COD4 Call of Duty 4 Best LMG Light Machine Gun Guide

Thanks for this analysis, it will be very useful to newbies (or incompetent people like me). I hope you continue to do more.

There’s one aspect you overlooked- damage modifiers, such as walling and juggernaut. Against a Juggernaut in HC, the Saw takes two hits to kill. When firing through thin walls, the Saw takes 2 hits to kill. When firing through small walls with Deep Impact on, the Saw takes 2 hits to kill. In all three situations, the RPD nets a 1-hit kill. Heck, throw on SP and Deep Impact, and the RPD kills in 1 hit through medium walls and 2 hits through even the thickest of penetrable walls. Yes, I even run Deep Impact + Stopping Power on my RPD in hardcore.

Good point on the Hardcore damage modifications. I agree that the RDP and the SAW are both good choices in HC and I will change my post to reflect the damage modifier data. I still think the high rate of fire still makes the SAW slightly better overall than the RDP but the difference is small.

Another point to be made is that, when you toss a grip on the Saw, it becomes extremely accurate when firing from the hip (more accurate than an assault rifle, although less accurate than an SMG). With a Grip and Steady Aim, the Saw becomes a monstrous P90 with massive long-range capabilities. It’s a completely different playstyle than the RPD.

So your saying that in both hardcore and normal matches the RPD is better then the m60?

Yes in normal matches the RPD is the absolute best gun, in hardcore matches either the SAW or the RPD is the best. There is absolutely no reason to use the M60.

lmgs are good for range and penetration but are pretty much assault rifles with more ammo and less mobility.

When I first started playing COD4, I loved the SAW, but then I started to enjoy the M60, however, I ended up exclusively using the RPD. I wish I would have started out with it, but taking the long road allowed to be understand why the RPD is better. I agree that there is no reason to use the M60. If you use the SAW, you MUST use Stopping Power. I agree with the guy who explained how to turn the SAW into a bad-a$$ P90. I used to do this when I first started out. I should go back to it. It’s a very unique weapon when used this way.

i think lmgs are a good way to get ur a** kicked by a m16 camper or a sniper but they do eleminate enemies in groups extremely well and the RPD is the best one.

saw with grip is amazing, but its also good with ACOG

acog scope is good only for certain times. Long range. I still wish for a laser dot sit, and handle

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The RPD with grip,stoping power, and deep impact is stunningly deadly.This is the best setup for normal team death match if ya use an LMG. SAW is 2 week,and M60 is pretty much useles

I’ve found the SAW with double tap and deep impact will own ANYONE in hardcore deathmatch. The rate of fire is unbelievable and since it can go through walls, anyone trying to hide behind something will get pwned. Look for me on x-box live : w00dyallen

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rpd with grip sp and sa= pwnage

But I like the M60! I however mostly just use it to take down choppers. In hardcore (where I use it for stuff besides anti-chopper) however I will occasionally equip it with a red dot. It’s a 1-hit kill and very accurate even at long range. Add bullet penetration and you can kill snipers through cover. I’ve ruled with this on Bog. You can burst fire people spawning behind the wall by the tank which is mean but effective. It’s also good for spamming through walls in high traffic areas on other levels.

m60e4 with double tap, martydom and extra ammo kick @$$

on the PS3 I got 93 kills with in headquarters and 28 head shots

RPD with 3 frags,stoppig power and steady aim =ownage

I must have been doing it wrong. I have an M60 with AGOG. I can see why you lke the others, but I have just got used to it. I can headshot from a burst of 10 spinpers etc.

RPD w/ grip rules, I think this gun has one of the best (if not THE best) ironsights in the game, so red dot and acog are completely unnecessary

In terms of Iron sights I would agree that the RPD are easily better than the SAW and M60. The sights on the M60 have the obvious problem of blocking the entire screen, and while the SAW’s sights are slightly better you still run into a fair amount of screen blockage. In terms of damage values the RPD is also the best choice out there.

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ak 47 with red dot sight and claymore and overkill and m21 or barret 50cal and martydom RULES

EVERY BODY I GOT 120 KILLS IN HEADQUARTERS IN SHIPMENT ON PS3!

