Make MG nests also nation specyfic in mehcanics + other stuff

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  1. German MG:

    • It should overheat the fastest but also it should cool down the fastest by changing the barrel (that takes about 3-5s irl).
    • It should have almost no recoil for the first 5 or so rounds but much bigger recoil afterwards in comparison to other MGs.
    • Maybe give it a scope as if you fix model of the tripod, it’s firing arc will be very limited.

  2. US MG:

    • It should have medium overheat speed and cooling speed (by waiting).

  3. RUS MG:

    • It should overheat the slowest but should also cool down the slowest (animation of steam venting from the water jacket would be cool imo).
    • Now when the zoom is (finally) back, introducing the shield might be a good idea.

The other stuff:

  • Introduce ammo for MG nests. 5x200 should be a good start imo.
  • Make MG nests buildable as a separate building (withouth sandbags).
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    Instead make MG blueprints snap to sandbags, windows, bunker slits, etc. when we build them.
  • I almost forgot:
    Crew-served weapons
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Also for post 1942 german campaigns replace the mg34 with an mg42

I mean they did 2 different models for the maxim gun, one with the shield and one without it, I don’t see how it would be difficult to do such thing

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Yeah, I forgot about this one.

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I just want mg nests to have decent firing angles again… mg nests suffers from Russian tanks canon depression syndrome.

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I wish they change how stationary machine guns work like instead of an overheat system, what about just reload those guns like I really want to put a new belt and cock the Maxim that’s actually satisfying unlike waiting for the MG to cooldown.

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It’s impossible with tripods. They have very limited firing range irl so unless we want to make models to look ugly we have to leave it this way.
(German lafette has like 30 degree freedom of movement. Value eyeballed.)

But when/if bipods will be (FINALLY AFTER MORE THAN A YEAR) fixed, LMGs will behave more or less like MG did nests in the past.

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Imo we should have both overheat and ammo. No ammo is just stupid and overheating further helps to ballance MGs and most importantly, the barrel change animation would look cool.

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Well in Tunisia on the biker squad I can fire a 250 round belt from a Browning 1918A4 with zero overheating.

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Somehow I’m not surprised.

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we could have vickers for UK and no overheat :rofl:

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The Vickers K machine gun would have made more sense for those bikes.

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not vickers k. just vickers machine gun… with water cooling.