MG ramboing

[Pinball Jones]

Ost had MG's just about right; RO2 does not.

Hip-firing MGs has got to be the most annoying features of this game IMO. It ranks up there with "can't prone here."

I really wish TWI would fix this in the interest of better gameplay.

 

[Leopardi]

Ost had MG's just about right; RO2 does not.

Hip-firing MGs has got to be the most annoying features of this game IMO. It ranks up there with "can't prone here."

I really wish TWI would fix this in the interest of better gameplay.

Nothing comes even close to the "Can't prone here, so please enjoy this 7,92x57mm to your head after spending half the round crawling to sneak behind the enemy lines. Have a nice day."

 

[G_Sajer]

I'll only say this: I use an MG constantly. The last thing I want to do with it is get in a close quarters engagement. Hip firing is not accurate, and the precious seconds it takes to get rounds on target often result in my demise. Only occasionally does hip firing save me. I do not hunt targets firing from the hip because while doing so might get a kill, it almost always gets me killed quickly. My best kill ratio is always achieved at range, and even then, muzzle flashes usually draw a nasty response. Hip firing is not an effective use of an MG. It results in a drastic reduction in their time on target as they are constantly forced to respawn and get back to an effective firing point. The team that uses MGs this way is not doing itself any favors. I think victims way overestimate how effective this behavior is overall.

 

[blkmgc]

Why you guys all picking on Rambo?

 

[r5cya]

The biggest flaw is that maps exist that not only allow ramboing, but reward or leave it as the only option for the MG on the offensive team because there is only cqc. There is very few places for an offensive MG to setup on Apartments that you don't have to rambo to get to first (lots for defensive though).

I don't see MGs ramboing on the big maps like bridges, Winterwald, or medium sized ones like Fallenfighters or Red October Factory that are more like ro1 maps in terms of size/ open areas where they can setup. Vote for those maps instead of cqc maps.

On servers with map voting, when people vote for apartments for the 3rd time in 5 matches I'll change classes and start ramboing as MG just to end it quicker/make it unfun so we don't keep playing it every other match when there is over 20 viable maps to pick. Cause I consider voting for apartments that much a form of griefing and its worse than spawn camping in my books.

Best 4 ways to kill rambo MG, remember they are ramboing which is loud, you should know they are coming unless you are the first person they shoot.
1. Grenades, prime it and toss it around the corner, if you know how to prime nades and how to throw them properly with about 1-2 sec left on the fuse, no one can survive them, I use this trick to take out non-rambo mgs, up a flight of stairs all the time.
2. PPSH, it fires faster and is way easier to aim 9 out of 10 times an equally skilled ppsh player vs rambo mg and the ppsh wins
3. Melee when they walk around a corner/from behind. Since a rambo is walking and firing, he's moving slow you can often run a small circle through different rooms to flank him. If your caught infront of them duck and weave to a side, some rambo mgs aren't too good about turning. You can sometimes smoke a room before he gets there and try to ambush him too.
4. Aim for the 3 1 shot areas (Heart, head and nuts) or if your using a bolt action rifle just hit them once in the chest and they usually die, but you gotta do it fast. I have a lot of bolt kills like this on rambo mgs.

i pretty much agree with all of this. on just about all the custom maps and a few of the stock ones, the mg gets used as it should. from a distance. how many of you mg guys actually try and storm the univermag at fallen fighters with it? not many, i bet. much safer to kill from across the map. now on apartments or barracks how do you use it? well, since there's few good places to set it up without getting killed instantly from 50 meters or less, it goes mobile. no big surprise here.

I'll only say this: I use an MG constantly. The last thing I want to do with it is get in a close quarters engagement. Hip firing is not accurate, and the precious seconds it takes to get rounds on target often result in my demise. Only occasionally does hip firing save me. I do not hunt targets firing from the hip because while doing so might get a kill, it almost always gets me killed quickly. My best kill ratio is always achieved at range, and even then, muzzle flashes usually draw a nasty response. Hip firing is not an effective use of an MG. It results in a drastic reduction in their time on target as they are constantly forced to respawn and get back to an effective firing point. The team that uses MGs this way is not doing itself any favors. I think victims way overestimate how effective this behavior is overall.

what's your favorite map to use the mg on? which do you think it's fairly useless on?