Profile of Overkillius

Someone finally quotes one of Alex's many contradictions to his own statements, Hero of Soviet Union.

There is no contradiction.

"The idea for every nerf or removal there needs to be a buff is insane and stupid and has no bearing on Relic's history at all."

In other words "There is no inherent reason that, without exception, nerfs/removals should be accompanied by buffs."

"Nobody is asking for the Jackson to be put back to it's old state, I would be very very happy to see it just get 160 damage and have the USF AT gun get a large buff and the zook get a large buff. USF needs more diverse AT."

In other words "It is my opinion that this specific situation of USF AT options warrants a buff to accompany a nerf."

Those two statements don't contradict eachother.

Am I wrong? I don't know Alex's history on the forums (it's probably not relevant to the present conversation), but it seems, to me at least, that a lot of people tend to go out of their way to discount him on false pretenses (judging by his post count, I've been on forums enough that I think I understand why some may feel like that). Now if he quotes a stat or something that is completely off then sure, tell him he's wrong, but he isn't really doing that right now, and he isn't contradicting himself.

Nerfs don't have to be accompanied by buffs or vice versa. It is done that way sometimes, keyword "some" which is different than "every". Maybe I'm wrong and Alex is just always wrong because reasons, but it seems nonconstructive to call him, or any other member for that reason, out on stuff when he isn't even guilty of what you call him out on.

That said, I personally don't think that demos necessarily need removing, but they should be changed significantly as others have mentioned: teching prerequisites, 3 second detonation timer, only allowed to be placed on buildings, cover, bridges, and ice, sniper stealth instead of mine stealth, complete removal, or something else that brings it away from the frustrating state it is currently in.

I actually had no clue about clicking and dragging for taking cover; I always thought that it was intuitive enough with just right clicking. I'm probably just wasting too much time that could be spent microing better I guess?

I've never had the problem with vaulting described here. You don't need to click that close to fences to get into cover by them. Though I have had the problem where I tell my unit to vault and they go to the other side of the fence and vault back to where they began.

The MG is supposed to be a supression weapon; it doesn't do more damage because units 'hit the dirt' (get suppressed) so that they don't get caught by the massive amounts of bullets being sprayed. In the game, it takes as long as it does to supress so it isn't stupid to use, forcing you to spot for it for maximum effect.

It isn't supposed to kill your enemy and it isn't unrealistic that it doesn't.

Nading an MG isn't that big of a deal since it takes munitions, so forcing your enemy to use munitions like that can work out in your favor. I personally think it is a heroic thing to do hur hur hur.
I do think it would be awesome for MGs to get exp for supression or at least exp for units dying while they are suppressing them though.

Doesn't work against that kind of mobility. best bet is to get the flaktrack out first.

setup time combined with it's small arc and range means it's very hard to take down any M3.

It seems only useful in a building to deny M3 from entering the area but that is really map dependent.

Ah, makes sense.

People keep calling this a mobile base to try to exaggerate how bad it is, but it isn't.

By the time it actually is a base and can call in units, it becomes a permanent structure. This is not like what the brits had.

Another thing is that only 2 of the 4 bases can actually reinforce squads or be set as retreat points, and it is not like it becomes an amazing forward base to churn out units; CoH2 dispatches units from off the map.

Only one of them is anything close to a mobile base since it can move before it permanently becomes a reinforce/retreat point. Otherwise, the other two are just repair stations and flak emplacements that lock down territory. Oh, and you can only have 1 of each.

The trucks aren't mobile bases. One is a normal base, and the other is an expensive forward base that is vulnerable to small arms fire.

There are plenty of good ways to deal with it proposed in this thread, and it will be fixed soon. Don't exaggerate.