Smolensk river cross speed needs increasing

[tawdry trout]

The infantry wading speed in the water is crazy slow. please increase.

[long jay]

why

It should be slow

[tawdry trout]

Not that slow

If it was "realistic" it would be slightly quicker. I don't want to be slide cancelling through it. Just bump it up a smidge.

[gusty zinc]

its the same speed as crossing water on the other maps as far as i can tell

[earnest sleet]

This is not an all-you-can-eat buffet my friend, or Yelp!, where everything you don't like you have to demand to get an adjustment. Try thinking above your most immediate needs and consider the game as a whole. Asking for a faster move through water is so small, and so irrelevant, where other HUGE issues are affecting the game. You got shot crossing the water in your last game, 30 mins ago.. We get you. Move on.

[broken abyss]

Try throwing smoke before you cross the massive and very open river that acts as a natural barrier to prevent people from crossing

[hot flume]

I personally would like the ability to duck into the water added, it seems like a realistic thing to do to me. Keep the same snail pace and 6 second drowning, maybe a 1 second delay between standing and ducking in the water.

[dire scroll]

that river should not be crossable at all to begin with, and should be much deeper

and before anybody brings this up - yes, in other case the people in real life can swim, but not with the heavy gear, weapons & ammo on them and not without dropping all of it before they go into the water... if they want to avoid drowning

@tawdry trout

[tawdry trout]

Hot take

Would be a bit OP for a defending team with a point south river no?

[tawdry trout]

Well I would ask for the new map to stop making me crash, graphics and hit reg to be fixed or the tanks to stop flipping upside down but I thought a 1%~ increase in water walking speed might be easier to implement. Evidently that’s not what the community wants which is fine (and no, I actually have not been shot crossing the water.. yet).

[dire scroll]

then I would be for Engi-buildable pontoon bridges. But definitely not for out-of-the-box passable rivers or swimming.

[covert leaf]

I disagree I think it is fine. You can shoot while wading so you can somewhat defend yourself. Try wading fast through water and see how fast that goes.

[gusty zinc]

realism or gameplay man. pick one. that river is crossable because when you have maps like remagen with uncrossable rivers, the game becomes not fun when there's only one way across and no way to flank asides from an airhead that everyone on the other team can see

[dire scroll]

as I said in my post afterwards, the one you obviousli missed or ignored:

then I would be for Engi-buildable pontoon bridges. But definitely not for out-of-the-box passable rivers or swimming.
We don't need to choose. The game could easily have both.

[tawdry trout]

Make Remagen water crossable!?!?

[tawdry trout]

I have, depends how deep it is. But yeah I think the community has spoken on this one 😂

[gusty zinc]

brother, we can't even get them to fix tanks. You want them to add in a whole new mechanic that the game was not designed for from the ground up?

ever since this game came out, ww2 buffs have argued and argued over realism, as if that was the only thing that made a game fun

it tends to do the exact opposite

[dire scroll]

that's another thing

[hallow girder]

Not like it would change anything, people would still wait for an airhead.

[tawdry trout]

It’s such a shame, couldn’t tell you the last time I played that map. Definitely pre server browser