Replica of Capt. Georgii Dmitrievich Kostylev’s La-5 of the 4th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment, White 15 that served in Leningrad 1943, at the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Moscow, 2005.
Giving a weapon to an event squad does not degrade the weapon. Event and premium squads allow you to have up to five SMGs, which is more than is allowed on normal squads. If you are referring to degrading the weapon by associating it with a specific squad then I would also disagree. Having a Polish squad would be welcomed as they are currently unrepresented in the game, and they have fought with good intent.
Originally named the “Patchett Machine Carbine” after the designer until the L2A2 variant when it was renamed to the “Sterling” after the manufacturer.
They do degrade them
For example recent event squads do have extremely shtty perk point. You can take neither sprint speed nor vitality perk because of 15/15/28 which is just terrible.
And since you can’t unequip them, they’re degrading theirs performance.
This is lie.
Medics can use up to 5 smgs, and so can some assaulters squad which possess option to pick medic instead of one engineer.
But it’s true, that nearly all GO weapons are limited to only 4.
I still think that weapons that are locked behind event/premium squads are pretty sad. You can’t jusr experiment them. And if you want to use this weapon, you are always one squad slot minus. Meanwhile you can use several different weapons in non event squads.
There are more negatives about event squads than positives.
IIRC that is typically the case for paratrooper squads in an attempt to balance them. Which is an approach I disagree with. So, fair point.
Medics have their own downsides, such as that they cannot carry ammo pouches. And I’d take an engineer over a medic any day.
I don’t think it would be fun to get everything for free; the game has to be monetized and there has to be an incentive to play. There are already loads of weapons available in the TT that you can play around with. Event squads are destined to be recycled if not transferrable in a future market system. Also, event squads are more accessible than filling a squad with gold order weapons for F2P players.
I don’t see this to be an issue. I happen to like weapon homogeneity in my squads.
To be precise, I would like for premium and event squads to be formatted like the “Silent Hunter” reward squads. Where you can equip the AT gunner with an AT weapon of choice.