Patch Video

http://www.twitch.tv/relicentertainment/b/567569238

Fast Forward to 11:00 because that is when the video begins

This was linked to me in a thread. I just wanna post this to let everyone hear what Relic has to say about balance and the current patch. Nice to hear them actually talk about the patch and answer some questions.

They are aware of some of the issues we have talked about on this forums although their progress seems very slow

I wish that WFA never came out, I hate it. Already with all the commanders it was so hard to balance things and now I simply feel everything is a mess and lost hope.

So Noun has a broken vocal cord. I always wondered what was up with his voice, but it seemed rude to ask.

Nice to hear them talk about patches and give reasons for changes.

I genuinely thought Noun just had the worst luck with colds. But that makes sense, I feel for the guy - must be hard community facing sometimes, getting stupid impersonal questions or (as I've seen) insults about it.

Glad to hear they will review the older commanders. That's a bit highlight for me - the amount of crappy commanders we ALREADY OWN.

Highlights for those who don't want to watch:

They are more focused on refining balance/bug fixes than new content due to the ESL tournament.

They suggest they are looking into rebindable hotkeys and MG reloading.

All changes to infantry are not intended to change overall unit power/value - no nerfs or buffs.

New custom match maps may go into automatch in time, Relic wants to see how they do and fine tune them.

Call-ins were brought up, Noun's response was "tell us what you want us to do." No mention of a change in the pipeline. Later, they say that any call-in change will have a significant impact (especially on Soviets), so they don't want to rush a solution. It may take time.

They are "keeping an eye on" Assault Engineers.

Question about new 4v4 maps. "Possibly something coming up in November."

They are interested in the idea of a "PBE beta" environment for people to try out balance changes before they go live.

Missing changes in official changelog are an unfortunate error.

Wehrmacht/Soviet faction design as a whole being worked on, very long term thing however.

They are trying to find a way to keep old replays useable. No indication of timeline.

thanks Kalliopolan

Nice news

The question dodge for the call-in question was kinda cringeworthy.

It went something like this:

"We understand the call-in issue and are looking into uit"

"Tell us your suggestions on how to fix it"

this is paraphrasing but it was lol?

This forum has been screaming for changes to call-ins with different ideas being thrown around. It is ridiculous that they answered with "tell us your suggestions". my god, I wanted to throw my keyboard at the screen

Really nice to hear it straight from Relic. And yeah, they definitely need to standardize the community maps they put into the game. Some of them have uber high resource income and it screws up the game pace.

Did you guys know about that vet bug Peter mentioned!?
I did not and this sound huge to me.

Yeah it was hotfixed. but who knows how long it has existed before being fixed.

I had the impression it has been in there longer..
Or was this an issue introduced with the big update?