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All of H3's machine guns fall under a single category, which is under the broader class of "support" weapons (alongside the weapons of the next and final pages). This includes light, general-purpose, heavy, and rotary machine guns; fortunately, the category is referred to in-game simply as "machine guns", and not as "light machine guns" like in many games.
"Aerial Denier"
Update #98 Big Patch 2 brought along the "Aerial Denier", an alternate weapon for the Heavy class in Meat Fortress. The weapon consists of the barrels of a General Dynamics GAU-19/A (complete with triangular flash hider and larger-than-normal-caliber chambering - in-game, it uses the same "18x50mm Packawhollop" ammo as the Sniper Rifle), attached onto the receiver of the standard TF2 Minigun; it is not simply a handheld GAU-19/A, however, as it still has 6 barrels - two complete barrel assemblies stick out of the receiver and fire simultaneously, making the weapon even more uncontrollable than a "regular" handheld GAU-19.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingGeneral Dynamics GAU-19/A - .50 BMGError creating thumbnail: File missing"Don't know what you're talking about up there - I just see three barrels."Error creating thumbnail: File missing"Yeah, I checked the other side - there are only three barrels there, too."Error creating thumbnail: File missing"Whaddaya mean it - oh."Error creating thumbnail: File missingTaking a look at one of the Aerial Denier's ammo drums - they're largely the same as the standard Minigun's, save for the black paint. The substantially larger caliber means that these drums "only" hold 120 rounds.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSlamming it into place.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSpinning up the barrels; unlike the other two Gatlings on this page, the Denier's barrel clusters aren't radially symmetrical, so this can actually be shown in a still image. The two barrel clusters rotate in opposite directions, so try to avoid getting anything stuck between them - anything that goes in is probably coming out in pieces.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSpraying away at nothing in particular.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWhich, as the bullet trails here show, is going to be your target most of the time; the weapon's ludicrous recoil means that any hitting any reasonably-sized target from more than a couple dozen meters is going to be a challenge. Also note that the muzzle flash is only lined up with one of the barrel clusters; both clusters fire at once, but the muzzle flash effect for either one doesn't necessarily line up with a capturable frame.Error creating thumbnail: File missingCompletely ignoring every rule of gun safety and looking down while firing reveals a veritable stream of spent cases and disintegrating links coming out of the ejection port; these disappear after a couple of seconds by default, presumably for performance-related reasons.Error creating thumbnail: File missingOh, and in case you were wondering why these shots are in the Sampler Platter, this is why: while it can be tricky at first, the Aerial Denier can indeed be used for its stated purpose.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe spectacle of a giant jet-propelled steak exploding in mid-air just never gets old.
Bren Mk 2
Update #50 brought along a Bren gun, more specifically the Mk2 variant. Due to the fact that bipods were being updated and tuned at the time of Update #50's release, the variant added instead was one with a shortened barrel and no bipod or carrying handle, with the standard variant added later, in the eleventh alpha of Update #52.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingBren Mk2 - .303 BritishError creating thumbnail: File missingAdmiring the Bren, standing before the pre-rendered beauty of the cornfields of the American West (actually Czech, much the machine gun). Note the absence of a carrying handle on the weapon's barrel.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFor those wondering, this is the background of the Breaching Prototype scene. Perhaps a WWII-era light machine gun isn't the best weapon for house-breaching...Error creating thumbnail: File missingLoading the Bren. 30 tracers, straight into the top.Error creating thumbnail: File missingCocking the machine gun; note the bar attached to the back, which slides into a corresponding slot in the stock. This is necessary to cover the charging handle slot, preventing debris from entering and blocking the handle's path.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe Bren's fire selector is rather interesting; the safety position is in the middle, with "R" ("Repetition", or semi-auto) at the back...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...and "A" ("Automatic") at the front.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAiming the Bren at the cornfield below; note the lack of an adjustment drum, confirming this particular Bren to be a Mk2 model.Error creating thumbnail: File missingOpening fire.