I just notice all of our soldiers in the Imperial army are private first class
We should have system where the insignia on the soldiers uniform reflects their level so all of your soldiers if fully upgrade can reach the rank of Sergeant which would mean one extra star because currently with only 5 stars your troops can only achieve the rank of corporal.
Also need that for soviets too:
Or perhaps their level is reflected by their placement in the squad? i.e. the first soldier in the squad is a higher rank than the others?
This makes more sense than an army of sergants.
i would personally like something that is being asked here. problem is, consistencies. or rather, inconsistencies. and the huge work that it requires.
devs partially tried to address this, or open the possibilities for the future.
for example, on the soviets models, the rank over the shoulder have different textures. meaning that you can add new ranks as textures for those pieces:
both for the GE & US patches system were created.
allowing squad insignias and ranks appear on their tunics:
but, they discontinued such system for unknown reasons.
the problem however, comes with japan and italy. or technically, also UK.
their tunics / torso do not have separated ranks or patches system.
meaning that, you’d actually have to edit the textures of the whole outfit.
which means, having to create 4 textures for each rank.
aka change the texture _N*, texture _D*, Cmask* and _ao*
just for one rank.
it can be sort of time consuming for something that they haven’t really considered.
next problem is, you’d have to make the cosmetic system even more complex.
because you’d have to keep in mind the soldier rank across 200+ squads.
so that they can wear specific items
which, they didn’t do for medical equipment.
no medics can wear medic helmet or tunic outside the base squads. because cosmetics are squad based.
so, if anything, and if we’re lucky, we’ll be the ones deciding who wears what.
and it will results in players running with all staff sargs on a squads.
just like the volkssturm outfit.
where everyone is a squad leader ( lol )
Can any Helper actually answer why this was removed? Talk about a downgrade for no reason
unfortunately, about that, they know just as much as we do.
it really is…
if i have to guess or rather, speculate/overthink it, on why they removed it, it could be because;
( list of possible reasons and nitpicks )
not all squad icons were ready, ( only a handful were available ) and i believe they thought it would have been weird being able to buy 82nd airborne patches for the ( as an example, ) the 29th squad.
or viceversa. and/or, generally being able to mix them together ( having a squad that looks completely different. which was a concern that they had when they first announced the customization back in june 2022. of having a band of mercenary and what not )
waiting for consolidate the customization and expand such idea to include more icons, or apply different ranks and what not
LOD Issues
if you remember, the tanker used to have the patch uniform
lock them behind premium
again, speculation, but based on the promotional material of the premium US paratrooper squad, they were supposed to have these uniforms with patches:
harmonization issues
harmonization continues to be an issue, because to this day, not many historical skins for vehicle gets introduced after that " panther " RO2 fiasco. they haven’t found a way to censor certain symbles on skins for the two versions / when the option is enabled.
they had to physically change the whole skin and make it fictionalized for both versions.
and ideally, having soldiers with the V of the SS would have been controversial for some snowflakes countries. but whatever.
and last but not least:
unless someone from the dev team will look and decide to answer, it will be unknown.
It could also automatically assign a rank structure to the whole squad kinda like how tank crews are set up in game.
