn’t run vitality - which in turn is an extremely rare case for high tier
Second: You control only 1 soldier at the time. It’s 100 RPM always because it doesn’t matter how many machine gunners you have in your team you will control only one gun at a time. Bots don’t shoot well enough to take them into consideration
And finally: RD-44 is both controllable and mobile which is the main upside of that weapon: the ADS speed and sprint speed multiplier. MG42 has much higher horizontal recoil which is much much harder to control when firing full auto (especially with higher RoF) and forces you to shoot bursts on long distances with MG42 when not mounted. RD-44 just sends bullets down the range because it has half the horizontal recoil and much better dispersion
So in the end: you effectively sacrifice 100 RPM for twice as good ADS speed, 30% better sprint factor, 25% better dispersion and 50% lower horizontal recoil and much much better moving spread increase
It’s just better bruh, idk what else there is to argue about. Even RDs sights are really good
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Also, to add to this and respond to OPs point about having their squads be wiped by those guns: the MG42 and MG81 aren’t even that good for BR5 compared to everything else. If you are routinely getting 9 man SF rifleman squads wiped by it you are straight up doing something incorrectly. Giving Soviets a handheld abomination won’t solve a skill issue.
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Soviets mains need this:
A combination of super armour (Soviet mains love their armours) and a high powered hand canon.
Though perhaps even using this they would complain.
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Of course they do. How can I play without a helmet like this
I wonder what soviet do not need to be nerfed immediately!!! ?
it looks like “The Lord’s” helmet:
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Well even using bunches of FGs and King Tigers you Germans are also keeping complaining arent you?
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Are you serious? The Soviet need to be nerfed??? We have weaker tanks, rifles, assult rifles, machine guns and only a bit better planes, you think we should be NERFED??? You surely think German HAVE WON THE WWII ARENT YOU???
I’m no German, fool.
I’m a TeaBoo (Commonwealth main).
Just that between wehraboos and commieboos, commieboos are by far acting like the worst pampered sissies. I dislike wehraboos as well, but at least their annoying claims are about getting stuff on par with other factions. unlike commieboos who just want to cumulate strange advantages and justify those as being “flavour.”
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Can you give an example?
Yes.
Just read the numerous posts on this and ru forums. Plenty of examples. (armour ring a bell?)
Like if I’d try to argue with the red parrot, eh.
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I read about MKb42 on BR3. Something doesn’t add up with your version.
In any case, I expect an example of this from you.
I did too. silly thing:
Stupid true. Not as stupid as armour and dispersions etc etc etc.
You get the gist of it. Possibly.
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