The way soldiers carry machine guns wrong?

[Hister]

Friend of mine who knows a lot more then I do regarding WW2 said it was never carried that way as we can see in the game when on "move" speed movement.

Any thoughts on the matter?

[YankeeDog]

This is known and has been discussed before. It's not so much an error as it is a compromise due to the limits of available resources.

Infantry animations are a huge time suck. For the most part, the game only one, or sometimes a few, generic soldier animations per action, with minor adjustments for things like weapon size. This still results in quite a large list of necessary animations. You have animations for MOVE, QUICK, FAST, SLOW, HUNT, and also special movement actions like jumping over a wall. Then you've got animations for actions that happen while in place -- cowering, shooting while prone, shooting while kneeling, shooting while standing, reloading, throwing a grenade (this one again from prone, kneeling, and standing), looking through binos... I could go on.

Creating unique animations to tailor all of these actions to specific weapons would require exponentially more work.

The end result is that you get things that aren't 100% accurate like an MG42 being carried on a shoulder sling.

BFC has gradually added some new soldier animations over the course of development of the CMx2 engine, and it reasonable to assume we'll eventually get more. Who knows; maybe someday we'll get a special animation for MGs so they're carried on top of the shoulder rather than on the sling. But there are never going to be enough animations to represent every weapon 100% faithfully to the way it was supposed to be carried and used.

[Mastiff]

true dat I never carried my MG like that it not impossible it just its heavy and cumbersome to carry it that way.

[db_zero]

I love the ice skating soldiers that appear from time to time. Sure animations and other things could be improved, but at the end of the day the other great qualities of CM more than make up for the shortcomings.

[Rambler]

Technically it's not incorrect as that method of carrying the 34 when on the march is mentioned in the 1942 MG34 Butz manual I have. BFC has the position is a little high in the screenshot. It's pretty uncomfortable, though, which is why you probably don't see it being carried like that too often.

Here are the pages from the manual that show how to carry the MG34 when marching:

and in battle:

[LukeFF]

That over-the-shoulder image (Bild 41) is probably the one seen most in pictures from the war. That'd be a great animation to have when the gunner is moving at a walking pace.

[Hister]

I see! Cool photos. Thank you for,your imput guys!

So two more MG carrying animations are needed for 100% authenticity and the current one needs to be lower in the % of happening while the new ones are inserted.

[postfux123]

So two more MG carrying animations are needed for 100% authenticity and the current one needs to be lower in the % of happening while the new ones are inserted.

This game is shockingly inaccurate .

[Hister]

Hahaha, depends on which side of the gun barrel you are.

Am not complaining mind you. If that friend wouldn't mentioned about it to me I wouldn't even noticed it myself.

Am still more then happy and excited customer regardless of the gun carrying animation.

[postfux123]

Didnt get you wrong. I think its great we have a game were we can discuss the way the MG is carried by the pixel soldiers.

[Baneman]

Adding a new animation for German soldiers to carry their rifles correctly would probably add greater overall accuracy for less animation overhead.

Just sayin'

[Hister]

Didnt get you wrong. I think its great we have a game were we can discuss the way the MG is carried by the pixel soldiers.

Amen to that!