Mate, this is a vehicular combat game with infantry shoehorned in for an event. Shotguns are gonna be pretty bad and even the smaller caliber MGs would be enough to deal with the meatbags.
You would probably be better off with multiple small caliber MGs instead of just one .50 cal
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Dang just watched the trailer :D love it can’t wait!
.50 cal can deal with cover better though
And modern body armor can stop rifle caliber rounds no?
What cover?
The building walls and sandbags among other things
Black tip??? maybe not
The Mobile Infantry soldiers couldn’t really deal with the 7.62mms, so I don’t expect soldiers with much less armor and no face protection to be able to
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Are we still talking about War Thunder?
I’m talking about the trailer, there were buildings and sandbags in it
IRL most buildings offer very little in the way of protection from .30 cal rounds
Well, did you play the Mobile Infantry event? If it’s anything like that there won’t be much in terms of buildings to take cover in or other stuff able to withstand even 7.62mm MGs
This also screams to me ENGINE update SOON!
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What about all the wrecked/abandoned cars? Engine blocks can take most 7.62 iirc, but .50 cal AP can go through them
This isn’t Mobile Infantry btw, if u watched trailer you would have seen infantry clearing out rooms, and many buildings along the road in the first bit
You aren’t expecting Battlefield-like gameplay, are you?
Again, if it’s anything like Mobile Infantry then there won’t be much of that room clearing stuff because WT maps rarely have buildings with actual interiors.
To be completely honest, I don’t expect the infantry to work like it did back in the Mobile Infantry event anyways. Soldiers probably won’t be “vehicles”, but rather either AI targets or pseudo RTS units. With the Mobile Infantry event you at least had soldiers that could carry multiple heavy weapons while also being mobile and armored.
Also, we are yet to see if the ingame event will even be anywhere close to the trailer, considering that the event description is talking about WW1, while the trailer shows modern day vehicles and CoD-like gameplay
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Depends on the ammo they give them.
Depends how realistic they make shotguns.
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You know I was think more about this. I wonder if they going to test new destruction physics for the game.
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That would be really nice
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True, they were trying map destruction very early on, but kept it out due to performance stuff. Maybe they are gonna try to see if the engine and servers could handle that now.
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Can’t wait to collapse a building because I whiffed an HE shot
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Finally something to look at when HE, HEAT and HESH ricochet for no reason
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