i don't argue that some of the changes, especially for USF have missed the mark, at least from my point of view. but i do acknowledge that i sometimes just don't have the full picture as to why some of these changes were made in the form they were and thus my judgment isn't always gospel - which is something people should consider for themselves every now and then. that's all i wanted to say i guess and apologies if it came across the wrong way.
couple this with the fact that this is only the first iteration of the beta and a lot of these changes are a bit over the top on purpose i'd say it's a bit too early for a final judgment.
You don't need to be an autistic 1v1 top 10 player to see many of the changes are biased as shit, especially because the "balance" team doesn't care about team games at all. You can also clearly see the game is slowly but steadily becoming a samey "e-sports" game which is laughable because I wouldn't count those tournaments for the 10 people stil playing them e-sports.
With every game I've played recently I'm losing more and more will to play this game thanks to the bullshit that still hasn't been touched because it wasn't deemed a problem by the few top literal whos and this commander patch is just going to speed up this process.
I remember the Calliope being able to fire it's main gun and the barrage had an ammo cost but then they removed both in the old CoH.
Maybe give it the same stats as the regular Sherman here and a toggle for the main gun plus a bigger price to equal it's effectiveness?
Axis screeching would have no end if you could use the Calliope as a normal Sherman although I would like that change.