Profile of Snipester

Conscripts need a buff. That's fine.

You can buff the Maxim like that once you decrease it's squad size and increase its reinforce cost. Adding those changes you mentioned would be ridiculous. Maxims are currently just annoying AF, not really OP.

Penals are in an odd spot right now. I feel like satchels provide a surprising amount of utility by being able to destroy pretty much any building. They're good against engine hampered vehicles and noobs that can't micro either!

Soviet snipers shouldn't have 2 men and have sprint, it's just silly, but you can't buff them to the level of the Ost sniper because that would also be too much to handle for squads with 4 men. It's a sticky issue.

But the 2 most broken Sov units are Shocks and the ISU. Shocks are just too tough, and can run through fire even without smoke and shred squads.

ISU is just laughably broken though. Too tough + amazing vs. infantry and taks. All it lacks is speed and a turret. The thing even sights for itself. Jagdtiger is broken too but at least it can't sight for itself. IMO these long ranged vehicles just don't deserve a spot in this game at all.

Please create a balance server for testing strategies. Please.

Ever since I saw Relic employees streaming themselves playing automatch and DoW on the clock at the offices, I have had less than rosy opinions on how, at the very least, those that balance this game treat the game and community.

Not just from the fact that they were doing it, but also how they were doing it. This is just the instance where people just got fed up enough. This isn't a first occasion.

Its one of the reasons I haven't bought a bit of content for CoH2 since Code Blue.

I agree with you that the streaming is a bit much, unless it's of new content or discussions about balance, etc.

However, I think that playing on automatch is actually one of the best ways to test how units are performing. Have you ever heard someone say that if you're having trouble against a certain build/strategy, you should switch to that faction, copy that BO/strat and see how people counter it? They can only get so much stimuli on a test server. The reason Brad went kubel spam/rush (I would assume) was to see how people counter it, if it's reasonably countered at all. If it's too hard to beat -> nerf bat comes a'swingin'.

IMO adding homing to the USF AT nade really hurt the usefulness of the Ost scout car against them, like really hurt it. Not to mention that a 6 minute HT or slightly later Stuart basically take a dump on this unit. There's not much of a point to it because it just delays the time to Tiger and is cannon fodder to most USF vehicles that will be on the field.

Used to, you could harass with 222 (run it up at point blank) and inflict some heavy MP drain on rifles while HT was somewhere else on the map. Its effectiveness has dropped a lot since then.

Thunderrage MVGame

This was a crazy game, 7 Tigers, 2 KTs, 6 or so IS-2s. It was a bit sloppy, but nonetheless a fun one to play and even better to win.