Given the complaints about Stalingrad’s engineer squads, it would be simpler to include a level 4 engineer squad for each future nation that is free to use assault rifles/sub-machineguns
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First of all we never complained about the Stalingrad engineers.
Just wanted to see what the developers did to handle this scenario…
But … they then remove this feature?
I remember in the previous announcement they promised that players would be able to equip their engineer squads in Stalingrad with assault rifles.
I don’t like this situation that always make removing/nerfing existing things/features from the game as solution.
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"## ENGINEERS FROM STALINGRAD
Earlier we announced that engineers transferred from the “Battle of Stalingrad” campaign will retain their ability to use automatic weapons.
But as testing has shown, these engineers significantly hurt the balance. You have noticed it too.
We have decided to remove this privilege, which not only harms the balance between experienced players and newcomers, but is also difficult to explain within the game to those players who will meet an engineer with such a weapon in battle."
Do players even need a explain, when they have an engineer equipped with an assault rifle, he is from a special engineer squads.
Even many premium squads also have engineers like this. If it’s hard to explain, should engineers be removed from all premium squads? ?
If DF can’t do it, at least give us other compensation.
Tbh, i wonder which testing.
Do they mean the recent infamous test server without any BRs?
Definitely good place where to test balance related stuff.
I think engineers with ar are more efficient and confortable in killing bolty ai which makes them looks like more “imbalanced”. What DF really should do is to test it out again when balancing of br rating is there. where assault engineers have to fight against fg422/avt40 instead of bolties
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Turn all Axis engineers into Stalingrad Engineers for every player so even f2p players could equip them with mkb42(h) or fg 42, give new free premium pack to Stalingrad FA owners as a compensation. That’s all they need to do.
It’s yet another proof that they don’t even play their game on live servers but in very closed setting on their test server or in the editor against other devs and more likely just bots vs bots.
This ain’t total war it’s a mp game where you fight against real players and some bots. How are 6x Drum para tommies and Vickers paras are fine but not 4x Mkb42(h) that have maybe half as much dps as them and can’t land anywhere you want within 10secs.
I’ve imported MKB42(H) from Moscow and equipped in the first free Engineer squad, you only need to max the campaign to do that.
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Absolutely not. More firepower, with the ability to build any type of structure is something that would push many more players to use engineers, so as to have more rally points, fixed machine guns, anti-aircraft etc.
That’s pretty cool so they better make that feature free for everyone post merge, there are no reason to remove it as long as they don’t let those engineers to equip anything stronger than Mkb42(H).
clearly you have never got into a intensive fight dont you?
in a high level full-automatic game engineers are only there for building spawns. All other things will be considered as a waste of time.
indeed ar looks like they got more fire power but they only got more rounds with less damage. which make them weak against avt40 or fg422.
So an assault engineer squad is basicly trading 1 man position for a faster speed to build spawn and larger chance to have a surviving engineer after a fight.
No, because only the engineer team can build anti-aircraft and often in games against P47s, IL2-10s or Beaufighters, it is necessary to counter the enemy. Having a class of “dual” engineers who can attack as assaulters if necessary would motivate many players to have them in their ranks. This isn’t a discussion based on my game, but a general improvement to the game. Just look at how many have used shotguns with American engineers in recent times (at least until the release of the M2 carbine).
Not quite true, all new premium squads can build everything except HMG (unless it’s mg squad)
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Imo it’s a good change. They are engineers, not assaulters.
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I bet we’ll see veteran soldier upgrade one day, which will allow to equip AR basically by any soldier.
Just wait 
that’s the real way of powercreep
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if this is the problem then give everyone an assault engineer squad and limite them to 1. take it as an improvement version of engineer squad.