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Remove the mandatory prone/mount feature from the m1919a4 and adjust the rpm of the a6 to match the DT29’s current rpm (550 as the base rpm)
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So this is the cool new mechanic that the whole thing was supposedly started for))) They should delete the Solothurn too.
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Correct… you can fire every other AT rifle standing up.
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either my translator is bad, or I don’t understand what the correlation is with the DT29 rate of fire. It’s a different weapon.
It’s really poor design to deny hip-firing and sweeping fire capabilities to these stockless machine guns. They only lack shoulder stocks, and there is no physical barrier to firing them braced against the waist, backed up by a well-documented WWII combat story.
During the Battle of Guadalcanal, United States Marine Sergeant John Basilone pulled off an iconic feat. On the night of October 24, 1942, nearly 3,000 Japanese troops launched massed Banzai charges against the American defensive line along the Tenaru River. Out of Basilone’s 15-man machine gun squad, 12 were killed within 48 hours, leaving only him and two severely wounded Marines alive.
He operated the US M1917 Browning water-cooled heavy machine gun—functionally analogous to the Vickers water-cooled machine gun, often mistaken for it by general audiences. Japanese mortars and grenades wrecked multiple fixed gun emplacements one after another. Basilone lifted the scorching-hot water-cooled machine gun with his bare hands, fired from the hip without any fixed mount while moving between positions to mow down wave after wave of charging Japanese infantry. His asbestos gloves burned away against the overheated barrel, leaving severe third-degree burns on his hands, yet he never ceased firing.
He sprinted through enemy fire to scavenge ammo, rushed between gun pits to clear jams, and held back enemy forces dozens of times larger than his tiny team using only two water-cooled heavy machine guns and his sidearm, holding the line until reinforcements arrived. He was later awarded the Medal of Honor, America’s highest military decoration for valor. This real combat record proves water-cooled heavy machine guns were fully capable of hip fire, so removing this gameplay feature from the game directly contradicts historical reality.
Of course, the in-game situation is even more ridiculous. When your AI allies are equipped with this gun, they won’t crouch or prone to set it up and attack on their own. Instead, they just become easy targets. They’ll squat down, hold the gun upright, and basically wait to get killed.
All in all, DF’s implementation of this new mechanic is completely half-baked.
But what was the maximum rate of fire the A6 could be adjusted to historically?
The Americans made the T24, a copy of the German MG, and its rate of fire could be lowered to match that of the Bren gun.
I don’t expect its maximum firing speed to be all that high anyway.
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The Browning a6’s upgraded rof is 550 and the DT-29’s upgraded rof is 610. I was asking if they’d raise the browning a6’s base rof to 550 so it would be 610 when upgraded
well, if you’re suggesting that, you should provide reliable sources that the Browning A6 had a rate of fire of 600 rounds per minute, as the rate of fire is not something that can be taken from thin air. If this were the case, the early SMG Type 100 would still be classified as a 1BR with a rate of fire of 500 rounds per minute or even less (I can’t remember exactly).
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It looks like a response from a neural network, but if there’s a link to the source, I don’t have any questions. You can also report it in the service for bug reporting
Unless the Browning is changed from prone only to hip fire, I will never use it. Such a waste of time for someone to model a weapon that most won’t use in the configuration it’s in. Maybe basic research should be a criteria for a Gaijin employee. 
Just sayin… 
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I think a better change would be to remove the movement spread increase from the A6 and maybe just give BAR like moblity
You know what, that seems like a pretty fair approach. I still think they need to address the a4 problem though.
The forced prone needs to be removed simple as that otherwise it could be br 2 and i would still not use it