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— Battlelog description
The RPK-74M is a weapon featured in Battlefield 3.
Singleplayer[]
The RPK-74M is the most common LMG and is widely used by the Russian Army, Kaffarov's security and the People's Liberation and Resistance. It can be found with any number of attachments and optics.
Multiplayer[]
The RPK-74M is the default LMG of the Russian Army, functioning as the counterpart of the M27 IAR of the United States Marine Corps. It is unlocked for the USMC upon achieving 170,000 points with the Support kit.
The two function in a similar manner, having a 45 + 1 round magazine and being fed by a box magazine as opposed to a belt, giving it a faster reload than the other LMGs. It has a slower rate of fire, but much less recoil than the M27. The RPK-74M has the lowest recoil of any light machine guns. Like all other light machine guns, the RPK comes default with a bipod. The very smooth recoil and high degree of accuracy (with or without the bipod deployed) allows the RPK-74M superior performance when engaging specific targets or enemies at longer range when compared to other weapons in the Support Class.
Patches[]
The RPK-74M and M27 IAR were the only light machine guns that did not unlock the Extended Magazine accessory. The 1.04 patch (March 2012) mistakenly enabled the RPK to equip Extended Mags, allowing it to use 200 rounds. This was fixed in the 1.05 patch (June 2012). As of patch 1.06 (September 2012), the RPK now has 60 + 1 rounds with Extended Magazine and is now also able to unlock the heavy barrel.
The QBB-95, and MG36 were the opposite; they started with Extended Magazines but later got them removed - however, DICE later added a heavy barrel unlock and re-added the extended mags for these two guns.
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Trivia[]
- The weapon was formerly named the RPK in the beta, which is the RPK variant the weapon is actually modeled after, but was renamed to the RPK-74M before release.
- The reload animation of the RPK-74M slightly changed since the beta of Battlefield 3. In the beta, the gun was tilted to the side and the bolt was pulled back, identical to that of the Saiga-12K's animation. In the retail version, the RPK-74M is still held in a firing position with the right hand, while the left hand reaches under the weapon to pull back the bolt.
- In Battlefield 3, the RPK-74M's bolt does not move when being fired, which is likely a design oversight on DICE's part. This is noticed on every machine gun and visible when the weapon's bipod is down and it is moved to the right and fired.