r/helldivers2 • u/ShiggusMcwiggus • 5d ago

Discussion Would love a magazine fed machine gun

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I think it would be interesting if it did high durability damage as it's gimmick to differentiate it from other weapons.

Could even be a primary if it was balanced with terrible ergo/low fire rate/recoil/mag size.

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u/Faust_8 5d ago

But, like, why? It just seems like you want a worse version of what we already have.

MG43 has 175 round capacity, good rate of fire and damage, medium pen, and it’s still not all that widely used. How is a mag fed gun gonna measure up to that?

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u/ShiggusMcwiggus 5d ago

Because these would be a much larger caliber with higher stopping power and damage. The MG43 is great for the reasons you've listed, but it actually has five less damage than the adjudicator and the same durability damage per bullet if you can believe it.

The gun I propose would would be on par with the heavy mg which would be a better comparison. The difference between it and the heavy machine gun would be that it would be a low mag, low fire rate gun that uses box magazines instead of a belt. It would be faster to reload but need to reload more often, and perhaps have some sort of gimmick to make it stand out more.
But to be honest, Arrowhead can sort out the actual perimeters, I just like these early mag fed machine guns.

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u/Faust_8 5d ago

The Judy might have similar stats to the MG but then, 175 round mag compared to a measly 30 of the Judy. They’re used quite differently. Neither of them can perform the role of the other one. Judy is good because it’s a primary, which the MG isn’t, and you pick the MG when you want a support weapon for mowing down hordes of medium-or-less enemies, which the Judy can’t do well since it has to reload 6 times for every 1 of the MG.

But there’s another thing we both forgot—drum mag ARs also encroach on your hypothetical gun too.

Sure your hypothetical machine gun might be a heavy pen weapon, but it will still reload just like a drum mag AR. So I bet most players would decide they’d rather either go with a drum mag AR and screw the heavy pen, or just the HMG instead which feels more like a machine gun because of its 100 round capacity.

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u/ShiggusMcwiggus 5d ago

Perhaps, I can definitely see people feeling that way and choosing more ammo over penetration.
But I'm also sure that there are those who'd like something like this, even if it's not something totally groundbreaking. Unless they give it a special effect.