MG5

Fire selector markings on both sides: red full-auto symbol and white safe symbol next to the selector lever

The selector lever moves: it points at the red symbol on full auto and at the white symbol on safe. The weapon starts on fire instead of safe

Flush silver bolt in the round boss on the top cover (hand and vehicle version)

Tracer rounds in the belt have a red tip, AP rounds a black tip (the belt shows the rounds of its type: standard belt every 5th round a red tip)

Belt indicator on the top cover: the black plate with a red stripe in the slot in front of the round screw sticks out while a belt with rounds is loaded, dips with every shot and sinks into the slot when the belt is empty or missing. Hand and vehicle version

The fire mode / safety action now sits on the selector lever instead of under the weapon

A dropped weapon no longer keeps twitching on the ground: the colliders of the belt pouch and the 500-round box no longer reach into the weapon, and the flash hider collider is part of the barrel collider

The muzzle slot is gone: there is no suppressor for the real MG5, so the original flash hider is now fixed to the barrel. Suppressors from other mods no longer fit, and the separate flash hider is no longer in the arsenal

Muzzle flash and smoke come from the tip of the flash hider

Rounds and links in the belt now have the real 7.62×51 size (they were about 81 %)

Rounds look like real DM111: brass case, copper-coloured tombac bullet, dark phosphated links

The belt hangs like a real link belt: it bends down over a few rounds right after leaving the feed and then hangs straight down into the pouch; the pouch sits a little further to the left and is wider at the front, so the longer rounds no longer stick out. In the 500-round box the belt drops straight into the box

Folding bipod on the model (folds back under the handguard)

Folding front sight: fold it down or raise it in the inspection mode

Vehicle version for weapon mounts (MG_MG5_vehicle.et): no shoulder stock, no barrel shroud, folding front sight (action at the sight). Not in the arsenal; mission makers and modders put it on their mounts

500-round ammo box for the vehicle version (DM111 ball with DM21 tracer, 4:1): sits on the left of the weapon with the lid open, the belt runs over the box wall into the feed and moves with every shot. The vehicle version only takes this box; the box only fits the vehicle version

Deploying the bipod no longer stretches the character (the bipod inherited from the M60 was invisible and had no legs)

Prone on the bipod or a rest: the stock now sits in the shoulder (weapon 5 cm further back), and the left hand rests on top of the weapon instead of inside it

The MG5 only takes its own belt pouches; M60 boxes (vanilla and from other mods) no longer fit, and the pouches no longer fit the M60

Removed a debug log line that was written to the log on every shot

Removed development scripts from the mod package

MG5 in 7.62x51 mm NATO (coyote), muzzle velocity 810 m/s like the real 550 mm barrel

Desert camouflage: soft darker spots on the coyote parts, as on our G36/G29 desert variants

Foregrip and assault grip reduce recoil (foregrip: muzzle rise −15 %, sideways drift −20 %; assault grip: −10 % each)

Gas regulator with three rates of fire (640, 720, 800 rpm), set in the inspection mode

Five 100-round belt pouches: DM111 ball with DM21 tracer (4:1), ball, tracer, AP, AP with tracer; the DM21 tracer burns out at about 770 m

Animated belt that jerks forward with every shot and gets shorter as the pouch empties

Feed cover hinged at the front

4x scope with a 7.62 reticle: zeroed at 300 m, holdover marks for 400 to 1000 m, lead marks every 1 mrad

Picatinny rails on top, bottom, bottom front, left and right; vertical foregrip and assault grip

Shot sound based on an L7A2, feed cover opening sound from an MG 42 recording

Assault grip only on the left side; in a kneeling stance the left hand holds the handguard with both grips, lying prone with the assault grip as well

Flash hider in the muzzle slot, swappable for 7.62 mm suppressors from other mods (type AttachmentMuzzle762_51)

Manufacturer logos replaced by the embossed GTG emblem