Profile of dOPEnEWhAIRCUT

Apart from that as already said about Mr. Smith there is no point in further arguing about it, he did what he could and I do not believe his intentions were bad, and now he is gone. We all have to live with our choices but life still goes on.

He was incredibly unhealthy for the community, he presented all of his opinions as fact, backed it with bogus data and flamed anyone who disagreed with him. It wouldn't have been so bad if he didn't have the entire moderation team of CoH2.org propping him up on the forums, but it basically came down to discussions being heavily moderated to fit Mr. Smiths balance agenda, giving him and Relic this false sense of justification for all the changes made to the game within the past year or so that he was involved in the balance team. Fast forward to now and here we have arguably more broken factions (and not in a good way, but rather in a painfully obvious underwhelming kind of way). Axis now actually overperforms! (lol, something that the vocal minority has always cried about and is now actually true)

So no, I'm sorry. You can let bygones be bygones but if you actually want a balanced and enjoyable CoH2 in the future I think he is the last person to help deliver that - and I think it's important the community remembers that going forward before you bring about Mr. Smith #2.

That said, I agree with everything else you brought up to an extent. Balance should have always been about bringing the EFA more in line with the WFA using moderate unit tweaks and buffs, and not putting out these sweeping nerfs and radical redesigns. Brits had always been a problem since they released and the changes they received, while welcome, didn't come with compensation and now they severely underperform in some of the most critical areas of the game. I think an early reliable suppression tool, a non-doc snare that isn't tied to a sniper and inconsistent as hell as well as a TD (whatever you want to call the Firefly) that doesn't move and turn its turret at the speed of runny shit would help UKF a lot.

How?

Relic-released patches were no better.

The 222 has been an unarmored "armored car" forever, while Allies get to rush out actual armored cars and brutalize Axis forces every single match.

Ostheer has had four-man squads with glaring issues forever, and UKF got strictly superior four-man squads like some kind of joke.

Volksgrenadiers have literally never done proper damage since the release of WFA.

The list goes on. So if neither Relic nor the community can fix this, what's left?

Because every time you attempt to redesign the game, you are ignoring the overall problem and creating new issues. Stick with a build and fine tune it; Stat tweaks and bug fixes should be the focus. That and the fact that the past couple of patches have been driven by individuals with obvious faction bias.

This is hilarious.

As is the state of the game and the direction it's headed.

I believe they (FPP servers) are also still limited to NA and EU regions at the moment, however they'll be bringing up the other regions "soon". That doesn't mean you can't play on those regions if you don't live within them, just that you'd have to deal with worse than often latency issues. That being said, the FFP server are totally worth it - it really is the only way to play PUBG.

Funny how the Scope never limited bug fixes.

Brutal.

Honestly this needed to happen. The changes that were being proposed were more fitting for a mod (which ironically they started out as) rather than a patch to the live game. The mod team shot themselves in the foot by never fully understanding what Relic intended for them to do, and tried to push far too many design changes when they should have just been tweaking unit performance ever so slightly and fixing bugs. It was obvious this project became a "How do I buff my favorite army while nerfing the army that's my least favorite to play against" and the vocal minority perpetuated this ideology significantly on this forum. It was getting so bad that those who disagreed started becoming inactive in the community, and those who supported the mod team quickly took up mod positions on this forum - which in turn was very unhealthy for any discussion opposing the changes proposed by the mod team.

If anything I'm just bummed that our chance at true community balance patches were blown on a team that was incapable of realizing the scope of the changes Relic had intended for them to make.