So it's the 2nd option then, alright.
I don't know what you're implying. I'm not acting in bad faith. I'm just trying to bridge the gap between this forum and the "elite". I'm not part of it but still closer than anyone else posting here as far as I can tell. I'm trying to adress precisely the kind of intransparency you're criticizing.
I also love how people say that I am a very confused person and perhaps even a cynical individual, next I'll be slandered as an 80 year old pensioner as well.
I don't think any of this about you. We're just disagreeing that's all.
And I doubt that there's a "lack of high level 1v1 representation in the balance team" when top ranking 1v1 replays are being used as excuses for a out of the blue last minute balance changes but okay.
Please try to understand what I'm actually saying. I'm not a native speaker so apologies if I was being unclear. I never made that argument. I was just correcting an argument you referred to and accidentally misrepresented . You framed the "not enough 1v1 player critique" as some kind of indication that the "pro" players lobbying weren't even pros because half of them or more play primarily 3v3 and 4v4. I only corrected that point saying that the critique is only aimed towards the balance team itself and not the "pro" players advising them.
And if you want more justification about the alienation of the playerbase you should be more than free to go onto the official and Steam forums as well to see what people think about the recent changes, and while yes most of them are trolls, there are some that do provide some valid points as well but as with everything you just need to filter out to actually find them which is something I think hasn't been done properly.
As far as who is the community, of course it's impossible to get feedback from everybody when you take into account that again, there are almost 10,000 people playing each day and only a few of them bother to even give feedback, opinions and suggestions about the balance and direction of the game, and even less % of that being actually serious non-trollish or biased arguments.
But if no proper attempt is made to filter out the trash from the actually good suggestions, feedback and ideas and then those are not even tried to be tested then what is the point of any of this?
But that filtering process is precisely what's happening when good playeres get more of a say than people who don't have a record of playing themselves.
Also how is the balance team realistically supposed ot parse official forum, steam forum and coh2.org when large parts are trolls and even the non troll posts go into completely opposite directions? You're acting like there's some kind of consensus in this forum when 99% of the time people are bashing each others heads in metaphorically speaking.
It's just reduced to an echo chamber of "X unit needs a nerf, Y unit needs a buff" with the balance team using that as an excuse to just disregard everything do whatever they think is right.
I don't think plurality of opinion is lacking in the balance team. Members seem to have pretty different views and priorities.
Lastly, they're not just my suggestions but things from the community. The USF base redesign has been in circulation for a very long time now, anybody with even some general knowledge of history and especially when it comes to tanks/vehicles and specifically German such would know that the Sturmtiger was not used as some short ranged assault gun/siege type weapon but as a long ranged heavy mortar, also implied in it's German name "Sturmmörserwagen 606/4 mit 38 cm RW 61", as in literally Storm/Assault mortar, mortar being an indirect fire weapon, not a direct fire one.
The same thing could be said about the 25 pounder emplacement idea, it was mentioned before even in the British commander feedback topic, I just repeated it later which you can also see for yourself and I decided to use it as an example off the top of my head. It's very hard to attribute an idea to a person like some people I see claim that an idea is "theirs" while in reality it could have been mentioned elsewhere before them or it just generally makes logical sense, like for example the OKW HQ trucks being able to pack up and redeploy like the British HQ trucks from the first game.
Again we don't know whether any of this is withing the scope of the patch (I highly doubt it) and the fact that these ideas have been circulating doesn't mean that they are actually agreed upon by a majority or even a significant minority.
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