Steam is getting slammed right now. Try changing your download region. That may speed up you downloads. Pick somewhere there are not a lot of people.
More than the strength of the guns, it's the strength of the add ons that count.
The M16 is a great weapon. But when you put a red dot and magnum ammo on it, it becomes a god weapon.
The same is true for pretty much every other non-sniping weapon in the game.
The first guns are not that bad, it was 10 times worse before the update that really nerfed the OP weapons and buffed the 1st ones.
I'll disagree. The weapons I picked up where considerably better.
The AUG I used had little to no recoil plus a really high rate of fire. It made killing enemies much easier.
When they have scopes and silencers it is worse.
I really don't like games with such features.
But the thing I really don't like is that up front you are stuck with only 1 primary weapon per class. They get old quickly.
Still, it is not a bad game for $10. I am not sure if I would have paid more, but so far I am happy with it.
*edit* Ok I stop playing vietnam now. The non-existence of skill balance is still not acceptable. Whereas at the beginning the chances to get on a server where team a totally rapes team b the whole time were maybe 40-50%, now it's the case on at least 90% of the servers.
A friend of mine gave me control over his Dallas BC2 32 player server. I have it all patched and updated with Vietnam.
Medic's PKM is another mowing machine.
Compared to the MG3 + scope I picked up, it was underwhelming.
Is it close range? Grab an F2000 and fill them with lead. Medium range? XM8, M416 and so on.
Save for the M24, the F2000 was easier to use at a long range compared to the other starting weapons. The red dot helped me a lot.
I disagree about "one weapon type per class is bad", it makes classes much more unique and distinct. This is a teamwork oriented game after all. You have "common weapons" like G3, M14 & shotguns to balance things out.
You missed the point. I said different weapon choices would be nice at the start. Say the Assault Class can use the AEK or M16 up front. Give us a choice.
On another note, what the hell where they thinking when they gave the medic the machineguns?
Some odd weapon choices for each class IMO.