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One thing that annoys me when I play usf is how bad their stock anti-camping weapons perform. There are some mortar changes being tested out on the new balance preview, but I was thinking more about the scott. The scott performs the same role as the he sherman, they both are good vs moving or stationary infantry. Maybe it is time to rework the scott to be less effective vs infantry squads but more devastating vs bunkers, static weapons, or campers. One way of doing this is to to make auto-fire less effective and make the barrage more powerful. As of now, it takes little skill to use.
I think some changes ,to make it more barrage focused, will be healthy for both sides.
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I guess we may add some more tweaks/suggestions for usf balance to keep the title relevant, I should have made this into a m8a1 scott thread.
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the major artillery is the USF's analog of the rocket artillery for the okw/wehr/sov, but several limitation restrict its usefulness.
Major artillery range should be increased to 80m (with vet bonus), and be callable into FOW with scatter penalty.
And while the major artillery is a munition ability, the USF can compensate by building munition cache. Two munition cache cost around the same as a katyusha anyway.
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Or keep the same range but remove red smoke warning, and add a sound warning.
Major artillery is simply OP. It is dirty cheap can be combined with recon flight and one can even sacrifices the major to use and buy a new one if he need him.
It has little counter other then relocating when possible. It does not need to be buffed.
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Lol major artillery OP... Players have plainty of time to remove their units from the area before the first shell land.
No smoke and adding a sound effect would make it more like regular onfield artillery.
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Being on recieving end of Stuka Dive Bomb have taught me that abilites with wipe potential without red smoke is complete bullshit and their existence makes this game only worse.
BUT!
I'm always up for making other side taste their own medicine, so I agree with your suggestion about removing red smoke and making this game shittier. The ends justifies the means.
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Being on recieving end of Stuka Dive Bomb have taught me that abilites with wipe potential without red smoke is complete bullshit and their existence makes this game only worse.
BUT!
I'm always up for making other side taste their own medicine, so I agree with your suggestion about removing red smoke and making this game shittier. The ends justifies the means.
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Honestly the Sherman needs a small buff as it stands now that the P4 has had such a drastic increase in performance.
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Honestly the Sherman needs a small buff as it stands now that the P4 has had such a drastic increase in performance.
I don't however find USF indirect fire lacking at close range *due to the mortar barrage being rly good* but I would say the long range pak howi is pretty bad due to its cool-down, scatter, 3 man crew, and the fact that most of its medium to close range is worthless.
Another thing that rly bugs me about usf is the core Riflemen squad's 5th man seeming to drop off a drop of a hat meaning you lose DPS while closing in on long range units like volks.
It makes it extremely stressful and hard to get around the range limitations of USF early on or until you get bars but its such a long stretch that you endlessly fight and up hill battle due to the manpower drain.
iirc the sherman AP is best in class so theres that at least. the p4 has been underperforming since WFA came out so if its finally top dog i think thats probably fine
Check out the thread on reworking the pack howi into a traditional onmap artillery piece, except slightly less powerful per shot and with less range compared to stationary guns, but retaining mobility. It would distinguish it from the mortars and give USF a more dedicated artillery unit that fills the barrage only, area denial IDF. Yes, Major artillery is sort of that right now, but it requires a lot of munitions if you use it a lot and is very easily dodged. This lets the Major still have his recon and artillery abilities remain useful and unchanged, but give USF a way to tech specifically for artillery like all other factions can.
It’s not homongeous, it’s different in execution but has a similar end state.
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