Does autoweapon perk work with LMGs?

[Bubo Ferro]

So after looking far and wide for an answer to this i failed to find a definitive answer. Some guy on reddit even wrote half an essay about looking at the code and documentation without giving any answer that i could understand.

The question being wether the Auto Weapons perk affects machineguns or not. Logic-wise it should, as LMGs are autofire weapons. The problem is that game-mechanic-wise, SMGs/rifles use DIFFERENT types of autofire than LMGs (burst/fullauto as opposed to long burst). The only perk that seems to affect machineguns in this regard is Heavy Weapons, lowering the cost of AP when firing.

Does anyone have definitive knowledge on this topic?

[uncle nick]

Yeah, nah, not entirely sure what you are trying to investigate, because what is firstly broken is that damage from burst fire has been nerfed. If you mod the damage back to normal, maybe all your problems will go away, if that is what you want.

[Bubo Ferro]

nah, that´s not what i meant. my assumption is that the auto weapon perk only works on SMGs and rifles with a burst/auto fire mode, but not on machineguns. i made this post in hopes that someone could confirm or deny this assumption.

[rato]

it does work with mg burst, they are all affected by the same CTH penalty