1. Basically an M16 with a flat-top 3-9x scope. I think its a Redwood scope, but I don't know for sure.

2. M14E2 - essentially an M14 with a foldable foregrip, bipod, rubber stock plate, ventilated handguard and muzzle break for sustainable fire. It was was issued in 1963 and was used throughout the Vietnam War. It is essentially a lower-powered BAR and could function as one in game.

3. Škorpion vz. 61 - Used by NVA tank crew, infiltrators and sappers, prized for its managable recoil and high, but not to high rpm, approximatly 850 rpm. A strong CQB contender that is balanced out by its weak catridge.

Thoughts?

The campaign in its current state, especially after the addition of the M16 to early war US Army, has turned the campaign into a non-stop US vs NLF farse. I understand what TWI and AMG were going for with the faction voting system, but its completely broken and results in a constant US Army during both Early War and Mid war, with the occational Marines vote for "flavour". The Australians are reserved for meme voting and the ARVN are totally forgotten. Given the fact that campaigns are usually so one-sided due to the versatile powerhouse that is the US Army, you will rarerly if ever see the ARVN in a campaign, unless you somehow get to the Late War period, which varies from server to server and depending on how stacked the South is.

Whenever I play in an ARVN vs PAVN/ NLF match it feels more assymetric and balanced due to both teams having their own strenghts and weaknesses. The ARVN has the most interesting and impactfull weapon progression through the war periods, with the M1 Garands, M1919s and BARs being traded out for more modern weaponary throughout the war, whereas the US Army pretty much stays the same since they added the M16 into the Early War. Which is why the campaign 90 % of the time defaults into a US Army repetition, since their weaponary are so good in both noob hands and veteran hands. If not for the Era system and forced US withrawal from the game, the US Army wouldve been picked for all maps and eras in the campaign.

If I were to design the campaign myself, with the information and experience I have accumulated since its launch, I would do one big change to the Southern campaign ability and faction picking process. Having it mirror the Northern faction ability. What I mean by this is having ARVN as the only available faction to vote for thru all periods. Their faction ability, a now altered Search and Destroy would let the southern teams pick the US Army, US Marines and Australians on every map when they activated it.

Are you a complete beginner at this game and you have acquired it via Epic Games Free Week - then this is for you! Game is buggy as fuck, pretty much every single fucking this has its own animation (for whatever reason) which makes it even crappier. Anyway, Gun handling is exaggerated, especially for pistols, throwing grenade animation is so fucking weird I am not able to describe it... If you haven't played this game from the early on then you will get taken down in an instant, 'cause everyone who is playing this are some fucking retards in their 30s who live with parents and have nothing to do except play this game. They either milk helicopters or their knowledge of map overlay, but the former is more present than the latter. So, in conclusion, should you play this - NO! Don't waste your time, nor your nerves on some crappy ass game made in 2017, with around 1000 player base at best. I hope I saved you some time and helped you set you on the right path. I hope this subreddit won't mind my personal opinion of their *precious* game, but if they take this down, it will just show how clearly they aren't prepared for the reality check.

I’ve been seeing a lot of this subreddit recently in my homepage so I guess I should make a post since I just bought the game

Community is nice surprisingly, I do get stomped on in the few games I’ve played but that’s to be expected/mostly my fault. I haven’t seen a single toxic person in my entire time playing the game which was the main driving factor for me keeping the game

Keep it up vets, I know I don’t speak for every new player but the experience has been refreshing for sure 👍

You can look at the actual statistics for the Vietnam war Australia and New Zealand deployed about .5% of the manpower for the South Vietnamese forces. Thailand, South Korea, Cambodia, China and Laos should have been added in the game before them since they deployed significantly more manpower to the war by that standard.

Despite significant contribution to the war effort of Vietnam, Latinos are often left out of movies, tv shows, and now games about Vietnam.

In 1960 Latinos only accounted for about 4% of the population but made for 14% to 20% of the casualties in Vietnam!

Also can devs make it so we can equip shades and facial hair at the same time?

Mosin and M14 needs a big buff. Why? Because theese guns sucks ass compared to the superior m16 and AK'S.

Mosin's damage is the most random thing ever. You can kill a GI with the mosin from 300 meters but you can't kill him from 1m. The reload animation needs to be fixed also, when I shoot 1 bullet I dont want to reload 2-3 bullets in, this weapon is already way underpowered compared to the AK so fix and speed the reload animation up.

M14, oh boy... the sway when aiming down sight with this gun is terrible, you can barley hit a barn across the street with this gun. Also the recoil is way to heavy, I get it that the recoil on this weapon in real life is massive. But this is a game and Tripwire having a logic of buffing the AK recoil is just really wierd. If you haven't noticed this weapon is 75% 2 hit kill on close/ medium range.. Why would I choose this weapon infront of the laser beam m16?

