Or is this just some design oversight, why is this still a thing
So.. is there a Reason the Dickermax Crew can't use their firearms to kill infantry around the tank?
Same reason why the M8 Scott doesn’t allow their crew to fire out from their open top turret, possible technical limitations or they simply haven’t gotten around to it. Honestly I think there should be a special hotkey for open air crew members to be able to fire at enemies from their positions just like how a commander can pull out his gun to fire upon enemies from the cupola.
Already in the game, the machine gunner of the attacking aircraft fires a machine gun. Also, a bug causes the tank crew to shoot the surrounding enemies from inside the tank with the guns they have.
So I think that the autonomous combat of the tank crew is a feature that can be fully implemented in the game system.
Perhaps the technical problem facing the developers is to maintain game balance while allowing the crew to fight autonomously.
Perhaps it becomes significantly more difficult to destroy tanks with packing bombs or TNT if crews are allowed to fire automatically.
Idk, but the same goes for M10. You can’t defend yourself and cant use binoculars.
IE lazy devs find cheap and simple solution instead of fixing it…