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPopping open the bipod.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThis allows for the weapon to be used as intended, allowing the Bren to achieve its true potential in terms of accuracy. Sucks to be someone in those trees...Error creating thumbnail: File missingFollowing Update #76's 1st alpha, the Bren's distinctive wooden carrying handle became usable. It also became wobbly, at least when it's not being held.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAs mentioned in prior sections, Update #100's 6th alpha made the sights of several weapons adjustable, with machine guns in particular seeing a considerable amount of emphasis. The Bren was one of the guns affected, with its rear sight going from 200 meters to 1,600 in 100-meter increments; for some reason, the screen displaying this is upside-down.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe curtailed Bren, in all of its glory.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLoading in a fresh magazine full of .303 rounds.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPulling back the Bren's charging handle.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA look through the Bren's iron sights. While the shortened sight radius and barrel would logically hamper the Bren's renowned accuracy, it does at least bring the front sight closer to the shooter's face, making it a bit easier to see clearly. This version didn't get an adjustable rear sight like the full-length variant, presumably because it would require completely recalibrating (and remodeling) the rear sight to account for the shorter barrel's different ballistics and sight angles.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFiring the Bren, showing off its downward ejection system.
Browning M2HB
The 2018 4th of July Update (more formally known as Update #56) added a modified Browning M2HB, known as the "M2 Tombstone". It has a shortened barrel, and is fitted with a pair of top-mounted grips and a bracket for fitting an belt box; the latter serves as its namesake, with the weapon feeding from the 200-round tombstone-shaped ammo cans more normally associated with M2s in AA mounts. The icing on this incredibly absurd cake is the American flag paintjob on the receiver, for that extra patriotic flavor.
The Chatellerault FM 24/29 was added on Day 19 of the Meatmas 2022 Advent Calendar event, marking two notable points - the game's first French machine gun, and only its second gun at all chambered in 7.5x54mm French (the first being the much-earlier added MAS-49/56).
Error creating thumbnail: File missingChatellerault FM 24/29 - 7.5x54mm FrenchError creating thumbnail: File missingThe Chautellerault in its box, showing every long-winded part of the name except that one. Note the date - while the Mle. 24 was indeed first made in 1924, absolutely all of them were later updated in 1929 (and all subsequent guns produced accordingly), giving them the "M29" designation. For all practical purposes, all this upgrade did was re-chamber the guns from 7.5x58mm to 7.5x54mm, after the discovery that the subsequently-abandoned former chambering could also fit 7.92x57mm Mauser (which France possessed a considerable amount of, mostly from German MG08 machine guns handed over at the end of WWI); anyone who actually did this would, upon pulling the trigger, come face-to-face the unpleasant consequences of attempting to cram a 7.92mm bullet down a 7.5mm barrel.Error creating thumbnail: File missingRight, enough explaining names. Regardless of what you call it, this is what the gun looks like.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAnd no, before you ask, you can't pull both triggers; like the earlier-added Beretta Model 38A, the lack of a second trigger on currently-manufactured VR controllers means that the FM24/29 can only be fired in full-auto.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLoading in a magazine - 25 rounds of the less potentially-catastrophic 7.5 French, straight in the top.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPulling back the cocking handle...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...and disengaging the safety. How convenient that "S" and "F" work as safety markings in so many different languages.Error creating thumbnail: File missingDrawing a bead on a distant crystal snowflake; the aperture-and-post sights are a bit small, but still serviceable.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAt least, serviceable until you try to land a follow-up shot.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFortunately, for those trying to hit things repeatedly at range, the gun has an easy way to keep itself steady.Error creating thumbnail: File missingUnfortunately, no usable footage was recorded that could demonstrate this; here, an empty magazine is thrown out of the gun in dejection at this fact.
