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Before, it only did 50% of its old (high) suppression value against squads that were already suppressed. Now it does 100% of its new (low) suppression value against targets that are already suppressed.

So it should probably still take around the same amount of bursts to push an already suppressed squad into pinned state. Without this change the MG probably would never pin anything.

I think one reason why we are repeatedly seeing people say something like "I'd rather take <other faction's AT gun>" stems from faction design:
Ostheer does not have as many indirect fire options as Soviets. Their main source of indirect fire are mortars and then nothing at all until (if) they go T4. Everything they have is rather squishy (flames, explosions) and because of this and other reasons (no Oorah, more expensive mines) they have a harder time defending their AT gun. The things they'd use an AT gun for are mainly T70/T34 against which survivability is arguably more important than rate of fire. Against a Su-85 it just serves as a deterrent and can be taken out by the Soviet indirect fire solutions available in these situations (Su-76, Katyusha, 120 mm mortar).

Soviets already have potent indirect fire options or do not require them as much (survivable snipers, M3 flamers for taking/weakening positions). The squishyness of a Pak would not mean much to them because they could support it easier (mines, AT grenade, Oorah, merge, easier recrewing, doctrinal cloak). Rather, they'd take more potent non-Su-85 AT solutions because their amount and relative power of them is a bit lower (currently: combination of solutions less potent on their own).

And I think this is completely intentional from the design Devs.
Still, both lack from poor accuracy... their scatter stats should be improved so they are better against disabled and immobile (lack of enemy awareness) vehicles as well as against frontal charging vehicles.

There was the cheat commands mod for stuff like that but I think it does not work anymore after the end of beta.

Very interesting changes. Let's see how they play, the meta will surely shift quite a bit.

However, I hope the 25% more received damage does not revert the game back to M3 domination. Though the better SdKfz 222 and higher Panzerfaust damage might be enough to prevent that...

we'll see

Interesting. I already suspected as much, would have been very surprised if it really favored one faction.
I guess it decreases the effectiveness of the conscript health bulletin, though? In pure Gren vs. Conscripts early game engagements of course.