Hi, i would like to request Machine guns (the ones on the Machine gunner class) to have a higher damage stat on average, to me more on par with bolt action rifles. The reasoning here is, that machine guns also use high caliber rounds and it doesnt make sense for an enemy to survive 1 or 2 hits from a large machine gun, while immediately dying from a rifle hit.
I found myself struggling to use machine gunners effectively, since assault rifles like the MP-40 seem to do the same thing, just better (Can run faster, has more ammo, can aim quicker).
Disclaimer: i havent tried every single gun in the game, just speaking from personal experience, mainly from playing Germans. I find myself never using machine gunners, because they are slow at running and aiming (which is realistic), but also run out of ammo painfully fast and often dont one-hit enemies, like a regular rifle can, which seems unbalanced, since the machine gun is slower to set up and aim…
Should machine gun damages be more like bolt action rifles (same or similar damage)?
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Alternatively, machine gunners could carry more ammo, to make machine guns somewhat more useful at defending a strategic area (area denial with suppressive fire), since the ones ive seen so far (im mostly playing Germans) have very little ammo and u run out fast.
Would increasing ammo be another way of making them more useful?
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I think increasing the LMG damage to bolt-action rifle level is too much but i’d agree that LMG could use some damage buff at least on the same level as semi-auto rifles with full power cartridge. That would means that it would be between 14-16 damage for LMG.
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