The almighty PKM

[DrunkenPirate]

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With all these support players, this is good turf for the medics among us.

[Thirdeyez]

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Hmmm...Ive realized nerfing prone was the downside of adjusting accuracy on the LMG's.

[bjack]

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With all these support players, this is good turf for the medics among us.

Hehe I'm enjoying all the medics throwing themselves in front of my crosshairs over the fresh kill. :p

[Cornbread Mafia]

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Hmmm...Ive realized nerfing prone was the downside of adjusting accuracy on the LMG's.

Exactly... As i have found out. If you are running as a Support player and come face to face with a Special Ops, Assault, Anti-tank and Engineer, you are at a great risk of getting killed because the support still needs to be prone for a good accuracy level, while the other classes can still stand and fire with relative accuracy...

This exact scenerio happened to me tonight. I was running across a road in Shargi and caught another player to my right side. I turned and went prone and just as i squeezed off my first round, i was nailed.. The opponent killed me from the standing position, popped by the G36.. Happened again with a G3...


I say it is a balanced trade off...

[Thirdeyez]

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Playing with the PKM in CQC for so lang and having to spam prone when I had to hit the deck and fire on some one or get up and run was something Im used to. Im gonna have to relearn it all over again.

[=PM=Unity]

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Now I'll have to admit that I haven't played my traditional medic yet but the prone delay seems very reasonable. I thought it would take a second or two to go prone but that's not the case at all. and theres a one second delay on standing up so what? Should we realistically be able to expect to be able to stand up and down instantly (especially support players carrying 16 kilos of PKM)? I fine the new prone features to be very reasonable and I barely noticed them. As long as you calculate what needs to be done and play smart its smooth as butter.

The PKM and new sniper rifle are just sweet. I may even say just a tad too much. I had learned the quirks of the PKM a few weeks before the patch and was loving it and getting 15-20+ kills a round no problem. I really think that it was quite satifactory the way it was and was much more lethal than people gave it credit for. All in all a very nice weapon now. And yes the PKM is now wonderfully accurate for a change at medium distances but lets face it, in a true shootoff at medium distance or farther, any decent sniper will pop your coconut before you get a bead on him. I played both, I love both and that new sniper rifle is just amazing.... actually I would really probably play it solely for the fire and retort sounds it has. So beautiful! Can anyone verify that it penetrates glass like the M95? I didn't get a chance for any straight shots tonight. To be honest I didn't even try the revamped M95 tonight which I newly unlocked because I was so enamoured with the L96.

Thanks!
- Unity

[HicRic]

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Nah, it doesn't shoot through glass. It is statistically identical to the v1.2 M24.

[DuffMan]

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I've always used my PKM, firstly because I've always liked it and secondly barely anyone else used it. Now everyone is...hopefully it's just a phase

[Lugal317]

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These were the two rounds I played on Karkand today. If I can do this consistently with the PKM, this thing is overpowered and way too accurate. Its not even a challenge. The time it takes prone does NOT equal a "fair" tradeoff. I'm all in favor of higher scores, but come on... These are scores I would have to work to get playing medic, now I just have to grab my PKM and start picking people off with my "automatic sniper rifle." Welcome to the new assault class.

[Cornbread Mafia]

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Looks like you benefitted from newb targets, as in new to the gameplay changes. It will take a week or so for everyone to change from the run and gun tactics... After that i am sure those high scores will just be the exception..

[Lugal317]

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I don't think so, people were getting pretty irritated. All you have to do is go prone and do a three shot burst and anyone is down. If you are further away the thing is as accurate as the G36C on single shot. I took out snipers at the haze line on Karkand no problem. Trust me, these were two different servers, two different lots of people... The gun needs to be changed.

[Coi]

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sooo where do i dl the patch

[Cornbread Mafia]

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I don't think so, people were getting pretty irritated. All you have to do is go prone and do a three shot burst and anyone is down. If you are further away the thing is as accurate as the G36C on single shot. I took out snipers at the haze line on Karkand no problem. Trust me, these were two different servers, two different lots of people... The gun needs to be changed.

But by looking at the other scores you were definitely the exception. And if we were going to gather the true statistics of the effects of the new patch we wold eliminate your excceptional high score and the exceptional low score.. And what we would have is a rather balanced game.

In any case we need more than 2 games to determine the true effects of the current changes..

Anyway, nice shootin..:)

[Zoukaila]

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To be honest I didn't even try the revamped M95 tonight which I newly unlocked because I was so enamoured with the L96.

Played a couple of hours last night, IMHO the M95 is much more accurate. I always hated this gun, now I think I'll use it more often

[[WOLF]bbob]

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The reason why the PKM is so great is that people dont realize that they have to find another route to avoid getting shot, they just storm out 1.0 style..

Dont worry in a couple of weeks the PKM will work as a supressor rather than a big chewer..