
But none of this matters compared to the STG44 upgrade. The DPS on paper is better but there is a phenomenon that I spoke of before regarding the brits IF that causes performance of the kar98s to perform better than the STG44 and short and long range. The fire rate of the STG is greater than the kar98, but the damage per bullet is much lower. That causes the damage to be spread across the models more evenly preventing any one model from dieing as quickly as it would have with a kar98. If you test this out at long range you will notice that cons in green cover will out perform volks w/ stg in green cover until cons lose 2-3 models, but because the damage is spread across the unit more evenly with the STGs damage profile, volks will lose models first and faster than the cons squad.
Solution, give the STG44 package a slightly better damage profile, even if it's more expensive.
I have ran this scenario in the cheat mod 2 vic condition a handful of times. At medium range they perform better, but not at short and long range.