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Jump back to quoted post11 Jul 2013, 01:29 AMmjsegaline

Suppression has two stages yellow and red, at yellow the units are put to the ground and slowed in movment, in red they are pinned and useless and u must retreat them or die. The mg42 puts units into the yellow stage almost instantly, the red comes very shortly after. It takes the maxim a good 6 to 8 bursts to put one infantry unit into red.

Jump back to quoted post10 Jul 2013, 23:05 PMmjsegaline

You guys really just won't be happy until every decent soviet unit has been made useless. The maxim never needed a nerf for the following reasons:

The maxim has terrible suppression
The maxim has a terrible cone of fire
The mg42 has instant suppression
The mg42 has a huge cone of fire
The mg42 can be made right off the bat and can completely lock down resources in combination with mg bunkers, within the first 2 mins of the game.

Now after the patch, due to ridiculous amounts of complaining because germans were not slaughtering everything with no effort like is expected by the german playerbase, the maxim has had a major reduction in dps, and its one actual plus, the ability to pack and unpack, was nerfed.

So it is now basically a poor mans mg42 with no real benefit. In conjunction with the fact that soviet mortars were also made inferior to the german mortar, effectivly making us have no viable counter to german mg and mg bunker resource lockdown/spam early game.

Whats next on the chopping block? The Su-85 like so many people are complaining about? Yes, why not remove our only tank killing unit? Might as well, its only natural seeing as the apparent goal here is to decapitate the russian faction.