I’ll take any LMG, coz’ firing when using a sight is so accurate i could easily use it for long range; pair it up with a shotgun and voila! I got myself huge amounts of kill at the shipment map

bob, nobody likes a person who has bad English and uses caps. Plus your being immature trying to impersonate your ‘friend’ (by which you spelled wrong as well) of a set you use which I am not even going to bother to look at because it looks messed up.

Anyways, I’m using a M60 (RDS) / Bandolier / Sleight of Hand / Steady Aim. It seems to work pretty well. Bandolier cuz i use my ammo a lot, Sleight of Hand because I’m always reloading (and I guess double tap feels a waste to me, and stopping power doesn’t make any difference) and Steady Aim for close quarters. I’m going to try SAW with the Grip once I try to get it. I wish I had an extra class X_X cuz all mine are full lol. So many combinations to try and only 5 classes..

M60 isn’t that useless. The ironsights is tolerable for me. It’s just the case of if the target is moving/stationary. The problem is with the muzzle flash, I can’t seem to see anything through it. On the other hand, if you use RDS, you can burst fire on long distances to be able to get kills. It’s accurate, but the recoil is big. Which supports my point of burst-firing.

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What would you recommend for a SAW or RPD, a red dot sight, ACOG scope, a grip, or some other perk? I don’t know what to choose except for the M60, which would need a red dot for obvious reasons. Plus you never mentioned that the RPD has the lowest accuracy.

GRIP

i love my rpd: red tiger agog the noobs dont know what hit them

“…and the god given right of decent iron sights.”
I feel ya man…. M60 iron sight just sucks.

Any LMG is deadly if you know how to use it. I learned how to create tight lines of either horizontal or vertical, or a small circle with full auto acog rpd in red tiger. LMGs are by design fire suppression weapons, in that they are meant to keep the enemys’ heads downs. once you start googling stuff like ak74u, LMGs, etc. you’ll find theres a lot of errors in this game. its still fun, but once you realize it is nothing like reality (especially in the department of real bullet physics and weapon inaccuracy, you can snipe with a skorp on wet work across the map with single shots, absolutely retarded but whatever), you start to realize why m16s are actually “so cheap”. it has everything to do with the game’s design. So LMGs are meant for suppression fire, and in this regard in non hardcore, they have great difficulty since hitting someone with a single bullet doesnt kill them, people will run out into the hail of bullets more often then not. something that would be suicidal in hardcore. this is where sweeping the gun while accounting for the recoil comes in. with a sweep suddenly those rabbits start end up bloody spots on the wall, and the m249 and m60 are just as good weapons as the rpd. the high accuracy on the m249 counts for something when you are blanketing an enemy location with bullets.

Also, the yardage scale in the game seems grossly wrong.

I enjoy my M60 with acog, and don’t tell me it won’t two hit kill from medium to long range, because thats often how I do it with my G36c w/ acog, bandoleer, overkill M60 w/ acog, and steady aim. I usually stick with the G36 until teammates around me die, then I have to hold people off until I get reinforced.

I myself think tat the M60 is the best LMG just because of it’s sheer damage. But i also like the RPD as my 2nd favorite because it does good damage and it shoots fast. M16 is the best weapon in the game!

I’ve switched full on to M249 now. I still think the RPD is sexy, especially the part of it being soviet made, but I take the M249 because its high accuracy, the fact that in bursts is sweeps side to side, and a red dot sight with stopping power, means you can put down any enemy that dares to peek over/around the edge of the building/run into a doorway thats being sprayed/etc etc. its great for assaults in that way.

I’m still waffling over steady aim or Ext. cond.

On a side note, I’ll take any M60 I find laying around if my secondary is a pistol and as long as its got RDS on it, regardless of main weapon, because stopping power (or the lack of) doesn’t make it better or worse against unobstructed targets, and I can play the stationary base of fire LMG role if a full rush comes along, or use it to suppress enemy movement with random shots.

Get your team to work for you, even if they’re trying to solo it up in team deathmarch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconnaissance_by_fire

[Quote=Sun Tzu] Rouse him, and learn the principle of his
activity or inactivity. Force him to reveal himself,
so as to find out his vulnerable spots.

