It's balanced fine in classic with less type 100s and flamers and stuff. Besides it is ridiculous that there are so many smgs, Tripwire Interactive made a great big deal about assymetric balancing and then gave the japanese a ridiculous, dare say, scandalous amount of smgs. Balance it another way because this is stupid. Maybe less m1919s and flamers and type 100s and make thompson (and maybe BAR) harder to use. Also increasing rifle recoil would make the guns feel more powerful and only really negatively affect the garand.
This is ridiculous. The game is hardly "unbalanced" as you guys like to keep proclaiming. You play on the American team, get shot by some guys with SMGs and start whining. On Team Tojo's side, again, in Realism Mode the only thing we have that isn't bolt-action, a mortar or a LMG is the Type-100. And if every single player who can use one does, that's only 9 people (4 assault, 4 SLs and 1 TL). And as it is, it requires some finesse to use; God help you if you're trying to plug someone over 80m away.
On the Allies side, you have 3 M2-2 Flamethrowers (with a range of about 15-25m insta-kill), 3 M1918 BARs (the RS equivalent of the MkB42; fast firing and accurate as hell), 5 Tommy-Gun SMGs (4 SLs and 1 TL) and (if I am not mistaken) every rifleman can equip himself with a SEMI-AUTOMATIC M1 Garand rifle. You make it where only the TL can have a Type-100 (Seriously, whoever said that, the only reason I don't tell you exactly how I feel about that idea is because I don't the mods to be bothered - they're pretty cool, actually, and I like this forum so I will be nice.) or make it less accessible, I can assure you the already delicate balance will get completely destroyed and everybody playing Japanese will get decimated 9 times out of 10.
Also, this is a game - A GAME. Why are we complaining about "There were only this many guns produced, etc etc)? This isn't a military World War 2 simulation. GRANTED, a fair bit of historical accuracy needs to be taken, but a three words called "FUN" and "BALANCE" needs to come first and foremost. Why not complain about the locations (based off real battles) needing to be completely accurate to the real life location, even if it would be greatly one sided? IT'S ALL ABOUT THE HISTORICAL ACCURACY, RIGHT GUISE?
*deep breath and exhale*
tl;dr This thread is bad and you should all feel bad. And if you're gonna state that a weapon should be removed due to lack of production models, then first get the MkB42 out of HOS. THEN you can talk about this one.
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well yeah. Let the japs have the mg advantage. make an assault class with one or two spots dont give the commander the type 100, he's not supposed to be clearing trenches.
Okay, I'll meet you half-way and agree with removing the TL option for the Type-100. Otherwise, terrible ideas. Having an MG advantage won't change anything. LMGs only make you a sitting or laying target and Uncle Sam's Finest will plow through everyone like a Steamroller with Nitrous in a mall on Christmas Eve.