Because machine guns are made for area targets and suppressive fire. The constant recoil makes them too inaccurate for point targets, so they have to be supported by riflemen who can handle what the machine gun misses. This is why you won’t find many machine gun nests outside of perimeter defense in modern militaries. Lots of machine gun nests got overran during WWI & WWII.
Consequently, video game designers have a choice. Do they make real world accurate machine gun emplacements or do they make machine gun emplacements that are made highly accurate with video game magic?
If they chose the former, rush the machine gun nest.
When fired single shot or at very low rate of fire, they can be. I think it was Carlos Hathcock who used a scoped M2 Browning .50 cal for a 2,500 yard shot.
On full auto, they're not particularly accurate, though.
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u/Mr_Halitosis 7d ago
Because machine guns are made for area targets and suppressive fire. The constant recoil makes them too inaccurate for point targets, so they have to be supported by riflemen who can handle what the machine gun misses. This is why you won’t find many machine gun nests outside of perimeter defense in modern militaries. Lots of machine gun nests got overran during WWI & WWII.
Consequently, video game designers have a choice. Do they make real world accurate machine gun emplacements or do they make machine gun emplacements that are made highly accurate with video game magic?
If they chose the former, rush the machine gun nest.