@The_Courier:
1) What exactly are you specifically suggesting should be changed on MG42?
2) And why do people keep bringing up explicitly MG42 survival, completely disregsrding that it is akready at 3/4 of Maxim survival? Do you think a MG42 at 1/2 survival of Maxim is realistic or conducive to balance?
I understand that people feel they have claims on this issue, but nobody is giving any concrete specific solution suggestions. Nor do I see anyone trying to reconcile those suggestions with the existing HMG situation on both factions.
Essentially, it amounts to whine with no solution presented, and no consideration of how those changes would match up asymmetrically to Maxim.
Ill run through the apparent asymmetry again.
= Ost Arc vs Sov Setup
= Ost Pin vs Sov DPS
= Sov 6 man vs Ost 4 man
If you have a differing perspective on that asymmetry, please explain it.
If you have a suggestion how to re-align that asymmetry for better balance, please elaborate on that and explain it.
Otherwise this leads nowhere.
NOTE:
- I think people are not understanding the difference between Suppressed and Pinned. The difference in pinning time between HMGs is not as dramatic as people are mkaing it out to be. 2 Bursts from Maxim WILL suppress infantry.
- As difficult as it is to maneuver around the MG42s arc, that is mitigated by two core factors:
-i) Oorah
-ii) The MG42 takes longer to reposition to reapply fire on a succesful flank.
Meaning that though the arc is narrower on a Maxim, and thus flanking action is more essily frontally achievable, it ALSO means the Maxim can proportionately quicker relocate to apply fire on that flank. This is asymmetric balance in practice.
The survival issue is, to me, a complete misnomer. MG42s already operate at 3/4 survival. Its a fallacy to claim that MG42s are too hard to damage with small arms, when infact Maxims are EVEN MORESO. Any claim that MG42s are too survivable, is also a claim that Maxims are EVEN MORE too survivable.
You seem to be ignoring the earlier post about damage modifiers, which seem like they would work nicely at making them more vulnerable to small arms.
You are also partially wrong about the MG42 having less Survivability. The MG42 teams have more armor then the maxim teams and take just as long to kill with normal fire. They are more suceptable to explosive damage and sniper fire, though the sniper fire is relative since the german sniper fires faster. Infact MG42 is better in the case of small arms since the gunner can take more fire without switching and when unpacked if the gun holder is killed you don't have to wait for another man to pick up the gun to move.
Also since the nerf I don't believe the difference in pack up time and damage are enough to make up for the difference in suppression and arc. There is absoloutly no situation where I would rather have a maxim then a MG42.