CIS Ultimax 100 Mark 3
The much-requested CIS Ultimax 100, specifically the Mark 3 version, was added in (fittingly enough) Update #100.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingCIS Ultimax 100 Mark 3 - 5.56x45mm NATOError creating thumbnail: File missingAdmiring U100's U100, set up on its bipod in suitably photogenic fashion.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThis also helps deal with the fact that, when holding the Ultimax, it's rather hard to fit the whole thing on screen.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLoading in one of the weapon's distinctive 100-round drum magazines.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPulling the charging handle, which flips up the dustcover. It also locks the bolt open, since the Ultimax (like most machine guns) fires from an open bolt.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLooking through the sights; these consist of a simple, Western-style rear aperture and winged front post.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSuddenly remembering that there are more urgent matters at hand - namely, the safety being on. The Ultimax lacks a fire selector, so it's full-auto or nothing.Error creating thumbnail: File missingDealing with the other, slightly less urgent issue.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAttempting to show off the rear sight's adjustability (100 to 600 meters, in 100-meter increments); this would be easier if the numerous enemy Sosigs in the area understood the phrase "Gimme a minute, I'm busy".Error creating thumbnail: File missing"Well, if violence is all they understand, then violence is what they'll get." Fortunately, the Ultimax's low rate of fire and constant-recoil system (wherein the bolt is stopped and redirected solely by the recoil spring, never actually hitting the back of the receiver) makes it so controllable that it can be relatively easily fired with one hand. Useful when your other hand is busy playing matchmaker between an enemy Sosig's face and a hatchet.Error creating thumbnail: File missingUpon running empty, the Ultimax locks open; since it fires like that anyway, reloading is as simple as dropping out the old drum and shoving in a new one.Error creating thumbnail: File missingOkay, this one's just a glamor shot. But, to be fair, it's at least a good one - you can see the locking lug recesses in the barrel extension and everything.
Degtyaryov DP-28
Included in the 11th alpha build of Update #52, the Degtyaryov DP-28 comes in both full-length and shortened variants, as with the earlier WW2-era LMGs.
The "Meat Fortress" update/Team Fortress 2 crossover added a recreation of the TF2 Heavy's "Sasha", a handheld Dillon Aero M134 Minigun with a 200-round ammunition drum seemingly inspired by the feed system of the M61 Vulcan mounted in the F/A-18 Hornet.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingDillon Aero M134 Minigun - 7.62x51mm NATOError creating thumbnail: File missingAirsoft handheld M134 Minigun - (fake) 7.62x51mm NATOM61 Vulcan in the mounting used by the F/A-18 Hornet - 20x102mm VulcanError creating thumbnail: File missingA lovely little thing, ain't she? But it seems like something's missing...Error creating thumbnail: File missingA quick look at the weapon's underside reveals that the suspicion was correct. Brace your ears... "WHO TOUCHED MY GUN?!"Error creating thumbnail: File missingAs it turns out, nobody did; this model is treated as reloadable, with the 200-round drums being detached and replaced as necessary.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWith the drum loaded, Sasha is returned to her standard-issue glory. Note the switches and buttons on the back of the drum; it may be meant as both an ammunition container and a power supply (especially since it's not like there's anywhere else on the model that a battery could be hiding).Error creating thumbnail: File missingOpening fire on a group of Sosigs; Sasha's decent per-shot damage and blistering rate of fire can quickly reduce any group of enemies to a mess of tracers and mustard.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSpeaking of tracers, here they are before they turn into a streak of light. The Minigun uses the fictitious "6mm Mannlecker" round (roughly 6x33mm, putting it at the lower end of the "intermediate rifle round" category); this round is considerably smaller than the barrels it's fired out of (which look like they're meant for 20mm shells more than anything else), leaving one to guess at exactly how this thing works. A reverse squeeze-bore, maybe?
