I'll be using an Greg's Assault Rifle skin, or I can make a Plasma Rifle/Repeater with the tracers. I'll have to acquire .wav files though.

@Galaxy
I think you will be able to change the gun at the tent.

You choose the gun right after you choose the team, based on the footage I've seen. I haven't figured out whether or not you have to leave and rejoin a server to change between it, or if you get the option upon respawn. I think the most likely case is that you press a key to change, just like with team-switching.

Hitlers up in this bitch join are chat we have leaks of .53 since we leaked it first
http://xat.com/Lumbrojacks

Guys, you switch gun with (.)

Pause at 0:12 in the submachine gun preview video and look right next to (CHANGE TEAM: COMMA).

Pic of Plasma Repeater.

Also, in this video Ben says that the knockback is a lot less if you are crouching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kIbSt1NEcA&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

At 9:31.

The SMGs occur to me as better weapons for clearing bunkers from within, snaking through labyrinthine tunnel systems, and clearing out other close environments.

Still, I think I'll stay more loyal to the rifle. It's served me pretty well, and its ability to kill instantly is useful even when you surprise somebody at close range.

Sooner or later I'll probably even kill an SMG user pointe-blank with a shot to the face. I shall then publish my findings as a warning against spray-'n'-pray tactics.

It's already been proven in Stack's videos that the rifle actually seems to be more useful at close range than the SMG. The SMG seems to be more of a teamwork-oriented weapon, providing cover fire for advancing team members and such.

Now that there are two guns I can change the skins to have the sniper class from TF2. Or the scout, heavy, medic, basicly all of them.

@Drewgin13 OMG i was gonna do that. And have the SMG as the TF2 smg for the sniper!
Well i most definitely being making skins for people.

*Watches video of submachine gun breaking blocks*

Nice! Now we can do this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X9FTY3bv6k&t=24

@MegaDeuce i think that was the worse movie trailer ever!!!

FALCON PUNCH!!!!!!!!

I already got a AK-47 skin picked out for it.XD

I already made a small armory of weapons ( http://ace-spades.com/forums/topic.php?id=2561 ) including rifles, assault rifles, machine guns, and pistols. I'm thinking my machine guns will all get their chance to go out for a spin as the SMG. The only question is which one I want to use first...

is it just me, or does the MP5 not break blocks when in ironsight mode? the first video has the guy shooting at a one-block-thin tower, and the blocks dont seem to change color at all.

I think he was missing it/too far away

Yea its only for really close range.

I presume that's because he was shooting past the "invisible wall" and into the opposite side of the map.

@Galaxy: I can see the SMG actually working really well as a teamwork device. A tag-team of two gunners could proceed through the twisty corridors on Bridge Wars and Antic Bridge leapfrogging corner-to-corner (if the leader gets shot, the trailer waits for his killer to come around the corner and into a withering hail of hot lead delivered upon sight). A group of two marksmen and a gunner could clear out forts in no time and then totally level them.

I would use the MG to hold down a sniper while others move up. That or move up while a sniper covers me.

if you are good with the smg you can clear 10 blocks without reloading

That could be some interesting potential.

I'm hoping that the SMG's lack of power as a stand-alone weapon will both encourage more teamwork and also mean that on average most of the players on a server will still be using the rifle. Most military units IRL only have a few machineguns per company, so I'm hoping that the game will stick to the realism in that respect. After all, aside from the graphics and the fact that a single infantryman can topple an entire skyscraper or tunnel straight through a whole mountain, AoS is actually an amazingly realisic game.

The rifle mechanics make many other, non-free, non-independently developed games look quite silly, actually.

@danhezee

Ultimate griefing tool?

it looks like it has that potential, but if you hold the trigger and try to hit something at a distance it becomes very inaccurate

kewl!

Can't wait to try the SMG (no rush), good work Ben :D

Midnight...

>.>

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73u1JKgqxy4

@Fett316 i love Iron Maiden

Damn it's a good thing it's not a shotgun. This just goes to show that it's impossible to make the sexy mp-5 look bad even when made of little blocks. Excellent job