What is the AM40 supposed to be?

Ah, before everyone jumps for being Mr. Negative again:

I do like the improvements this game has had but this addition doesn't add much... It's an unlock which kinda amounts to just filling a quota.

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@Daeyon-be wrote:

Don't know about this weapon...

The recoil is all over the place making it meh at range...

The damage is fairly low too, making it meh overall

It's supposed to bridge SMG/AR stuff but it sucks at both

Clip capacity makes it even worse

So you made a weapon that should make an AR feel like an SMG but... SMG's can already outclass AR's most of the time and the AM40 doesn't feel like any of that...

Honestly, just make SMG's work like they should: NOT being able to laser down people at mid range like an AR is supposed to and increase their spread.

The headshot nerf doesn't matter when SMG's are this accurate... I swear... Make guns work in their intended purposes! You guys are trying to make everything work in every situation but don't do that! Make these guns work for certain situations, as they were made for in real life!

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Currently working through the unlocks for it to see if it ever feels remotely usable. At the moment (about 100 kills in) it feels worse than any of the alternatives that I could choose from for either AR or SMG

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@Daeyon-be wrote:

Don't know about this weapon...

The recoil is all over the place making it meh at range...

The damage is fairly low too, making it meh overall

It's supposed to bridge SMG/AR stuff but it sucks at both

Clip capacity makes it even worse

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Data miner found out that they messed it up the gun is using smg damage stats aswell as ingame its registered as a smg but today on twitter they confirmed it launched in a broken state that will be fixed in a update.

Basically again here is a new gun oh we forgot the put proper damage on it well you know us a indie dev crew well we will fix that in September? October?

https://www.reddit.com/r/battlefield2042/comments/x2bk5m/dice_accidentally_gave_the_am40_the_new_and_lower/

4 development team entire need for speed franchise shelved for this "game"

Edit:

Not mentioned there but the mag size basic should be 30 but again its there first game give them a few months to fix it like the ac 42 those mags were broken for 6 months.

So in other words I should stop using it until they fix it.

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@CantGetRight wrote:

So in other words I should stop using it until they fix it.

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Yes i got super pissed off yesterday with small mags poor damage going negative kdr trying to get the mags well every mag has way lower ammo than it says basically 10-20rounds less. The damage at most is 28 point blank into the head.

Throw it away till they fix there new gun in a fps game.

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@CantGetRight wrote:

So in other words I should stop using it until they fix it.

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Correct. I did the same

@Straatford87 if you can speak on this, was the initial purpose of the AM40 to be a new SMG but last second (or someone that had little to do with the design of it wanted this change) made the change for this to be an AR causing some last second adjustments to make it "perform" like an AR? Damage for headshots is set at 1.25 (same as SMG) its recoils is comparable to the AK-24 (might have been something to last second change due to needing to balance it as an AR?) and the damage model is very similar to SMG's without any additional additives to make it seem like an AR (it very much seems like the intended purpose of this rifle was to be a new SMG rather than AR)? Even the Icon for the Mastery is in the same style of SMG's (the background shape for the AM40 is a square same as all the rest of the SMG's, all of the AR's use a hexagon for the shape)