Profile of dOPEnEWhAIRCUT

How about one of the new commanders get a 12 CP, 250 muni ability that takes you back in time to play a version of the game that's worth playing? Nah, might be too strong.

Oh, is this what we're redesigning next?

Honestly every recon option that is tied to a unit is fine: It forces the player to make a choice to invest resources into a unit that has limited functionality that can be caught in the field and killed. If anything needed to be changed (And in my opinion it doesn't), it would be the recon abilities that have zero potential to be countered meaning the OKW Spec-Ops commander flares and the British Arty commander counterpart (timed random flare ability).

Its fine. It's a tool that isn't used too often, but when it is used in conjunction with other indirect it discourages the enemy from blobbing and/or mass retreating, which I think is great. Often enough it's just a muni sink with little to no payoff. Also, as Kati pointed out it doesn't actually kill anything on its own and is easily countered by proper spacing and medics.

UKF is not but balance currently is 100000000x better than 1-2 years ago. People tend to forget that before the balance patches we had massive vet 5 shrek terminators, unkillable British emplacement spam double lmg rifles, release centaur/commandos/comet , half map USF mortars that could get 40 kills a game etc. People forget that when brits were released axis basically became nonexistent for month, not to mention the ludicrous bugs

The balance team inherited a horrendously broken and balanced game in which Relic wouldnt allow sweeping changes for factions that desperately needed them, and Mr. Smith was a massive part of getting that much needed community love into fruition. Remember that it wasnt Mr. Smith that blocked Cromwell buffs brit snares etc it was Relic.

Yea I don't know about that. In the past each faction (except for Soviets up until their rework, Ost was also on the weaker side) had their own powerful units that worked well in certain situations that everyone would consider "OP", and matches came down to who could abuse those units the best. That is only the case for 3 factions now - UKF as well as USF are lacking any real meaty units that can single-handedly turn around a match - And on top of that UKF lacks the basic tools available to every other faction. I know that it was the intention of the balance mods to make it so this wasn't the case for any of the factions, but guess what's going to happen when you approach balance with the intention of completely redesigning faction features? Yea, you kind of create more issues than you fix.

The real "scope" that increasingly became the scapegoat for bad decisions on the unofficial balance teams part should have been limited to bug fixes and slight unit tweaks - not redesigns and heavy nerfs. I feel that the opportunity for a community driven balance team was wasted and the community won't be getting another shot at it any time soon. We may be left with a broken game for awhile, and I just hope that this can serve as a lesson as to why it's important to be as objective as possible when it comes to balance discussions.

My first point being, I for one was completely unaware that the .org was (loosely) responsible for balance these days. That honestly is a lot more comforting than Relic being in charge.

Oh you sweet, sweet summer child. You just haven't read enough suggestions on the "balance" forum yet. That sentiment will change real quick if you dive a little deeper.