Profile of VonMecha

i just played 16 or 17 games trying to focus on hmg usage. It sucked major assage, couldnt stop con/penal/shock troop assaults from the front for crap, even tried buying vet. Only way they were of any use was having equal or more mgs then enemy inf, which is the opposite of what a hmg is for. They were almost pointless to use, lost 17 in a row. But mostly due to t70 spam and industry, but then mainly because mgs couldnt keep inf off the paks. I know its rumored to get some buffs but im not having fun with this game anyway, so I'm just giving up on coh2.

Sigh. I could smash you in an actual game and you'd find a way to justify my making a mistake somewhere. My point in that massive post is, again, theory crafting and vacuum fighting. Yay, you produced theoretical counters and mistakes on my part. Also, pardon me if I'm playing the Soviets wrong, I'll remember that the next time I'm carrying a pub match by doing exactly that.

The vCoH crowd had no issue dealing with MT, which was used by the Schwimmwagen (easily spammable) when the Luftwaffe Tactics tree was chosen. You see the red glow, you GTFO or suffer getting rolled. It's a DPS booster, but it's also a sort of area denial--forces you to get out of wherever you are or suffer getting beaned in the face with a small tactical nuke--gee, I apologize for not jihading my T-34s at the first sight of an enemy vehicle (with or without MT).

Sorry but you implying schimwaggen equals any kind of "rolling" you lose all credibility. People who chose the mark target over camouflage were not people who did "rolling". Mark target only slightly increased received accuracy and a few seconds of tracking into fog of war. Those abilities could also be labeled as useless benefit 1 and 2.

Oorah and molotov is made versus MG. Raising cost rifle grenades and molotov maybie help. Molotov have long and epic animation and you have enough time react.
I play T1 start and i am using two squads penals versus MG. Classic flank from CoH1. In past wide arc of MG42 instapin both squads. No more super MG. :-(

How would raising the cost of rifle grenades and molotov improve the utility of the mg42??

You seem to forget flanking means from the side, not the front. Everybody agrees that if you outmaneuver a mg with multiple squads, they should win. However flanking a mg42 is no longer necessary unless it's to make yourself feel better. If 2 squads approach from the front, slightly offset it can't suppress them both. If one oorahs up to it from front, it cant keep them at distance to prevent a molotov...from the front. If one squads enters from the edge of its arc, even if it manages to point the mg at it because the horrid traverse speed,it will only get off non damaging, non suppressing bursts. The current arc makes the mg weaker because squads at the edge have little chance of being suppressed, any squads in the front will have plenty of time to run up, or directly through the mg42.

This super godlike mg42 narrative started from complaints about the suppression bulletin, and cons not doing damage when they did flank. After it got nerfed to weak sauce, is when your fairy-tale of mg42s being an unflankable, insta pinning super weapon came to life.

Unless gren with LMG, the gren doesnt do enough damage to make me not ignore him and go straight for the mg. (early game i have molotov n he doesnt have anything)

This.. The reason I don't even bother with mg42s anymore. Cons ignore grens, rush mg, force mg retreat, then gren is forced to fight multiple cons. So whats the point of building an mg instead of more grens?

Funny how this cry escalated only after we got beta leak saying that they are changing something in the next patch.

On the topic. If you use MG42 as a first line defence unit often left alone and unprotected then you will fail. When you use it as a second line defense then you will notice it's not that bad and all it needs is a small tweak. As someone above said majority of average German player want this unit to be the former invincible 1 man army. You can argue all day but there is a fact the when supported MG42 doesn't have any problems with stopping units charging head on even when they Hoorahing. There is this issue with enemies running through multiple yellow covers and it should be look at but I am sure this affects Maxim as well.
When I set up my MG42 behind my lines I don't have problems suppressing two squads although it requires me to right click next squad I want to be stopped.
Saying MG42 doesn't fulfill its role and calling it useless is a big exaggeration.

You act as if noone ever uses the mg, and uses the mg with grens. I used the mg repeatedly till i gave up on it. Over and over cons or any other inf for that matter would just ignore my grens, run face front to mg and and throw explosives. People were complaining about this day 1 after the extensive nerf. It is useless when there is no point of building it instead of another gren squad. Mg42 has lack of firepower and lack of mobility. Its role now is to make soviet players feel better.