Profile of Esxile

So do we know whats going on with Relic or are we just going to wait for Coh3

What could have happened and so what could happen in the future.

1- Since months, Relic and Grosoft are on a deal to conclude a partnership on AOE4.
2- The deal is conclude but Relic can't start recruting new staff until Grosoft officially annonce the game.
3- Weeks or months are passing, Relic does not know when Grosoft is going to annonce the game, on the mean time, Relic allows some devs to work on Coh2 patchs.
4- Finally Grosoft decides to annonce AOE4, the deal start right now.
5- Relic need to hire new people, They can't have done that before the annoncement because it is part of the deal with Grosoft and of course also because they did't know when it does start. They may have started some shadow discussion with new staff but nothing official, so Relic decides to relocate all his people into AOE4 project until they reach critical mass + 1 or 2 and then send back some devs to Coh2's patchs design.

This can take weeks or months until they reach that critical mass for AOE4. I don't think COH2 support is doomed, they will come back later on it when they'll have people availabe.

PS: When I say Relic doesn't know when Microsoft will annonce the game, I mean they don't know until a week or two before, the deal may have been conclude 6 months ago. But that doesn't change the fact they can't hire people before.

Well, alright, please specify your point then.

You should have act on the balance as you acted on bug fixing. Fixing the balance, not trying to change the gameplay between factions.

Penals are a great example of failing to fixing the balance and instead changing the gameplay around their usage like givinh them PTRS and sticky satchels while a balance fix would have been removing the FlameThrower or to link it to a late tier or upgrade + reduce a bit their non-vet stat.
The M36 Jackson is another example moving it from a long range TD to a dive-in expensive TD just because of Jagtiger and Elefant.

I'm not saying what you did wasn't good but wasn't requested by Relic.

4 Rifles into captain tech and 4 bars. And the game is yours vs okw^^

Why is that so? lack of balance?

Isn't Volks the problem? I find Cons ok vs Ostheer.

My reasoning is simple, at the moment Cons are getting really hurt by GrenLMG42, the Soviet players also get access to Shock/Guard via doctrine but mainly get access to the T-70 or the M5 to balance the fight.
Somehow one faction should have the worst infantry squad if we don't want a perfect mirroring between factions. The question is how is it balance around that and Ostheer not having access to light/medium armored tank is an answer to Cons being inferior to grenLMG42.

Now OKW is another topic. Volks are simply too good for the balance sake, that's not a secret.

I'am still not convinced the changes brought to the Jacksons are going to be balanced in teamgame. I'am really afraid Jacksons + Su85 or Jacksons + FF are going to dominate the 4vs4 meta.
I mean the FBP Jackson is good in 1vs1 and probably 2vs2. But 4vs4 is another story, sadly it is almost impossible to test, I have already difficulties just to do a FBP 1vs1...

In my opinion, TDs/mediums/heavies are balance in the live version today if we exclude the Jagtiger and Elefant from the table. There are some minor changes to be done of course around them but I think the FBP are taking good care of them.

The Jacksons, as much as the USF faction is badly design, is ok today. So why taking the risk to sink the balance between TDs/mediums/heavies in teamgame in order to get the Jackson relevant on late game vs the Efe and Jag? Why not simply work around the Elefant and Jagtiger because they are the biggest offender here.

I don't think those two tanks should see their stats nerfed neither than the Jackson buffed. So the solutions I propose, and many other players already mentioned already are quite simple.

1- Make repairing them cost manpower and fuel, a full repair could cost between 1/3 and 1/2 of their initial price.

2- Make them un-repairable neither from pioneers, sturmpioneers or the OKW truck. Once dead, you must call another one. To mitigate it, remove the engine damage on them.

Both solutions would reduce the resource gap between their initial cost and the resource cost allied factions have to put together to take them down. We all agree that the problem isn't when you kill them but when you leave them at 10% life while losing your tanks. They come back full life couple of minutes later for free while you must reinvest manpower and fuel to try to counter them a new time.

Both solutions would actually make them vulnerable to TDs since each pen shot on them would cost the player resources, or on reparation or after its death to call another one.

Applying one of those solutions would reduce the number of Jag and Ele per game and players would actually think about it before calling them. They would lose their status of TD that counter anything for a high initial cost but in fact quite a small one in comparison with what your opponents must invest to take them down.

This would reward good players on both side and punish sitting ducks that just repair after each attack.

This also wouldn't affect at all the rest of the balance if for instance they become too weak. Some tweek are probably required like increasing a bit more the Efe range.