Pick up different guns

[MiSFiT77]

Ok. So a coupla days ago I'm playing the game and I come across some muskets in a tripod shape near a cannon. So I thought "I'm gonna grab me a spare musket" but alas they where just for decoration. So my point is. It'd be nice if you could pick up other weapons from fallen comrades or enemies. Would stop ppl whining about Riflemen having it easy if you could grab a dead rifle mans rifle.

Also. Grenadiers should have a couple of grenades.

[HunterBlaze666]

id say the only issue is the rifleman already have really good accuracy if you have a bunch of poeple running around with their guns then you just have the same issue if you increased the max limit on them so i'd say if people want this make loading the rifle slower if someone other than a rifleman picks it up

[MiSFiT77]

Fair point.
Non riflemen wouldn't respawn with rifles so the advantage would only be temporary. And. I do think it would be a way of evening the playing field a little if a regular line infantryman can get his hands on a better rifle albeit temporarily. Maybe a better solution than reducing the effectiveness of the riflemen. I think my main point was that a battlefield would have rifles/muskets/swords scattered about and I would imagine soldiers woul often pick these up.

[Poodaloo]

That sounds like a really cool idea! Just not with the rifles tho, unless maybe you only get one shot with the picked up weapon?? I mean you wouldn't have the same kind of ammo right?

devs... please make their reload time longer already

[MiSFiT77]

Yeh you could have limited ammo pick up with the rifle. I think there needs to be a levelling the playing field against riflemen. I do ok with a musket but i do a helluva lot better with a rifle.

[Poodaloo]

yeah its a shame how amazing they are, thats why i joined a regiment tho, you get to particpate in huge events 95% of which dont allow the use of rifles so it makes for fun and fair play as well as some rather enjoyable role playing!

[MacDog]

if it wasnt respawn yeah maybe

[Renown]

Originally posted by Poodaloo:

That sounds like a really cool idea! Just not with the rifles tho, unless maybe you only get one shot with the picked up weapon?? I mean you wouldn't have the same kind of ammo right?

devs... please make their reload time longer already

If you pick up a weapon that you don't own... you only get one shot. If you pick up a musket (and you have a musket) you get two shots back to back, but toss away your first musket after firing for a greatly sped up second shot.

You should be unable to reload a second weapon.

[Renown]

Originally posted by Poodaloo:

yeah its a shame how amazing they are, thats why i joined a regiment tho, you get to particpate in huge events 95% of which dont allow the use of rifles so it makes for fun and fair play as well as some rather enjoyable role playing!

I don't do events like that because they seem worthless to me. I'd much rather have fun playing a 'realistic' battle where the Line infantry are required to hold/push objectives and riflemen are the actual skirmishers... meaning it's rare that rifles would be used to take or hold objectives.

What can I say, I'm a fan of Sharpe!

[MiSFiT77]

Originally posted by Renown:

Originally posted by Poodaloo:

You should be unable to reload a second weapon.

Gotta say I agree with that, which I guess renders my whole post pointless

[Renown]

Originally posted by misfit77:

Gotta say I'm a giant troll and doesn't understand how the two posts actually contain different information.

Fixed for you... because I clarified the issue as if you pick up a musket you'd still have the same ammo if you have a musket (they are just balls...) , and the original guy said it'd be different ammo. So I agreed with him they should only get one shot, but for different reasons.

Nice try at trolling though I guess?

[MiSFiT77]

How was I trolling ?

[HACKMAN]

The more rifles you carry the slower you walk/run/reload because of weight that could be the balancing trade off to having 2 or more guns maybe.

[Renown]

Originally posted by misfit77:

How was I trolling ?

Quoting my post and editing my words and making it seem like I said that is trolling. Come on dude... so I trolled you back because you didn't see the difference.

[MiSFiT77]

Truth is I just clicked the wrong button and didn't even realise I'd done that.

[Renown]

well then, you just misunderstood me AND made a mistake. Fair enough. But again I didn't make the same comment if you read carefully!