User blog comment:Zephalian/Why BC2 almost beat BF3/@comment-1916935-20120207050247/@comment-28584497-20120208040201

Believe it or not I usually do quite well with the M39. As for their usefulness, that's obviously subjective but again, I typically do quite well with them. I know you want 1HK rifles back, but that's your own demon, not mine...

And yeah, the TTK out to about 30 meters for the semis is ~250 milliseconds, which is less than almost every weapon in the game, with like 4 exceptions. It's only beyond that where their effectiveness drops, and even then you're probably going to be more accurate than the guy wielding the PKP or M240 at those ranges, so by then TTK is a moot point.

Just as a point of fact, I used to use the SVU all the time and it was one of my best weapons in BC2; the semis in BF3 feel just like that one.