Put simply I have ammo problems when it comes to tanks and engineer guns, people have ammo shortages for just about everything but this in particular bothers me for two reasons:
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Ammo for these weapons can only be replenished at vehicle ammo stores, which arent available on advancing maps and which you cant exactly move an AT or AA gun over to without rebuilding it completely.
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You cannot change from AT to HE rounds without expending the ammunition already loaded, this wastes already the already minimal supply of ammo, and can also surrender the element of suprise for no particular reason
To solve this im going to propose a few things:
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Pressing R in a vehicle should automatically reload to the other type instead of queuing it for the next reload (alternatively make it so it only does this when you hold R as a separate command)
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Engineers can reload weapon emplacements by interacting with the gun and investing resources into it (3 resource to fully restock, 1.5 to restock from half 0.5 to restock from 5/6 etc. rounded up to the nearest 0.5) This avoids the creation and abuse of infinite HE spewing AT guns or whatever while still solving the supply issue.
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Add supply depots for tanks to the advance game mode, alternatively let engineers build them, or let engineers resupply tanks in the same way as the suggestion above (last one is unrecommended because it requires an engineer who is aware of the tanks lack of ammo and also willing to actually help)
Nothing is more frustrating than living a good life, then running out of juice and being resigned to say I guess ill die, I will always choose the ability to keep fighting over suiciding to get it over with but in a tank you cant exactly pick up another cannon and push on.
