So the hull machine gun kind of sucks, and I would prefer if the hull machine gun was controlled by your AI like on the US and Japanese premium APCs. As well, if you want to still controll the machine gun from your commander you can go to controls and turn it on or off.
like the apc ones, yes
I brought this up a few months ago, but I can’t remember if they said they’d take the suggestion. Every time I’m the tank commander, even if my view isn’t directly facing the front of the hull, the hull machine gun still fires whenever I shoot—completely wasting ammo.
Your suggestion should also be fully expanded: after enabling AI control, its priority should be set lower than that of the tank commander and the loader. That way, if the crew is down to three or four members, the third crewman can do something more meaningful.
this would either be useless or extremely annoying to go against… i don’t see how AI randomly firing at things is supposed to be A helpful or B fun to play against because it will also expose your position to planes
bots already shoot me through bushes… i really cannot imagine someone’s hull gunner randomly doing it.
and it doesn’t suck… you just font know how to use it… play with the front of your hull facing the enemy while using commander view… even using the top mounted mg you can have what 3? mgs firing at the same time? that is far from “sucking”
have you used the lvt or the other ones where they did this? If you did and had any sense you’d want to stay far away from that feature.
like the lvt? Where they randomly shoot at people and expose your position?
i’m currently sitting in one now in the middle of a few bushes and they are shooting constantly while getting kills through the obstructed view… this would not be healthy for the game.
Now to note they are actually firing their mgs AT A TANK.
I think you answered your own question here.
Its quite difficult to determine at what level the AI controlled MG would be useful enough to justify it occasionally revealing your position by firing MG at a TANK.
Either it would be total terminator murdering everything that moves or just revealing your position in most idiotic way.
Not worth it.
On my SPGs I would prefer to have control over my only MG, but on regular tanks with coax this would make sense.
Easy solution- the MG only starts firing when you did so aswell recently
I don’t care who controls the machine gun. What I care about is why the machine gunner seat takes priority over everything except the driver