Sure, everything that DF does is based around FOMO even their overpriced premium bundles, BP and Events are just way more obvious than the rest.
Now with removal of Gold Orders you can’t stop playing Enlisted since you will miss some new GO weapon or vehicle skin that may never come back again.
And even worse for newer players that buys it and can’t decide to get a low gold order weapon to progress with.
You’ll get ( for instance, in this bp ) a br V smg or br III semi that will make your experience worse for maybe a campaign they don’t even play
So… you spent money for…. Vehicles that you can’t use. Weapons that you can use but will make you suffer, 50k silvers, some upgrades and call sign orders alongside customization order. and maybe get enough in time to then gamble on the next one hoping to get something that you may be able to use.
And obviously, worse in all of this no 100 gold ( well, for f2p, but you get the point ).
There are also missions that they’ve added with two gold order rewards that they will have to replace with something crappier like weapon/vehicle upgrade order.
The German Pass can join one of the two, one is the Mosin Nagant M39 from Finland with a PH scope, and the other is the Selbstlader 1906 semi-automatic rifle from Germany before the First World War
Also whos idea was to put it at BR3 while Germany still has only has crappy semi autos like G41 (inferior in every single way) or VG 1-5 (with way less dmg).
Even ZH-29 and G43 are inferior to that Winchester due having insane recoil and bad dispersion while WINchester has half of their recoils it feels like alien with such overbuffed stats especially with 20 rounds magazine and short reload.
Minus 2 dmg doesn’t make it balanced when every single stat is superior over other BR3 and BR4 semi autos and both of them require 2 shots to kill anyway unless (again) it’s American rifle like Farquhar
Mondragon is better in several ways and is BR4. Why should USA get an inferior gold order semi auto and have it be tiered with Mondragon as you suggest?
M1907 recoil is 2x lower than vast majority of semi auto rifles and it power crept everything at BR3 with the exception of Farquhar since it can 1hk even with vitality, M1 Garand and Mondragon can 1hk but a lot of the time they will only down the opponent and their recoil is ass.
14.4 damage rifles get one hit to down within 40m
15.3 damage rifles get one hit to down within 70m
15.8 damage rifles get one hit to down within 80m
*against vitality
but regarding balance this is totally unbalanced against japan which need minimum 10 round magazine for BR3.