Currently when the officer spends all his artillery barrages, it makes sense for him to die to get another 3 barrages on respawn. Maybe make the barrage replenishment not life-based but time-based, to set the recharge timer global variable after each 3rd barrage? Global variable will also resolve the situation when an officer changes the class on next respawn and another player takes his position.

Originally posted by Sir GyrPhylmBaBumble:

But Medium Machine Guns needed about 4-8 people to fire and carry all of the parts...

These are light machine guns, not medium, and they only have small bipods for deployment, so I think it's OK that they are carried by one man.

Looks nice) Which version are the models from?

Quoting the ModDB update of Jul 29, 2014.

The Rifleman: Still mostly the same with no major changes from version 1.13b. You still have a rifle with a bayonet and lots of ammunition, however you're one grenade shorter - yup, you only have one grenade now; so make it count.

The Machinegunner: No major changes here apart from the removal of the trenchclub - you now have a sidearm instead which you can also melee with. (This goes for all classes with the pistols equipped) You also have your powerful machinegun too of course, that you can only fire when deployed.

The Officer: The primary weapon for the officer is still a pistol, though the German Luger has been replaced by the Mauser C96 with 10 rounds. The main change for the officers is the artillery-system. You still have the binoculars and telescope, but the time interval between each barrage is much longer. We're going to experiment with this, but we will probably settle with an interval of between 2-5 minutes. However the barrage will be much more effective to compensate for this. You still have normal high explosive and gas-barrages. The officers are now equipped with a smoke-grenade in order to cover advances.

The Bomber: One of our new classes. He is armed with 6 grenades correct to the time-period the map takes place in, but also a sidearm and a trenchclub in order to make short work of enemies close by. The bomber needs to cooperate closely with the riflemen in order for them to protect him while he's moving up to the enemy lines. This is one of the reasons we removed one of the grenades from the rifleman class; we want to promote and encourage teamwork between the classes.

The Marksman: Another newcomer, he's a specially trained rifleman who is able to use his ironsights a whole lot more efficient than your ordinary rifleman. (He doesn't have a bayonet attached though) He's an excellent shot whose main goal is to hunt down high value targets like officers and machinegunners from a distance. He is armed with a pistol in case anyone dares to sneak up on him.

Decided to sum up all my ideas on melee and cheat preventing in one message. (Yes, Ashton, I made a different ModDB account to draw your attention to this, and now I'm making this public as you created the group)

1) To make melee attacks both interesting, realistic and balanced for different classes,
they should have realistic range and damage. Bayonet evidently is the longest and deadliest, trenchclub is somewhat shorter and weaker,
and pistol+fist melee is the shortest and weakest. Thus, e.g. the ordinary rifleman being average on long distances (as he's no Marksman) and vulnerable at pistol range will be the strongest in close combat.

2) All melee attacks should be enabled when sprinting (charging), otherwise they won't be efficient. Maybe even with damage bonus, 'cause IRL a bayonet stab or club hit has more speed->energy->damage on the run. CHAAAAARGE!111

3) The weapons like pistols and rifles should have a significantly broader cone of fire when not ironsighted, to prevent players from avoiding ironsights by drawing a dot in the center of the screen (no-zoom cheat).

4) When ironsighting, the cone of fire should switch from broad one to narrow one with a delay equal to duration of ironsighting animation.
This will prevent both no-zoom and fast-zoom (aiming with screen center and then quickly clicking ironsight+fire) cheats.
For de-ironsighting, on the opposite, cone of fire switching to the broad one should be immediate, without any delay.

Originally posted by FORGOTTENHOPE:

i would like that the game had auto bolt so we wouldnt have to press on button to rechamber the next round.

In a close range fight it sometimes makes sense to stab with the bayonet after firing a shot, not lose that precious second for pulling the bolt.

It would be nice to have leaning that also works as rolling aside when prone, and realistic machinegun rotation around the bipod, with a free-look key for the machinegunner to look around without changing the aim direction.