The average ammo count for SMGs is more or less ~150 rounds, depending on magazine size.
The exceptions that I’ve noticed is if the weapon fires a round more powerful than usual, with a decent rate of fire- Where the mag count is reduced by 1. Like with the Thompson SMGs and MP 43. In case of drum magazines, a whole drum is going to to force the ammo count from 142 to 213, so it’s understandably at a lower count.
For example:
PPD (Box) - 150 total
PPD (Drum) - 142 total
M3 Grease Gun - 150 total
MP 38 - 160 total
MP 40 - 160 total
Sten - 160 total
Lanchester - 160 total
ZK-283 - 150 total
OVP M1918 - 150 total
And then we have some weird outliers.
FNAB-43 - 200 total
Beretta M1 - 120 total
Beretta M38/42 - 120 total
Beretta M1918 - 125 total
MP 40 (Tunisia) - 128 total
Would it honestly hurt to give these 1 more magazine to make them more or less around 150? Reduce the FNAB’s ammo count by 1 magazine so it’s 160, as well.
… And is it a coincidence it seems to be happening only with Italian weapons? Who knows.
I made a bug report in the Russian branch about it.
In fact, not all weapons with a high-powered cartridge have lower ammo.
The Thompson 21/28 in Tunis violates this rule. (150 rounds)
In addition, the PPSh 41 box in Berlin has 175 rounds, not 140 as it could.
To be honest, given the number of opponents in this game (clearly more than in regular shooters because of bots) I would make the SMG a minimum of 150 rounds.
Yes I know about the pouches, but I want to at least make a choice somewhere in favor of a backpack with first aid kits. I already made a suggestion that we could more finely tune the contents of the pouches, doing a combination of 2 extra magazines and 2 extra first aid kits for example
I think there are many other factors that come into play with ammo count. Remember, the FG42 was nerfed so you have to use it as a club instead unless you find ammo crates and have ammo bags on you and people STILL complain about it being OP. And if ammo count is part of balancing, we have to look at the guns’ effectiveness aswell. Don’t get me wrong I would love to have more ammo in most guns as I usually run out of ammo before getting killed unless I am desperate to save a useless team by rushing the objectives they refuse to care about. However people will cry about everything they can when they refuse to learn from their mistakes.
The Thompson 21\28 is better than the M1 and M1A1, but has more ammo.
PPSh 41 box - great SMG, better than German and PPS-42\43, but has 175 rounds, not 140
The work was not in vain, however, the Thompson and MP43 had 120 rounds left. That’s not enough to play comfortably, too many ammo boxes are needed.
I created a much larger topic in the Russian section of the forum, where the developers wrote off several times
