No idea
I have taken that info from a ww2 documentary about the weapons which I watched a long time ago
Who knows whether is it even true or not
If a rifle-caliber could go through it at most angles within 100m, it might be reasonable, but if it needs to be a flat hit that would leave too much RNG to be popular in implementation.
I mean that is pretty unbalanced. Every other countries MGs get knocked off from snipers at 300 but Russians get a shield up to 100? I agree it will be either a hinderance or OP
I was about to say that in Moscow being inside 100m would be the norm, but I just remembered the monastery exists.
In a tower it would be unstoppable.
That’s why I didn’t say it in the first place 
We can balance it by giving it only 30m or 20m against rifles
It doesn’t have to be 100% historical
Agreed. But also in moscow people pop out of every window which I couldnt see with this giant ass shield in my face
I’m assuming you mean 300 or 200m because that would be more OP
So what’s the solution for the 1919 vs the MG42? No shield there and now you have to counter 1200 RPM where the MG34 is 800
lower heat on the 1919 with no barrel change on either.
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Thats all the Maxim vs MG34 needs. no unbalanced OP or crap shield. Just more accurate and less heat
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I don’t know how about accuracy difference but maxim should almost never overheat.
I figured more accurate to counter the higher ROF of the German MGs. And yes the Maxim is water cooled so it would very unlikely to over heat
Problem is that MG34 on lafette when fired in bursts is more accurate than maxim fired in bursts because of recoil absorption mechanism.
My proposition would be:
MG34 - fast firing; overheats; good accuracy in bursts
Maxim - no overheating; basically hold the trigger and point, sth will hit
No, I mean exactly what I wrote
30m for a rifle to pen the gun shield is what I’m reading, what do you mean by 30 or 20?
Sorry I wrote it wrong
Immune to rifles at longer ranges (200-300m(
Immune to SMG at all ranges
Don’t even have to imagine it. That’s how it is now. Not even mounting needed.
And it’s sickening y’all.
If Soviet mains are not given something to compensate for the low RoF, they’ll start crying as usual and we’ll eventually have Maxim that performs like the MG-34. Therefore I’d give it a shield(I hope it won’t obstruct the view too much), and make it 2 shot from the rifle to kill instead of 1 that we have now.
MG-34 will hopefully be given its historical RoF values. And retain the current mounted LMG damage model.
Why do you assume that the Maxim and MG34 would have the same damage-per-shot when you just gave an example of 2 existing SMGs with comparable calibers but different damage-per-shot?
Regardless of whether or not it’s justifiable, that’s how it already works so it’s not beyond reason to assume that’s how the devs would implement MG changes.
I assumed that because all of existing MGs in the game have exact same damage. But you are right, there is a possibility that devs would try to balance MGs by changing their damage outputs.
No lol.
5.0, 5.7 and 6.8. Each nation has a different damage on their SMGs