Battlefield 1 - The Hellriegel Defensive (2021)

Your reward for getting 25 AT mine kills; and no, getting kills by shooting the mines after placing them doesn't count. You're given the defensive variant of the Hellriegel, boasting a larger mag, bipod and a lens sight, at the expense of greater recoil and hipfire spread compared to the Factory. What you get is an SMG that is meant to be played more like an LMG - defensively (as the name suggests). Plant up with the bipod to shrug off the bounciness of the weapon and go to town! Except it still has the Hellriegel's damage model, which means that (unlike LMGs) you are going to do piddly damage at longer ranges. It's a fun SMG for sure, but it's not something that supplants the Factory version. Also to clarify what I say in the intro - on PC, you'll still find people running the Hellriegel - it's just that you'll more likely run into people using the Automatico, given that it has the superior rate of fire and it's easier to control its recoil on PC than on console (so I hear).