Hello! I’m taking a break from my usual vehicle rebalancing posts to bring forth an issue I’ve had since I first started playing back in like '21-'22 and it’s about a gun many people playing today may not even be aware of, the venerable VMP 1926
The issue here is as simple as the title of the post, the current drum capacity for the VMP seems to be wrong as it currently has 40rds but every source you can find online say that both it and the 1925 model had a 25rd capacity drum that was later changed for a 32rd stick mag as would become standard for the VMP/EMP/MP 38-40 line further on.
https://smallarmsreview.com/heinrich-vollmer-german-entrepreneur-inventor-submachine-gun-influencer/
That article was quite interesting, so I’m leaving the link to it in case anyone is curious about it haha
I’m also hardly the first person to make a post about this as you can see
https://forum.enlisted.net/t/vmp-1926-br-adjustment/155368
https://forum.enlisted.net/t/vmp-1926-forty-round-magazine-sources/32573
So here the request is simple, change the capacity for the drum to 25rds as it should historically (and quite frankly physically) should be and lower it’s BR accordingly, to either BR I or II.
- Change the drum capacity to the correct 25rds
- No, keep it as is (I hate accurate mag capacities)
And also, if yes
- Change VMP to BR I
- Change VMP to BR II
- Keep at BR III because I like pain
- I voted no before
And with that I say goodbye for today, please let me know what you think about my idea, and as always, thank you for reading!
an exhibit in some Russian museum
The information card says 32 rounds.
And here
A drum magazine for both 30 and 32 rounds is mentioned
This is probably where the characteristics for the game were taken.
It says here that there was a 25-round drum magazine
and structurally it was just a converted TM 08 magazine from an artillery Luger or mp 18 and that VMP model had a barrel casing, the 1926 no longer had a barrel casing and had its own drum magazine for 32 rounds.
I will not draw any conclusions except that different sources indicate different sizes of the drum magazine.
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Yeah haha people seem to be all over the place, best ones I could find were the ones I cited, but just by looking at it and the fact (that I was not aware previously, thanks for the new info) that it’s a cut down MP 18 mag makes it even more to my point that this is a sub-30rd capacity drum, so no other option than 25 imho, thanks for the valuable info my dude, really appreciate it!
Please inject 1800 gold into my account to make up for the fact that you have ruined my purchase… and then my vote is yes.
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Yeah because the vmp getting its mag changed is of such high priority to improve the game… it was already improved by being dropped the BR3… and now you want to gut it making it ANOTHER german br2 smg?
I mean BR1 eh i could get behind as im currently playing german br1 but jeez.
And since you want to label i’m also sick of the crowd that likes to dig up random documents to kill weapons such as the fg 42 1 and type 100mg
And now that crowd has crossed a line trying to modify bp weapons which people bought for gold before they removed… g43 kurz was changing how it functioned and was a buff idc what anyone things it’s stg on any engi now… this is nerf and making things worse than what they paid for.
If you want another BR1-2 german smg then here VMP 1928 with stick mag boom problem solved… add it as an event weapon where you only get one or two of… lol.
If these are so important then tackle the tech tree and event ones where MG 42 and fnab both have incorrect fire rate and stinger has ahistorical ammo count… then you can touch what people paid for.
Then vote for the 25rd drum and then for BR I and we’ll all be happy!
Also, yes I plan on doing various posts about guns that need to be checked, rebalanced and adjusted, the game needs to change for people to play it for longer, we cannot just say “I pay for it, then it’s untouchable”.
And people have talked about the FNAB to no end but devs seem to not be keen on changing it for the time being, tho’ I fully support the RoF changes if they do reflect reality, but we need to accept that with that nerfs to guns we like may be inbound and just deal with it.
Could say the same with a lot of recent discussions.
Specifically… COUGH COUGH.
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Nah, wanting to have meaningful changes that both improve accuracy and variety in the game is not equal to crying about not wanting change haha come on, talk about false equivalence fallacy right there
I was referring to body armor… that the people who want it changed should just… deal with it like they’ve done for the past 3 years.
realized in hind sight that wasn’t that obvious
you weren’t even saying it in such context i just saw “deal with it” and wanted to say that
AH! yes, the armor issue, quite controversial rn, I’ll limit myself to say that it is currently not good and the damage reduction needs to either be removed or made as a backpack item instead of ammo or a grenade pouch, because while not OP just throws the balance waaay off
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people have been complaining about body armor since before the merge happened, just because the developers force people to deal with it doesnt mean they enjoy being forced to deal with it
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don’t take it too seriously… but you’d think after 3 years they’d actually learn to deal with it yknow 
doesnt make it right for 1 faction to get more HP than the other 3 factions no matter how small it is
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but somehow the small issue of swords is ok? Because of… the excuses? Do you not see the irony?
all factions have swords, 1 faction has body armor, dumb argument
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I love how your harbored feelings towards body armor prevent you from thinking illogically… it was already shown when you responded to a light hearted comment tbh but we are now going off topic.
No, all factions do not have swords every soldier can buy and apply to everyone… i don’t understand why you choose to take that literally… obviously i didn’t mean the event ones dude… jfc.
They are both advantages only one faction has… keep trying to draw a line to justify your beliefs… it only makes you look worse.
And i don’t need to be told the same as i’m aware of my image… i truly think it is an actual skill and ego issue.
You have already said that imbalance is OK because X excuse… well my excuse for body armor is that soviet teams are braindead and everyone can agree on that even the players of it… that looks just as stupid to you as yours to me.
All teams have Braindead players. Trying to pin them on one team is stupid
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Yes. I’ve had worse teams on Allies than I ever had on Soviets. Is that reason enough to start throwing OP stuff at the Allies? No, of course not, because there is no objective facts we can draw from this without proper facts.
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Every faction has swords- there were soo many sword events in the past, everyone who complaints about Japanese having swords is crazy in my book.