FN M240B
Update #101 (AKA the 2021 Meatmas even) brought along the much-requested FN M240, specifically its Bravo variant.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingFN M240B - 7.62x51mm NATOError creating thumbnail: File missingAdmiring a brand-new M240B, the larger predecessor to its earlier-added derivative below.Error creating thumbnail: File missingIn what is quickly becoming a tradition for this section, the weapon is shown off on its bipod, since it's a bit too long to actually fit on the screen at arms' length.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPopping open the top cover to reveal... an upside-down, belt-fed BAR, pretty much.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPulling back the accordingly downwards-tilting bolt; like the BAR (and the rest of the FN MAG family, and most modern MGs for that matter), the M240 fires from an open bolt, so this locks it back.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAttaching one of the weapon's 100-round belt boxes; unlike many depictions of the weapon, H3's M240 correctly mounts belt boxes to the side, and not the bottom.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPulling the belt into place; in typical fashion for this game, it's a mixture of FMJ and tracers.Error creating thumbnail: File missingClosing up the weapon...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...and disengaging the simple push-button safety. Ready to rock. And, quite possibly, roll.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAiming; the simple aperture-and-winged-post sights are pretty readable, though the top cover features a Picatinny rail if you'd prefer an optic.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe previous shot's angle didn't really lend itself well to a good firing shot, so we're using that as an excuse to show this instead. Note that the left-side ejection port serves solely to spit out spent belt links, while casings come out the bottom instead; this is why, as mentioned before, the FN MAG/M240 series can't use bottom-mounted belt boxes.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSpeaking of belt boxes, this one's hundred rounds go faster than you'd think. Good thing the game allows for them to be duplicated indefinitely.
FN M249-E2 SAW
Update #52 brought along the game's first two belt-fed weapons, the first being the FN M249 SAW, specifically the E2 variant. This is one of the few depictions where the magazine well is useable; this can result in some hilarious situations, such as acquiring the M249 as a random roll in Take & Hold but with ten-round magazines as your only ammo option.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingFN M249-E2 SAW - 5.56x45mm NATOError creating thumbnail: File missingAt long last, they're finally here. Praise be to our lord and savior Anton; his ways are mysterious, and his gifts many.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAdmiring the much-awaited M249.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAttaching a 200-round belt box.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPopping open the feed tray cover. Upon the update's release, there was a rather amusing bug wherein optics placed on the cover's top rail wouldn't move with it, leaving them floating in mid-air above the bolt; this has since been fixed.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPulling the belt out of the box...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...before pausing for a closer look. This reveals that the belt contains one tracer for every 4 normal FMJ rounds, a common setup among belt-fed machine guns, as it makes it far easier to tell where the gun is firing. This is also pretty much the furthest the belt can be pulled out of the box (and you can't do it unless you attach the box to the gun first), presumably to not drive the CPU mad from trying to calculate the physics on a long, loose belt of ammo.Error creating thumbnail: File missingInspection break over, the loading process is resumed, with the belt being placed into the feed tray.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe feed tray cover is then closed...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...and the weapon's rather arduous reloading procedure is concluded with a pull of the charging handle.Error creating thumbnail: File missingCelebrating the conclusion of this process with a burst of 5.56mm rounds.Error creating thumbnail: File missingBelatedly realizing that he forgot his hearing protection, our now rather shaken-up protagonist affixes a SilencerCo Osprey suppressor onto the M249.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLaying down some suppressed suppressive fire.Error creating thumbnail: File missingYet another one of the weapon's many impressive details; when it is inverted, the belt visibly sags due to gravity. Or rather, it's supposed to look like it's due to gravity; this is actually coded based on the orientation of the weapon itself, because having it rely solely on physics would have disastrous effects on the user's CPU.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAfter an innumerable amount of rounds, the M249's belt begins to visibly dwindle.Error creating thumbnail: File missingIt is at this point that the belt box can simply be removed.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFurthermore, if the feed tray is opened, then the belt can be removed separately, which causes it to compress itself into the small, convenient ball of ammunition seen here, which can be placed into the gun and causing it to transform into a belt again. This idiosyncrasy is once again because of CPU limitations (notice how the belt is never let loose at any point in the simulation), and these mechanics are used on all belt-feds with exposed belts in this game.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFed up with a creepy German constantly asking him about a mission report, our protagonist loads a 100-round Surefire quad-stack magazine into the M249's emergency STANAG magazine well.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFortunately for him, this proves to be far more useful in-game than in reality; the M249's STANAG well is notoriously unreliable, and attempts to use it frequently result in jamming.Error creating thumbnail: File missingHe then discovers that the bipod seems to be slightly broken...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...before shrugging and just deciding to roll with it. Note: this was a pre-release bug, and was fixed by the time that Update #52 was released.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSpeaking of updates, the 76th one (or rather, its first alpha build) gave players the ability to grab the M249's carrying handle. Also speaking of bipods, it changed the way they worked, allowing deployed weapons to be picked up by their forends (or carrying handles, when applicable), rather than forcing players to reach forward and re-fold the bipod.
