Gold order soldiers are based on real war heroes. And often such heroes were famous for their use of a specific weapon. For example, one British soldier whose name I don’t remember(we’ll call him Tommy) improvised a mortar to directly fire at tanks. So, if Tommy is added as a gold order soldier, he should have his repurposed mortar as hid secondary weapon. Similarly, Jack Churchill would get a longbow locked to his secondary slot and a sword for his melee, and Ludmila Pavlichenko could get the AVS 36 that she used. If Tony Stein was added, he could use his Stinger machine gun. The list goes on. It would make gold order soldiers more unique and tie them more closely to their real world heroics.
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I wouldn’t mind that. The secondary weapon + equipment slot I used to advocate for doesn’t seem feasible anymore once the merge comes and players can conceivably stack entire loadouts with them.
There is really no point in claiming most gold order soldiers. Least valuable of all BP stuff.
If they had gear on them than they wouldn’t be worthless. A battle ready soldier has value especially on a new campaign.
We paid for all of BP not just GO weapons and vehicles.
But there are only so many of those kinds of unique soldiers.
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The soldiers who did not have very unique personal weapons could be pre equipped with the best weapon for their class, fully upgraded.
Dont forget the guy that used a longbow in combat ww2 lol
…doh…should have read all way through first.
Or the marine who run around with a fucking vickers mg in the pacific (burned his arm holding it)
Stinger looked nice. But yeah, both Gold order soldiers and vehicles need to offer something a bit more unique imo. Soldiers getting their unique weapon and vehicles getting some weapon change would make it interesting for me. Currently I am just hoarding both order types until such a change happens because I don’t even want to spend them now. I hope me sitting on them, and others doing the same, is a sign to Gaijin/DF in their data that whatever they have is not popular right now.
I have armed most of my gold order soldiers with special gold order or event reward weapons.
I, too, wish gold soldiers had something more than just coming full stars.
The most commonly requested improvement (and, possibly, the easiest to do) is to make all of their equipment slots unlocked by default. Otherwise, a low level player can’t even take full advantage of his tier II or higher soldier until he’s done upgrading a specific high tier squad, which may require a lot of time. (This is even more relevant now, since the tier of a gold soldier isn’t immediately shown anymore when purchasing him.)
Should they have both secondary weapon AND backpack slots available? Maybe. Someone may argue this would step into P2W territory, but in practical terms we all know that the advantages of carrying a secondary weapon are limited (if any). I’m quite sure most of us go for backpack/pouches slot whenever possible.
Should they be able to equip any class of weapons, without restrictions? Probably better not. It wouldn’t be a problem with the single gold soldier itself, but it may allow the creation of unbalanced squads by circumventing restrictions on class limits.
Should they come with their unique weapon? I say NOPE, unless we’re allowed to swap said weapon with another of our choice. Being stuck with a fixed weapon would be a DETRIMENT.
Rather, each gold soldier could come fully equipped with a set of regular items, that we can possibly swap and use on other soldiers at will; including a pistol, a backpack/pouch, and a fully upgraded (regular) primary weapon.
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John Basilone. And it was an M1917 browning. He later devised a device attaching to the barrel of an M1919a4 allowing it to be hip fired on the move.
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Well, certain unique weapons could be locked to more superficial slots like secondary or melee while keeping the backpack and primary open, so, Mad Jack’s longbow or “Tommy”’s repurposed mortar. But Ludmila Pavlichenko’s AVS could be swapped for a Mosin.
thats the bloke. Unless pacific series took poetic liscence, the first scene was with a vickers (or I mistake it for a vickers because of the water cooled jacket), when the marines were equipped with old weapons on Guadalcanal
yup looked it up. You are right m1917 Browning
This could be a viable compromise among all of the points I mentioned.
The soldier comes with all slots available, but the secondary weapon slot is occupied by a fixed, soldier-specific weapon, that cannot be removed or changed.
Kinda like AT soldiers of event squads.