Got to play some rounds of this today for the first time.

Most obvious issue is the spawns. Bot spawning is too quick or the reinforcement waves too plentiful. The only way to take points is to straight up spawn camp the bots for multiple reinforcement waves. You have to be killing them right as they spawn or there will never be a window to cap.

The other problem is the weapon upgrades. Not just the sheer amount of them, (although, yeah, it's pretty overwhelming) but their ultimate effects- the upgrades are greatly superseding the base guns they're attached to. The weapon upgrade system would benefit from upgrades that reinforce what makes each gun unique. Going gun-by-gun and just restricting upgrades that don't make sense would go a long ways towards making this system both more interesting and more manageable.

Some other minor notes:

AKs are all ugly af. w_akm.mdl is flooding the console with checksum errors.
AK side mount is ugly too, there's a better one on the workshop
Why do the bots have WW2 guns and bazookas?
HK417 optics are bugged. Someone else mentioned this. Holographic sights are doubled or tripled, and the kobra flat out doesn't show up at all.
Typo: Light Frame -reload: 15% faster. Should be +Reload: 15% faster.
Are all the new armors and helmets really necessary? Is the extra granularity really adding anything?
The super speed for lightweight loadouts is indeed pretty silly. Moderate speed increase + greatly increased stamina is fine.
Heavy loadouts are too quick too. Sure it's only for a limited amount of time until your sprint runs out, but how often are you running around as a MG?
General 'mobility' upgrades are too plentiful, I think they change the way the game plays too much. Should be used sparingly, maybe on SMGs only. Game doesn't need more people bobbing back and forth in front of me when I'm trying to MG.

I've turned the corner on the armor changes. I think it lets players get away with too much dumb stuff. Suppression is broken atm because you can simply pop out of cover and shoot back... which is like, the least tactical move ever, but it almost always works now. It's not the suppression mechanic's fault, it's just an empty gesture when the bullets themselves aren't very threatening.

For a higher TTK to work well, something like a bleed / bandaging mechanic would help with the 'getting shot sucks' side of things. I know other tactical shooters have gone down that route and it's worked well for them. But without that, I think it's probably best not to stray too far from Vanilla IS' rules, as you'll start to see all the limitations of the core mechanics start to come out into the open like this.

To give the INS guys credit, they went for a similar 'realism' approach, with mixed results. 9mm does a measely 11 damage to heavy armor, 9 damage to the stomach. And that's at point blank. On the other hand, AP rifle rounds 1hk out to ~70m unless they hit legs. So it ends up being just a unbalanced system.

引用自 Daimyo：

Now as stated before, here are more things that will roll out to help address this issue:

• Rehauled ammo/rig carriers which are likely to give you more ammo for possibly less weight in most instances(flexibility will increase).
  
• Better enemy models that will help distinguish what targets are wearing heavier armor but also distinguishing friend from foe.
  
• We have a thread open currently discussing ammo and also the possibly of rehauling it once we lay out all the data. We can at this point have a discussion of how to get it right.
  
• Further Improved bot spawns
  
• Expanding AI Director.

These all sound really great to me. Managing ammo is the biggest problem I'm having right now. It's especially tough on the viability of lightweight loadouts, the potential benefits are just not worth the risk of running out of ammo completely.

What about buffing ammo caches? Maybe if they were limited to one use per person, so the whole team could use them?

I'm not crazy, Fire Team Leader did not have drum mags last time I played it. Must have been changed recently. That doesn't change my argument - without the drum mag it's still a worthless class.

I already said this but whatever: These classes do have pros and cons vs ARs: overall capacity. They are locked at only 4 mags, while the RPK has up to 6 and the M60/MK48 can have up to 8. So they're lightweight and can take a point, but don't have the ammo to hold it. ARs are a completely different role. Distinct classes with different playstyles.

More gear that medics already have? And mostly pointless or situational gear, at that? You're discribing Squad Leader 2. It's not a good or interesting class.

There aren't tons of drum mags. There are two. TWO. Squad Leader 1 and Point Man. Without drum mags they end up Squad Leader 2, aka the most pointless class: a medic without the medic abilities, an engineer without the engineer abilities, basically the most bland and uninteresting class in the game.

The drum mag IS the class, they're mid-weight LMGs that lack the overall capacity to fill that role competently. The point man is the class you want on point.

For sure, at the end of the day it comes down to which weapon you use the most and feel most comfortable with. But generally I think the 5.56 and 5.45 guns are going to be easier to get headshots with, using them in full auto like SMGs. It's hard for me to discount the extra tolerance for misses, stray shots, that sort of thing. Though anything other than 5.56 carbine OTP is a little too powerful.

Also stepping back, only ~1/3rd of the available classes have access to the good 7.62 rifles, and only one of the medic slots. So not only are 7.62 guns of limited availability, most classes with them have little else going for them - no drum mags, no machine guns... they're essentially just bog standard riflemen.

引用自 Blueshy：

Looking at Mad Monkey's qualm for example, if you make those 7.62 guns expensive, and the .556 cheap you're going to create a new balance that changes the system of the game. Because right now, if given the choice, why would I ever settle for a 556 primary when I can get a 762 that shoots just as fast and has just as much ammo? Actually, recently I've been going that extra step further of doing like he does, why would I want a 7.62 when I can get a dragonov that hits even harder and all but guarentees OHKs?

Cartridges like 5.56 OTP and 5.45 are excellent because they give you more leeway in getting headshots on IEDs - Much safer than 54r, where one stray arm shot could mean your whole team goes boom.

The big guns seem really appealing, (especially coming from vanilla) until you realize that reaching max damage isn't the end of your problems.

Foregrip can't help the recoil animation being jumpy as all hell. AK-12U has the same problem. They're just bad guns.