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Jump back to quoted post15 Apr 2015, 01:03 AMacosn

I got bad news- horrible news- the MG42 wasn't that special.


Yes, to be blunt, it was good. It was inexpensive to produce and light, but that's about where it's perks end. It's fanatical rate of fire lead to issues where it would literally eat itself alive. There's fundamentally no good way to engineer a gun firing 1500 rounds a minute to properly seat each round. Sometimes it missfires and destroys the barrel, sometimes it missfires and it's junked. And that rate of fire? Irrelevant. 600 rounds per minute firing at you, 1500 rounds per minute firing at you. You know as well as I do that the difference is irrelevant, you're hitting the dirt regardless.



In COH2 the MG42 is fine. It doesn't have comparable suppression values to the Maxim or the M2 (I'd have to look up it's tables but what I've seen is that it's entirely forgettable and almost insulting to the real gun) because it's suppression area is much larger. Only the worst kind of blobber will be stopped dead by maxim crews.



The only real issue with the MG42 is the broken incendiary rounds ability. Why the fuck is it time based? Between that and the mandatory reload it triggers when activated, you're basically making a useless ability that fights against itself.

Jump back to quoted post15 Mar 2015, 01:05 AMCardboard Tank

Here you see a vet 3 MG42 and its performance. It´s hilarious how long it needs to pin a unit, even if it´s yellow cover. It´s 27 seconds of constant bursts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1-70N4bT3w#t=51m58s