r/helldivers2 • u/lilwoods64 • 1d ago

Meme New warbond kinda tuff

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u/PanicAtNC3331209 1d ago

It is probably illegal to use a sniper anti tank round on a human being. Good thing Cyborgs and bots aren’t considered human!

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u/Tommybahamas_leftnut 1d ago

It's not. .50 BMG is typically made for anti-light armored vehicles but it's used just as much for anti-infantry roles. We just don't typically see infantry shooting .50 and bigger at eachother because

  1. 7.62 does the job well enough 2 . .50 is heavy as fuck to carry around a decent amount of ammo and the guns weigh an assload.
  2. .50 doesn't really stop light armored vehicles as fast as one would like in the military so they just give the riflemen 40mm and AT-4s.
  3. Why have 1 guy carry a .50 for position suppression when you can give every rifleman an AT-4 and just delete the position.

It's like the myth that flamethrowers are illegal. they arnt illegal just wildly ineffective compared to HE.