Profile of Grumpy

I've been trying to make a mod for USF that addresses the problems it has in multiplayer without making it OP. I've been running into some problems that I can't figure out.

Pack Howie - I want to make this buildable from the motor pool but can't figure out how to add units to a building.

Battlegroup abilities

Easy 8 - how can I remove the squad from this ability?
General - how do I edit the number of CP's to unlock an ability? Spec Ops is non-competitive due to the number of CP's. An anti-tank drop at 6 CP's is way too late. Commandos are also too late at 3 cp's.

I think it's safe to say that Pathfinders along with USF is dead in teamgames now, at least for a while

It would be interesting to see where Relic is getting their balance info. Even after the last balance patch, USF didn't seem very competitive overall and crutched on Pathfinders way too much.

I think most people go Airborne because the upgrade costs for riflemen are nuts.
Infantry Support Center fuel costs 15+15+50+80
Grenades 25
Bars 40
So you spend 220 fuel to get something that has no good AT and still isn't as good a group of Jaegers or Bersas. Neither DAK nor Wehr has to pay fuel for their infantry upgrades, other than the veterancy upgrades. COH1 showed just how bad purchased veterancy was, yet somehow Relic brought it back in COH3.

Other commanders:

Spec Ops - 3 cp's to get commandoes that are about as good as Bersa's? That's really late for a mainline replacement.
6 cp's to get AT gun and MG drop? Yes, I know it gives some fuel, but the value of that is questionable and it makes it too late to be viable as a T3 replacement.
Whizbang is a joke, less range than an AT gun.

Mechanized - 11-12 CP (depending on options) for an Easy 8 that isn't much better than a P4? For 12 CP, Wehr gets Raid, the 8 Rad, and a Panther. Which of those sounds better?
Scott has no range and shoots marshmellows, while coming out at 4 cp's at the earliest.
War machine is great for comp stomps, but in an real game you've already lost to 8 Rads or Carro's.

DAK's T4 tech is prohibitively expensive

you need to pay 350MP (not the usual 300MP for the other factions) and 130F just to get to a decent panzer 3 (not even a panzer 4), a 40F (too much?) AT gun and a stuka (which is pretty good).

why go for T4 then if you can just stick with T3 and spam light tanks to cover all of your needs? i suspect that the high price of t4 and it's underwhelming selection of units contributes to (but not exclusively accounts for) the rather stale light tank spam meta...

and then you need to pay 200MP and 150F (!!!) to get to armored call-ins, most of which cost a lot of MP to get, as they contain infantry squads most people probably do not want anyway (same applies to the USF EZ8 call-in)

the only solid call-in in terms of price is the one with two stug Gs.

the tiger costs another whopping 700MP and 180F, and even if you somehow manage to get to that stage, the game is probably almost over because of the overly fast VP tick rate.

these super high tech costs are made worse by the fact that DAK is a heavily MP starved faction... compared to the other factions, i find myself struggling with MP bleed all the time - losing an infantry squad like a pgren or an assgren is really crippling, and the armory upgrades (the half of which you actually need) are all MP based.

thoughts?

Have you tried consoling yourself by building a half dozen of the Carro Armato M13's instead?

This.

I also think people are insane if they can fully understand the games factional cometitive balance in a few days.

With large patches, it took COH2 2-3 MONTHS, not days for the meta to evolve.

One of my few regrets about COH 3 is that there won't be another balance patch. I don't think the last couple community patches were good for Allies in 4v4. Last month, the win rate for top 200 Allies in 4v4 was 37-40% depending on faction. 1v1 through 3v3 are well balanced which, to me, means that they did a good job of balancing infantry through medium tanks. Rocket arty, howitzers, and heavies are the problem. IMO, the game would be a lot better off without any of those things anyway.

Hello, I have a simple question. Is the Greyhound useless? Because it does feel like that. I can't see any situation where it is something that will give me a big advantage in said situation. Asking for both 1v1 matches and 3v3 or 4v4. I need some advice on it, or for someone to tell me to drop it because it actually is bad and its not just me

Once in awhile when I feel like doing something non-meta, I'll get them in a 4v4. If you play somewhat conservatively with them, they end up with really great vision and good AA at vet 2 or 3. I combine one with two Jacksons which makes it really difficult for armor, then once the armor is chased off, the main gun acts almost like a sniper. It's really situational and much more difficult to use against good players.