Again, history accuracy has been thrown in the gutter for years. That’s not a good reason for it to ever be re-enabled.
just saying. i am a huge advocate for historical accuracy. and since it won’t change much, why go against it?
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Cause those resources could be used to improve other fields of development. Not a minor feature that benefits almost no one.
“other fields”, “rescources”, “benefits no one”
Like I get that i would rather see the Chengdu J-10 in game but like i think it ain’t that hard for gaijin to just make a machine gun work in game compared to some of the other things they made.
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I’m coming to this, pissed off that the Lago I has a hull mounted 13.2, yet it cannot shoot it. HULL MOUNTED MGS FTW!!!
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It’s better to have the machine guns and never need them than to not have them and need to use them. There’s plenty of times a weird-placed MG could have saved me from a pesky SPAA hitting my rear. As for most vehicles with the MGs already modeled (Pz. III and IVs, Panthers, Shermans, T-34s etc.) they already are a weak spot in the armor - so why not have the benefit of having a functional one as well?
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Agreed.
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Yes, I made that exact point before. Agreed.
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+1
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Somehow only the russians usually get their hull mgs modeled, with few other nations having any rn.
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Plenty of Russian vehicles with on-functional hull and turret MG’s. Look at the T-34’s, BT tanks and such.
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the T-26-4 is the only one with a rear coaxial MG modelled and useable, T-28s modelled but unusable, Japenese tanks can use the hull mg and rear coaxial MG is modelled but unuseable.
LVT-4(ZIS-2) also can use hull mg, M2 medium tank also can use all MGs except turret roof MGs, M2A4 and IS-7 can use hull MGs, and that’s it
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The ostwind 2 (maybe the 1) has a usable hull mg
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Bit of a necro thread but given that we’re trying to go to more detailed internal modelling of AFVs generally, starting with this update, it would be nice if this could be part of it too. It’s not added work if they’re remodelling interiors anyway.
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It’s not a necro thead, this topic will stay relevant until they actually have modelled all machine guns!
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also the two turret premium the russians got
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Sometimes can be useful. +1
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There are plenty of vehicles whose machine gun port is a severe weakspot as both the gun and the port are modelled properly. Except the modelled machinegun does not work for whatever reason. In some vehicles there is even a machine gunner present at the non functional machine gun.
A big yes for a small ask.
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All machine guns used to work. Any machine gun that doesn’t have leftovers. It’s why the T-26E-4 can still be used since it is a leftover But originally all of them could.
Gaijin however still needs to fix the Char 2C; 's rear machine gun cause it never runs out and fires while you’re aiming forward. As well as getting the side hull machine guns to function.
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Finally! Only the Ostwind II have the Hull MG working for the Pz. IV Hull. Besides, a useless MG being a weakspot is just sad.
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