Find me one single person who whined about the Type 4 rifle being ahistoric prior to me bringing it up. Hell, I’ll do you one better, because I’ve found people whining that the Type Hei was less historic than the Type 4 and saying they should be swapped before the Type 4 was added, despite the opposite being true as noted here. Good God, what the hell is the weapon choice for the Pacific - Mess Room - Enlisted
There has also not been any word about how the Ke Ni, Ho I, Chi Nu and Na To never left the home island because for the sake of balance, those things are fine. There has also never been any word on the base M1918 BAR being ahistoric despite none of them ever seeing service in WW2, having been supplanted by later variants because that was balanced as well. I could keep going, but seeing as your only argument boils down to “Nuh Uh”, I think I’ll stop for my own sake.
Again, that is just you. More people would prefer faction-specific equipment even if it bent the rules of time a bit. Otherwise, you might as well just not have factions to begin with and let everyone have everything.
Sir, have you heard of the Marine Corp? I’m sure they had some leftovers by the time WWII kicked off. They ARE the least funded branch of the military and the ones who got the M1918 in the game
Because of budget limitations initial M1918A2 production consisted of conversions of older M1918 BARs (remaining in surplus) along with a limited number of M1922s and M1918A1s. After the outbreak of war, attempts to ramp up new M1918A2 production were stymied by the discovery that the World War I tooling used to produce the M1918 was either worn out or incompatible with modern production machinery
Looks like there were still some old M1918’s laying around at the outbreak of WWII. Sure, they were converted to A2’s, but they were still there. Good enough for Darkflow’s requirements
I am well aware of the Marine Corps, however they did not have M1918s, and they would have had M1918A1s at worse.
I see you pulled this quote off of Wikipedia, so let me clarify it for you. The 1918s were sent to be converted to 1918A2s, while the limited run of 1918A1s were used to fill the gaps in the US Arsenal. As a result, the Marines got the A1s at the start of the war, and the stock BARs were converted to A2s.
That was my point. the stock BAR meets DF’s requirements as well as the Federov however, it doesn’t have nearly as many complaints as the Federov. Why is that? Because it’s mostly balanced.
At BR 3, it’s matched against things like the the Type 96, Sig M1920, Beretta M1, MG 34 and Flamethrowers. Hell, the other two BAR variants are at the same BR for the same price and are also seen as mostly balanced, so it’s mostly overlooked.
Fair, just saying the A2 has superior stats to the stock BAR in every way. Also Type 96 is like a BAR but has more ammo per mag and a bayonet, at the cost of 10% less movement speed so give that a try as well.
Oh yeah I exclusively use the A2. Love the Slow Auto and it has better irons in my opinion. I just refer to them all as BAR’s. Also, praise Browning. Greatest firearm inventor to ever exist
Here are four links of people liking captured weapons to your one supposedly disliking it
For the record I don’t advocate for the addition of captured weapons but I can’t stand it when people use “most players” and “majorty of playerbase” to make their point as if they actually made a poll.
Especially with claims like apparently “most like time travelling weapons”
Again for the record: many men, many minds, but “most players”? There was no poll.
However, you are right to an extent, comparing anecdotes proves nothing and since now it’s actually a comparison due to you finally providing some, let’s try something else to get the point across. I have argued that no one cares about historical accuracy when it actually serves the sake of balance, so I’m going to give you a chance to disprove it. Find me any examples of anyone complaining about the lack of historical accuracy for any of the Japanese equipment I have previously listed. If you can find just one, I’ll concede this point.
And the reason they have it is their high teir AT weapon of soviet origin besides AT rifles sucked they got lend lease piats and M1 Bazookas they tested against their own prototype AT launcher weapons along with captured German AT weapons at the time and the Soviets found their AT weapons were sorely lacking even compared with the early Bazooka also the M20 is not equivalent to the Panzerfaoust but the Panzerschreck as that is what pushed the M20 development
Ok, here you go. These people were directly asking for the Chi Nu and Type 4 before they were added to Japan, and if directly asking for it is not endorsing it, nothing is.
Now you provide any evidence that literally anyone has complained about the historical accuracy of any of the Japanese weapons I have brought up. If you need a reminder, I’ll list them all again. Type 4 rifle, Type 4 rocket launcher, Type 5 rocket launcher, Ke Ni, Ho I, Chi Nu and Na To.
No, the M20 is a completely American initiative to be able to deal with the big cats, it took almost nothing from the Panzershrek because the American bazooka and the Panzershrek’s lineage split off at the M1. the M20 is an upscaled M9 which in turn is an upscaled M1A1 which was the American way of improving the M1, the same way the Ofenrohr was for the German.
Also, the point of what I said was that M20 is to the M9 what the Panzerfaust 100 is to the Panzerfaust 60, and that comparison wouldn’t work for the Panzershrek/Ofenrohr because A) We don’t have Panzershrek yet B) Panzershrek didn’t change much from the Ofenrohr other than ergonomics and saftey. Meanwhile both the M20 and Panzerfaust 100 are basically upscaled versions of their respective base launchers, so for this purpose, it makes more sense to compare these two than to use the Panzershrek/Ofenrohr.