There’s a solution for it though: the wonders of sidegrades! Instead of always adding new lvls with even more overpowered things, they could tweak the campaign line a bit to obtain a campaign tree instead, with ramifications leading to sidegrades.
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great addition that i wanted every time, but the current map can’t support it. In order to function it correctly, the maps need the reworks(too small).
They’d just be food for the infinitely spawning tanks unless there was a serious reevaluation on how games are played.
TBH I wish they started with APCs and light vehicles instead of immediately flooding the game with Tigers and T34-85s. Kind of unavoidable since the playerbase was frothing at the mouth for heavy late-war tanks.
This all circles back to the fact that the game’s progression is very linear and things get outmoded very quickly. The Panzer 2 in Moscow is permanently shelved as soon as you unlock something else. The 45mm rips you to shreds and you can barely fight other tanks.
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Correct. Any tank would simply shred them. Now if it was reworked where we started with support vehicles and ended at medium tanks in the higher levels making them rare it would work alot better. We also wouldnt have this crazy power creep and need some fake tanks like whatever will be cooked up for Normandy
It would also make lighter AT weapons like AT rifles and bazookas fit much more
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Nice stuff and all that…
Good luck using them on the majority of the maps though.
Yeah there’s way too many maps where you start taking fire soon as you leave spawn (sometimes when you are still in your spawn) which leaves no time for halftracks and stuff like that a concievable way to go hide in another part of the map. That and maps are just too small for manuevering.
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Would also stop the ever increasing arms race of heavier and heavier tanks as we would have essentially solid historical match ups and they would be increasingly rare to encounter. Would also give a good reason to ditch det packs from everyone
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I honestly thought they would give squads battle ratings like war thunder, that way STG44 wielding Germans would meet late war PPSH/SVT wielding soviets and so on.
As it is right now sometime’s I load into a match and I’ll take my jumbo out and only fight pumas, load into another match and it’s just panthers and my teammates only have stuarts
Detpacks should be reworked to not be amazingly effective as infantry. They’ve increased their price by switching them to silver but so many people already bought 90 billion of them. It’s once again a straight upgrade and not a sidegrade. :\
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Yeah its pretty poor at times when you fight clearly new players with bolt actions and light tanks. Its why I still avoid Normandy and go to Berlin where tanks are much more equal and also less prominent in cities
I think they wanted to appeal to the war thunder crowd way too much to get them on board with tanks
yeah at the very least in Berlin all the tanks can kill eachother. Fortunately or unfortunately the Tiger was already confirmed for Normandy so the disparity between new players and veterans will get even larger.
I’ve suggested adding alternate ammunition to early campaign tanks to keep them relevant or allow them to strap an ammunition box on the back they can drop.
And some either fake tank or another shit TD for the allies…I’ll just keep avoiding it then
Not only that but could also stop the implentation of weird and unhistorical stuff.
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Exactly. We need fancy crazy AT weapons because of the ever rising armor
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I’m hoping it’s just the M18 Hellcat but who knows it will probably be the M36 Slugger or a super Pershing.
Frankly the way this game is organized is kinda weird. ngl. Definitely not how I would have approached it.
I don’t mind seeing prototypes and stuff like that as gold order weapons so they are very rare on the battlefield, I don’t care for mass fielding of rare weapons though.
Until then we can’t afford to make any changes to the detpack. The only AT weapon that works well. other than that would be the panzerfaust. I’ve heard the bazooka is lack luster (haven’t unlocked it yet)
Unfortunately by level 40+ they will essentially have to for one side or the other to make things “fair”. waiting for some prototype Russian StG thing soon or even worse captured weapons
The bazooka is…meh. Great against Pumas and if we have light vehicles which is what they were used for. Against panzers? Not the greatest
Iiir the M18 is already in the files and a Jumbo with a 76mm cannon. The Germans are going to get a Panzerjäger IV according to the news. 76mm Jumbo is going to be a Premium placebo I guess. Edit: The Germans also get early StG for some reason.
I m always thinking about them.
Then yesterday I had a hardcore lone fighters game where I was inside the tiger and some players where spawning small Moscow soviet tanks against me.
Resulted in 21 or so tank kills and I thought about apcs instd of them.
Would be cool, sure, but probably too late for them to have a place with the current armor in-game on all campaigns…
Mechanized infantry can work. Just like anything else they can find their purpose in the game. It will not be to fight tanks (though I do know that some of Germany’s halftracks, did in fact have PaK guns mounted on them).
MI, and Halftracks for example, are there to move and protect a squad of infantry from small arms fire. Of which, they would be a perfect fit into this game. Take your Sd Kfz 251 for example.
Give it a squad of 9 Troopers and a frontally mounted MG. Now say you have a building on a flank or such that you just can’t seem to get close too because of all the small arms fire and snipers. You take your trusty Halftrack with its squad of troops, and blaze across the corridors and dump them right at their doorstep. Now you can assault that point without losing half or all your squad along the way. Or get in behind their lines FAST and disrupt the reinfocement paths of their troops.
They obviously won’t be invulnerable. AT Rifles will have a new Target, AT Gunners themselves can put them down along with anything else bigger than rifle round.
But much like anything else, they can find there place much better than the Motorcycle squads can (it was a good idea, but just didn’t work in this game). I’ve shot and killed so many people off those motorcycles with just regular arms, that they are pointless for how small the squads are.
Tanks will Delete things no matter what it is. Another Tank, Infantry in or out of buildings. There is no additional risk, if anything it will reduce it a bit by being able to move at a much higher rate of speed.
And they can keep it spawn protected (just like tanks are being made) and safe by having multiple spawn points (just like tanks are getting).
I think they can work. Mechanized infantry could be a thing in this game if they do it correctly. Again, way better than motorcycles.
(Also, can you imagine if they did and didn’t fix the grey zone) Suicide rush a tank with 9 guys armed with Det Packs. Poof. You’re gone.
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20mm would shred a halftrack.
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Which is perfectly fine. It is why I stated ‘small arms’.
The 2cm FLAK is NOT a small arm by any stretch of the imagination, and it rightfully should turn it into a burning pile of something.
But that works because that is how this game works. Move and counter move.