Profile of Esxile

There is nothing to indicated that game was balanced around arranged teams.

On the contrary silly things like donating weapon/calliopes/priest across team members where removed.

For year the game was being balanced around 1vs1 and the other modes where a mess I am pretty sure most people would not like to back to that.

The modding team never hided it. They had the objective to make arranged team more balanced for the reason I exposed, I didn't invent anything that what they say. Where I think they lie to us is the narrative they made of Relic not wanting to allow the necessary changed to compensate their nerf. They always knew Relic wouldn't allow those changes, they probably asked before but still knowing the answer they decided to go through it with the only condition that wouldn't impact much the 1vs1 competitive scene.
1vs1 competitive scene is fine and working if you're happy to see every time the same boring meta. Arranged team competitive scene is working as intended, there are many tournaments 2vs2, 3vs3 and 4vs4. Only thing that doesn't work anymore is the basis of balance between every factions outside of Sov and Ostheer.

Multiplayer could have some assets free to play like custom games, this could serve as demo for new players willing to give a try, obviously they could also be limited in their parameters like in number of game played per day, maps or cosmetics available. The rest could then be unlocked by paying the game/suscription.

I am not fully sure which wind up/down delay is applied when, but I am fairly certain that at least wind down comes after the actual shot.
I think the initial shot should not be later than 0.75 seconds taking aim time into account. Otherwise I would have missed that the Jackson would always take approximately teo seconds for the first shot. Don't think that this is the case

As Hannibal already pointed out, it's only the windup and aim times that are applied before a shot is fired, so there's only a ~0.75 s delay (0.5 windup + 0.125 fire aim + 0.125 ready aim) before the 1st shot. The aim times happen to be the same for almost every tank in the game (typically 1 frame), so the actual difference between, say, a Jackson and P4 firing is "just" 0.5 s. Now this can arguably be a lot in a firefight where split seconds can decide a winner, but it's still far off from 1.6 s.
Also note that windup/winddown only apply once per firing cycle, so they don't add up quite the way you suggested. A tank with 1 s windup, 1 s winddown and 3 s reload will have exactly the same ROF as a tank with zero windup/winddown and 5 s reload. The only difference would be that, if both were ordered to fire simultaneously, the tank with 1 s windup would always shoot 1 s later.

Yes, it makes sense. I didn't know how to count on the wind up and wind down, thanks for the explaination. At least its not so bad on paper.

Still the Jackson is the slowest alpha strike shooter because of that, I did some test yesterday and 90% of time it shoot its alpha strike around a second later than any other tank. This is something I saw in game (and the reason why I decided to dig in) because when you're forced into a slugfest between tanks even if you're in a slightly favored situation many time you can't capitalized on it because the M36 will not shot in time.

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I've been in situation where the jackson just had to shoot but shot later than its target that had to roll its turret before shooting.

The second situation that is much more problematic is the incapacity to perform hit and run with it. Unless your in ideal situation at max range with vision on its target, the Jackson is working on one leg. Every time you'll show up to shot, you'll be shot first by any at source your opponent has in range, can be the same tank, can be another tank or an atgun, thing that you can avoid with other tanks doing the same action.

What I mean is that unless you're in ideal condition, which you'll never be because maps don't allow it, you're disadvantaged everytime with your jackson.

Medic crates for SP at Vet 0 were added like a hundred years ago, in the same patch that T70's HP was increased to 400, and SP vet buffs have nothing to do with the early game. You're literally pulling shit out of your ass. I had to scroll through to fucking 2017 to find the "recent OKW early game buffs" you're talking about.

Literal stats say Pioneers lose so badly to Riflemen that you're a complete joke of a human being. It's not a strawman to point out that you're barely capable of mouth-breathing.

Rifleman absolutely roflstomp Pioneers at any and every range. It's a 5 man squad which out-dpses Pioneers by 25% at 0-10 range, 200% at mid range, and 650% at long range while having 28% more effective HP and way lower DPS attrition. Pioneers literally only hurt because most players stand in knife distance for 10 seconds while trying to flank and kill an mg42.

Do I think REs suck? Yes, I hate them, and I wish they could at least build sandbags and lay real mines. I use them almost exclusively for wiring and back-capping until Zook duty.

Stawman one time, strawman evertime. I let you compare SP vs RE at close range and Riflemen vs Pioneer at close range. The difference isn't value the 20 manpower difference.

I've played about 50 UKF 1v1s the past 2 months and got up to rank 9 UKF in 1v1. I can very confidently talk about the faction and how badly it does vs Ost. The Ostheer and JLI matchups is why people usually don't play UKF anymore.

Also Maxim > Vickers, idgaf what people think. Vickers is literal filth, no suppression whatsoever and literally useless once suppressed.

I don't know why you think Sextons aren't niche, everyone plays lend lease, commandos or hold the line docs high up in the ladder atm.

JLI is OP vs everything, but that nothing new. Only the modding team find them balanced.