This is a question to the devs.
I have gone back and watched quite a bit of videos from Gamescom last year as well as recent videos and have noticed that, at least in the builds shown, nearly every class has a pistol as a secondary weapon.
Please tell me this isn't so! It's not historically accurate at all to give everyone a pistol, and this would take away the "importance" of having a sidearm for classes such as snipers, officers, machine gunners, and AT crews, not to mention really dumbing down the combat with bolt action rifles. After all, who would use their rifle in close combat if they always have a pistol?
I might be worried for no reason, so please TWI devs, quell my fears and tell me that RO2 is going its usual historical accuracy route by not giving pistols to everyone and their mother as portrayed in past videos!
I have gone back and watched quite a bit of videos from Gamescom last year as well as recent videos and have noticed that, at least in the builds shown, nearly every class has a pistol as a secondary weapon.
Please tell me this isn't so! It's not historically accurate at all to give everyone a pistol, and this would take away the "importance" of having a sidearm for classes such as snipers, officers, machine gunners, and AT crews, not to mention really dumbing down the combat with bolt action rifles. After all, who would use their rifle in close combat if they always have a pistol?
I might be worried for no reason, so please TWI devs, quell my fears and tell me that RO2 is going its usual historical accuracy route by not giving pistols to everyone and their mother as portrayed in past videos!