[QXJZ]Capt_Kefra
Alright, you're good to go!
+124|7185|Honolulu, HI
Recently I've been playing a lot of Support and been using all the different guns.  M249 SAW...god damn, does that thing spit lead--900 rounds a minute, it's a full-auto M16A2.  RPK-74 is pretty good for a non-unlock, decently accurate, powerful bullets, large 130 round magazine.  PKM...well, let's put it this way, same damage as an SVD and probably more accurate, too.

Then we get to the MG36.  Disgustingly accurate for an LMG (then again, all HK weapons in the game have that tendency), but with a rather lackluster damage and rate of fire stat.  Or so I thought.

It seems that when I switch the MG36 to 3-round burst mode, the bullets get turbo-charged and do way more than the 30 damage they're supposed to do.  I'm quite sure it's never taken me more than 3 shots to kill a non-armored kit and certainly never more than 4, ever.  Hell, it usually gets the job done in 2 against the unarmoreds.

Then again, it could just be the fact that it's 4 AM, and I do usually play during the wee hours of the morning when my cognitive abilities are burned to the nubbins.  So, anyone else notice this about the MG36 or have I just been getting really lucky and running into half-dead enemies?
Smally85
Member
+0|7183|Plymouth UK
Possibly the recoil means that the 2nd/3rd shots are head shots, therfore instant kills...
Kobrakai
Weirdo
+152|7245|England
I don’t know why people say the PKM is better then the MG36, it may be more powerful but the MG36 fires more rounds per minute so basically they get the job done at about the same speed. But since the MG36 is more accurate it gives it a slight advantage over the PKM imo.

I love the MG36, got my expert support badge using it
polarbearz
Raiders of the Lost Bear
+-1,474|7245|Singapore

Lay off the weed my boy.

But in all seriousness, yes the 3 round burst is INCREDIBLY murderous, just put it in someone's chest and the recoil carries the 2nd and 3rd shot into the head.
[QXJZ]Capt_Kefra
Alright, you're good to go!
+124|7185|Honolulu, HI

Smally85 wrote:

Possibly the recoil means that the 2nd/3rd shots are head shots, therfore instant kills...

polarbearz wrote:

Lay off the weed my boy.

But in all seriousness, yes the 3 round burst is INCREDIBLY murderous, just put it in someone's chest and the recoil carries the 2nd and 3rd shot into the head.
Ahh, never stopped to think about that, it's a possibility.  I'm trying to think of moments when I was in incredibly close quarters where the recoil would have just caused 3 torso hits, if those were kills as well...but can't recall at the moment.

If that is the case though, funny how I can never get headshots with the freakin' sniper rifles, but with an LMG I get them all the time?  Go figure...
usmarine
Banned
+2,785|7218

[QXJZ]Capt_Kefra wrote:

Recently I've been playing a lot of Support and been using all the different guns.  M249 SAW...god damn, does that thing spit lead--900 rounds a minute, it's a full-auto M16A2.  RPK-74 is pretty good for a non-unlock, decently accurate, powerful bullets, large 130 round magazine.  PKM...well, let's put it this way, same damage as an SVD and probably more accurate, too.

Then we get to the MG36.  Disgustingly accurate for an LMG (then again, all HK weapons in the game have that tendency), but with a rather lackluster damage and rate of fire stat.  Or so I thought.

It seems that when I switch the MG36 to 3-round burst mode, the bullets get turbo-charged and do way more than the 30 damage they're supposed to do.  I'm quite sure it's never taken me more than 3 shots to kill a non-armored kit and certainly never more than 4, ever.  Hell, it usually gets the job done in 2 against the unarmoreds.

Then again, it could just be the fact that it's 4 AM, and I do usually play during the wee hours of the morning when my cognitive abilities are burned to the nubbins.  So, anyone else notice this about the MG36 or have I just been getting really lucky and running into half-dead enemies?
4am ?????  What are you doing, got to Moose's or Dukes.
Coolbeano
Level 13.5 BF2S Ninja Penguin Sensei
+378|7220

PKM can blow shit up.

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