Nation specific mechanics for MG nests

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Overheating should depend on the gun

  • USSR - water cooled maxim: the slowest to overheat but also the slowest to cool down

  • Germany - MG34: the fastest to overheat but also the fastest to cool down

  • USA - M1919: medium overheat and medium cooling

If devs have enough time, it would be cool (hehe) to add:

  • a barrel change animation for MG34 when cooling down
  • a jet of steam from the waterjacket of maxim when overheated

A separate but related idea:

MG34 should have better (smaller) dispersion and recoil than maxim and M1919, for the first 5-10 rounds in a burst. After that, it’s recoil and dispersion should be worse (bigger) than maxim’s and M1919’s.
This is inspired by how irl mount for MG34 works.

But I guess this is too radical imbalance to add it to the game. Especially concidering that currently all those guns behave almost exactly the same.
Still, would be cool.

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I cannot support this suggestion as it implies overheat shouldn’t be removed.

My opinion is that overheat should be removed or heavily reworked. Because currently there’s literally nothing interesting or fun about this mechanics.

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As long as MG nests have (basically) unlimited ammo and no need for reload, I don’t see why overheat should be removed.

And adding reload to MG nests is not the subject of this post.

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Naturally, this is the first thing that would be changed with removel of overheat.

I know, I just said the reason why I don’t like this suggestion.

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Actually I’ll make a separate post about overheating.
(Spoiler: you won’t like it.)

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I am not against overheat if it’s going to be meaningful and fun.

I said I don’t like your suggestion in context of current overheat.

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Yeah overheat is too severe in this game, you can’t empty entire mag without overheating 3 times (Panzerwerfer 42 i’m looking at you - you are in cooling period more than in shooting mode). You are extremely vulnerable to enemy fire since you are stationary and showing your chest and head to everyone you shouldn’t be punished with excessive overheat. Realistically stationary mgs shouldn’t overheat till you dump over 200 rounds at the enemies and then you could just change barrel and keep blasting.
It’s stupid how they added M2 Stinger and made all stationary MGs completely irrelevant, tank mgs, engineer mgs, pre-spawned mgs all are inferior to the brand new gun that you can take with you and set up a superior mg nest at any time without driving or building them. And if they try to flank you you can just stand up and spray their entire squad to death. Power creep is insanely bad in this game, they keep adding new stuff to the game and don’t think how it would affect the rest of the game.

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japs?

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I would assume slowest to overheat fastest to cool down

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I know too little about their guns to write anything meaningfull.

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could be a mix of 3 all…