1: I don't have that problem, so maybe it's just you? Ever thought maybe you don't really know how to use the MG properly? That maybe every other game you've ever played has got it wrong, and that that has taught you to use it wrong?
2: Firstly, there are few places on any of the maps where anyone can get a 200m shot. So you must be in the wrong places for a start. Secondly, I bet you run to cover so everyone can see you, drop into cover, then pop your head up for a shot... right where everyone on the map knew you were.
Rule #1 for all infantrymen: Never stop where you first seek cover. You should drop into a concealed position, then move at least 5m away. If the place you chose to seek cover doesn't allow you to move that far while still being under cover, then you chose the wrong spot... especially if you have an MG.
The number of times I've shot at someone and they've dived behind the nearest cover, only to pop up again in exactly the same spot, is amazing.
3:For the machine gunner, concealment is key. There is no point doing a slow jog (heavy gun, remember) across an open field to a crater, then dropping into it and trying to fight. Everyone who saw you go into the crater will be waiting for you to come back out in order to give you a few new holes. You have to be sneaky.
Having said that, other team mates have to remember the gunner can not run as fast or as far as them, and they should slow down and cover the gunner as much as possible. It's for everyones benefit.
4: They do. They don't, however, sway like a drunken one armed cripple was trying to shoot them, the way most games do.
5: Oh get real. No one in their right mind thinks the SMG's in this game have the stopping power of the MG. Not even close. Oh wait... you're talking about when YOU get shot with them... right?
Everyone thinks the SMG is overpowered when they get shot with them, and underpowered when they are trying to shoot others. That's how you know the gun works properly.
6: That's the CoD addiction talking. I don't have fun hoping random number generators will decide I'm better than you. Sway, deviation, all of the crappy stuff games do to try and make people whine less about getting killed all the time are of the devil.
7: You die because you suck, not because the guns are too accurate. You die because you sprint out in front of your team, trying to get the kills, only to get slaughtered by those overpowered SMG's or rifles, or MG's or whatever happened to cut you down.
You run out into the open, drop behind a wall, then think no one knows where you are, because you can't see them. When you pop your head up and die, it's because they have an aimbot, or the gun is overpowered or anything but that you did a boneheaded thing and paid the price.
8: I see it in every game that has even slightly realistic weapons. Insurgency, Project Reality (probably RO1 if I had played that), all of them have the same type of people who think you should be able to run around like Rambo without even TRYING to conceal yourself.
When it comes to the skills of an infantryman... shooting is the most basic. Everyone can do it. The REAL skill is closing with the enemy while NOT getting shot, getting to a position where you can shoot, taking a careful aimed shot, then moving so no one knows where you are.
People who can't do that, complain about weapons being too accurate.
9: So what you are saying is make the weapons unrealistic, then add another unrealistic feature to balance it? Why not make the weapons realistic and make you REALLY afraid of getting shot... like you so clearly are. The only reason games bring in supression is because no one cares about getting shot and thus supressing fire doesn't work. In this game it does.
So much so that you came here to whine about it. You are REALLY afraid of these guns, aren't you
10: Are you kidding me? So armies don't bother teaching soldiers how to shoot? Try telling that to a soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan. But make sure you're out of arms reach when you do.
11: That has nothing to do with how easy it is to shoot something you can see. No that's because it's REALLY ****ing hard to shoot something you CAN'T see. Please read what I wrote above about cover, and then you'll understand why you keep dying.
12: Au contraire... it's because people ARE that accurate in the real world, so everyone is crawling everywhere. You stand up, you die.
Guess what happens in this game? People like you run around at full sprint then complain about getting shot.
13: You clearly don;t understand tactics then. Inaccurate weapons encourage "run and gun", and "spray and pray", because nothing else actually works. You could take all the care in the world to line up the perfect shot, only to have a random number generator decide to miss. That's not tactics, that's random chance. If I want that I'll go to a casino.
TL;DR: Stop blaming the game for your own failings.
