In this Battlefield 3 AK-74M guide, not only will you discover its strengths and weaknesses but also the attachment combinations you can get with this gun to maximize your kills.
Battlefield 3 AK-74M Overview
Magazine: 30 rounds
Rate of Fire: 650 RPM
Faction: Spetsnaz
Fire Modes: Automatic (default) and Semi-Automatic.
This gun is one of the default weapons available only to the Assault Kit and to the Spetsnaz players. It's kinda pretty general weapon having some strengths and weaknesses. While facing in a long-distance battle, a Sniper Rifle would be the best but if while facing a battle in a close-range format, a submachine or a shotgun would be more good.
Of course it all depends if you're a really good player where you can surprise your enemy and change the sides of the battle. Same way you can equip a specific weapon as per a situation and pwn him.
Battlefield 3 AK-74M vs M16A3
If you compare AK-74M with M16A3, it has comparatively slower fire rate and slightly higher bullet damage. Meaning that you can use it in mid-distance battles. And you can use M16A3 in close-distance battles.
BF3 AK-74M Strategy & Attachments Guide
As you are more likely to be up against M16A3s, the Engineer's submachine guns would be damn good in short-distance battles and the Support's light machine guns aren't that great in mid-distance battles and you are bound to be in a situation where AK-74M is really great in mid-distance battle on the map.
What does this mean? You can make better use of this gun by adding on appropriate attachments which will add-on to your mid-ranged strengths.
Now you might want to improve your mid-range attacks by getting a better sight. The early PSO-1 (4 times magnified) scope works very well for this. You can always change to a different scope as you get to a higher level.
Next thing you want to do is improve your long-distance accuracy as this gun is kind of inaccurate in such a situation. Here you can equip the Heavy Barrel. But then, a heavy barrel will increase the vertical climb and you need to reduce your horizontal climb so that you can worry less about readjusting your gun. Here, a Foregrip would be perfect to balance this.
The last step left is to turn your gun into a single-shot mode. You can do this by pushing down the button on the directional pad on your controller. When you fire at your enemies, you can fire at the rate of 4 bullets per second.
Under this situation, you get the gun back in the place from where you shot it. In simple words, when you shoot, there is a vertical climb due to the Heavy Barrel, but if you wait for a second, it'll go right back into the original position. If you don't use the automatic mode to pull the trigger, it becomes really accurate, from long distances as well.
You will soon learn that 1-3 shots are enough to hunt down your enemy depending on how close your are and you can blast off 3 shots in a second thus making it accurate enough. Although, just make sure that you are able to mark your enemy. Because if they are able to escape, at least your friends nearby the enemy can kill them.
You will be basically damn strong at mid-ranged battles than any other classes in Battlefield 3. You will be definitely weak against Snipers so stay away from shooting in long-distance format. If you can sneak up on the enemy and get the jump, short-distance is perfect. Don't get too excited and end up going head-to-head with this gun as you're really weak against a lot of classes with respect to this.
Battlefield 3 AK-74M Guide Conclusion
Overall you have learned that AK-74M is really good in mid to long-ranged battles. You can get the maximum benefit by reducing its kickback effect. You can also overcome the weaknesses of this weapon as strengths rule over them. (head-on close-distance battles and very long-distance sniping).
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