The state of Bipods in BF6
I’m an avid LMG player and have always loved playing support and laying down suppressing fire for my squad and team. Ever since 2142 I’ve picked this to be my most enjoyable play style, and I kn...
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Without suppression in modern BF games LMGs are at a massive disadvantage, too inaccurate giving away your position with the bad TTK, person not moving is at a massive netcode disadvantage, all run and gun weapons way too accurate, while being the worst automatic weapons for close range.
I think a well balanced suppression system slightly lower compared to BF3 makes the game more interesting
I 100% agree here, if they still want to shy away from suppression directly affecting accuracy I feel like the LMGs should have a better damage drop off than the currently do. I think that SMGs should obviously have an advantage in CQB just on TTK, the LMG shines at that mid range where suppressing fire actually matters. Their direct counter should be the sniper/DMR.
they already have crazy bloom which rewards burst firing at range which I think is good, we don’t need another Benét–Mercié (It was fun though!) but yes, they hit like an smg at range it feels sometimes and on top of all their other disadvantages they just feel kinda junk. Nice to have extra ammo but a lot of them have small ammo count anyway or the big boxes cost so much attachment points that you have one that has no bipod or crazy recoil.
Just to add to this idea too, in other BF games there are LMGs that were highly inaccurate but had massive belts or magazines that would also have high fire rate. I think of the MG42 or the parabellum in BF1. If you saw these shooting you had to either get cover, flank, or spot for snipers/dmr and they were a huge threat. Their effectiveness came from being a stationary position
idk LMGs just feel like a bit of meme, they don’t scare like they used to, and because of this the “support gunner” role is effectively obsolete. Having a well positioned LMG gunner supporting his/her squad was a real thing and kind of forced people to approach the fight tactically to some extent, on both sides to. Enemy’s would have to consider what I listed above and the friendlys also sort of knew that if there was a MG set up at the objective holding a lane of fire that keeping them from being flanked was a great defensive strategy.
Just a tad sad because the modern era really gives so much potential for this play style to be so epic but definitely fell flat
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