I play almost exclusively BR 5 games, so this is something which I feel my passion can help with.
This is my preferred solution to the BR 5 power meta; buffing other weapons like mg and assault rifles might not work because of the existence of smg’s at BR 5. The smg’s just cannot be buffed reasonably to fight against the Battle rifles now.
Additionally, the damage of mg’s already show that the devs are willing to ignore (realistic) higher killing potential of certain weapons.
Thinking about it, the BR5 battle rifle with the lowest ROF is the AVT, but it’s still faster than an MP 43.
Consideration has to be given to the weapons with high ROF and magazine size/recoil control however.
Thus:
DMG After changes:
AVT: 13.2
AVS: 12.7
GOROV: 12.7
FEDOROV MADSEN: 12.7
FG 42 1/2: 12.7 (and for the love of god please fix those abhorrent promiscuous infestation recoil values on the tech tree FG 42 1)
BREDA PG: 12.6
G43 DF: 12.7
T20/E1: 12.7
TYPE HEI AUTO: 10.1 + Dispersion nerf, like other machine guns. Give it same dispersion as FG 42 1, my beloved. Because this guns strength is only limited by the body armour. LBE almost exclusively mained this weapon for dueling until the arrival of the AVS 36 20 (when most people didn’t believe in the ability of the AVS 36 yet, and using the AVT against the Type Hei is still difficult even with body armour).
I think the simplest way to implement this is to just leave the aforementioned damage values at default and don’t give the damage upgrade to battle rifles.
Honourable mentions:
m2 carbine should get that long awaited RPM buff.
Fedorov Avtomat and Scotti should be returned to 12,6 damage
Overall, enjoyers of the SMG’s MP, STG, G43 kurz, (the like) and machine guns should feel better in BR 5 battles now.
