Nope.
Just nope.
Too ammo hungry, too encumbering, ran too hot. Not in any way the best. Best =/= most dakka in a video game, but hey, video game reality ignoring contexts always make the over engineered inefficient German stuff look OH EM GEE GEWD, so no doubt that's enough for you, right?
Mg42 IRL wasn't some sort of godly gift
I didn't realize a 11Kg (25 lb) MG-42 was more encumbering than a 65Kg (140 lb) Maxim.
So ill break down the FACTS about the MG-42 to clear up your confusion:
The MG-42 is a GPMG that was innovative and had many design features that you still see in GPMG's today.
-It fired the 7.92x57mm mauser round that is roughly 15-20% stronger than the Russian 7.62x54mmR
And is roughly on par with the american 30.06. .303 British just didn't compare.
-It is a air cooled MG vastly reducing weight versus the water cooled Maxim.
-It swapped barrels in seconds with a trained crew, Furthermore the gunner did not have to get up to change the barrel he could do it from behind the gun so he wouldn't have to expose himself to enemy fire.
-Barrel changes were done in 3-8 seconds. Barrel and lock was 30 seconds.
-MG-42 had roughly double the fire rate.
-German infantry doctrine was build around supporting MG's The 42 was the king suppression,
The allies had to make several propaganda films to try and discredit how good the 42 was..
There was no winning that. It is a excellent machine gun that is still used today by the Bundeswehr (MG3)
-It was the lightest General use MG of the war, Being only 11kg! (Vickers 15kg, Maxim 65kg, Browning 1919 14kg)
-400,000 MG-42's were made (Not counting the 34)
-MG-42 Fired from a Open bolt, Maxim fired from a closed bolt. (Open bolt is generally a better design trait for MG's due to cooling)
In real life, The MG-42 was the best MG of the war. Its very very hard to dispute this.
Germany did make many poor design decisions in the war, The MG-42 was not one of them