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Just wondering how many games you lose/win with a Kubel in your early BO since the last patch.

Many people here say the unit is fine but what fine does means? giving you a 100% victories strike, 80% or 50%?

As USF player, since the patch I won about less than 30% of my games in 1vs1 and 10% of my 2vs2, easy 1 over 10 games, dropped from 800 to 1900.

I played vs Xeno on a 2vs2 - river map, USF-Sov / OKW-OKW and we faced 4 kubels, yes they made 2 kubels each, we never had the opportunity to take one single fuel point. Next, one of them rushed Puma to counter any eventual T2 (lol how could we with no fuel) and we where sitting in our starting zone. It took barely 10 minutes to end the game, I made it last a bit longer by popping AT guns.

My Sov partner took one kubel with a M3, next, with no fuel facing the 3 last ones... no chance at all.

I'm not really blaming players, same the one who pushed me with his truck and suppress with the kubel - lovely - and we ended the game in 10 minutes. But Relic who day after days show me how amateurs they are in every single aspect of that game and everything around it.

A+Moved a blob into a Vet 5 Kubel backed by Volksgrenadiers and Obersoldaten. I have no sympathy and am glad he got his ass handed to him. Blobbing already lets you get away with waaaay more than it should. If anything, him winning would show that the Kubel at it's apex can't even effectively deal with blobbing, similarly to other MG's.

Is blobbing going out from your HQ sector? the Kubel has better range of sigh, there is no way for the USF player to know where the kubel is before being pinned.

What I understand from that topic is that USF faction is far more difficult to take in hand. Nothing new from the heaven.

But I have to admit that Relic made it easier than for CoH, thanks to smoke gren.

Now the main issue is the addition of design for USF

1- You have to lead the game, take decision to win early game which is not easy when you are a noob. This is not properly a design issue but put a lot of pressure as USF player since you cannot do like other factions, defend and counter attack.
2- You have to win early game, 15 minutes, or it's over. Even more when you are a noob.
3- So this means, you have to understand quickly some concepts like flanking when, while playing as Axis or Soviet there is always the option to wait, defend, and counter attack when you have your elite infantry.
4- Your early unit pool is the poorest from all factions, rifles, rifles rifles, if only RE were not that useless.
-5 Playing USF is less forgiving since if you lose a rifle squad, you have to build a new one from scratch, when with all other factions, you can replace it with a elite infantry squad - unless you choose Paratroop doctrine.
-6 Playing Soviet or Axis help you little since those factions does not have this imperative to understand that simple concept of flanking at noob - low level.

Relic design as usual, They thought the unit was overpowered and they decided to remove it from the playing items - but as they can do that properly - they just change requirement for unrealistic ones.

The jeep now comes out at the same time with the lieutenant, from a T0 unit, Relic change it as T2 one, but without buffs or cost reduction to balance the delay.

Just forget Mech doctrine, play Ass Engineer until they nerf them to CP1 as well and make them useless.

And you wonder why nobody takes you seriously with comments like this.

It's honestly unfair to compare Valve to Relic, though. Valve is an private, independent developer, while Relic is owned by a publicly-traded company. Valve owns their distribution platform and can push updates out on a whim, while Relic is essentially working on a third-party platform. I agree that Valve's iterative approach to releases is superior to Relic's shotgun blast approach, but I'd imagine much of that is out of their immediate control.

It is, yes.

But if Relic communicate with his Beta tester pool, the company still have problem to communicate with the community in general. I'm glad to see they have a blog when all the last updates in it are crappy information.
Let's make things clear, the game is far more complex than Starcraft2 or other usual RTS games but the communication level his too high level and sometime too superficial. From time to time we have a detailed and technical answer to a question and everyone is happy but those moment are too rare.

The company image suffer a lot from that, because there is a clear lack of detailed closed answers to basic questions. Maybe they want to keep every doors open, but maybe it just confusing everyone.

My last personal comment: look at the official forum, WFA is release since 2 months now and still the forum isn't updated with proper sections dedicated to USF ans OKW.