Gatling Gun
An 1800s-era Gatling Gun was added to the Wurstworld scene in Update #43, though there were indications of its not-present presence when the mode was first released; several red-colored versions were also mounted in various places throughout the old version of the Meatmas Snowglobe scene. Update #56 (the 2018 4th of July Update) added a handheld version (chambered in .45-70), rather affectionately nicknamed "Hand Crank Frank". The "Meatal Gear Ronch", a walking mech boss that serves as the target of the 6th and final gamemode in Meatmas 2018's "Cappocolosseum" scene, has several of them mounted on its shoulders; these forward-facing guns use somewhat simplified models, likely to keep the mech's polycount at a reasonable level.
Colt Gatling Gun - .45-70 Government. Similar to the one in-game.Error creating thumbnail: File missing"Hmm... that looks fun."Error creating thumbnail: File missingApproaching the Gatling, using period-accurate handheld teleportation technology.Error creating thumbnail: File missingGrabbing a hold of the crank handle...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...and laying waste to the dastardly bandits terrorizing the town, along with the town itself. This in spite of the lack of any visible source of ammunition being associated with the weapon.Error creating thumbnail: File missingTaking a look at the festive wall-mounted Gatling, giving a good view of the never-used ejection chute.Error creating thumbnail: File missingIt's more or less just the base gun model painted red; even the underlying textures (such as the roughness of the brass body, or the grain of the wooden crank handle) are still present.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFiring some rounds off at nothing in particular...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...and some more (out of a different Gatling) at a Weinerbot. To little effect, one might add.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe Meatal Gear Ronch's forward-facing Gatling guns. Between these, the rapid-fire laser blaster on its chin, its smoke/flashbang grenade launchers, and its guided missiles, the Gronch's mech is packing some serious heat.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe Gronch firing Ronch's miniguns at nothing in particular. Sadly, we're unable to provide any clearer of a shot than this, as trying to get close enough to the mech to see its weapons in detail will usually result in...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...this.
A T2-style handheld General Dynamics GAU-17/A is one of the firearms added in the 2016 Meatmas update, arguably the most fun, and indisputably the most absurd. While logically implausible, it does have one curious "realistic" touch - attempting to fire the weapon one-handed will cause it to spontaneously eject itself from the user's hand and go flying backwards under recoil; this has less to do with realism and more to do with the fact that protracted one-handed fire of a minigun would wreak havoc on the physics engine - not to mention the performance implications of firing two miniguns at once.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingGeneral Dynamics GAU-17/A, US Air Force version of the M134 Minigun - 7.62x51mm NATOError creating thumbnail: File missingAirsoft handheld M134 minigun - (fake) 7.62x51mm NATOError creating thumbnail: File missingA quick trip to the Sampler Platter intro scene's Dessert Table reveals some very tasty offerings indeed.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAdmiring the GAU-17, with its great-grandfather photobombing in the background.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAmmunition comes in the form of these belt boxes. These are good for a few seconds of continuous fire; unlike many fictional miniguns, which have drastically lowered fire rates, H3's GAU-17 chews through ammo at a rate of 2,700 RPM (1 round every frame, at a standardized framerate of 90 FPS), which is well within the GAU's ROF range of 2-6,000 RPM.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFor convenience's sake, the tracer-filled belt saves the user the trouble of pushing through the flexible feed chute and just feeds itself through automatically.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSpinning up the minigun. In retrospect, this might not have been the most purposeful thing to screenshot.Error creating thumbnail: File missingDescending, unrelenting, beauty of annihilation...Error creating thumbnail: File missingA decent few seconds of sustained fire will leave the GAU-17's barrels looking like this. This is rather strange, considering how one of the main advantages of a rotary barrel system is that it's far more resistant to overheating; if a gun's barrel looks like this, then the user should be seriously worried. In-game, however, it has no effect on the gun's performance, and is purely for the sake of making the weapon more satisfying to use.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFollowing several hours of puzzle-solving and key-acquiring, and around three solid minutes of maniacal monologuing (by the same exceptional voice actor as the narrator of the Meat Grinder mode, apparently portraying the same character), Wurstworld's final boss appears, dual-wielding giant GAU-17s. They aren't actually loaded, but considering what happens literally five seconds later, this is a bit of a moot point.
