Talk:PKP Pecheneg/@comment-37175421-20190824165512/@comment-25539832-20190827025501

M249 is better as a single weapon, against single targets. PKP better against lots of targets. I personally loathe the PKP for it's high recoil. I tend to only kill with it by simply saturating my targets in bullets. Fortunately, the PKP comes loaded with a bunch of impractical applications. What could possibly be more satifying than spraying everything with 200 rounds? It is a pretty scary gun. The sheer terror invoked by the torrential downpour of lead spewed from the maw of this weapon's muzzle is often more than enough to send any lesser gamer scrambling for cover.

It seems like the PKP could be really useful in Duo or Squad mode, where the whole idea of the PKP being a Squad Automatic Weapon (SAW) really comes into play. SAWs, in real life, are designed for suppressing fire; to deal group damage, grab attention, force adversaries into hiding, and allow squadmates to move into more advantageous positions. Using my experiences of this weapon in solo mode, I can easily believe this LMG hits all the rungs of that ladder.

Unfortunately, I've only ever encountered this weapon in Squad mode once, and I'm pretty sure seeing someone holding this within the first 20 seconds, running at them and punching them to death, and failing to load it as I get cleaned up by the rest of the squad doesn't count. I can only theorize the powers of this weapon when a squad member of a coordinated team holds it.