For the love of God

[Stephen]

Tripwire, I love you, but watching my friend play the beta - please, please, please remove pistols as standard weapons for most (all?) classes.

Let the officer/squad commander have one if they did, but riflemen and submachine gunners all having pistols (which fire as quickly as submachine guns do for some reason) is unrealistic and really annoying.

It would make far more sense to have bayonets by default (which they were) and have pistols as some sort of high-level unlock for normal classes.

Just my two cents, but having watched about eight or ten beta gameplay videos on YouTube in the last hour or two, the two things everyone is complaining about are clipping (bad idea) and pistols (worse idea).

Fix them for the 13th and this game will be markedly better.

:IS2:

 

[GossamerSolid]

On Realism mode, the proper classes have the proper loadouts.

 

[Wesreidau]

AFAIK, they are only in the beta for the beta, presumably so we can bug test said pistols.

 

[skittlesareyum47]

2 things, Firstly, you have to unlock bayonets. End of story, you might as well not comment on that anymore. Trust me people tried to reverse that, and it's not changing. Secondly yeah i totally agree about every class having pistols.

 

[Stephen]

I know about bayonets being unlocks (we get them anyway if we own RO1) but I was just saying it'd be more logical than having pistols.

 

[teemu92]

IF you own RO1, no need to worry about bayonets, you get those on day1 instantly, on realism mode roles will have the equipment they did in real life, only pistols on riflemen on relaxed realism.

No need to worry, TWI knows what they're doing.

 

[Stephen]

On Realism mode, the proper classes have the proper loadouts.

I hope this isn't true. Are you saying that 'relaxed' realism actually has different weapons for the various classes? I thought it was just stuff like the 'radar' (whatever it's called in this).

 

[AlbertHasek]

I know about bayonets being unlocks (we get them anyway if we own RO1) but I was just saying it'd be more logical than having pistols.

As another poster has already stated only the appropriate classes have sidearms in the realistic mode.

 

[Flanker15]

I thought having pistols wouldn't matter that much for close combat, but yeah you can roll people with them at close range.

It's like having a pocket smg just pull it out before you go into a building and you're Charles Bronson until the ammo runs out. I can't test the bayonet but I'm pretty sure it's better than it.