As the title says, I personally think it would make more sense and be more user friendly and convenient to make it so that the Engineer’s build-able machine gun emplacement should be a gun mounted on a Tripod with 360° rotation instead of the current iteration where it is placed in the corner of a very oddly shaped sandbag.
This is for the most part just my own opinion, but I personally just prefer the aesthetic of it being a Tripod mount instead of what it currently is. Not to mention that it would make placing the machine gun in a fortified position easier and much more convenient.
I posted this on the reddit too, but I think the Forums are a more appropriate place for this.
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MG tripods don’t have 360 degree rotation, they have about the same as what you see in game, maybe a little less. Reason being that tripods have a locking support mechanism that’s set up between 2 of the legs.
It would definitely be more immersive, but I would be worried about high grass getting in the way like it does when you’re prone. As there’s no permanent grass deformation, at least not yet.
Edit: just a reference on the short ones, though I don’t know what WWII T&Es looked like.
Yeah, It’s probably not 360 degrees. But I don’t know how you imagine grass to get in the way. Tripods for HMG’s, at least those I’m talking about and would like to see for engineers, are pretty high and even require the soldier to be standing to use them.
Edit: There are of course many different Iterations of Tripods. I’m specifically talking about the tall ones here. Probably should have said that in the OP.
EDIT 2: Yeah, I can see the issue now. That would be less than useful in many situations. I’m talking about something like this:
It’s just about as high as the MG is mounted on the Machine gun nest asset, but allows for far more convenient placement and has much superior aesthetics. And you could always place Sandbags in front of it to protect it. I’m also going to suggest that the build able machine gun should be a Heavy one, not the light ones that are currently part of the asset.
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It definitely would make MG setups a lot easier. Now if only LMG bipods would function so it’s easier to find a shooting position without being completely blinded by grass.
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