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Light Machine Guns (LMG) are a type of weapon in BATTLEGROUNDS.

Summary

Light Machine Guns are essentially weapons that boast higher rate of fire over Assault Rifles and a slight increase in bullet damage, but with a much higher drop off in terms of range and ammo carrying capacity. While LMGs themselves can fire more bullets, they go through these bullets much faster, and because of how many of them there are, you go through them a lot faster too. This limits their usefulness dramatically.

Update history

Update #59 (Season 15 - Update 15.1)

LMGs in general are not considered useful enough based on our data, so we are slightly increasing their damage potential to improve the weapon's role. For MG3 we saw very little usage in our data compared to the other crate weapons so we are making it more powerful.

  • Reduced recoil when shooting in crouch and stand
  • Increased Body Damage multiplier from 1.0 to 1.05
  • Increased M249 damage by 1
  • Increased MG3 damage by 2
  • Decreased MG3 horizontal recoil

Update #44 (Season 8 - Update 8.2) - vN/A

  • Vehicle damage multipliers have been added to LMGs.
    • MG3: x 1.25
    • DP28 : 1.15x
    • M249: 1.10x
  • Camera shake when firing LMGs while prone has been reduced
    • There has been no changes made to the weapon recoil. However, players may feel the weapon is more stable due to reduced camera shake.


Data

Note: Since Bluehole doesn't release the official weapon values of guns, no website has 100% accurate statistics for weapons. Each website relies on hundreds of spreadsheets and each website has different numbers. Most websites recorded their data via private matches and some don't include the feet/range. No one knows if the tests were consistent when recording the data. In short, no one has the exact numbers, but this data is close to the real values.

Image Name DMG SPD PWR zRNG MAG TBS Mode AMM CAP ATTCH BDMG 0 BDMG 1 BDMG 2 BDMG 3 HDMG 0 HDMG 1 HDMG 2 HDMG 3
Icon weapon DP 28 DP-28 52 840 m/s 10,000 100 - 1000 47 0.109 Auto 7.62mm 500 1 52 35.60 30.60 22.90 117.30 82.10 70.30 52.70
Icon weapon M249 M249 40 915 m/s 10,000 100 - 500 75 0.075s Auto 5.56mm 500 4 40 31.40 27 20.20 103.40 72.40 62 46.50
Icon weapon MG3 MG3 42 820 m/s 75 0.09s & 0.06s Auto 7.62mm 500 1
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Guides

Light Machine Guns are a big part of our Best Loadouts for PLAYERUNKNOWN's BATTLEGROUNDS, so if you use these weapons a lot, make sure to check out that page. For more tips and tricks, make sure to also check out our How to Play Guide for PLAYERUNKNOWN's BATTLEGROUNDS.

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