Lahti-Saloranta LS/26
The Lahti-Saloranta LS/26 was added on Day 21 of the Meatmas 2022 Advent Calendar event.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingLahti-Saloranta LS/26 - 7.62x54mmRError creating thumbnail: File missingThe LS/26 in its box; the stated name is another valid way of referring to the LS/26 (though it, as with most Finnish firearm designations, is usually written with a slash - i.e. M/26), and the stated caliber is in line with the standard Finnish name for the cartridge most of us refer to as 7.62x54mmR. The stated year of introduction, however, is completely wrong, and it's not really clear where it came from (short of somehow mixing it up with the entry right below this one).Error creating thumbnail: File missingRegardless, here's the gun. And a mug that apparently doesn't know what color it-Error creating thumbnail: File missing-oh, nevermind.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLoading in one of the LS/26's 20-round box magazines. A 75-round pan magazine is often brought up when this weapon is discussed, though this appears to have been exclusive to different variants (primarily those intended for anti-aircraft use), as it required a different mounting system.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPulling back the somewhat unusual top-mounted/side-extended cocking handle...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...and disengaging the safety. Given its use on his better-known SMG, Aimo Lahti was apparently a fan of this style of safety switch.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAiming; the simple notch-and-post irons are a relatively easy read, set off to the left to account for the aforementioned cocking handle.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThe recoil's about what you'd expect for a gun of this sort - enough to make the sights jump around a fair bit, but nothing too bad in semi-auto.Error creating thumbnail: File missingNow, in full-auto, on the other hand...Error creating thumbnail: File missingTo help make it the full-auto a bit more practical, it's best to deploy the bipod first.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAnd, to make the bipod a bit more practical, you should probably find something to put it on. This barn roof seems to be doing the trick.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAnd, to ruin this sequence of natural segues, you can stop for a moment to fiddle with the sights. They're adjustable out to 1,500 meters in 100-meter increments, with their default zero being the lowest setting, 100 meters.Error creating thumbnail: File missingNow that we're done transitioning naturally from one shot to the next, here's a shot of a natural transition from one magazine to the next (or possibly just a shot of a magazine with an apostrophe); this is all that's required for a standard reload, as the LS/26 has the ever-magical feature combination of "fires from an open bolt" and "locks open on empty".
Lewis Assault Phase Rifle
This lesser known prototype variant of the Lewis Gun was added on day 23 of the Meatmas 2022 advent calendar event. Two variants were added; one with a wooden foregrip (Mk3), and one with a vented barrel shroud (Mk2). Unlike the concurrently-added Lewis Gun, they are chambered in .30-06.
