That is what I suspected.
For obvious reasons I advize you to hold off on stating an opinion on a firearm in Enlisted that you have not actually used in the game yourself.
I myself have not used the FG 42. I have seen players using it in matches though. They did not perform magically better than squads not armed with the FG 42. I have seen squads equipped with the MG 42, the FG 42 etc. and they were slaughtered just as fast as Kar 98 k equipped squads.
I myself did better with the Kar 98 k than I do with the G/K 43. Not even my AI soldiers do better with the G/K 43 than the Kar 98 k.
What I see on the Enlisted forum are various topics calling for nerf German weapon/vehicle this-and-that or limit German weapon-this-or-that to [insert something here]. Mostly by people that do not actually use that German equipment but who do not like facing them when playing on the allied side.
When you play Enlisted you get shot, you get blown up, and sometimes you lose. I get it that people do not like that. No one does. I understand that.
Or someone just watched a propaganda fiction movie like “Saving Private Ryan” or “Panfilov’s 28 Men” and wants to reenact that in Enlisted. Then when that does not happen in Enlisted they are not happy. I get that.
If you play on the allied side you will get shot by the German side. And then you do not like losing to the German side. I get that.
The wrong approach to that however is to ask for constant nerfs to your “enemy” simply because in game he is your “enemy” and beats you from time to time. The best approach is to simply start playing on the German side and see if you really do better when playing on the German side than when playing on the allied side.
I also do not like facing a Stuart and being shot to pieces by it when I am on the German side and I do not like not being able to counter it reliably. Asking for a nerf to the Stuart however is not the right approach. Having a reliable COUNTER to the Stuart is more important than calling for a nerf to the Stuart. The same applies to the Puma.
And the same applies to the FG 42. You have to check the counter to the FG 42 in Enlisted as intended by the developers of Enlisted. That is probably the M2. Enlisted is still an Open Beta so it might be that something else will counter the FG 42 that has not been introduced in the Open Beta yet.
That is if the FG 42 in its current form even needs a counter in Enlisted. In my opinion it does not based on what I have seen in matches.
The interesting thing of WW2 is that different countries had diffferent weapon systems, different squad compositions, different equipment and different tactics. Let that be a part of the game Enlisted. Let not everything be turned into symmetric copies of each other.
Enlisted does not have to be chess where both sides basically mirror each other in every respect.
The counter to something does not have to be symmetric. Meaning that the M2 does not have to be a copy of the FG 42 in game terms, it simply needs to have some sort of characteristic that it can use to counter the FG 42.
I so hope that this forum will not turn into topic after topic of players playing on the allied side that call for nerfs and limits solely to German weapons/vehicles because they do not like being shot by the German side when playing on the allied side.
What I hope even more is that the developers will not listen to all this entitled whining by players that play exclusively or mostly on the allied side.
As to limiting the FG 42 to only Fallschirmjäger in Enlisted I for the moment am not of that opinion. It would be authentic to do so but only if it is also applied to everything else in the game as well. In other words when that is done it will have to also be applied to EVERY weapon/vehicle in Enlisted for ALL SIDES.
If Enlisted is going to limit ONE weapon/vehicles (for example the FG 42) to units that used it in real life then it will have to limit ALL weapons/vehicles based on their historical use.
That also means not having squads that are fully equipped with the BAR, MG 42 etc. etc. Because that too is not authentic.
I am in favour of having authentic squads and authentic squad equipment in Enlisted. But then that has to be applied to ALL SIDES and to EVERYTHING ON ALL SIDES. By that I mean having squads that consist of the number of men and their standard equipment as used by each nation in real life. So according to the real life table of organization and equipment for each nation.
The developers of Enlisted however have chosen not to do that for the time being. I hope they might change that but I highly doubt it.
And as long as Enlisted does not have authentic squads and authentic squad equipment I am not in favour of making the FG 42 the sole weapon that is limited to a squad of Fallschirmjäger.
So, if the FG 42 is going to be authentically limited to Fallschirmjäger then ALL weapons/vehicles in Entlisted will also have to be limited along authentic lines as well for ALL SIDES. Otherwise it is simply an unreasonable nerf to the German side to favour the allied side. And that is not right.
And that does not belong in a game from an objective point of view.
