How can we have a battlefield game without assault rifles? No m16s no m416 and no aeks. I mean it wouldn’t fit the time period but the m16 and the ak 47 would. smgs are just boring weapons as they don’t pack any damage down range. I like ARs because they are good at medium range. Without these guns they break the balance. Can you image bf w/o any good ars? This would the be first of it’s kind.
There were light(ish) automatic rifles in existence during WW1. Many were crude, but they were there. There was the Fedorov Avtomat, Cei-Rigotti, Ribeyrolle 1918, Winchester Model 1907, and Winchester Model 1917 Machine Rifle to name just a few. Although, many of these fired a “full-power” rifle cartridge, thus making them more along the lines of what is today referred to as a “battle rifle” rather than an “assault rifle.” Nonetheless, most of these were still significantly lighter than the Chauchat, Lewis Gun, and M1918 BAR.
I’d imagine they’d still go into the support class with the machine guns, however.
in the recent Battlefield games, Assaults been a Medic and Assaults in one class but in BF1 they are separated, Assaults is one class and Medic is one class, thats means Assaults still exist but you are no longer able to heal player with Assaults class.
@ViperProds said:
in the recent Battlefield games, Assaults been a Medic and Assaults in one class but in BF1 they are separated, Assaults is one class and Medic is one class, thats means Assaults still exist but you are no longer able to heal player with Assaults class.
look back at bf1942 for how it worked, assault probably grants you an smg, you are a raider of trenches, close and personnal is your motto.
I think “Assault” is going to be more of your anti-vehicle role. A SMG as a primary weapon, but then a T-Gewehr along with either TNT or AT grenades for your gadgets. This seems more likely, seeing as shotguns will possibly be all-kit weapons again.
Personally, I think creating a fifth class for the shotguns and flamethrowers would be great. They’d be almost unstoppable at close ranges, further advancing the movement of teammates (especially if they get the spam bacon as a primary gadget), but they’d be curb-stomped outside of close ranges.
@Reconpilot001 said:
@ViperProds said:
in the recent Battlefield games, Assaults been a Medic and Assaults in one class but in BF1 they are separated, Assaults is one class and Medic is one class, thats means Assaults still exist but you are no longer able to heal player with Assaults class.look back at bf1942 for how it worked, assault probably grants you an smg, you are a raider of trenches, close and personnal is your motto.
they had ars in ww11
heres a list of the weapons of ww1
en.wikipedia. org/wiki/List_of_infantry_weapons_of_World_War_I
+alternative setting with a focus on gameplay i think it will work perfect.
so ingame a watercooled MG will not weight 12 - 20kg but maybe the half so the soldier moves faster.
thats ok for me!
I thought you were baiting omg you were being serious I want to die
@Iraqlobster98 said:
I thought you were baiting omg you were being serious I want to die
i’m a little deader inside with these posts.
@Reconpilot001 said:
@Iraqlobster98 said:
I thought you were baiting omg you were being serious I want to diei’m a little deader inside with these posts.
omg ikr I never knew how stupid people were
@Iraqlobster98 said:
@Reconpilot001 said:
@Iraqlobster98 said:
I thought you were baiting omg you were being serious I want to diei’m a little deader inside with these posts.
omg ikr I never knew how stupid people were
If you are going to be rude don’t post here ever again 
I’m just glad I won’t see the Laser rifle known as the M16A3 in this game, I’ve had my fill of it and others like it from Hardline and BF3.
@ImBeauski said:
I’m just glad I won’t see the Laser rifle known as the M16A3 in this game, I’ve had my fill of it and others like it from Hardline and BF3.
Dont worry, the epic mauser 98 will replace lasers adequately.
@Reconpilot001 said:
Dont worry, the epic mauser 98 will replace lasers adequately.
Oh, if I get either my M1917 American Enfield or the Winchester 1895 I’ll give your Mauser a run for it’s money, lol.
*Tips campaign hat
The Fedorov Avtomat is probably the closest you’d get to an Assault rifle.
Tips Pickelhaube
@ViperProds said:
in the recent Battlefield games, Assaults been a Medic and Assaults in one class but in BF1 they are separated, Assaults is one class and Medic is one class, thats means Assaults still exist but you are no longer able to heal player with Assaults class.
Yeah they are finally going back to how it used to be, its just the latest Battlefield games that had assault as a medic, so this is going to be what we fans where used to, and it will make many fans happy to get this back again i think, im so hyped! 
@Avarik said:
The Fedorov Avtomat is probably the closest you’d get to an Assault rifle.
ImBeauski wrote: »*Tips campaign hat
Tips Pickelhaube
Just wait till I get a flamethrower. heheheheheh
*tips lederhosen?
Surely this is a troll thread? Infantry used Gewehr 98 (and older models for reserve/landsturm troops etc.), Lee Enfield, the Lebel, etc. The closest thing to assault rifles were the MP18 that the Germans used late on.
Actually, automatic weapons on the western front would be rather useless. Shooting someone in another trench? It’s how precise your shot is, not spray and pray. If you’re advancing in no man’s land, your best bet is still a sniper against that MG trying to mow you down. Once you’re in the enemy trench, what you want for close combat is a hip fire weapon because of the chaotic shape of the trenches or… pistol, trench gun and grenades. An alternative is the SMLE which could fire ten rounds in a stripper clip and do both sniping and ‘assault’ as it could could fire those ten shots in seconds as seen here:
Ribeyrolle 1918 automatic carbine. Using what could arguably one of the first intermidiate cartriges.
*Tips beret and fiddles moustache.