Well to be honest outside the p40, hurricane and panzerfaust, soviet haven’t other faction stuff in their TT, Winchester rifle doesn’t count because was made exclusively for the russian, most of their have everything come from event and premium stuff, who f2p cant get currently
But if you mean similiar gun in performance with German then is true for everyone else
Im actually talking about the performance of said equipments.
I honestly dont buy that argument that most people would play faction X just for the looks of the guns.
I promise you, people play murica for the experience of getting to use the m1 garand, m1 carbine, tommy gun, etc. We want our iconic guns. Just like people want to play germany for their iconic guns. Stg, fg42, kar98. German mains are always so greedy. Wanting russia’s most iconic guns ontop of their own.
You should, most people just play for unlock shiny gun with new skin of the X faction not min maxing, you know casual player or people who want just shut off the brain a bit
Pre-merge the moscow campaign with GE’s most iconic Mp40’s Kar98’s and my all time favourite beretta meme 20mag vs ppsh was pretty much just a bot farm for soviets.
Berlin, where GE had its best equipment had more than plenty of GE players.
Iconic STG44 GE being the only faction that ever actually wielded assault rifles.
What did soviets get ? AK-47 because ofc GE cant have something unique that soviets doesnt have.
Sounds bit odd as if I recall the reason for merge was scattered player population.
Moscow being prime example that had no lack of soviets but insane lack of GE players.
And berlin being the opposite, no lack of GE players but lack of sovjets.
So now you’re being a hypocrite?
As44 was real. End of story
Yes and because?
Because all campaigns shared the same stuff and people just sticked with the one they stomped, this doesn’t matter with our discussion or the topic in general… I guess is better stop it now
Tell me about it.
You can bitch and moan about KT2 all day long if you want.
But what comes to infantry weapons not a single even remotely regular humanbeing could argue that soviets had the short end of the stick what comes to infantry weapons.
With that logic people would have sticked to moscow as GE, since it was the one of the first campaigns if not the first one.
So im still pretty sure the GE’s shift towards to berlin was more due to better equipment.
Idk. So far, the sole factions that can get more are the Soviets and at best Germany in terms of Croatian PPSh mod.
This topic is nothing but communism
I couldn’t word it better. 
Because Soviets get everything and filthy capitalist dogs and facists not?
Yet they weren’t, just like panzerfausts and M1A1 Bazookas.
i dont like the idea of captured wepons
it removes the identity of the faction.
What identity ?
If the game was “ass-ymmetrically” balanced as people argued back during campaigns.
Then sure, it would be odd that soviets that were known to wield tons of SMG’s aka theyr “identity” would be compromised.
But as germuts “identity” is advanced & innovative weapons such as faust, Mg42, STG44 and so on.
And for each one of those soviets has counter weapon that no one has ever even heard of or just faust when devs are lazy.
So its bit weird that one can have everything but the other cant due to identity crisis.
the identity still left 
if i want to play with mg42 i play germans
not americans or soviet cause “captured weapons”.
For who ?
If I want to advanced innovative weapons such as assault rifle I can choose soviets over germans ?
Or faust.
Another “iconic” innovative gun of ww2 that is surpassed by guns of soviets that no one has ever even heard of.
oh cmon
it only needs a belt with 250 rounds.
and no gun will be a match for that beast.
And does it have one ?
Faction, known for squads being build around MG.
Yet being the faction that currently has worst MG’s some identity there.
it will i hope.
as i hope to have the m1903A3 Springfield for rifleman.
I thought we wanted to give factions MORE uniqueness and character, instead of making them have the same gear…