Profile of Grumpy

But there is one small detail. Ferdinds were destroted not because they din't have MG. But because some "alternative blessed" german officer wanted to use them as assault guns to break soviet trenches with digged infantry and masked ATG positions. For same reason many SU-76 were lost, when commanders tried used them as tool for defense breakthrough (because they looks like tanks for them and as you is tank, you must break this german defense! I don't know nothing about you low armor and lack of turret!). As you can understand, any turettless TD very bad tool for this task. SU-76 is tool for light arty support for infantry. Ferdinand is clear tank killer. It's not su-122 or sherman with 105 howitzer.
About superior german engeenering...just ask yourself on which tanks germans captured all Europe and could went to Moscow outskirts? The most coolest were p4 with short barrel. And if soviets tried to stop them with early kv's and t-34's (that breaks early, than could see germans tanks), then german in end of war tried to do the same with KT,JT and all other heavy broken stuff.

Most of the early war "German" tanks were Czech designed and built. As for the Ferdinands, the Germans themselves recognized that no MG was a weakness and retrofitted them with MG's.

Focus sight reduced speed, severely reduces sight to the firing cone.
And the ablity has a cooldown.

As said it has enough meaningfull drawbacks to keep balanced.
Having other units spot for it is still generaly better.

As for target weakpoint. I rarely see it used anymore since it doesnt stun lock anymore ( wich is bs that it could before ) maybe i am missing it but it seems it a undesiarable ability now that its no longer so strong/op.

Doesn't it still stun when used by the PAK40?

Man I can't stop laughing about this. They put these heavy tanks behind tech, including an Ace no less, then when they realized how stupid this was they put back behind CPs but put it behind a very low CP count.

Did they do this to any of the less powerful Allied heavies? Nope! LMFAO!

Which gang of Wehraboos runs balance now?

USF has some decent counters to this. I'm not sure that anyone who beats me with the Strategic Reserves commander wouldn't have beat me anyway. I've had close to 30 kills with an M20 when someone tried assault grens straight to Tiger Ace, then was waiting for it with two 57mm's and a Jackson. Once they lose the Tiger Ace, it's a long time before they field another decent piece of armor. Since they didn't build their Tier 3, you don't have to worry about Ostwinds which seem to be crazy good at inflicting bleed on USF right now.

The last three patches have helped balance greatly. The game feels like it is the closest to balanced that it has ever been.

If I had any complaints about Allied heavies, it would be the CP's for the Pershing and its health points. It has one of the best main guns in the game, maybe the best, but it's health pool isn't enough to make it viable in a 4v4 with the Pak walls it will face. Giving it more hit points would make it an "I win" button in 1v1's but it would be nice if they could find a way to fix it so that it is usable in larger games while not making it OP in 1v1's.

Thx for your enormous work here!

I'm surprised how even it is in the end overall. It something about 1 to 3 games won or lost more out of 100 across all five factions that makes the difference. Thats quite a small proportion for asymmetrical faction design. Looking at all the op/up forum posts and biased trolls you get the impression it has to be far worse. But it simply isn't. In fact it was far worse in the months after the release of OKW/USF and then later on Brits.

Good work of getting this game more balanced.

For as little praise as they've received, the balance team has done a great job in the last several patches. I'm not sure who they are, but the last several patches have been great. It would be interesting to see what the data looks like in a month or so when people figure out the OST meta because it doesn't seem like they should have the lowest win rates.

Thank you Siphon X, good job as usual.

Come join the coh2.org discord for your daily dose of anti riflemen propaganda.

I never see anyone on there when I play. As someone who plays a lot of USF in 2v2-4v4, I don't think there is really a problem with rifles. The only thing that unbalances the early game is the Sturmpio, which doesn't scale well into late game. It does seem like rifles shouldn't be any more expensive than volks but that is a can of worms that I wouldn't want to open. Rifles trade okay with volks if the engagement starts at short range. They're just not good at long range against either volks or pf's. That does seem odd because it seems like it should be the other way around given the weapons used.

Before the RE nerf, the easy way around the early game problem with the Sturmpio was making an extra RE or two. Now it doesn't seem like such a great idea.

An equally relevant question would be why isn't there some hate for the OKW middle game. The luchs and puma seem too easily countered in team games. LEIG's force retreats but don't kill much - even with the incendiary rounds. The double clocked raketens seem like a lot of unfun cheese (I'd much rather have a PAK40). The MG34 has great suppression but shoots marshmallows (not sure where they found the marshmallows, it's not like you can find those in Deutschland). The walking stuka is hit-or-miss and seems much better against campers than active players. Maybe all this is a L2P issue on my part but the middle game seems like a challenge.