If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced
to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high
rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack
some other place that he will be obliged to relieve.

Thus one who is skillful at keeping the enemy
on the move maintains deceitful appearances, according to
which the enemy will act. He sacrifices something,
that the enemy may snatch at it.

Thus the highest form of generalship is to
balk the enemy’s plans; the next best is to prevent
the junction of the enemy’s forces; the next in
order is to attack the enemy’s army in the field;
and the worst policy of all is to besiege walled cities.

If he is taking his ease, give him no rest.
If his forces are united, separate them.
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Ever notice how red dots that appear an an enemy’s radar attract all of them like sharks to blood?

draw the enemy to your allies with LMG fire, let those rambo rushers take point, victory will be all u baby, yea!

Im tired of people running around with LMGs trying to use them as a flippin’ SMG. Especially, on xbox live, they just run into a room and spray the @#$% out of it hoping to get a kill. I recommend a more tactical solution. Instead of using the LMG in CQC just stop people from going through certain choke points. An example is the stair case on the corner uphill building on Crossfire every one uses it so they don’t get sniped out in the open. I got a flippin’ airstrike from a single mag!!!!!! (KK, claymores so you don’t get shanked)

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Since LMGs are supposed to add the firepower of 20 men without needing 19 more poeple, and since the game has a speed multiple on sighting in, moving, and sprinting of *.875 for those with LMG as primary, it makes sense that running around head on into CQC is absolutely stupid, and hip firing in these circumstances is only when surprised.

LMGs are designed to cover corners, edges, and whatnot with bullets, both in assaulting and defending.

LMG is a good example of a noob weapon. I mean come on… Large mag, full auto, decently accurate? You’re just screaming for spray and prayers.

RPD with grip, stopping power, and deep impact for the win

m249 saw with grip stopping power steadyu aim kills noobs all day everyday

M249 SAW with red/no attachement stopping power and deep impact rules!!

RPD is the most broke @ss, noob @ss, GHEY @ss weapon in this whole game, eberyone i see with an RPD i send a message calling them trash. Im proud to say in all my horus playin this game i have NEVER had a class with RPD

i think that the rpd is amazing with sp and grip and deep impact

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im using the saw cos im rocky im a noob and im glad this is wat i use

saw or m16 with noob tube

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RPD is generally the best LMG. It has high power , and medium accuracy when grip is added. But if there are 3-4 enemies in fron of you you will not kill everyone ,because of the the little fire rate. But adding the double tab decreases the accuracy and it becames more difficult to shot at longer range. So in my appenion SAW is better ,because the perpose of an LMG is to kill multiple targets and SAW does that best. And if you add grip you can shoot enemies in long range. But there is one disadvantege – penetedration. SAW does little damage when shooting trough walls but you can still fire very quickly 5-7 bullets and kill the enemy .

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M60E4(GOLD) w/ RDS
Bandolier
Double Tap
Deep Impact
this set up pwns in normal as well as hardcore. only thing this doesnt do good at is SnD which u should swap Bandolier for possible grip or bombsquad.

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Im really bad on Cod4, Somebody please give me tips. My max kills (not shipment) is 50 In Bog and Crossfire On Hardcore HQ (they were lucky matches). Please MSG me on xbox 360 on joelhardy2k

My best LMG is the Saw becase odn Hardcore its only a one hit shot!!!!!! But now im useing the M60 because you need to use it to get the gold camo or plate. Im not good with the RPD anymore for somereason? I used to be a beast with it but now im not.

M60 and the SAW are the best LMG in the game!

I highly disagree with saying the M60 is a useless LMG. It’s stopping power makes it a deadly weapon, along with its slow firing rate your bursts in 3-4 shots are dime-points off one another, so its easy to lead and spray down a couple bad guys before the friendly neighborhood sniper takes your head off.

Bottom line- It’s stopping power makes it amazing with its combined accuracy, in the right hands it can be equal if not better than an RPD.
Grip that junk and you got one badass machine gun. Simply put. Even with a Red Dot sight, if you’re a decent COD4 player, it’s high recoil can be turned into a blessing when mowing down a few running enemies.

