Nerf Browning M1918 and drop it into BR II

Reason being that US troops don’t have any machine gun at BR II and have to use Commonwealth ones instead. Also there is no need for three BR III BARs so making an obsolete one a little weaker wouldnt be a bad thing

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I recently made the same suggestion.

Even including the necessary nerfs.

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Disagree, maybe add the jungle bar for BRII, but dont lower the BRIII bars

Jungle Bar would be cool, but if it wont be added thats what should be done. Even Thompsons split across all BRs because there were too many of them

I have suggested this countless times, and I get countless silence from the Dev’s about it. They love taking my money, just not my suggestions. :rofl:

Seriously though, they could take the base BR3 BAR1918, drop it’s rate of fire to a base of 500 with like 550 maxed and it would fit in fine at BR2. Or even the WAR for that matter could be dropped, however since it is BP not everyone would have access to it unless at some point the Dev’s put it up for sale or as an event weapon. Fortunately, I have five of them so I am covered any way. But the Base BAR needs to be mildly debuffed and dropped as the US needs a MG at that level and it is just rotting on the vine at BR3 where it never gets used. It’s a WW1 weapon, used by the US in every theatre of WW2 so there is no reason not to have one in BR2. :no_good_man:

On a side note, If I had the say, I would also give something to the other factions as well. The Soviet RPK 1943 a 20-25 round magazine and add it to the BR2 TT. Add the Hotchkiss Japanese MG to the BR2 TT, and drop the recoil on the MG-13 for the Germans.

Another suggestion is if the Dev’s don’t want to mess with any of the current BR3 BAR’s, then just give us a NEW Jungle BAR and place it at BR2.

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The m1918 bar and m1918a1 are nearly identical, putting 1 in br2 after it’s been nerfed will give the US a br2 bar and nothing in br3 will be lost because both guns are the same. The jungle bar wasn’t a standard variant and is much more suited to being a event, premium or BP gun.

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WW1 BAR aka M1918 was historically speaking preferred by many WW2 GIs - because it was lighter.

Weight was an issue for the BAR, often US troops would throw away their bipods on their WW2 BARs - but if they could get their hand on one of those WW1 BARs they would pick that one instead.

So technically I disagree with this post, because I think that M1918 should actually get dispersion buffs or even be moved to BR4 as a trooper select fire rifle

  • which would also be fitting with other pre war guns that have better quality than their mass produced WW2 versions.

People really need to realize that all the BAR variants are still one of the strongest MGs in the BR3, beaten only by KE7

Kind of ironic that the Japanese have the KE7, which they most likely never used, however they probably captured a couple off the battlefield from the Chinese. That being said, I would still take the BAR A2 over the KE7 if I had to pick one. Also, if they are going to give the KE7 a 50 round magazine, they need to give the BAR a 40 round as well since it was an option.