About the weakening of FG42 and the related balance

The idea is good,
But obviously the Normandy campaign as well as the Berlin campaign leaned to one side.
You can find out if you start game as random.
Most will take Germany. How many users avoid Germany.
If you think the FG42 is good, try Germany.

It would be nice to be able to see the stats, but playing at random will give you a clear idea of โ€‹โ€‹which team is more attractive.

Ah, sorry mate, I missed a tense of irregular verb. Thank you, I stand corrected!

The reason there is talk about Germany needs nerfs comes a lot due to Normandy, where the game is clearly balanced in Germanyโ€™s favor across all infantry weapons.

Self loading rifles, SMG, LMG, sniper rifles, all favor Germany across the board.

Germany also has the early game grind, with better tanks until allied players get the Sherman, and are only superior when they get the jumbo. Which we also know wonโ€™t last as the Panther is confirmed, which will be objectively superior.

The USโ€™ only advantage is in the air, where their planes are better at air to air and in multirole flexibilityโ€ฆ but Germany has more air to ground ordinance on their attackers, too.

Of course, nerfing Germany would make them struggle with soviets, with the exception of the FG42, which is an aberration in how much better it is vs both the m2 carbine and AVS-36.

Personally, I believe that it would be better to buff Allied weapons than further nerf Germany, but thatโ€™s me. Reduce the vertical recoil of the M1 and M2 carbines to 30, Suggestion to Adjust M1 / M2 Carbine Series Recoil to Improve Game Balance [Mathematical Comparison] , and do a recoil reduction pass across allied submachineguns to make them at least on par with German examples.

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I do agree especially M1, M2 and AVS-36 recoil.

I know they will probably never go back as many people who paid for whole squads of FG42 guys will make even bigger clusterfuck than few of us that are complaining here on forum.

Bit I will bitch about it as long as I breathe or have any interest in the game.

I donโ€™t understand how didnโ€™t they do the simple math themselves.

You want players to spend 30 silver orders for FG42? then make one cost 10 silver orders.

Example:
10 silver orders x 3 (cost of the gun) = 30 silver orders โ†’ you get 3 FG42
3 silver orders x 10 (cost of the gun) = 30 silver orders โ†’ you get 10 FG42

It would be even more valued, especially fully upgraded oneโ€ฆ

It would give same monetization to the Devsโ€ฆ

But I think we are post that point of salvationโ€ฆ

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maybe if you use your brain you would just understand that if it gets applied to the Mg gunners the ammo would be reversed as not everyone would use the fg anymore like it used to.

perhaps, once again, if you manage to think you wouldnโ€™t have the same issue of before because it furfill the main " job " of machinegunner.

yes?
itโ€™s more versatile.
itโ€™s somewhere between like a smg and a light machinegun.

works perfectly with the bipod.

at least i use it.

from this threads judgin by your answers you seems not using that at all.

Personally, I believe that it would be better to buff Allied weapons than further nerf Germany, but thatโ€™s me. Reduce the vertical recoil of the M1 and M2 carbines to 30, Suggestion to Adjust M1 / M2 Carbine Series Recoil to Improve Game Balance [Mathematical Comparison] , and do a recoil reduction pass across allied submachineguns to make them at least on par with German examples.

Guy above gave very simple and great idea.
I do really agree about this.
M1, M2 and AVS-36 reduce recoil could satisfy for everyone.

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Agree, they should stop this gun nerfing madness, instead give American players something new for balance for example thompson 100round mag so they stop asking for nerfs and i hope everyone will be happy. Most players think about nerfing just within frames of one campaign, but do they already now that on Berlin campaign axis are seriously underpowered weapons wise and they need both MG42 and FG42 so at least later level players can give some balance to the matches.

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Fantastic

You are not fantastic

thanks

but i donโ€™t really care soโ€ฆ

:woman_shrugging:

wink wink

but it was not nerfed, it was BALANCED to match every other weapon in game.

if we are going to give unjustified bonuses to other side why dont just give allied soldiers 2-3 grenade slots by default? just cause it would be FUN for allies

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As i know for FG42 so far they just reduced itโ€™s default ammo, of course thatโ€™s not good but manageable, axis players somehow digested it. But many people are also suggesting next to hassle with itโ€™s stats/recoil/damage/class etc which is wrong IMO

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Of course you love the idea of running 2 9 men infatry squads with STG-44sโ€ฆ

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Otherwise which weapon would be the counter of AVT40?

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The US dominates? lul

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Nothing to laugh
US superiority in my opinion.

Since when have i or any of my fellow enlisted mafia advocated for weapons such as the fg42 and avt 40 being available to everyone? We have been consistently saying that all these guns should be restricted FG-42 is just the most blatantly powerful so we are putting it at the forefront of our suggestions

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AVT was dogshit so unless they drastically reduce the recoil it is even less usable than the AVS even in semi-auto

MP44 should be assaulter only. VG 1-5 for everyone.

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