hey guys level-cap here today I'm
excited to show you the first time that
I can remember seeing an FAL in a
battlefield game why it's first
appearing in battlefield hardline out of
all games is a mystery to me but the
fact that it's finally in a battlefield
game is really cool
now the FN FAL is an extremely popular
gun in many armies around the world in
fact this gun was adopted by so many
NATO countries that it gained the name
the right arm of the free world and in
battlefield hardline this is a battle
rifle which means you're going to get it
for the enforcer class it's going to sit
right up there with the scar-h and the
sa-58 in fact FN designed the scar-h to
replace the FAL which is kind of cool
you get both guns in battlefield
hardline both guns are perfectly viable
in fact the FAL was a powerhouse at the
event we're playing it most people were
using the new guns and I have to say the
FAL was showing up in the killfeed all
over the place this thing was just
decimating people now is it better than
the other battle rifles available it's
hard for me to say especially without
having exact stats to look at but I will
say that it's an extremely good gun out
of all the battle rifles available it
has the highest rate of fire clocking in
at 700 rounds per minute so in a sense
it is the highest damaging per second
battle rifle available in the game and I
found no problems controlling the
accuracy of this weapon so I have a
feeling the FAL is going to be top dog
when it comes to battle rifle
performance and considering that I
already thought the sa-58 and scar-h
were incredibly good guns the FAL coming
in with an even higher rate of fire
meaning more damage per second doing a
maximum of 43 to kill your opponent is
absolutely going to wreak havoc on the
battlefield now there is a new
ammunition type for the enforcer class
called armor-piercing tracer rounds you
can load these into any of the battle
rifles in the game they are going to
increase your recoil they're going to
add a tracer effect to your shots but
they're also going to penetrate armor
it's not necessarily going to increase
the damage of your shot so you shouldn't
be able to take this beyond a three shot
kill but it should negate the effects of
body armor in this game
and you can now also do damage to
heavily armed vehicles if you have
armor-piercing rounds equipped however
when I was using them it increased the
recoil on my gun so significantly that I
found it very hard to be precise so it's
an interesting trade-off we'll have to
see how it plays out and how well it can
be controlled as for customizing this
weapon I use the stock that it comes
with slapped a Cobra sight on there and
I was pretty much at home the recoil
wasn't too bad it's not necessarily
going to be the most accurate gun in the
world when firing full auto but tat
firing at range is not only going to
give you accurate shots but you're going
to be able to draw people so freaking
fast with this gun considering that the
minimum damage I don't believe will drop
below 25 you're going to get a
guaranteed 4 shot kill no matter what
the range is on your opponent and to any
of the closer ranges you'll be getting a
nice consistent 3 shot kill now like
many of the other battle rifles you have
a 20 round magazine so you can't
necessarily just hold down the trigger
and go to town all day but you should
have no problem getting two or even
three kills per magazine because you do
so much damage per shot and in fact the
FAL is really challenging all the other
guns in the game in terms of damage per
second sure the k10 beats this gun dps
wise in close range but beyond that the
FAL is pretty much king there's no
assault rifles that can stand up to the
DPS of this gun at medium or even longer
range the only problem is that you have
to burst fire this weapon you can't
really pull out of it like you could
with an assault rifle and in this clip
here I'm using the tracer rounds and
you'll see just how much more the weapon
is kicking and how much more difficult
it is to control now as far as
armor-piercing rounds go when negating
body armor I like the idea of that in
fact it's something that insurgency has
built into the core model of its whole
game where one team gets armor-piercing
rounds and the other team gets body
armor and if you equip one of them you
can negate the other team's benefit
which is pretty cool I like that but
it's a universal thing that applies
across all classes in insurgency whereas
this only applies to enforcer
versus mechanic which is sort of weird
in that sense granted the armor-piercing
round still do extra damage to vehicles
which is definitely something you should
consider because there's a lot of heavy
armored vehicles in this game
this is just going to give you one extra
weapon to fight them with especially
considering that you have ammo boxes you
can drop down armor-piercing rounds
using against lighter armored vehicles
are going to do more damage and they're
going to do actual damage to armored
vehicles so you can just keep dropping
those ammo boxes and pumping round after
round into armored vehicles that are
really far away from you so as far as
the FAL is concerned it is a beast of a
weapon if you like battle rifles this is
probably going to be one of your new
favorite ones to use I can't find any
faults with the weapon as of yet I
wouldn't be surprised if they nerfed it
a little bit but we'll have to see how
it actually compares I wasn't able to do
some stress testing between this gun and
some of the other battle rifles out
there so I'm sure it will have its
faults it'll be interesting to see maybe
the other battle rifles will inch it out
in their range accuracy versus the FAL
but again that remains to be seen with
further testing anyway that wraps it up
for my preview review of the FN FAL and
battlefield hardline stay tuned to my
other weapon reviews coming out soon as
always guys I'll see you next time this
is level-cap signing off
you