This is just a hypothetical thought, I want to see what others think
The Panzerfaust was a single shot, single use AT weapon. One and done. In game we have a handful of them on our AT soldiers. I think it would be interesting if instead the Panzerfaust truly was a single shot and use weapon. We only get one.
It makes sense to have multiple “rounds” for other AT weapons. You wouldn’t carry just one single Bazooka or Panzerschreck rocket. If they added in the Goliath tracked mine they probably wouldn’t give you 5 of them, most likely you can only have one.
Having just one shot would make us have to make our shot count, instead of just bombarding the enemy haphazardly. It’s both immersive and adds a layer of skill
What if every soldier can equip a single-use panzerfaust into their secondary weapon slot instead.
This almost seems balanced to me, because you’d tradeoff your backbag and other secondary weapon options.
I hear your argument, but it goes without saying; the Panzerfaust has higher damage and range potential. TNT is good for making traps or sneaking up on tanks. They both have their respective roles
It is “reloadable” if you replace the warhead.
In reality this was rarely done because the tube was not designed for prolonged use so it became more and more unstable after each shot.
“Spare” warheads weren’t provided either, but its not immersion breaking, it would be worse if AT guy pulled out 5 panzerfausts from his pants.
The way this was done IRL/historically would have been to have a few men in the squad carrying one each, or maybe one man with a bundle of them, even if only one man in the squad was pretty good with them (though I don’t believe it’s the sort of weapon - or saw use in the sort of scenarios - where a man survived to become a serial/frequent user of them).
Presently, the game provides no mechanism for looting anything other than the primary weapon (often with a reduced ammunition supply) from one’s fallen squadmates, so while it is in fact somewhat goofy to have one AT Gunner carrying several of them, it’s the closest compromise to “reality” we have.
I think it makes sense on a historical level, limit each AT trooper to 1 or at most 2 tubes. The PzScheck assistant had a rack of 3, and I think the US developed a similar 3 round carry case for their bazookas.
However, all this is made irrelevant by the inexhaustible supply of detpacks, TNT and AT mines which can be equipped and spammed form any soldier.
The devs should have made a decision here make a dedicated AT soldier or just issue any soldier with spammable Inf AT weapons.
Right now we have both, so the fact that that a PzF gets 4 shots is ultimately neither here nor there. It’s all swallowed up in the spam filter.
Used to be able to equip panzerfaust as a secondary weapon. Now the lousy pay-to-play cunts at gaijin removed that. Fuck them and the bullshit “update.”
