I personally wouldn't mind this, but wasn't there a reason for the removal of ranks being shown in-game? When people with a lower rank saw that their opponent had a higher rank they'd immediately quit the game. I remember people being really angry about it, and that's why Relic removed it.
People have already leaked shit. Mirage found Pershing related stuff in the live game files. Janne's screenshot was even leaked on the Relic forums. I figured there's no point in keeping it a secret as the Pershing is obviously going to be added. I was just saying Janne doesn't know how it will be implemented either.
Janne252 is the only one who would know, and he hasn't said anything about it.
Janne doesn't know either, he literally just spawned it with his cheat command mod. There's nothing in the files that would indicate how the Pershing would be implemented, though it is most likely through a commander.
And a pretty dumb one at that. With all the hype about how much realism was incorporated about all they really did was to use (or make it look like they used) the real things.
The US soldiers did not fight that way. Waffen SS did not fight that way.
And the dumbest, stupidest, silliest part of the whole thing. The part that made me endure the rest in pure pain, was the choice by an American unit to stay and fight a desperate/lost battle in April of 1945. By that time the US knew the war was over and it was a matter of only days or weeks. No one was volunteering to possibly be the last man to die. And the reason for the hatred of the Hitler Youth and the Waffen SS was that despite the obvious upcoming loss they were endangering the lives of guys who knew they were weeks away from a surrender/conquest.
The crew would have left the tank, found some way to get back to another unit with a working radio and obliterate the whole area with an air strike or artillery. By this time the planes and guns were both well stocked and short of targets.
Dude, who gives a shit?
With making a movie you have certain limits in what you can do. The film depicted the general feel of the whole ordeal well enough, and that's what it's about. You can nitpick shit all you want but that's not the point.