Along with its more conventional, less-produced siblings above, the much-awaited Lewis Gun was added on Day 23 of the Meatmas 2022 Advent Calendar event.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingLewis Gun - .303 BritishError creating thumbnail: File missingStarting things off in a slightly unconventional fashion, and reaching forward for...Error creating thumbnail: File missing...the bipod, spiked feet and all.Error creating thumbnail: File missingWith these two feet, and a distinct lack of feathers, a man can be beheld completely in a single screencap.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFortunately, Platonic philosophy doesn't say anything about 47-round pan magazines of .303 British, so loading up Lewis here doesn't revoke his birth certificate.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPlucked-cocking the bolt; sadly, the weapon's safety was rendered non-functional post-addition due to issues with it clipping into the bolt, as H3's existing code systems didn't support a safety system that locks an open-bolt weapon in a position that isn't fully-cocked or closed.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAiming; the wide rear aperture allows for quick acquisition at the cost of precision, an attribute further hindered by its present non-adjustability.Error creating thumbnail: File missingPausing for a moment to inspect the manufacturer's markings; thanks to someone's rather enthusiastic use of a white wax pencil, all but the serial number (36172) and a capital "A" beneath it are plainly visible here, without even having to blow the image up to full size. Which is, after all, the whole point of filling in markings with a white wax pencil.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFollowing a series of undoubtedly rather interesting events, our man-wielding hero finds himself under assault from the forces of sensible phylogeny.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLuckily, they are not joined by the forces of reasonable camera angles, allowing for this interesting shot - with its entire ammunition load modeled and exposed, the last few rounds in the Lewis's magazine can be seen feeding their way into the action, signaling that it's time for a swap.
M1918A2 BAR
Update #50 added an M1918A2 Browning Automatic Rifle to H3. For the same reasons as the Bren gun's changes, the BAR included with the update also had a shortened barrel without a carrying handle or bipod; Update #52's 11th alpha build added the full-length version.
Interestingly, the shortened variant is rather reminiscent of Clyde Barrow's cut-down BAR, though that weapon was actually an original M1918, rather than an A2, and had a shortened stock as well as a truncated barrel. The version in H3 is also clearly meant to be an A2, considering the safe-slow-fast selector.
Update #101 added an additional variant, the "Fire Walker"; this version is Meat Fortress-oriented, and is stylized accordingly.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingLooking over the "Fire Walker", in all of its squashed-and-stretched glory.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThis angle is totally coincidental, and there's definitely nothing hiding behind the gas tube.Error creating thumbnail: File missingA selection of the Fire Walker's fictional "13x59mm Ogden" ammo; aside from the standard FMJ, there's the green "Slugger" (a high-mass wadcutter, similar in function to some of the normal rounds' high-mass or hollow-point variants), and the blue "Frag" (which is pretty much self-explanatory). The cartridge's name is a reference to the town of Ogden, Utah, where the designer of the BAR (and a wide variety of other successful firearms), John Moses Browning, was born.Error creating thumbnail: File missingOn the subject of references, the name of the gun itself is a reference to the WWI-era doctrine of "walking fire" (which the original BAR was designed for), wherein soldiers with select-fire rifles would advance together while firing in steady semi-auto from the hip to suppress an enemy trench line, then switch to full-auto once they got close enough to clear the trench. This proved impractical in practice, and the BAR outlived its original intended purpose by several decades.Error creating thumbnail: File missingYanking the Fire Walker's rather large wood-sheathed charging handle; even at this angle, a bit of it is still visible.Error creating thumbnail: File missingUnlike a normal BAR, the Fire Walker has a separate safety and fire selector; the latter sits on the left side where the normal selector goes, while the former is instead a simple two-position switch just ahead of the trigger guard.Error creating thumbnail: File missingAiming; while the hooded front post and large rear aperture make what seems to be a normal sight picture, the actual intended line-up point (for close ranges, at any rate) is instead the notch at the bottom of said aperture, with a centered view like this one providing a slightly longer zero.Error creating thumbnail: File missingSuffice it to say, the 13x59mm Ogden round packs a fair bit of kick.Error creating thumbnail: File missingHaving been exhausted of all 15 of its rounds, the magazine offers up one last gift in the form of an automatic hold-open; since the Fire Walker (like a normal BAR) fires from an open bolt anyway, there's seldom a need to pull the charging handle, in spite of the fact that it clearly wants to be pulled as much as possible. Just look at it.Error creating thumbnail: File missingFlipping the selector over to full-auto; since there's no safe position, the selector throw is considerably longer than that of a normal BAR.Error creating thumbnail: File missingHosing down a wall with some of the aforementioned Frag ammo. Not a completely necessary shot, but an enjoyable one nonetheless.
