I see from the polls not many rolled with the LMG as choice but I found it rather fun.
In particular the RPK-74 was my favorite. I noticed something though when one time I flipped between that and the M249. I couldn't attach an underbarrel to the RPK. The M249 could and that piece can convey some hefty stability bonuses.
I am curious if this is working as intended? Does the RPK have some natural built in stability or other bonuses where they compensated with no mod?
The AK can attach the underbarrel and I would say those models are quite similar.
If there are natural bonuses, does that scale with the weapon level? Else I would assume that eventually, the ability to add an extra mod of the shooters choice would out weight any built in bonus.
Just curious, even if it was just a pure gimp, I would probably still use the RPK over the M249 because I prefer the slower fire/more dmg model.