Relic overnerfed the mg42. Weapon horizontal traverse speed from 60 to 25 and the received damage multiplier were a good thing, but together with the reduced suppression it is just to much.
On a side note: If you could choose the direction of fire in buildings preemtive (e.g. via attack ground command) i would be very happy.
Spot on. No one wants the old MG42 back which did not only insta surpress, but ALSO survived a flank pretty long. But all the nerfs together...
Not being able to chose direction in buildings bothered me already in the beta.
An maxium can depack and setup almost faster than the MG42 takes to rotate to the edge of his fire arc. With the fast setupuptime you could have the maxium unsetup as well, and just setup when you see enemys.
If not the individuall Surpression is buffed, atleast the aoesurpression should be.
Many players feel that it is really not worth the micro/time investment, if you could simply build another Gren. The Risk of a Stolen MG42 alone keeps me from building them. To much risk, not enough reliability. (Also unreliabal because sometimes they survive a whole molotov, sometimes they die instantly, sometimes they pin fast, sometimes slow.)
P.S. This is the 3th time we have this Thread, and the consens from the Pros is that it needs to be a bit stronger. @StgBulldog.