Profile of TheDesertFox

Can you balance baseball only to the superbowl?
- It's too hard to hit a home run in the superbowl, so let's make the field smaller.

u tawkn bout wurld series?

There are many problems, and yes this game is horribly broken.

For one, Relic doesn't seem to understand or even know how to do asymmetrical balance. To them, asym balance means:

'All factions have the SAME units but each faction gets access to them at different times'

This is the MAIN issue. If you look at WC3:TFT or SC1+2 you will see how each faction has completely different units, and each faction has a completely different approach. This is common knowledge.

And Relic doesn't seem to understand this eliminates A LOT of problems.

For instance, a clear example would be the MG in Coh2. Every faction gets an MG, but each one is slightly different and each one hits the field at different times.

This is inherently IMPOSSIBLE to balance.

GOOD JOB RELIC!

No offence man, but sounds like a "grass always greener" thing. Look up this:
http://www.coh2-stats.com/
...consider the weapon profiles, in short, the Sherman when using HE is much deadlier against infantry while fighting smaller squads.

Oh, I forgot we were talking about strictly infantry capability. In that case, I would take the sherman with HE of course.

But in straight tank vs tank, I'd take the Piv.

If a SU player is in need to repair a tank, both the tank and the engineer has to retreat too, same with OKW if you don´t have the T2 Build up (the one with the puma and free repairs)...

and of course, if you want to repair a sherman the sherman has to retreat to a safe spot...

So in the end, all factions has to retreat the tank, and only USF doesn´t need a RE to repair it....

That´s why your argument about field presence is wrong in my opinion, because this happens with any faction, if you want to reapir a tank, that tank has to retreat, not only the OST tanks has to retreat....so this left only the pio squad....come on, if your front line suffers because a pio squad is repairing a tank, your front line will suffer the same with the pio helping there...their figthing capabilities are really low man.....



And yeah, USF tank crews can repair by itself, but the tank cannot attack while being repaired if you use your crew to repair,while an P4 can shoot to targets while the pio is repairing.....and in addition, if you want to capture an abandoned tank as USF, you need to purchase a fresh RE squad for that (or loosing a rifle or other squad to use them as tank crew) while with any other faction, you use your cheaper volvks or pios or whatever and then reinforce the rest of the squad at your base...so USF is in a worse spot in that situation.

so USF tank crews have some advantages, but they have some cons too....and that´s why your arguments are wrong in my opinion and USF tank crews are perfectly fine.


anyway, noob here so only my opinion.

I think you're missing the point about 'manpower' presence. But you're right that the argument applies to every faction, except USF of course, but that's beside the point.

Instead of thinking about it as a pioneer squad, think of it as - the cost of the pio squad could have been applied to something else, a different unit.

Pioneers with flamethrowers are pretty effective. I remember I played a match the other day as USF and the opposing OST was using pio-flamers quite effectively. Needless to say I learned something new that day.

Also, capturing de-crewed vehicles is not any more of a problem for USF than it is for any other faction. In fact, I would say USF is the best at it because they're always able to exit the vehicle and swap with a different crew once in safety, so no units are 'lost' or 'traded'.

USF repair is the best, and I think that's a well known fact. It is one of their faction advantages, after all.

In regards to smoke and blitz - I think it's more an issue of frustration than balance.

With that being said, I do think a re-work of blitz would help alleviate the apparent 'op-ness' of the ability. Some good suggestions already in this thread, the most interesting one IMO was the tank gets a 'engine overheat' after using the blitz. Great idea!!

You have to play a lot like OKW, conserve your units and creep along the map locking down territory. Double RE starts are really popular right now because emplacement spam can really cause an Ost player problems on tight maps.

USF support weapons are a lot more valuable now, the days of the rifleblob are dead and gone.

How do emplacement cause Ost problems currently? I do not have the success you refer to as my emplacements get destroyed once Ost brings mortar onto the field. Up until that point, ya they're great but once in-direct fire appears, emplacements effectiveness seems to dwindle.