Profile of Diogenes5

Where were you when OKW was introduced with Schwerer HQ locking down sectors?
How Bofors counters Stug or Puma? Barrage should be removed and then even AT Gun will counter it without any problems.

Becasue figthing OKW blob protected by Schwerer, supported by ISGs with Med HQ does not require X times more micro to beat?

And trucks are already nerfed to the ground and schwerer HQ is literally the tier 4 truck. Boforus comes 15 minutes earlier. Exaggerate much?

And people say that I'm an OKW fanboi.....

A lone bofors is easily beaten by a barraging ISG, which fires well outside the Bofors barrage range. For more complex defenses (2 x mortar pits + bofors + fwd hq) these take time to pt up. For OKW ISGs with some micro can shut this down as long as you act early. Yes cancer commander will beat you, but after the May patch CB becomes much less of an issue. OST have mortars in T1 and flame half track in T2. The lattr will melt through your typical emplacement spammer as they will have spent all their resources on....emplacements and not on AT. If you can't work around the Bofors that's your own fault.

This whole thing is much ado about nothing once more.

Player card please. You sound like a patch Brit. Everything you said is 100% wrong. ISG and mortar teams do not counter emplacements effectively. And flame halftrack against a bofors? ROFLMAO.

Bofors and overpowered emplacements occurs when you have no lead game designer because it violates so many basic principles of fundamental balance and fun gameplay.

Tenet 1: Combined Arms should matter and always beat spam of any one unit.

Coh2 at its best at least pays some credence to this idea. But the design of Bofurs completely fails this idea because Bofors counters the units that counters them. It really ridiculous that bofors can counter artillery and paks.

Tenet 2: Balance should favor the player with better micro or better decision making. Emplacement spam design requires something like 4x the apm and much better decision-making from the other guy to stop. It is absurd. It breaks the game. It is cancer game design.

There are also other things to such as emplacements adding another layer on top of map balance that needs to be accounted for. Maps that came out before Brits such as "Road to Kharkov" heavily favor brits so much if they are able to get a bofors on top of your cutoff point. It is rather absurd.

But this is what happens when you don't have a consistent lead game designer in charge of things to make these high-level checks on gameplay and design. It's pretty obvious their strategy is to have a small crew randomly add units and tweaks with the mentality of it "we'll release it and fix it afterwards" which was pretty disastrous with the pathfinding change recently.

It's often the case in the game, especially if you shift queue movement, squads will moved "spread out" as in 1 or 2 models will really far from the center of the squad. This bizarre behavior will mean weapon setup times are much longer or entering buildings takes an unnecessarily long time as all models have to get near the door.

This is a pretty onerous game tax on Ostheer especially since all of their squad sizes are small and this will often cost wipes.

Lots of times the half trak resets its setup timer or doesn't fire at units right next to it. It responds terribly to micro. I don't know what conditions cause it to bug out, but it should be looked into.

Cheating is pretty rampant in the game. I reported a few people and they are still playing. Relic has like few if any people actually supporting this game. They just release shit patches and rushed commanders every month. I'd guess the rate is north of 25% just from the number of drop hacks I get.