Profile of Esxile

I disagree with you here. Elite anti-infantry specialists only buildable from 12 to 15 mins onwards being able to counter mainline 260mp infantry shouldn't be seen as a problem.

Basically what you want is Riflemen to be way too good - infantry that scales perfectly and has no weaknesses at any point in the game. Their current late game stats would be completely unacceptable for a 260mp unit.

Riflemen are designed right now to start off very weak, become decent, and become super powerful late game. Volks are good early game and have an STG power-spike in midgame, but are mediocre late game. The asymmetry in when they get their power boosts is problematic for the USF vs OKW matchup, but making Riflemen overly cost-effective is only going to swing things the other way with USF becoming too overpowering in infantry engagements.

lol. So your solution is to keep Riflemen early game being somewhat equal to what they are today but cheaper, so they don't have the upper hand on volks. And then late game, when they would start to get that upper hand being ripe off by falls/obers because reason.

But since you say it shouldn't be a problem, just explain yourself: how.

Riflemen have never being design to be weak early game, quite the opposite in fact. They always been so strong that the entire USF design revolved around paywalls and hard strategical decision to mitigate their potential. The situation we are today is the result of late design to make all factions equal early-to-late game but never took in consideration that USF is laking tools and struggling with a specific design that can't work anymore the moment your remove the advantage to riflemen.

like other factions ? what ? did they steal the frag and molotov ? or cons sand bags ? other factions have equivalents abilities

Only Cons have sandbag native but they don't have stock upgrades, everything else had to be paid to unlock. We're talking about cumulative tools that make them super strong for a cheap price. Now I know they need that vs Soviet Penal start, we can't really nerf volks and not touching penal or nerfing penal and not touching volks.

You'll only feel that you're waiting for the mp to start building your next riflesquad

A lot of people have said this, but I struggle to see how. Volks are 250, rifles are 280, IS are 280, cons are 240, penals are 300.


I just don't see in which comparison volks punch above their weight (besides non-ppsh-doc cons, which again doesn't say much).

Volks comes with sandbag and OKW don't need to pay to unlock grenade. I think volks are simply too good early game before BARs and STGs not because they are equal to riflemen but because they have more tools to mitigate damage and deal damage.
Also STGs are usually available before BARs and much easier to access since you don't need to retreat to equip them.
Last, Volks pushing above their weight is to be looked at in conjunction with Sturmpioneer, here again also during the early game.

In synthesis, this feeling is more about how OKW can easily snowball vs USF, if this happens then Volks end being fully equiped with STGs and flamnade and keeping territory behind sandbags while USF has hard time to equip BARs, forget about grenade, and face the inevitable Luch that's participate to the bleed. OKW access HMG to lock territory and a raketen to cover the Luch while the USF player has to decide which one he wants more.

Volks is imo more an image of the OKW/USF matchup, the tree that hide the forest because more visible, more than the most imbalance point.

At the end, we're going back to what Relic want to do with USF. USF is still design as an early aggressive faction (5men squad) with tools for that and lack of tools to do anything else (no sandbag+no backcapping unit+no grenades+no mines). But at the same time in reality USF is not the aggressive faction vs OKW but still lack the defensive tools while OKW get the offensive tools (ST+5men volks squad+flamnade), caping (Kubel) tools and defensive tools (Sandbag+mines).

Something something free squads with tech

Free squad isn't going to make riflemen any better vs Volks/gren.