My thoughts on the current weapon balance
I recently got back into the game right before the start of season 1. I think some weapons feel like they're overperforming in some areas, so here we go, let's open pandoras box: Pistols are fine e...
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The LMGs are actually really bad right now, worse than ever. It´s like they don´t even hit the target when it´s right infront of you. The hitreg is awful in the game overall but the light machineguns are worse than anything else at the moment. You can do a loooong burst at spitting distance and not get hits to register.
The SMGs are way too good over distance, and too god up close too to be honest. An assaultrifle should always be the better gun, as it is irl. The pistol calibre smgs are weak and nobody uses them in combat anymore. Only police use them for shooting at non-armored bad guys in hostage rescue type situations and even there.. most have short barreled ARs.
As much fun as SMGs are, they are outdated in combat. 9mm and 45 acp just doesnt make the cut anymore.
But the worst guns in all of BF2042 are the mounted ones, all of them. They have been nerfed to oblivion. A 20/30mm automatic cannon has longer ttk (time to kill) than a pistol.. a pistol. A faceshot with a cannon does not kill.. you need 4 more. Wtf dice? The miniguns are completely useless because they don´t hit anything. A 1 second burst/hit with a minigun in real life puts 50 rounds on target.. 50! In BF2042.. it´s virtually useless.
