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Jump back to quoted post16 Jun 2021, 18:23 PMdonofsandiego

I'm just still wondering what people were talking about in the shoutbox one day. I'm guessing that the balance team is trying to reach out to microsoft so that they can update the game pass version so PC and Game pass can play together again?

Jump back to quoted post16 Jun 2021, 09:33 AMSander93

Well, it is worse at suppression (and DPS) than the 42. But only by 10% or so, so that's barely even noticeable ingame and still at the top end of all HMGs.

As for the Vickers, at medium range in neutral it suppresses in roughly 1.56s, when the HMG 42 does so in 1.042s. Slower for sure, but still good. And within one burst. I've personally never felt it lacked suppression (both using and opposing it) outside of some instances where it either kills a model (because technically it has higher DPS than the HMG 42) and has to re-aim or some edge cases where it doesn't get to fire the full burst for suppression or the target moves past some cover etc. But all HMGs can suffer from that.

Jump back to quoted post16 Jun 2021, 00:19 AMKasarov

I don't agree with allowing 7-man and PTRS. 7-man is insanely powerful; camo AND cover bonus? Have you thought about how the cover bonus would increase the DPS of the PTRS? It would also make it more difficult to camo behind smaller objects due to larger squad sizes which could be frustrating for the user.

If we're looking to buff this ability, I think a nice QoL improvement would be to give PTRS Penals the same camo and AT snare as PTRS conscripts, but only in this doctrine to promote T1 builds as well, similar to the upcoming Infantry Repair Kit with Penals getting repair option too.