Tank destroyers are one of the least used types of vehicles in game for a number of reasons that typically make them inferior to normal tanks, and one of those was machine guns.TDs usually lack machine guns or only have them in a place they have limited firing arcs, which isn’t amazing but is better than nothing. In the latest update though, the ability to control the hull mounted machine gunner/s was removed from all tanks, which I think was a bad decision in general, and made a lot of tank destroyers even worse.
Players control the actions multiple crew members at once - we can drive the tank when playing as any crew member even when not the driver, and also fire the main gun when we are the commander, even leaning outside the hatch, and has been this way since the game came out. Yet now, hull machine guns only work when playing as the commander or machine gunner, which heavily reduces the usage of the machine gun, as both views have much lower zoom than the gunner which makes it harder to see far enemies, and is only a secondary weapon not worth switching to when you have a cannon avaliable.
Given that, I suggest that hull machine gunners are allowed to fire when in the gunner view of both tanks and tank destroyers. This will not majorly impact balance, since it’s mearly machine guns being affected.
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