What is the AM40 supposed to be?
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 ...
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So in other words I should stop using it until they fix it.
@CantGetRight wrote:So in other words I should stop using it until they fix it.
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)
- @DaddyWarBukx 😁 hey I'm glad someone else noticed those shapes in the emblems and it made me wonder. ∆ this makes perfect sense and this backs up your claim. I was hoping this would be THE carbine of 2042. I miss my ACWR from bf4 I thought the AM40 might fill that spot
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We have bug with AM 40 that its using the SMG headshot multiplier. Should get fixed in an upcoming update.
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- @EA_Atic nice that its being "fixed" but can you or anyone in the dev team elaborate if it was a last second change for the AM40 to be an AR since everything is still pointing for it to be an SMG rather than a AR...
