I've been using the riflemen increasingly nowadays, but not for the usefulness of an ammo dump, but because of the x4 zoom.

 

Back in 0.5, the riflemen was great for a constant ammo supply, plus he wore body armour. However, now, everyone but spec ops has body armour and the ammo giving capabilties suck (I find people asking for supply crates more then riflemen ammo) - I know you're suppose to NOT stand directly on the rifleman's ammo bag so it isn't sapped up, but he can't resupply his ammo bags and the ammo bag in itself is very limited. I'm wondering whether our solid riflemen is really that valuable at a squad level anymore.

 

Don't get me wrong; I LOVE the kit, but only because of that zoom. Is our poor rifleman going the same way as a marksman (ie. awesome killing machine, but really not that useful to the squad) and should we really be using him as much as we are?

Yeah I agree seems that the support role has been limited to null and void but as all round kit its good, armour nades, smoke, zoom. puts it in my kit of choice.

Unless theres armour then I go for the engi unless he has the crappy buck shotgun. :evil:

Hehe..I actually loooove the 'crappy buck shotgun'. It's a lot better then it used to be. But that's off topic.

For the ammo - not so good. Hard to keep those AT supplied. But 2 rifleman, problem solved...

Yeah the armour and choice of nades make Rifleman my default kit for general activities.

 

I never had an issue with PR having mulitple ammo bags, really. I guess one bag is perhaps more 'realistic'?

Ill spawn as rifleman if requested by sl, but it really becomes a matter of tossing that bag down once and moving on. The scope is great, I agree with that.

I think the perfect balance would be to give rifleman 2 ammo bags.

Yeah the armour and choice of nades make Rifleman my default kit for general activities.

 

I never had an issue with PR having mulitple ammo bags, really. I guess one bag is perhaps more 'realistic'?

 

Hmm...I guess that's a good point. The name says it all - "Rifleman". The main function is the "rifle". So I guess, first and foremost, he SHOULD be a killing machine, complete with nades and not an ammo carrier. This is war, after all

The reason why they gave the rifleman one ammo bag was to stop him being a make-shift field medic (ie, bandage spamming). Chances are, to fix the ammo issue they will give the rifleman two bags of ammo, but only allow one to exist in the world at a time.

There has been some discussion about removing ammo completely.

 

Currently, the best way to ensure ammo is with a vehicle (as rallypoints are currently broken with the ammo aspect). I'll usually grab a vehicle at the start of the game and from then on it becomes my "squad vehicle" and it goes where ever we go.

So because the ammo is fubared the sole purpose of a rifleman is to provider short-medium ranged support for a squad...

Kinda sad - I enjoyed the general jack-of-all-trades flexibilty of the rifleman.

Gota say guys, I would love to see at least 2 ammo bags from a rifleman, but that said, there is also the support gunner that has an ammo bag.

 

I have been on support & used this bag to reload an "AT"

 

So I guess all it does is change the way kits are utilised...

 

If anything, the 0.609 release has been notorious at doing this... It's all good!

He can still get bandages. 1 ammo bag will replenish his bandages + his ammo bag.

 

It's just impossible to give anyone else ammo if you want to resupply your ammo bag.

 

2 bags would be good, they just need to code it so resupplying your own ammo bag doesn't take up 90% of the actual bag you drop.

Yeah in this mod you need to have two guys with ammo bags, so a rifleman and a SAW or two rifleman.

 

I'd like to get two ammo bags like you guys.

The patch will at least fix the "no ammo from rally point" glitch/bug.

When is the quick patch due?

No release date yet, but testing is now complete, so should be very soon.

Fingers crossed.

Well you could ask the Devs,but the answer will be"When its ready"

 

possibly mid/late sept.

 

No major changes but....theres a thread in PRM -do a search for"0.61 patch"

He can still get bandages. 1 ammo bag will replenish his bandages + his ammo bag.

But it is horribly slow and nothing compared to what you used to be able to do in 0.5

I have been playing alot more as rifleman and I do drop the ammo bag alot more then when I was playing support in PR 4 and 5