Profile of sluzbenik

I mean two shoutcasters, not in the same location...I guess as you're recording Windows mixer sound with Fraps, Skype calls or whatever just get picked up by that as well?

Vet PZIVs are so cool.

You can check out his stream from last night here: http://www.twitch.tv/pqumsieh/b/429678098

Two games. Result: The devs won as Axis, the "pros" won as Axis.

Hmm, maybe this says something about balance, eh?

2v2 needs to be viable guys. It has to be.

I agree with all of Porygon's points. This game is simplified, cartoonish, and imbalanced.

I said as much in a post on the beta forums that got closed. Now it just seems ok because most here are 1v1ers and in 1v1 a bit more tactics are required, there is something like the "dance," etc. In 2v2 everything is just worse 5x, and forget about 3v3 and 4v4.

The complexity of COH meant that even 4v4s were roughly balanced, lots of people doing totally different stuff, but here if you don't do A, B will kill you. If you do too much of A (clown cars), then C (PZiV) will kill you.

This didn't exist in COH quite the same. He's got 2 mgs, ok I'll get WSC or go fast M8. Or I get nades. Lots of choices. Not so in COH2. Molotovs are OK in 1v1, but on all these team maps with too many chokepoints, it's very hard to pull off a flank where they are effective, thus clown cars...But the PZiV and teching is so cheap, and it's so easy to stay in T1 that you can afford to rush it. The constant engine damage critical means even a fast T70 isn't THAT big a problem, unlike an M8 which would probably just take damage and run away from a faust or be able to micro out of the way. It's much more effective in this game to rush the PzIV and backtech to shreks if needed later. Avoiding T2 and Panzergrens also leaves you much less vulnerable to snipers (though it does give you a counter too) as your won't have brutal manpower losses from reinforcing Pgrens.

Frankly the balance is so bad now thanks to the buffed Ostheer MGs and mortars team games are even more lopsided than they were before. Lose the casual base, lose the game. I think Relic really needs to pay attention here.

I think 1) get rid of the 100% chance engine damage critical, 2) EITHER reduce Axis mortar speed or set the crews back to 3, 3) buff the AT guns because their accuracy is total shite on both sides, 4) make microing out of AT nade/faust range possible.

If those 4 things are done, you'd be surprised at how much more interesting the game suddenly gets.

Great game, over an hour long, won with less than 50 points...ISU-152 vs. Elefant, sneaky SU-35s using blizzard to creep up on said Elefant, lots of mayhem, a totally retarded but effective Maxim spam.

Use smoke. I'm going to sticky this on my monitor until I actually do it.

Pretty close victory...