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Tanks are pretty fragile war machines. They are infantry killers and excellent for hitting other armor, but not every part of them is functional; having a weapon on your vehicle be purely aesthetic is not fun. If there is a seat for a hull machinegunner, then the hull machinegun should be functional, so here's my proposals and my reasons. Here's two options for hull machineguns:

1. Make the hull-mounted machineguns AI controlled, and enable special free-fire and hold-fire orders for the gunner. The hull-mount has a small angle in front of the tank, and having it be AI controlled means you can keep it pointed somewhere and cover the front, while looking in another direction. Or...
2. You can make it player controlled, and it would fire so long as what you're aiming at with the normal turret is also in the window for the hull machinegun.

Now rear-turret machineguns. A lot of Russian tanks have rear-turret machineguns, and making them functional now means it'll be easier to do it for other tanks later on, like the Japanese who only have hull machineguns and rear-turret machineguns available. It's essential these can be AI-usable if Japanese tanks are to be competitive in the future when they are added.

1. Make rear-turret machineguns functional under AI control. These will cover the back of your tank, very helpful for retreating from enemies or just passively defending yourself from rear infantry attacks. Some of them also have an angle to shoot upwards at aircraft going for weaker rear-top armor.

Let's talk about foldering. This is something that's done in War Thunder, basically it's a non-linear progression. You can choose to research the foldered vehicle, or move onto the next. Doing the same for War Thunder campaign lines is a good idea as it means more choice in what you can unlock. I will list an example. Let's say the T-26-4 with a 76mm low-velocity howitzer is added for the Moscow campaign. It is based on the T-26 chassis, so let's folder it in that. Once you unlock the T-26, you could also branch down to the T-26-4, and unlock that for half the 1/4th the EXP needed for the T-26. Or you can keep going and put that 12K EXP into the next level. It is up to you! This is just an example. The goal of this is to keep the campaign from being so long and grindy and linear, and allow the player more progression and the choice of unlocking equipment they think is essential to their experience.

Next is SPAA, self-propelled anti-air.

I've been playing the isometric third person shooter Running With Rifles and working my way through various loadouts, and realized that the way they use light machineguns in the game work exactly as intended with none of the problems in other shooters.

Firstly, what is an LMG?

In your Standard FPS Arsenal, Light Machine-Guns are fast firing automatic weapons with large magazines, meant to be carried into battle by a single person and typically firing similar calibers as normal infantry rifles. They are not like assault rifles since assault rifles are lighter and less bulky, which makes them easier to aim and faster to run around with.

Tactically, they are meant to support a squad or fireteam, as opposed to assault rifles which are the standard individual weapon for most soldiers.

They are not like "medium" and "heavy" machineguns, which requires whole crews or vehicular mounts, fire more powerful shots, and are typically set up in fixed positions rather than being carried around everywhere.

What problems other games have with LMGs:

Some time ago I came across a video by GameStop explaining why LMGs in video games are often poorly implemented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUO3xBsO36c. Their videos are pretty interesting but to save you 10 minutes here's basically their points:

• LMGs can't provide suppressive fire, because human players aren't afraid of bullets. In real life, LMGs help keep the enemy's heads down to scare them from moving and firing back, but in video games this psychological pressure is almost negligible since players can always respawn.
• Alternately, mechanics to simulate suppressive fire on the player (like the camera shaking or blurry vision) end up becoming too annoying and ruin the experience.
• LMGs don't work in twitch-based gameplay, given their longer time to aim in split-second encounters, and extremely poor recoil and accuracy when firing from the hip. This makes them far inferior to other weapons when running around.
• Alternately, LMGs can become too overpowered, with their stats turning them from machineguns that support allied troops to "super assault rifles" that have larger magazines than regular assault rifles. This means assault rifles become redundant as a weapon class and also that LMGs aren't used in a support role.
• LMGs require teammates to take advantage of suppressing fire.

How RWR solves those problems:

GameStop suggested that LMGs need 2 t

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And I mean deploy/retract time, and I mean that this time is ridiculously low. Just imagine if there was no SMG mode and every time when G.I is going to shoot he would deploy machinegun. Due to very short deploy time It would actually a buff, right?

And I guess that's what computer does. Seriously, this is so annoying when computer-controlled G.Is are instantly deploying machineguns every damn time when they are going to shoot. Human players need plenty of time for micromanagement for doing this.

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For planes you can find it if you view them in x-ray mode and hover over the guns but no such luck for machineguns mounted on tanks.

I see they have some items for sale that will be cheaper even WITH shipping from the UK to US.

Has anyone used them?

Most guides I found don't teach much and only actually talk about the mechanics of the game (hunger, thirst, taming, etc).

Does anyone know of some video that explains how players go from 0 to high level tech?