I unlocked the Parabellum Suppressive a while ago and kinda wrote the thing off as a novelty gun. Very high RPM, but a crazy amount of bounce and even the bipod fire isn’t that stable. It was only sort of fun at point blank, and even then not as good as the BAR.
But I FINALLY shot down that last damn plane to unlock the Parabellum Low Weight, and that thing is a beast! Way better hipfire, spread, and recoil decrease. And irons/AA sights are better than a scope at the ideal medium range.
Anyone else (who completed that stupid, random luck assignment) really enjoying this gun?
Its funny to me: The 2 plane kills were easy, no hard task. 2 back to back games of Conquest, and I had the plane kills
The Mortar kills are turning out to be super frustrating. I’ve been lucky to get ONE per game. I know all the tricks, fire at a group of enemies, perhaps try Argonne/C Flag on Empires Edge, etc
That thing is just a hitmarker machine. I get LOADS of hits, but actual kills are rare
And all to unlock probably the cheesiest LMG in the game so far. I’m no support player, so I’m not trying to throw rocks with this, but I’ve definitely seen more of the Parabellum than most other LMG’s since it came out
I had to switch to Operations to get the mortar kills. There is usually a big clump of guys to fire at pretty much every spawn. And yes, even then, I would sometimes hit like 5 people for 300 total damage but no kills.
Oh yeah, I’m all over the Airburst version (the crappy one) The HE I do use in actual play, I find it to be pretty useful.
But the airburst is just an early warning system. Setup Mortar. See bad guy. Fire mortar. Mortar shell lands next to him, does 5 damage and says: “Hey brah, I kno you’re busy sniping and all, but I just wanted to give you a heads up my brother is headed this way, like 3 seconds behind me, and that dude with the goofy facemask behind that rock over there wants you dead. Just wanted to give you a fair play heads up to maybe move? You’ve got a sec my bro is pretty slow, but wanted to let you know. kthnxbye”
Its a good gun. Rips people up in close to mid range. I’ve been using it a lot for the last few days. Its one of those guns that makes my accuracy go down and my KPM go way up.
After unlocking the Parabellum Suppressive I wasn’t in a hurry to unlock the Low wight Parabellum. With Suppressive’s poor hip fire and server recoil when aiming down sight it didn’t suit my play style.
But the low wight and suppressive are like night and day. After getting my second bomber I decided to go and get them mortar kills, hoped into an operation match on Argonne forest and got all the mortar kills I needed on the first two sectors. I decided to take it at for a spin to see how bad it is…after getting an 11 kill streak with it on my first time using it, I’ve decided I like it very much. Good at mid-range an absolutely a monster in close combat.
For the mortar kills, I would recommend Argonne forest operation on the attacker’s side especially if the defenders have some fight in them and want to defend the sectors.
Shooting down aircraft just hang around someone using the AA guns and try and steal there kills.
I don’t know, I played the supressive variant a few days ago and it felt really like a good gun. I would say, you can play both of them and do good, it just depends on which sights you prefer. Iron sights - you go with low weight, scope - you go with supressive
I had a real issue until I figured out how to rapid (relative) fire the mortar. The real issue is people running away before you get the follow up shot because the animation takes forever.
The key is to reverse quick scope. Hit R2 to fire and then immediately hit L2 to go back to the map to aim your next shot. That really worked well for me.
I may have to do that. I also never play OPS, CQ 100% of the time. Not about to switch for an assignment, so I’ll have to just slug it out in CQ.
I didn’t realize you got to control the shell-following camera by exiting out of it right back to the device. Sometimes the map wouldn’t pop after the 1st mortar, but I assumed it was some kind of bug or something.
That actually is a bug. By R2L2 you’ll see the map and everything. You used to also not lose accuracy by doing this. But they nerfed it so you will have to zero in again slightly. It’s still quicker than waiting for the animation
this is it, exactly. When you hit someone with that first shot (which never kills them), a lot of times they have no clue what just hit them or which direction it came from. So if you can immediately fire a second shot while they’re still dumbfounded and haven’t decided which way to run, that’s when you ring the bell. It’s a two-shot kill, in rapid succession.
When i first tried the suppressive i hated it, it bucked and sprayed bullets everywhere.
I put it away and then decided to give it another go.I have never serviced starred anything quicker than this weapon, it absolutely desroys multiple enemies when you learn how to use it.
I have only just recently unlocked the low weight, but my first impressuons are the suppressive is the bettter for me.
You’ll be suprised at how many stupid snipers, and other players just sit in the same spot after getting hit from an airburst. The airburst is absoloutely deadly at choke points or open flag caps, and in game modes like Frontlines or Ops where players are bunched up more.
