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BR4? BR4? Do you main German machine gun squads?
From what I know, BR4 basically gets completely crushed by BR5.
Yeah, that’s true. In some ways it’s indeed better than all the BR2 weapons.
Even though it isn’t semi-automatic, with Japanese weapons getting more and more buffs lately, if they also give this weapon a no scope drift when firing buff, its strength would far outclass every other BR2 event weapon.
There’s something that’s been really bugging me lately.
It’s honestly pretty strange. Everyone on the forum seems to have this soft spot for Japanese faction content. Any buffs and balance suggestions for Japan get approved and implemented extremely quickly.
Compare that to suggestions for Germany, the Soviet Union, and general game improvements — the difference is night and day.
I reckon if an actual Japanese player made suggestions, they’d probably get way better results than us.
All I can say about this is that it’s a BP weapon, and it’ll be really hard to pull from crates later on. Once the weapon pool gets diluted over time, the chances of ever running into it will be super low.
Still, whether you come up against it or not makes a world of difference. When I’m playing Soviet BR3 Manchuria and go up against a skilled Japanese player using that field-modified mortar, it’s absolutely devastating for our entire team.
Practically every Japanese weapon is overtuned; they’re almost never bad. By contrast, American and Soviet weapons can be hit or miss, you just get garbage ones sometimes.
Though America’s event weapons are really good.
Poor Soviets, I feel bad for them.
Okay, stop praising Soviet weapons. Just a few days ago I was debating with my Russian friend about the KV-2 tank’s capabilities among the three major blocs, and now you’re saying Soviet weapons are weak. It’s always the same old thing; can’t you come up with something different? 
Its skill ceiling is high, but the floor is also really low.
Sure, its firepower is great, but you need to group the bombs together to make it count.
What do you do when there aren’t many enemies left? The slow reload also makes you miss plenty of opportunities.
The KV-2 has a machine gun and heavy armor, and it can be used for sniping in dark areas, with infantry and snipers protecting it while it reloads. So you’re just speculating, not stating a fact.
Whenever I encounter it, the KV-2 always hides in a restricted area with limited access and ambushes. Don’t ask me how I know; it’s from my own experience. And since most beginners don’t have anti-tank weapons, the enemy usually wins by sniping.
I do play BR4 quite often, Kiraly and Panther can hold their own in BR5 matches - which is however the issue, since BR4 almost always gets matched with BR5.
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Depends, armaguerra or G41 that need two shots to down against armor? Might aswell use a pistol, those reload faster.
BR2 Fedorov rifle? 5 round yes, but 15+ damage.
Still in the right hands, a top meta bolt action can still compete in even BR5 if you are truly god like with your shots, because top bolt actions have something other guns dont have: almost non existing dispersion combined with full one hit kills. Nothing is snappier than that.
Another full 5 win join any team in a row thank enlisted you made my week this week.
These 2 matches are the best one.
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battlepass/event guns are acceptable to be above the usual power level because they are scarce. You can’t have a 9 man riflemen squad of 30rnd arisakas (Well, maybe if you’re the world’s luckiest man with the silver boxes, but that is impossible in practice)
If this was tech tree, I would demand it to be BR3
If event/BP guns need to strictly adhere to the power level, then I expect to see nerfs for the ANM2 stinger, Kretz rifle, Meunier rifle, and the Hino rifle. Probably a few more that im missing too
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The rifle also have a option for a magazine detachment but ai see how look at the trigger guard the thing infront of the trigger is the mag release
Exactly. Battle Pass and event weapons naturally become less common in matches over time as the meta evolves. The same goes for event vehicles too.
Take Germany’s MP41(R) and America’s XA-38 for example.
Both are overpowered compared to other weapons at their battle rating.
But they’re extremely rare, which is why they’re left as they are. Needless to say, this doesn’t apply to Soviet equipment at all.
Unlocked m8 camo. But when i try to equip it to m8. It wont equip it. It shows can be obtained by battlepass. And on the bottom there is button go to battlepass. But i have already unlocked stage 5.
Have you tried restarting the game?
Yes. Still same.
So… there are conflicts over the new Japanese rifle? Since it’s part of the Battle Pass, not many players will actually have it; at most, they’ll have one, which is the free one you get for completing tasks. And since it’s BR2, it will also face BR3 semi-automatic rifles. As for the balance itself… BR1 players aren’t really safe from being cannon fodder, mainly because the matchmaking has been worse lately. I tried squads entirely with the Japanese S1-100, and I didn’t notice a difference since I ran into more BR3 players than BR2 players. By the way, why didn’t they give this new rifle a bayonet, considering it’s Japanese?
Extremely rare? lol
Majority of people will use them on their engineers in assaulter squads. Not in a fkn rifleman squad. Totally nonsensical argumentation.
You might not have noticed, but the more powerful something is, the more people keep clamoring for it to come back in an upcoming events.
Just because we can only get 4 pieces right now doesn’t mean there won’t be an event in six months with another 2 pieces, and so on and so on and so on.
The weapon is overperforming in totally unhealthy way.
If it gets that completely unnecessary buff, it simply deserves to be on BR3.
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