USF vs Ostheer still horrible MU

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 16:11 PM__deleted__

Unlikely. Unless I am very mistaken, MG42 has the exact same suppression value as in the last patch, meaning, if you run into it at short range&no cover, you will get suppressed on the first burst, otherwise, its gonna need at least 2. All it did receive, in practical terms, was a long range damage buff. Because the long range damage output was exactly its problem ...

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 17:09 PMRMMLz

The main problem with MG42 is the RNG of:
1)burst duration
2)cooldown between bursts

Sometimes, the MG starts firing, but because of RNGesus, it stops before if can suppress, if you are even more unlucky they take for ever to fire again. By that time, you either have a frag or a smoke grenade up your ass.

But, with the current changes, they are gonna vet faster. A vet 2 MG42 is a pain in the ass for the enemy.

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 17:12 PMAlexzandvar

The MG42's biggest problem is it's fragility. It could fire 120mm shells but if the gunner gets sniped easily then it doesn't matter.

It's been suggested before, just make it so the gunner is always the last crew member to die, that or removed the 25% more received accuracy it gets.

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 17:55 PMdaspoulos

The 222 40 hp increase helped, but that doesn't make the scout car any better at killing anything. Snipers are great, in fact out of the 3 ive made Ive got 2 to vet 3 with 40+ kills. But even with all that, going snipers as wehr removes a lot of pushing power. Maybe cuz I was fighting guards. Tiger is meh, gets kited all day by jacksons, I'd say the best unit to fight jacksosn are shrecked pgrens. Panthers still unaffordable. Not really in terms of fuel even though it is expensive, but in manpower. I'm pretty sure ost spends the most resources in terms of manpower on tech.

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 18:08 PMbraciszek

Trying to tech with Ost reasonably, you do lose a lot of manpower - compared to USF practically getting the MP back and OKW having nice buildings. Soviets either half tech from design or dont tech and call in IS-2's...

A reasonable adjustment (which we will all have to wait for who knows how long because of Relic's "priorities") would indeed give back a considerable amount of manpower which could have been used making another squad.

Jump back to quoted post1 Apr 2015, 17:09 PMRMMLz

The main problem with MG42 is the RNG of:
1)burst duration
2)cooldown between bursts

Sometimes, the MG starts firing, but because of RNGesus, it stops before if can suppress, if you are even more unlucky they take for ever to fire again. By that time, you either have a frag or a smoke grenade up your ass.