- Yes, increase all LMG hit power damage to 15.3 at 10m range per shot when fully upgraded.
- Yes, Increase all LMG hit power damage to 14.4 at 10m range per shot when fully upgraded.
- Yes, Increase all LMG hit power damage but only 14.4 at 10m range per shot for BR 2-3 LMG and 15.3 at 10 m range per shot for BR 4-5 LMG when fully upgraded.
- No, LMGs are fine as it is and no need for buff.
An example of LMG
Before we start, let’s get this out of way. i did write “all” in the title but this is not true. I want to exclude "LMG"s like Hei-auto LMG, Fedorov LMG, RD-44 for obvious reason. These are not true LMG if you ask me.
As we all know, LMGs are heavily penalized by having massive reduction in both sprint/run speed and ADS speed, dispersion penalty when firing the gun while on the move also on top of that, despite having a pretty long barrel with almost all of them using fully powered cartridge, they deal rather pathetic damage, which is 13.2 at 10m.
What does that mean? It means that the LMGs won’t be able to shoot down enemy soldiers with vitality perk in 1 torso shot even at point blank range which, pretty much all players who knows what they are doing always pick 35% vitality perk on their soldiers whenever they possibly can, in this context you better off using SMG at this point. I think this is one of the reason that why most of players rather choose to use SMG/Assault rifles on their respective BR over respective BR LMG in most cases.
In exchange, LMGs does have generous magazine/ammo holding box/belt size and favorable recoil/dispersion reduction when using mount/prone position over other type of guns. IMO, this is still not enough to offset all the penalties it gets, which, the mobility/ADS speed part is totally fair as they are indeed quite bulky and heavy, often unwieldy. But also dealing such relatively low damage on top of that? All things considered, it’s unnecessary and make whole LMG class rather unpopular choice on higher BR such as BR 5 and especially among those experienced players.
So, i suggest buff LMGs damage in line with semi-auto rifles. This way, LMGs will still be bulky, heavy, unwieldy and overall slow weapon to use but at least the firepower itself will be unmatched at close-mid range engagement which, it deserved to be.