As far as I remember it wasn't a very successful rifle. The cartridge was too powerful to shoot short bursts like STG would and the gun had no bipod to be used like a BAR. In effect the only point of using full auto was fighting in close quarters. Such characteristics, when transformed into coh2 weapon model would mean very short burst at long to mid range, effectively equal to SVT and big dps increase at short range that would overlap with SMGs. It doesn't sound great, does it?
Btw. honestly, we don't really need assault rifle on every faction. And SVT troops definitely give soviet forces enough mid range oriented firepower.
It wasn't, but other equipment in COH 2 was shit too.
Elephant (albeit not as bad as Ferdinand) had an operational rate of 40-50% compared to standard 60-70% of other vehicles.
KV2 could litterally break the chassis into pieces at any shot, potentially harming the crew. That to the point that they reconverted KV2 into KV1.
Is just to give all faction multiple tools, there's this option.
"effectively equal to SVT"
That implies that we can't change STV-40 to work like G43.
Honestly i would have designed STV to be guards standard weapons, with a long range dps curve with high accuracy and low damage, so it could synergize with dp28 upgrade, like paratroopers m1 carbine synergize with thompsons and still carry some punch at close range.
Again, here we are talking about weapon classes in a way that this game never really fid (that's why we get multiple weapons with completely different stats and such)
"Btw. honestly, we don't really need assault rifle on every faction."
Absolutely, assault rifles should be doctrinal for some faction.
Ost, OKW, UKF as options for CP 0/1 rifle-like squads.
"Russia is a close range oriented faction"
True, that's why 6 men squads with 2 ATV-40 as upgrade could be their Tier 1 option and STV could be their guard infantry standard weapon, or even as equivalent to G43 doctrinal upgrade for grens.