I see so many posts about bias'ed this way or that way for a particular map and not able to hit this or that.
Now usually it is a machine gunner saying this and when they realize it's not really a run and gun game to a certain extent like most other FPS games and that if you aren't short round bursting your really just silhouetting your enemy and you might get one bullet out of 30 to hit, even with your target sitting still...
Unless you use some sort of cheat to minimize the recoil...
I can honestly say I can NOT play with anything else but a bolt... Every other gun there is just too much recoil. I do use the M1 though when in DH and have had no issues with it either because you can single shoot with it as well.
Now I know you stated you use the auto - same story when you just pop off all rounds one after another - unless you have the gun stabilized then it's usually deadly on the second round after missing your first, if you miss the first shot that is.
Now the next thing is play on a server with a ping far less than 120 and maybe you'll see how easy it is to hit something with just about anything.
Also with the machine gun on a half track - that's why you have tracers, you follow the big green line to your target...
Could be red too I guess - depends on the team.
Now it doesn't matter what team I'm on or what map for that matter, the team as a whole has won. I've been in servers where people say the Russians NEVER win this map or the Germans never win that map and so on.
So at this point, AS ALWAYS, I state the facts, and that is, "I just played this map or that map the other day and we won this map easily". Then of course that person has to become a smart arse, so then I purposely jump teams and hope with some help we can prove it wrong and most of the time we have and as always I just laugh and say, "Now what were you saying???" Nothing I love more than a challenge...
Now when it comes to capping I will ALWAYS be in the zone, and with a good team we've won just about EVERY map made from Customs, Standards, and so on in EVERY version or MOD of the game thus far. Now there are a couple maps I've yet to play in DH but I'm sure we could win at those just as easily. It's all about the right players on the right team and you really can't lose...
I've yet to play something (RO, MN, DH) that I wasn't on a winning team and I can easily be on top with that single shot bolt action MOST of the time
. Thus the reason after a long fought battle I'll state, "Just no match for the bolt action!!!"
I think some folks need to get into good servers with good pings with SKILLED players and learn some of what it takes to be good at this game as a whole - a good ping alone will increase your skill two fold, but the rest is up to you and your tactics...
Come on over to 2Manny's we'll be waiting for ya, either as a target or another skilled player... I and others need the challenge...