Well yeah,but pre-patch the Maxim was useless and the MG42 was a gg unit...Now they both suck at their role,but weirdly this seemed to have balanced the game a little...
Maxim didn't fail as hard prepatch as MG42 does now.
wooof are you sure about the dps claim from a page back or so (edit: I can't find it now, but I'm pretty sure I wasn't halucinating that)? I've seen a cast with a MG42 losing to Combat Engineers with flamethrowers running through it's arc of fire. That doesn't exactly shout "Great DPS" to me.
Also, somebody talk about turning speed pls.