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First, the recoil for the machine gun is considerably worse than the m4. When standing it's recoil is worse than any rifle and there is no foregrip option to alleviate this. Crouching is unreliable and is best used when staying stationary and defending a particular approach, but there are better guns for this purpose, any sniper rifle does a better job.

Secondly, I do not think /vrg/ actually understands how bad the movement penalty is. (same with the .50 cal but that gun actually still has its niche after consecutive nerfs) Pavlov heavily rewards ambush tactics, flanking and quick peaks. Not being able to strafe while shooting is atrociously bad and makes shooting you in the head really easy, You also cannot slow peak safely at all with this weapon because it's so slow, and on top of this crouching mid spray and staying accurate is actually pretty difficult and usually not even worth the effort of doing so.

Thirdly, the limited ammo update butchered this gun. You only spawn with 75 extra rounds, not even a full additional magazine. If you live with it till next round you will go to 150 extra rounds which is still the worst ammo ratio for any gun in the game. (only 1.5 extra mags compared to most rifles 4 extra mags, even the fucking revolver gets 2-3 extra mags) The MG can't even fulfill it's one niche properly. (spamming)

Sweatys don't use the MG for a reason, because it's total trash, not because "literally everyone somehow can't use it properly".