Precisely; it's a highly 'mobile' support weapon but someone, somewhere, wrongly interpreted that as being 'front man CQB assault'.
Aside from the tank non-game this is about the only thing remaining in RO2 that blows goats and really does put me off - it's becoming too late in the day to keep trying to ignore such aberrations as being known design flaws that are just awaiting their turn on the fix list; however, so ludicrous is the way in which MGs are being thrown around like SMGs in this game (see above videos - or just play the game) that I still cling on to a thread of hope that this will indeed be addressed - eventually.
On some maps - Apartzig for example - some people are just going to have to get used to the idea that machine guns simply aren't going to be all that effective and in no way should this be justification for allowing Rambo MGing. If the game shipped with maps that featured large, open spaces it would be ridiculous if the SMGs were all mystically able to snipe reliably up to 200 yards just so that they could be effective in such locations. Most of the maps that shipped with RO2 are not ideal MG battlegrounds and rather than allow that entirely realistic characteristic to become an authentic feature of the way in which RO2 represents various combat environments the MGs instead received a highly implausible role-creep transformation and became effective CQB assault weapons. Larger maps have been released and are in development so there is now no reason why the MGs need to hold on to this highly unrealistic and entirely gamey artificial characteristic.
If people argue that putting a stop to such MG hip-firing silliness will somehow render the class less useful then in answer to this I would say: good, because they're not meant to be able to lead an SMG assault. They're meant to just about keep up with an assault by being easily portable and rapidly redeployable in time to be able to support the assault by laying down suppressive fire from a relatively fixed forward position. MGs have recently received some lovin' to make them more suited to their intended role with the likes of dramatically reduced recoil kick-up when deployed and through being more easily deployable in the first instance, so with these role-enabling characteristics being improved, and an increasing number of good MG-supporting maps, can we now please put a stop to the John Rambo room clearance machine-gunning?