SAW is the best LMG……

Imagine: a P90 with double the clip size and long range….

The P90 does 30 damage up close, and 20 far away… Whereas the SAW does 30 no matter what range.
The P90 has a fire rate of 925 rpm, so does the SAW…

With Stopping power you have a huge clip P90 that kills in 3 hits from all ranges, it has extremely low recoil for an LMG so getting 3 hits with 925 rpm is very easy, even at long range.

Give it a try.

M60E4′s 40-50 damage isn’t useless. With stopping power you can 2 shot kill people with juggernaut perk on close range while it’ll take 3 shots with RDP and 4 shots with Saw. When you play against fast, skilled and accurate guys that that 1 extra shot can mean alot.

Also the golden camo is another good reason to use it. xD

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The LMGs are even, it depends on your personal likes and dislikes…
I never use the RPD. It’s for campers with no skill xD
M249 SAW is awesome, the low damage doesn’t make a difference.
The M60E4 is the best LMG. If you have skill, you can control the recoil and the iron sights aren’t that bad?
What’s the problem with hip-firing with LMGs?
M249 owns on hardcore, M60E4 owns on softcore, but I must say, if you love shooting through walls, RPD is great.

I hate the SAWS ironsights byt I love the rpd
So I depends if your a camper use m60 with acog is you run aroun iether
Rpd with grip or SAW. With red dot sight

The first guys set up is absolutely gay. I think the fact that he says extra health instead of juggernaut just shows how much of a fucking noob he is, and if any idiot uses his set up you should be shot in the face, never use juggernaut

Perk 1: 3 Grenades/ Claymores (sniper)/ rpg or special frag (if needed)/ bandolier (for people who like fire fights or rushing)
Perk 2: Stopping Power/ Sleight of Hand (Ak-74u or P90 or LMGs)
Perk 3: Steady Aim

This set- up is guranteed to make you ratio atleast .60 or higher depends on skill level and rank

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if you want a laugh: double tap saw!!! noobish!

here i have to say..with my preference,RPD is the best ever LMG of the game!!!why i said so..because this gun is so much powerful n its was can shoot through wall more effeciency than other 2 LMG!!!then,with close or long range also awesome to use..i was just use RPD in the game only..so i fully support this LMG…n this was ,y first choice of the LMG!!!…n besides,i was a camper as well…but is a professional camper..hahaxD

best lmg is the RPD with grip.I called 3 choppers in crossfire while playing free for all with that

saw beats them all

+speedy reload
+better accuary
+better fire rate
+better sightred

red dot sight 8/10
grip 8/10
acog 7/10

remember
-stopping power
-steady aim
-burst fire from long

with the m60 grip is the best of all
 

my lmg classes

m249saw
acog
m1911
claymores
sonic boom(anything actually)
steady aim

rpd
grip
m1911
double tap
steady aim

m60e4
grip
m1911
double tap
steady aim

my lmg lasses from best to worse

m249saw(fast fire rate,good accuary,fast reload,anything else to mention)
acog(good but always shot in bursts)
stun*3(bandolier on an lmg is stupid and the stunned enemies are easier to hit by the acog)
stopping power(fixer of the only disadvantage of the saw,the low damage)
deep impact(this boy is behind a wall,i have to kill him)

rpd(better than the m60)
grip(this is a MUST,the rpd is the best gripped lmg in the game)
stopping power(with this the rpd’s bullets become as strong as the m60′s)
deep impact(wall spaming with an lmg is a invisible kill way)
m60e4(only the big power make it an ok gun)
grip(reduces the massive recoil problem)
sleight of hand(the power is ok but the reload time is not ok,it is tem times faster than any other gun in the game)
deep impact(shoot that guy through the wall,shoot it)

m249saw
red dot sight
frag*3
sleight of hand
steady aim

rpd
grip
sleight of hand
steady aim

m60
red dot sight
frag*3
sleight of hand
steady aim

m60e4 gold with grip
stopping power
deep impact

with this class its same damage through cover and two shot all the time. went 76-3 on showdown with this setup

I think a assult rifle with red dot is better

M60 is AWESOME at medim range. It’s a 2 hit kill which means you can put double tap on it so it can kill faster!