That is simply false, in the original version it was used a lot, it was even meta for sometime.
Used by who? meta on who? I played hundreds of matches of this god forsaken game and i can count the amount of vickers drop strats done in one hand. must have been so overpowered that only dedicated niche arranged teams used it to limited effect, because UKF cant shit out 600 munitions for LMG upgrades
Weapon drops can now only be targeted on squads owned by the player. Gives weapons directly to the squad rather than dropping them on the ground.
they can make the vickers guns free and maybe then will they use it, you don't even get raid sections with the darn doctrine, the only infantry that can make use of the vickers effectively
maybe there was some meta in 2013 but this isn't fucking 2013 no more, every fucking thread is being shat on with this "but akhully this unit was good 7 fucking years ago, which is why it fires blank rounds now and we wont elaborate!"