Current model for ‘PPD 34’ could just be used for something like this as a new gun.
Then ancient ‘PPD 34/38 box magazine’ could be once again used for current 920 RPM gun.
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Always felt like such a waste to simply replace largely fine model.
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Exactly, if models are in game and haven’t been assigned to TT, event or premium they should put them in the live game. It would be easy to implement this in game.
I’m against it. Stop adding duplicates to the tech tree—there’s already plenty of weapons migrating from faction to faction. I’ll go even further: we need to replace duplicates with analogues that aren’t in the game yet.
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Definitely agree, it’s stupid to see the german rocket launchers in thw u.s and Japanese tt. However I don’t know what to replace the panzerfaust for thw u.s.s r
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Domestic AT alternatives, even if prototype (and potentially early post-war, as much as I hate it, that would be the case with the M20 bazooka using post-war rockets,) is preferable to every faction running around with German AT weapons…
The Soviet Panzerfaust stopped being sort-of reasonable when they added the Manchuria campaign… now they no longer just face Germany, and so captured fausts in the far east is ridiculous…
US and Japanese Ofenrohrs have been ridiculous from the start.
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A RPG-1 could definately replace the BR III Panzerfaust 60. Roughly the same basic performance.
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I don’t know, but it’s better then nothing I guess
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I would even prefer domestic anti-tank weapons with historically inaccurate, artificially increased penetration over Japanese running with Ofenrohr on Guadalcanal maps
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You know, normally I wouldn’t be for it, but this is one instance where… bending reality is, preferable… just, a second version where the rocket just has 100mm more pen (or whatever)…
Though, in the case of Japan, I’ve heard tell tale of a 90mm prototype launcher… at minimum, that’s a BR III launcher, or even a Ofenrohr repalcement.
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I’ve made my point on it many times, I’m fine with paper guns that had designs physically manufactured and tested even if it never made it to the field in Mass. Preferably in situations where it was live field tested successfully and then pushed into mass production. To me that’s better than mass copy paste.
Post war related rant with solutions
If you’re looking for launchers for the Soviets, RPG-2 would be a good pick if we were allowed a little bit more with post war. If anything, they’ve already broken that logic because they’ve added a Soviet jet that never existed during that time so I don’t see a reason why they couldn’t just replace the Panzerfaust 100 with an rpg-2 and adjust the stats accordingly even if it’s 10-25% more then historically accurate. Historically, it was 82 mm launcher that could penetrate roughly 150-180 mm armor that was rolled homogeneous. Assuming that it was at its maximum 180, then giving it another 40 mm (within 10-25% as 20% gives you 36) would equal the faust 100.
Only issue was creation was 47-49.
So you’d have to take your pick there. It works, but are we really willing to push historical accuracy that far? I personally would stop right before we would get the AK. Because an AK-47 in my opinion is a step too far, that also goes for some of their other weapons like the AT-44 but here we are.
RPG-2 (BR IV)
Even if we didn’t decide to completely remove German weaponry from the Soviet TT, I would provide another option (Also stated above) and we’d have to do some big stat tweaking to turn a br3 into a br4.
LPG-44 (BRIII/IV)
Developed as a analog to the RPG-1, after September 1945. Armor pen was at 150mm at up to 100m. During trials it had a type A and a Type B that were tested and this was the final result. Following the trials and the months of wait on production this was slightly redesigned on the size and a few trial related fixes that were requested to be fixed for production and the final name becoming the RPG-1 and in 1946 began mass production.
This was the best shot we had to replace the faust 60 as it’s not brokenly OP and would function similar with some less range in exchange for flatter shots up to 100m. That’s why I thought of BR III.
That’s why I mentioned the PPD-31, it’s NOT copy paste faction to faction. Something original to the faction who uses it, and a decent choice if you don’t want them using 70+ round drum mag event weapons or premiums (if that ever happened for BR I/II I’m done, already to much bias). Aside from that it has actual samples created and used for trials and very limited production before the change to other PPD models. It’s limited run sure, but the devs have added similar and on a worse scale (some from the Japanese). It was used by training squads and rare occasions, making it fit for a BR I alternate.
As for the M50, would be a good event weapon but shouldn’t be TT or premium. To many items have already been swapped over after the first 2 or 3 of those it got old. I can see things like that as event guns so it’s very limited until the repeated chances to obtain it in larger numbers are available years later. This keeps factions feeling more fresh and not overextending into others to literally steal the best equipment on a mass scale.
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hoho
Wow! It’s really something to see this weapon. It’s indeed a design derived from the Panzerfaust.
However, a lot of people criticize it for not being a genuine World War II weapon and insist it shouldn’t be added to the game.
What a shame. I was really hoping we could get a super Bazooka to replace the standard one.
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Supposedly the system was largely completed already in 1944, so I don’t see the criticism from those people…
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1944 and 1945 were truly sorrowful years. If Germany hadn’t collapsed so early back then, it wouldn’t have been so agonizing having Hitler meddle in everything with his reckless decisions. His blunders forced the Soviets and Americans to launch their offensives far ahead of schedule.
If Hitler had died from his drug treatment midway, leaving capable commanders to take charge of the defense without pointless meddling from above, letting Germany’s top generals conduct defensive operations freely — I believe Germany could have dragged the war out until 1946 or 1947, definitely without ever being hit by nuclear bombs.
By then, Britain’s Centurion and the Soviet IS‑3 would have every logical reason to make their appearance. We might even get new maps featuring Germany’s Alpine defensive line, plus the debut of vehicles like the Maus, E100, and Tiger heavy artillery variants.
The game would have so much more new content to offer as a result.
RPG-1 could replace the Panzerfaust on BR3, but would still be inadequate for BR4.
But the real issue is that Panzerfaust is already widespread on Soviet BR3 and it would be a little late to remove it, due to the massive amount of players that already own the weapon and most people would keep using it because it would still be superior to RPG-1.
Only the people who are yet to unlock the panzerfaust would use the RPG-1.
Even if we did remove Panzerfaust from Soviet tech tree, adding the RPG would be a lot of work just to add a weapon that people would complain about, since no one likes FOMO stuff…
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Radical idea…
Every instance of Soviet Panzerfaust 60 is replaced with a RPG-1, including in the tecb tree.
But,
Event Panzerfaust 60s for Soviets appear with the launch of the update…?
not radical, just Gaijin doesnt have the balls to do something like that.
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I don’t think they got the balls to do anything except begging of cash.