M60
Added with the full release of Update #72, the much-awaited M60 is available in H3VR, notably being its first 7.62x51mm machine gun (barring the handheld GAU-17/A). Of note is that the weapon was actually added a few updates prior, albeit in cartoonish "Sosigun" form, rather than as a normal firearm.
Along with the M60E3, the 2019 Meatmas update added an M60E4 - or, to be more precise, a Mk 43 Mod 1, a Navy-issued variant of the E4 that differs near-solely in having extra rail mounts.
The second belt-fed weapon added to H3 in Update #52 was the famous (or infamous, depending on which end of it one finds oneself on) MG42. Originally only available with its 50-round Sturmtrommel belt box, the near-perpetual fan requests for a higher-capacity belt eventually led to the creation of a 200-round "GiantBox", seemingly based on the belt boxes used with the MG42's successor, the MG3.
The RPK is one of the numerous firearms added in the first Meatmas update. At the time, it was actually referred to as a Vepr-3V, the civilian semi-auto version of the RPK, but Update #32 changed it into a military full-auto model. It was then removed in Update #52 for rebuilding, and wasn't heard from until it returned to the game with a new model on day 20 of the Meatmas 2020 Advent Calendar event.
Update #83 added a much-requested feature to the Meat Fortress gamemode: the Engineer's Dispenser and Sentry Gun. Since H3 lacks a conventional HUD, the building-construction system had to be considerably reworked; buildings are created by thrown objects, and most critical functions are performed through button-presses on the Dispenser. Additionally, the Sentry cannot be reloaded by whacking it with a wrench (as it is in TF2), with it instead using detachable pan magazines that auto-eject when they run empty.
While the Sentry Gun itself is fictional in design, its mounting is a rather close (if stylized) replica of the Maxim MG08's distinctive four-legged "sledge" mount.
Error creating thumbnail: File missingMaxim MG08 on "sledge" mount - 7.92x57mm MauserError creating thumbnail: File missingBoth the Dispenser and Sentry Gun are created via these team-color-specific "Tippy Toys" (based on can-type deer calls; several other ones exist in-game, though these simply make noises when tipped); the text on the side reads "SCARLETT THE SENTRY GUN", in keeping with the toys' alliterative name schemes.Error creating thumbnail: File missingUpon activating the toy (by tipping it over, as one would expect) and then throwing it, a Sentry Gun spawns where it lands, and is promptly engulfed in a cloud of smoke.Error creating thumbnail: File missingTaking a look at the Sentry; the black disk on the top of the receiver is the magazine. Each one of these holds 150 rounds, the standard capacity of a non-upgraded Sentry in TF2.Error creating thumbnail: File missingLifting up the back end of the receiver to get a better look at the mounting; as Sentries in H3 are physics-active objects, they can be pushed an manipulated with various tools (albeit with some resistance - their joints seem to be spring-loaded).Error creating thumbnail: File missingA Sentry guarding a strategic position, giving a good view of its overall profile. Of course, it doesn't have to stay there...Error creating thumbnail: File missingYes, as in the source material, Sentries can be picked up and relocated; unlike the source material, however, they don't have to be shoved into a toolbox to do so.Error creating thumbnail: File missingThis also means that, if you're feeling particularly lazy efficient, you can just carry around a Sentry and have it shoot for you.
Stoner 63
The Stoner 63 in its Commando configuration (but with a LMG long barrel) was added on day 23 of the Meatmas 2020 Advent Calendar event.
