STOP PLAYING RIFLEMAN

[TheRedExpresss]

if youre new to the game ill keep it simple, rifleman over support offers NO advantage. playing support will help you quickly understand how the game is played and won, spawns win games and support players are needed for quick garrys. support=more spawns, more spawns=more time spent fighting and less time running.

[Tomus]

Also once you have levelled up in support the class gives you very flexible weapons options normally between a rifle/smg. Its definitely worth levelling support.

[Pan_de]

Or just listen to your SL and things will work out.

[Doomed]

like any squad has a SL for more than 60 seconds anyways.

[Rpxy24]

rifleman has smoke nades

[Teh_Diplomat]

My level 6 rifleman says otherwise; a G43 to add to the squad, plus I bring explosive ammo to re-stock the Assault, AT and who ever else needs to replenish their grenades.


The real issue is never having dropped supplies over the course of a 90 minute match, or playing medic when a respawn is almost always preferable as we come back fully stocked.

[Hammer Of Evil]

hahah.

just saying, there's leadership and tyranny. what side of the fence do you think you're on?

[TheRedExpresss]

Publicado originalmente por Teh_Diplomat:

My level 6 rifleman says otherwise; a G43 to add to the squad, plus I bring explosive ammo to re-stock the Assault, AT and who ever else needs to replenish their grenades.


The real issue is never having dropped supplies over the course of a 90 minute match, or playing medic when a respawn is almost always preferable as we come back fully stocked.

your g43 is cool unless you suck at the game in which case you could have an stg and youll still get 12 kills a match, which is the point i was trying to make about people obsessing about the gun they use over teamwork when its a hardcore shooter......if youre good youll get 40 kills with a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ grease gun. spawns win games, thats it.

[TheRedExpresss]

Publicado originalmente por Hammer Of Evil:

hahah.

just saying, there's leadership and tyranny. what side of the fence do you think you're on?

when im throwing up garrys, marking tanks and infantry movement and letting my squad know how terrible rifleman is for the functionality of winning the game? id say leadership, it would be worse to let 2 rifleman sit in a squad (potentially new players too) 0 support and not being able to throw up that garry last minute and lose a defense point........do me a favor bro, grab squad lead and ask the commander "whats the most important class i SHOULD have in my squad?" lol

[Gibber1sh]

Its difficult to argue with the OP with respect to the Russians (the SVT is just so much better than either of the Mosin's).

One could make an admittedly weak argument about smoke grenades.
In that in some situations on open maps you may be better off with a load-out that has smokes.

With respect to the Germans at range (anything over about 50m) the G43 outclasses both the Kar98 and the MP40. Even at close range the G43 is not bad, (if you have a modicum of aiming ability) so if you have unlocked the L6 german riffle-man - you should probably play that instead of support.

However the real reason to play riffle-man is the need to double drop supplies, specifically you can be doing whatever and if your SL needs 100 supplies you can swap on (to support), drop supplies and swap off.

tl;dr
For the Russians - the support adds additional firepower to the squad - for the other factions the only value of the support is the supplies, which frankly you can swap onto when needed.


PS my opinion would change if the supply cool-downs were changed to squad level rather than player level - so you could double drop without the re-spawn shenanigans we have to do today - I don't see the "swaparoo" as a benefit to the game (there is no skill or even difficultly beyond organizing a group of people who have microphones).

[TWB*Clell_Miller]

Publicado originalmente por TheRedExpresss:

if youre new to the game ill keep it simple, rifleman over support offers NO advantage. playing support will help you quickly understand how the game is played and won, spawns win games and support players are needed for quick garrys. support=more spawns, more spawns=more time spent fighting and less time running.

Playing support is certainly a good idea. But don't go telling people not to play rifleman. I reached level 10 in that role. The best aspect of it is the points you earn for holding strong points. It'a an often neglected need.

[BIG E.]

It depends. Rifleman is important in MG squads(or some kind of ammo drop in general).

[Taybanz]

dont listen to op, RIfleman has smoke grenades that are incredibly useful. That being said you only need one rifleman per squad and you should always take support, anti tank first.

[BIG E.]

Publicado originalmente por Snow Wolf:

dont listen to op, RIfleman has smoke grenades that are incredibly useful. That being said you only need one rifleman per squad and you should always take support, anti tank first.

To be fair a lot of classes have smokes. Its more about ammo/explosive boxes but you need a good squad that can utilize them.

[Mustard]

pls play rifleman instead of medic
rifleman is more useful then medic

also if you unlock class level 3, u get to use smokenades and it is really useful when ur squad is charging.

[Pan_de]

The support roles is beest played as a standin. Whenever you have supplies ready pick the supporter or when needed asap redeploy as supporter, other than that pick rifleman is ok