First of all, I am not trying to start an argument with you for no reason. I dont even care. :)

You skipped the part that should have been the loudest for you: " I doubt the devs are suddenly going to go full sim on this thing, at this point. Think about the roots here, and where this game basically came from."

Now with that said.. my point is still more then valid. See, the .50 cal is literally not loaded by the gunner while he sits up there shooting shit.. he needs help doing that, even if its just swapping the cans out, let alone all loose and fucked up like this:

https://afghanistanmylasttour.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/our-af-group-commander-colonel-prepares-to-load-the-50-cal-machine-gun.jpg

And the Marksman class, which is Army/Rebel/etc.. is always like this IRL:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3m86Rd8hr80/maxresdefault.jpg

Which was the point you tried to make, "why if its like this IRL, would we ever want to just sit there doing nothing but loading ammo?" And my reply was, "why would you not notice how they are making this game so far, and even further where this game came from?" Which if you asked that of yourself, you would never had to post this question here.

:)