I strongly urge the developers to reduce the reload time of the Soviet AVS-36 rifle. This weapon is severely handicapped by its 15-round magazine capacity while facing German rifles with 20-round magazines.
Although the AVS-36 received a rate of fire increase, this has only magnified its core weakness: poor sustained combat effectiveness. This mirrors why German players consistently prefer the FG42 II (20 rounds, slower RoF) over the faster-firing FG42 I. Crucially, the AVS-36 carries 5 fewer rounds than even the FG42 II, making its ammunition deficit even more punishing.
If Soviet forces aren’t meant to have access to a competitive 20-round magazine rifle, then significantly improving the AVS-36’s reload speed is essential to offset this disadvantage. This follows a fundamental balance principle: Rifles with larger magazines should reload slower, while those with smaller magazines should reload faster. Isn’t this perfectly reasonable?
As for the AVT-40, it likely won’t solve the core issue either – it significantly underperforms compared to the FG42 II, meaning players probably won’t favor it regardless.
Why reduce reload time specifically of AVS instead of AVT?
You have two guns that were very very similar - now one simply shoots faster.
I think you people being upset about this change is ridiculous since AVT didn’t change.
However, all those criticism from me aside, if AVT and AVS reloaded faster / or if FGs and T20 reloaded slower, the 15 round mags would indeed feel less of a problem.
That being said - you should not forget that you already have a 25 rounder select fire rifle with the Fedorov.
Okay, but why not reduce its rof to 400 or 500 to make it unique? FG krieghoff is completely okay with similar rof on BR5
Why everything needs to follow the same boring pattern. Why everything needs to be tailored for minmaxers?
880rof is still within an acceptable range, just like FG422, people who prefer low rof will choose AVT. Of course, their loading time should be slightly lower than FG42.
Their loading speed should be 3/4 of FG422, which is 2 seconds.
There is no doubt that the ussr needs a good gun that can compete with the 422 between 30m and 40m. Even losing its edge on assault rifles and other things
Some people exaggerate ussr’s advantage in infantry and ignore its disadvantage in aircraft and armored vehicles. And brazenly call it historic, but never thought they would benefit the most from non-historical content. ussr can lose Federoff, can lose flak jacket, can lose lad, Can lose the so-called best assault rifle and the rd 44, But can not tolerate time and time again in the full-power all-automatic rifle palliative of the poor behavior.
The Soviet Union has the worst automatic rifle (only a 15‑round magazine, the second‑slowest reload speed, and random recoil), the tank with the longest reload time (two to three times slower than other nations’ tanks, armor that can’t stop a Tier 4 Panther, and it doesn’t convey the blast radius of large‑caliber shells), and the worst jet. As for assault rifles, you can carry at most four, and your squad is only seven men, whereas other countries’ rifle squads field nine. If the devs don’t want to include the Soviets, they can simply remove them—after all, this is a game where a Tiger II can show up in Moscow, so swapping Soviets for Americans defending Moscow shouldn’t be an issue either.
Wasn’t this also a HA reasoning?
Look at modern firearms, there are alot of 7.62x51 Nato rifles, but they all have a very similar rate of fire,
600 - 700 rpm for a full power rifle cartridge is very normal, now this doesn’t really apply to WW2 but reasoning that those weapons all “neeed” to feel super differently is demanding quite alot.
As far as I know, there was no reasoning for it.
In reality, you won’t encounter as many AI soldiers as in the game at the same time, which is why you need a higher ROF in the game.
Real soldiers cherish their lives, not like we do in games.
According to leak they will get 20 round AVT in future. So no point in worrying about small mag size. Soon you will have total Soviet domination of every single weapon type. Better grind your silver while you still can.
Soviets are nation of min maxers. Imagine Germany but everything is +10-20% better, that’s the Soviets, with very few exceptions that are quickly disappearing so they could achieve ultimate bias.