Not a problem compared to lame censorship after 80 years. Those censored swastikas, censored squad names, other censored stuff is way more disturbing than volkssturm (who isn’t child nor elderly) having FG-42.
It’s so hilarious that 80 yo symbols are censured, yet things like Zs are spammed constantly on vehicles.
I agree but I guess we can’t really do anything with this. Devs were quite clear in that matter.
That’s why I don’t care about equipment problem neither, at least we have more options to choose from.
And that’s why I care.
We can’t have symbols so at least try to save the rest of the ww2 atmosphere.
I mean full elimination of BS is basically impossible.
That would mean removing a dozen of weapons (incl. premiums) that people have already grinded/paid for.
Volkssturm with FG-42 is kind of inevitable now because we have FG-42 in Berlin and we have Volkssturm in Berlin (unless they become a separate soldier class or something).
The problem is also that with every new update the devs seem to be adding more and more BS:
*MKB 42, Pz IV F2 and “early” (fantasy) MG-42 in Moscow
*Overbuffed Fedorov, RPD and AS in Berlin
But in fact some other BSs can actually be fixed with the Merge:
*make Stalingrad BR ceiling end before MKB and AVT
*make Moscow (if it stays Moscow) can have BR ceiling before PPSh, T-34, Pz IV F2, etc.
*potentially make D Day BR ceiling with M4 Shermans and Pz IVs but newer maps like Ardennes can have BR cap and Jumbo vs Panther or smth.
You get apache in moscow and you like it
This is a clever rhetorical trick. I don’t argue against everything in this forum. I support most of it. There are just a lot of people asking for things that no sane game developer would do. Things that don’t exist in any other game, for good reason. When you confront them with the established facts of the industry they hand wave the problem away as if it is insignificant. Yet it is a problem nobody in the industry has solved.
It’s almost like they are trying to keep both sides competitive or something. How dare they.
As far as answering the topic itself, players can gain experience by requesting custom battles, which is an existing function in itself. Extending this to mod combat is just implementable request.
If you as a developer are worried about players cheating and gaining a lot of experience through this method, you only need to add restrictions, such as time limits
Players can only earn up to 5000XP for 1 hour of play, which is just a very low rate, even with custom games, players are still playing a part of the game, I don’t understand why you want to exclude this part of the player.
It’s really weird if you’re a dev and you’re ostracizing or driving away players who like custom battles. Every one of us knows that there is one issue or another in random matchmaking where players leave the fight as deserters, and it would be a great thing for the dev team and the game itself if they could enjoy the game in their favorite custom mods.
It all depends on the details of the design.
I really don’t see the validity of any of the reasons you describe, it’s just plain worthless rebuttal. You’re simply saying I don’t like this, but I see no reason why you wouldn’t.
Unless you completely misunderstand what I mean. I never asked for any farm experience
Even this statement of yours is a pale fiction, you won’t have a hard time finding examples, I won’t list his competitors here
So what exactly are you up against? You don’t allow players to play their favorite custom games? And set limits for this?
You might as well suggest to permanently remove custom games from this game, so that all players can have happy random matchmaking battles with you. Perhaps they will play deserters. Then you will punish these deserters. And maybe the player can be still here.
Of course I am very worried that you will misunderstand my original statement due to the error of the translation language. But I checked many times and he should mean the right thing.
There was almost nothing wrong with balance for all sides 2 years ago before all the BS additions.
All they had to do was -follow the damn train CJ- balance the weapon stats where needed.
So it was still in Africa, keep your weird east-west jerk sesh to yourself. You said mg42 and tiger would screw Tunisia, they were there, what’s your issue again?
Everytime I did play with tiger in custom matches on tunisia map, it felt right, and fun.
Desert tiger is the best tiger 
There aren’t any. That’s the thing. Nobody does a player selected “historical” or any other mechanic to alter for a longer queue time.
Nobody allows custom games to substantively contribute to the grind.
Both of these ideas are absolutely terrible for a free to play pvp shooter.
People can want to play whatever they want. But no sane company practices bad business. If you want a game that is more “historical” go play Hell let loose (with all 100 other people who play that)
If you want a game that provides custom matches to cheese the grind… well I don’t know of any.
Tiger I didn’t debut in Africa.
What??? Quote me.
What’s your issue with 2 fake claims out of 2?
I would rather not get bogged down in such a minor thing.
The statement was in a reply addressed to me, so I naturally assumed that it was addressed to me. So unless you were just talking to a wall, that statement doesn’t make any sense.
I also made my stance on both the Tiger II and Moroccan March clear prior to that response, so there’s no reason to bring it up again.
I agree. The M2 carbine and FG42 are fine to be in the game for me, they’re WW2 weapons, just not in the numbers that they appear in game. It’s ridiculous and seriously takes a level of immersion away.
I don’t like having the Jumbo at Normandy, but it’s somewhat necessary now to help mid tier players compete against all the Tiger spam. If they just got a normal Sherman variant, they would no doubt get slaughtered.
Which maybe that’s the thing. I could care less about adding Tiger IIs in Stalingrad, because there’s already so many laughable situations like that already.
“Suffering” is a very loose term here. You might get in Stalingrad with a Tiger II, you might not. Again, the chances of that happening could be quite low, so low that it doesn’t even matter at that point. I wouldn’t call having to quit 1 out of 20 matches “suffering”.
That’s the thing. There’s already so much BS in the game that it just doesn’t matter to me. It just doesn’t. As long as it doesn’t devolve into complete chaos, like Soviets at Normandy and Americans with M16s and Patton tanks.
As long as everything featured in the game is WW2 era or prior, and is balanced in the context of where it is placed, I don’t really care. I can look the other way in the rare event a Tiger II rolls into Stalingrad. It’s just not different in my mind to any other anachronistic equipment already in the game.
At the end of the day, if dealing with more minor inaccuracies means we get full and balanced matches, I can live with it.
Also, most importantly, none of this is set in stone. They could make changes in the future, but because this game is in a fragile state right now, there’s bigger issues they need to fix first.
No, but it was there. In small numbers yes, and were more often felled by mechanical issues than actual combat.
Tiger 131, the worlds last operational Tiger I, was captured by British forces in Tunisia.
What will happen with a weapons like MP 3008 or Kar98k kriegsmodell ?
These weapons cannot have low BR because then they will occur in the same battle with PPD-34 or Mosin M91 Dragoon (early war weapons).
But they also cannot have high BR because no one will use them, if he has Gewehr 43 or FG 42.
Does this mean that these weapons will diseapper from the game ?
I think that these weapons should have high BR but a low cost to purchase.
Like - a player unlocks Gewehr 43 and Kar98k kriegsmodell at the same time, but the Gewehr 43 costs 10 silver, but the Kriegsmodell - only 1 silver.
You may check some of my suggestions in earlier post under this thread. My general concept is it may not worth to break either immersion or balancing, by keeping just a few “rare exceptions of year-power relation” in the same BR-year-power system like other weapons, so they may be removed from main techtree and only appear in custom games, or for free pick-up like Japanese impact mines on late war maps, or unlock for free after researched certain late war weapons and buy for low price.
They will be low BR, but will increase your chances of getting in a low BR Berlin game because of the soft rule.
They can still appear in early war maps, it’s just less likely.
I like your ideas but a Tiger III might be a bit too much for your average joe.
Tanks that did exist such as IS-3 and E-100 should be implemented if a 1946 campaign was ever considered however I would rather see a Ahistorical German invasion of Britain and Japanese landings in California still set in 1944.
Is it realistic? absolutely not, but would be cool.
hell yeah.