Right now, if any gun not wielded by infantry uses bullets of varying caliber, it overheats. I do not have a problem with the fact that it does this, as it should, but I am upset at the fact that the rate in which it overheats is VERY unrealistic, most of these overheat after around 4 seconds on constant fire with most, and many of these have capacity of only 20 rounds and overheating with 5 left, leaving you vulnerable and under gunned when you cool down as you only have a few bullets to use. This limits the potential of the already bad flak guns and light tanks utilizing autocanons. Tank machine guns also overheat way too fast, they need 2 bullets to kill and the Italian one has the same capacity if the flak guns, 20 rounds,and is the worst tank MG in the game because it suffers the flaks shortcomings with a lot lower damage. It can be snowing in Moscow and be in the negatives and still the Mgs overheat in around 4 seconds. I propose to make it longer before machine guns and autocanons overheat to give them more use.
German machine guns have the same overheating mechanics as everyone else, but they overheat faster due to the faster rates of fire.
I believe this issue has been brought up before and passed along to the developers.
Italian, Japanese, some Axis tanks and especially AA are always in overheat mode after few secs of shooting, why can’t we even reload while it’s happening? It should take much longer for those guns to overheat nobody would use those faulty guns if their mgs/turrets were suspect of overheating every 3secs.
PZW42 is painful with their mg42 overheating instantly after 40 shots which isn’t even a single mag of ordinary MG 's trooper MG34/42 mag size, it should be doubled at least.
But Japanese and Italians are even worse their mag size is pitiful and they overheat even without using all 20 bullets, plus you can’t even reload it till it cools down, what a joke
Ta Se & AB41: shoots 15 rounds
gun overheats
after cooldown
shoots the remaining 5 rounds
reloading
repeat this cycle every battle
yeah they need to either remove the stupid overheating mechanic or make it take longer to overheat
i think a better way to balace is to allow it to take longer to over heat but it also takes longer to cool down
It already takes too long to cool it down though
upvote, overheating now is super dump, especially for tanks with auto-cannons
The german armored APC overheat unrealistically, a 2 seconds fire made it overheat. The MG is unusable.
any gun that can be reloaded shouldn’t overheat tbh