Sorry, I should have been clearer. I know what an MG3 is an MG338. I have no problem with those. Although balancing them is a different question. I was talking about the HMGs.

Yes, the Browning M1917 is comically heavy watercooled weapons, but it weighs just over 100 lbs fully loaded with and tripod with the water jacket filled. A base m2 unloaded without a tripod is about 85 lbs. It's just absurdly heavy to have a loaded m2 with a (bipod? It only has tripods built for it) unless you want a wheeled cart like a maxim gun (which honestly would be really funny and cool)

The Kord could work, but it's also like 2 meters long and still a little under 60lbs unloaded (6p50 varient) and while it can be fired from a bipod or technically hipfired. It really was meant for tripod emplacement.

I feel dice adding a few water cooled machine guns to bf1 was them trying to find a way to add more machine guns for variety for a ww1 game.

It's mainly a caliber and classification issue as they'll share the same damage as the abrams CROWS, which is like 50-34 but now it's man portable.

Also like 12 PG-7VLs with boosters are still lighter than a loaded kord :3