Meanwhile other factions can keep their exceptionally good units like MG42, P4, Rifles or Tommies because it's "their identity".
And you want cons to perform as an exceptionally good unit? I mean alright, does grenadiers perfom like an exceptionally good unit, when they face rifles\tommies? Does volks perfom like an exceptionally good unit when they face rifles\tommies?
Let me clerify, that Ost relies on combination of grens + PGs or MG42 in terms of inf play, always. OKW in terms of inf play always relies on volks+obersts (jaegers\falls). Grens nor Volks aren't performing good vs WFA factions.
Only Tommies\Rifles relies on nothing in terms of inf play and can be played by themself with all the upgrades\weapons.
It sometimes feel, like some soviet mains want their cons to perfom like tommies\rifles at some point of the game, while completly ignoring the fact that soviets have their elite inf in almost every single commander, for that excact reason.
No matter what you pick, for a few exceptions, you would always have either guards or shocktroops to support your cons. And its just like with both Ost and OKW where you need to elite\semi-elite inf to support your mainline with.
Like for real, soviets are not the strongest faction, but at the same time if you dont like them and you want yolo mainline, play UKF\USF stop pushing this agenda of "if its an allied mainline it has to be godlike at somepoint".
Or if you want to state that every single soviet unit is useless shit, therefore cons have to be super good and durable, then say so.
And on a side note. Considering MR doesnt requare both molys and AT nades, you can now get it even faster then before, because most of the time you will be skipping molotovs anyway.
Moly cost - 85mp 10 fuel
AT nade - 125 mp 10 fuel
Reserves - 100 mp 20 fuel.
In live reserves cost you 310mp 40 fuel.
In patch, for comparison:
With AT nades, no moly - 15mp 10 fuel, considering savings from molly.
With Moly, no AT nades - 25mp saved 10 fuel, considering savings from AT.
Without AT\moly - 110mp saved and 0 fuel, considering savings from both moly and AT nades.
And also cons litteraly just lost 10% acc on vet3, while now they will get +20% exp just by unlocking MR, meaning that Svt\PPsH or cons with picked up weapons will vet up faster and you are no longer locked into upgrading all cons with 7men in order to get benefits from MR.