Preferential BR placements for gold order guns

Gold order guns don’t really serve a purpose other than be unique collectibles.
But having a collectible is different from having a useful tool.

Before the merge, gold order guns were more suppletory in character. If you just started a fresh campaign, gold order guns were a way to access more powerful weapons that would otherwise not be available until the end of the campaign. After you unlock these more powerful guns, continuing to use gold order weapons would be a matter of preference instead of practicality. Mkb 42 (Ws), any of the drum-fed semi-automatic rifles, and so on.

On the other end of the spectrum, they may be completely unique to a faction and become a way to access a specific archetype of weapon that is otherwise unavailable to the faction as a whole. BAR-type weapons for the Japanese or German factions in the FN Model 1930, SMGs with LMG levels of magazine capacity like the LAD or Conders.

But with the consolidation of campaigns and introduction of the BR system, buying gold order weapons no longer fulfill the former niche, leaving gold order weapons as mere collectibles, with the occasional stand-out meta choice every couple of seasons. This is particularly worsened by the fact that gold weapon orders are, generally, quite rare, and at the present, redeeming a gold weapon order for one faction means the other 3 of the 4 playable factions don’t have one.

The leading question is-

Why would anyone willingly buy a gold order weapon that has an equivalent tech tree unlock?

My proposal is that gold order weapons with an equivalent or near-equivalent tech tree unlock should have lower BRs than their tech tree equivalents.

This excludes gold order weapons with a special property that is generally not found in a campaign’s unlocks. Things like the G43 Kurz, the Breda PG (CR) will retain their current BRs,

But weapons like the Erma 44 EMP, the VMP, the gold order PPDs, the Pedersen Rifle, and so on will have their BR reduced by one.

This expands the value of gold order weapons as lower-BR alternatives that are balanced by the inherent rarity of gold order weapons. At the quantities you can purchase, generally, you can only equip 1 squad worth of the same weaponry.

Committing to multiple squads for the same nation would require a substantially heavier investment, and are also limited by the variety of gold weapons available in the first place.

Make gold weapons worth the rarity.

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gold order weapons are good as collectibles
I don’t want to see more fantasy (or non-standard) weapons become OP

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Lol simply just P2W.
Easily abused by veteran whales to sneak good weapon to lower br.

I would rather have 3 queues instead of this unnecessary nonsense which would only complicate MM.

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*chant 3 queues, 3 queues, 3 queues

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How is it any different from current players who have been playing since launch playing at lower BRs with maxed gear, higher tier and level soldiers, meta squad comps from sealclubbing newcomers?

That’s… Why they’re only for weapons with a direct unlockable equivalent. They’ll still ultimately be limited by the number of gold weapons you are allowed to buy. I’ll repeat that there would also be a special where truly unique weapons retain their BRs precisely because they have a strong niche, like the aforementioned G43 or Breda PGs.

No one is going to bat an eye when a suppressed erma gets put in BR 2 next to MP 40s, nor the VMP being lowered to BR3 next to the Beretta M1. These guns have very similar stats.

As long as mp40 silenced is BR3, suppressed erma should be as well.
VMP should be BR3. I have no clue why is it BR4.

While I agree it should be in BR2 as well, that’s an event squad.

I’m also pretty much expecting it to go down considering the relative popularity of the thread to bring it down.

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But I believe this is more related to bad initial balancing by devs. I wouldn’t call it “preferential”. Erma is equivalent to MP40.

Between making a single topic for each gold order gun to bring their BRs down because there’s already a better campaign unlock at a lower BR or introducing a single topic with a more solid rationale with special consideration to their rarity, this was the obvious choice.

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Yeah lets let every br4 player to fight br1 player because there is no different. FFS there is a reason why br exist lol.