In the near future, the Suomi KP/31 SJR will be added to the tech tree. From the comparison, the SJR has better dispersion and lower recoil, making it a straight upgrade over the premium Suomi KP/31. That said, the premium version was fine for a while. Germany didn’t have a tech tree BR 5 SMG before, so I enjoyed using it for a long time. But the flamethrower attachment is really just a gimmick. At BR5, it’s hard to make it effective when everyone is running full auto, full power rifles. Most players bought the premium Suomi simply because they wanted a BR5 SMG for Germany and its squads unique appearance, not because of the flamethrower.
I think its stats are very well balanced and don’t need any adjustments. However, having only 71 rounds in reserve (71/71) is far too low. That’s why I suggest adding an extra spare magazine for the Suomi KP/31 with flamethrower, making its ammo count 71/142. That would help with sustain and make it way more usable at BR5.
Should an extra magazine be added for the Suomi KP/31 with flamethrower?
I can understand both sides of this, on one hand, we’re given a weapon with little to no ammo that we’re going to almost immediately burn through if we’re overrun with enemies. On the other hand, you’ll die in 2 seconds before you use all the ammo anyway. It would just make more sense to load every weapon down in the game with the maximum possible ammo a soldier could carry. I guess what I’m trying to say here is don’t change the event suomi And call it a day, they need to look at every single weapon in the game and up the ammo for all of the under preformers of them. There’s only certain weapons that are fine as is, but certain pieces of equipment you burn through the ammo almost as fast as you can spawn in. I would support a change like this, but this needs to come with a wider rebalance to every weapon in the games ammo.
I’m voting no purely because I pushed for the flamethrower to receive a buff in the form of its BR 4 stats which would include damage and range. I would settle with even just the damage buff.
