I even agreed with their point about maxim cost. That's all they asked for, they didn't say to bring back maxim spam... All they asked for was to keep the price at 240 when they did the other nerfs
Now lets try this once more.
katokov's claim is that MG-42 is being spammed the same say way maxim was spammed in 2013-2014.
Do you agree with that claim or not?
If you agree pls provide replays of suceful +5 HMG-42 games.
If you do not then pls move on because you agree with me that claim is false.
Why would you ever need 6 mg42s? 2 is almost always enough. Can easily ask the opposite question, go back to the old maxim days and try building just 2 maxims
They should've kept the old price when they nerfed it. The nerfs were more than enough to kill the spam, the setup time nerf especially
At this point who cares, but in the next game MG performance needs to be more consistent across factions
I was simply responding to a claim that MG-42 can be spammed in similar way that the maxim used to be spammed which is false. Nothing more nothing less.
(the usual rant that the allies always get the sort end of the stick. )
Maxim spam has ended and it is a good thing, end of story.
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it was meta once back in 2013 or 2014 and then they removed the qualities of it so people don't actively spam it (just like they spam the MG-42), and then they never compensated it via cost reduction or performance boosts, hence its not considered good.
2xMG42 early game in 3v3 can easily lock down a sector and turn the game into a stomp for the Allies if they don't get indirect fast, bolstered by the fact that Pios have increased sight to spot for the MG.Maxim comes after the MG42, is present in a faction with overall weaker support weapons and weaker overall infantry.
Building 2xMG42 is very viable for securing yourself a fuel point early on and keeping yourself in the game.Building maxims early on almost always resulted in the afromentioned soviet using them getting pushed to their base.
When Maxim spam was prevalent and viable there was also a very fringe minority of people who actually were good at the game, a good leftover portion just charged headlong into Maxims and lost predictably
Making 2 mg42 has nothing to do with "maxim spam" era...
I think we can all agree that removing maxim spam from the game was an overall improvement.
and that must be why the MG-42 is widely considered the best MG in the game and a very common tactic is to blob two to three of them without even making more than one grenadier, or even none. It clearly is a bad machine gun that does not outperform every other standard MG, and is even fucking comparable to premium MGs
if you use the modern maxim like you use the mg-42 as wehr, you will lose the game in sub 5 minutes
give it a price reduction to 240 manpower and that is enough
It seem to me that you have not experience what "maxim spam" was...
Here is a random video with a 6(?) maxim build, you are welcomed to try a 6 mg42 build see how it goes for you and come back with results.
Once more "MG-42 spam" does not work, maxim spam used to work and the game is an better state now that it does not...
it is not entirely trash, but it is widely considered, by everyone, the worst MG in the game
it was meta once back in 2013 or 2014 and then they removed the qualities of it so people don't actively spam it (just like they spam the MG-42), and then they never compensated it via cost reduction or performance boosts, hence its not considered good.
The maxim spam was viable especially vs OKW, people would building 5+ of them, MG-42 spam is not really viable and never really was.
If FRPs are the biggest enemy of flanking, then USF should be hard to flank...oh wait, you don't even have to flank them, since it is the weakest faction defensive wise
Yes they could really use a some defensive structures like tank traps, wire, fighting positions (yes I am being sarcastic).
If you want to rant about USF pls do it in another thread
If you want to disagree just for disagreeing without actually having anything to contribute to thread pls find someone else because I am not really interested
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