Please make it so exp boosters work on a victory. Nothing is worst then have you stacked exp bonus wasted on a lossing match.
Also for guerrilla squads the should have the enemy’s uniforms on, since they are spies. It will not fool their own team cause of the arrow above their head but might confuse the enemy for a second or over look them.
I mean it would be nice if you could apply boosters after the fact, as a post-game mechanic, but that’s not the intent of the current system.
I think the game should refrain from depicting actual warcrimes.
Before anyone brings up the Ersatz Panther, the convention only applies to soldiers not vehicles.
the ersatz tankers literally do have captured american uniforms though
They’re wearing German caps, no idea if tanker jackets are recognized as part of a uniform or accessories, and I doubt the convention cares about boots or regular pants.
Regardless, I still think it’s bad, despite if it’s already a thing or not.
Honestly victory bonus should be removed entirely.
It’s more detrimental to the game than positive, and is known to worsen desertion rates…
Xp and income should only be awarded based on individual merit/contribution to the match, and not based on whether you score a good team or not.
I wrote this earlier today so let me just lazily copy it over.
The game rewards stacking the winners with 50% “victory bonus”.
If this was replaced with contribution to victory/good team mate bonus (rewarding players that actively fought in and around the objective and built rallies) there would be less victory farmers and more competent players.
Vehicle cycling would also stop being more profitable than playing infantry and occasionally using vehicle.
Sadly they did happen, from both sides, and that’s something that can’t be forgotten.
On a side note though, using shotguns was and still is considered a war crime by the geneva convention. Even though flamethrowers and gas was used during WWII…
I am aware, and it shouldn’t be. But war crimes don’t belong in the game, that is my position.
No explicit ruling was ever passed on the use of shotguns, so they were never officially banned, and are still legal weapons of war (all militaries employ them).
Flamethrowers were neither prohibited weapons, nor are they explicitly banned today either, incendiary weapons however became heavily restricted during the late cold-war era all the whilst flame-throwers fell out of tactical favour as military technology improved. In short, no they were and are not banned.
Gas or other similar chemical weapons were never used during the war in combat, neither by the Allies or Germany. They where stocked by Germany but never deployed on military targets (holocaust different story).
My mistake, Germany tried getting them banned, but it never eventuated. I was reading up more, and I think the part that made me think they were somewhat illegal was during the Afghan wars.
Due to the amount of hostage situations, they weren’t particularly favoured as a breaching tool as the pellets could spread in any direction after breaking through the door and potentially kill civilians.
That’s because they withdrew their objections, hence no ruling ever being made.
I know it’s not easy keeping track of what is and isn’t illegal, I’m cheating by writing this with both a history degree and holding a Swedish military issued booklet on war-crimes (outdated probably, written in the early 2000s, very nice gift from gramps).