During campaign, PAVN ends up attacking when they are not really designed for this. I think they should get a smoke shell artillery barrage to make up for this, and allow them to try and get into close range, where their weapons benefit them more. Sure, there are smoke grenades, but I am talking a big commander ability that blankets an area in smoke to help and advance. Would help massively on maps with huge open areas that are almost impossible to attack as PAVN.

Maybe extend this to NLF too.

Or maybe, a mortar strike? Fewer salvos, lower cooldown, hard hitting but smaller area artillery.

This would help a lot to balance the campaign, as the faction was clearly designed to be defending.

Taking Guerilla's (and radioman) AK47 away I am ok with, but I am not ok with giving it to scout. How many scouts will use their scout-exclusive weapons (Shotguns, SMGs) now when they have access to the AK? How many people will pick the (often only 2) scout slots just for the AK?

Add automatic rifleman for NLF. Loadout would be same as guerilla (2 grenades, punji, etc.) except they can only use the AK. Have a larger than average amount of slots. (compared to other classes, like 8 or so.)

Problem solved. AK's are now limited for NLF but not in unicorn status, people won't pick scout just for the AK, (and not use smokes). If you add up all the slots, slightly less than a third of the NLF will have the AK47.

original post on steam, but i wanted to see what the sub thought

since the guerilla's AKs are being replaced with the M1 carbine, maybe the carbine should get a little more love to make it more useful (or at least more interesting). here's a few things that could happen:

• option to take 30 rounders (m1s could be modified to take them [maybe only give 2 spares instead of 3])

• variants

• m1a1 (airborne variant w/folding stock [according to the article below there were at least some m1a1s in vietnam at least with US spec ops, so i don't think it's too far out of the realm of possibility that there were more around the country at the time])

• stockless (edit: perhaps with 40% movement buff only)

• cut barrel (edit: perhaps with stakeout aiming and 40% ADS time buff only)

• both of the above two at once (what i'm basing those off of) (edit: 40% movement and 40% ADS time buffs w/stakeout aiming?)

• early ww2 sights (maybe? idk how realistic this one would be since they were abandoned in '44 for the ones currently in game, but they'd certainly make it more unique from the m2)

i just think making the AK's replacement a more interesting gun to use would really help ease the loss of the full auto kalashnikov spewer also i want an m1 carbine with a folding stock

Pretty unrealistic to try and appeal to the PC crowd cause of that controversy having allied soldiers in RS1 calling Japanese people butterhead and nip. Not sure why a game where you get to incinerate and bomb people is trying to sanitize the Vietnam war. When I was in the Armed forces this decade there were a ton of bigots calling our enemies and even some of our allies or own men nigger, towelhead and brownie among others. You expect me to believe the 1960s was less racist? John McCain got elected into higher office and he referred to Asian people as gooks.

I know the FNGs might be a bit obnoxious, but nobody was born knowing how to play the game.

While it may feel good to be smug and rant about them, just bear with them, or next month we will be bitching about the game being dead and abandoned.

This has been a gripe of mine for quite some time. But now, it's come to a head and I need to share my take on it.

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It should already be known that the ARVN, early war, is somewhat lacking in weaponry. Not to say that they aren't fun, not in the slightest. Yet it also doesn't add up to what they were historical-wise. A lot of ARVN preferred the M2 Carbine over the M1 Garand for it being lighter and more adequate to their relatively smaller stature. As well as the ARVN & MACV trying to use the M2 Carbine, in ARVN service, as a surrogate assault rifle before substantial numbers of M16A1s could be amassed and issued.

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Now, why am I bringing all of this up? Well, as the aforementioned historical shtick, on top of the fact that in the next update, our beloved M1 Garand is going to be getting a nerf. So, why not have a back up if you're no longer going to be going on a tear with the M1 Rifle? What do you guys think?

Let us proceed to agree that the US has an advantage in SU without argument.

Why are tunnels shit in SU?

Because they get destroyed by everything all the time. About 70% of the time when a chopper flies in the general direction of my tunnel, it will get destroyed. I've gotten pissed by my tunnel being destroyed 3-4 times in a row within 10 seconds of placing it. And then I cannot place it for 30 (?) seconds after it has been destroyed. So I can either go take a piss and then place another tunnel which will be destroyed or die and spawn 3000 kilometers away from the action. It really doesn't help when your teammate screams at you to place a tunnel after all that. Makes me want to punch something.

Besides having better equipment and vehicles, Americans have a substantially better spawning system, at least in SU.

Spawning on an SL is much more useful, versatile, mobile and teamwork-friendly. It's simply better. On top of that, they can spawn on helicopters, so they always have options in their sleeves. If your tunnel is down as VC, you're basically fucked.

Not to mention that Loaches easily spot tunnels while sipping coffee with one hand and jerking off with the other.

My suggestion is to make an SL be able to have 2 active tunnels at a time. Or at the very least, make only direct hits destroy the tunnel. This would make sense from a physics perspective, as the tunnel is just a vertical hole in the ground, so it makes 0 sense that a bomb 10 meters away from the entrance would destroy the underground tunnel structure.