Profile of drChengele

Units visible in WP even without LOS is consistent with the rest of the game - units taking damage from you or dealing damage to you are visible to you. This is separate from LOS calculations. So this is not a bug but can definitely be confusing on a vision obscuring ability that also damages.

From what I know WP should obscure vision 100% of the time, if it does not, it's a separate bug.

The death crit should be removed.

The range on the ability should be toned down because it makes zero sense and has no ingame justification at all.

Meanwhile Ost Bunkers get destroyed by a 15munitions ability x)

<.< >.> I'm out of the loop, what ability is that? Molotov (which didn't destroy bunkers last time I checked)?

Stuka Bombing Strike: Effective vs noobs and afk people.

I love how this thread is full of pearls like this even though the OP starts with literally the best USF player in the world at the moment, and the winner of the biggest tournament ever, getting his arse handed to him by this ability.

DevM is not infallible, of course, but mass retreats happen even to him. I find the notion in this thread is that you must perform Matrix level micro at all points of the game and never retreat more than 1 squad at the time, otherwise YOU are the noob, for falling to this incredibly complex maneuver of left click commander ability -> left click target.

Who is the real noob here again?

This ability is currently too strong for cost and for the fact it has no visual warning. It is also one of the more spammed abilities in team games, where it is very difficult to know the target, and you cannot ensure that you won't get wiped unless you literally move your entire static line every time you hear the warning sound (let's even be generous and assume you can issue all the relevant commands in 20 microseconds after hearing the sound). It may take a long time to land, but the sound is not instantaneous, either, nor does it start at full volume, so especially in large battles it is easy to lose a lot to it.

Literally nobody complained that it was too expensive or its AoE too weak before. But suddenly it is okay now? So you are saying it was underpowered before? Which is it? It can't be both.

Just to be clear, I do not mind that the light artillery pieces suppress.

Sadly I agree that US forces are lacking in the blob counter department, especially what EffenNewbie said about the .50cal. But this problem is on the .50cal, I don't think it was ever ingame without some bugged modifier or another. All you need to know about its effectiveness is that people didn't get much use for it even when it had +15% accuracy instead of +15% received accuracy standard for weapon teams (or was it +25%? I forget).

But does all that mean that LeIG and Pack howie should suppress? Well, I don't think the suppression is the problem as much as its pinpoint accuracy. Light artillery pieces should be there for long range fire support. They should be the death of weapon teams and stationary emplacements, a natural choice for when the opponent entrenches. Currently they do not fulfil just this role, they are anti-everything-on-2-legs.

If the little guns don't suppress, then what is their intended role?

Long range killing of dudes with stuff. LeIG and Pack Howie were used before they got supression. They weren't stellar, but noone ever said "wtf do I use these units for".