Why not? They all kill way slower then even BR3 SMGs, the litteral only big advantage is damage and damage drop. playing 450~500 RPM 7mm kurz against 800 RPM .30 carbine (hyde), 1200 RPM 7.62 tokarev (ppsh), or 600 RPM 6.5mm arisaka (federov) is not fun at all. These slow firing 7mm kurz guns deserve to be lowered.
Being weaker than their peers is not a good reason to reduce BR, they are very OP compared to br4 weapons, just compare them to weapons like thomsons in br4, beretta m38(40) or…, higher damage, much lower recoil, bullet accuracy is also much higher, with smgs it is hard to kill enemies at long and medium distances, but assault rifles are very accurate, their only downside is their low fire rate which is an advantage considering the magazine capacity.
And of course about hyde, that thing is just a better thomson, it doesn’t have the necessary accuracy, I wouldn’t even call it an assault rifle.
ppsh is an smg not an assault rifle, SMGs have lower accuracy and damage.
Fedorov has higher damage and a decent fire rate, but in return has high recoil and a smaller magazine (25).
I made a good comparison with the Mkb42 which is actually about as strong as BR4 SMGs. Mkb42 got nerfed many times and is now nothing more than a glorified SMG with AR damage.
mkb42(H) maby, It can also receive a little nerf if needed.
But he even suggested that the STG 45 be transferred to the BR4, which is a very funny suggestion.
StG45(M) has slightly better dispersion than Mkb42, but with more recoil, longer reload and only 450 rpm instead of 500 rpm which really kills this weapon on BR5.
In fact this gun is so weak that I wouldnt be surprised if Darkflow moved it to BR3, considering that its a premium gun with no real advantage over other TT weapon of BR4 or BR5.
I mean in technical terms I’m not saying anything against the IS-3 here just its History it was Designated as “Obj 703 and developed in late 1944 to mid 1946” so in technical terms its still ww2 but was hardly used in actual fighting since it was hard to transport and soon name change to IS-3 but it wouldn’t be off if it ever showed up in the future could be something but id say we can live without it for time being.
As in case someone wants to look it up