Profile of Cultist_kun

So far, my main complain regarding mortars, is that they shouldn't all feel the same, but rather they should provide different support buffs for their vet statuses.

For excample, USF mortal could have offensive buffs against garrisons, to fight Wehr\OKW camp play
Ost mortar could have increased scatter increased AOE, to represent fighting against larger squads.
Soviet mortar could have better accuracy and so on.

But what I REALLY want to see, is mortar having limit on how many models they can kill with one hit, like maybe 75% of the squad, leaving the last model pinned, to be finished by attacking inf. This would exclude effordless RNG wipes, but would keep MP bleed for the enemy.

What can I say? The dream of unique factions and build/strategy diversity is dying more and more with time. Lets just hope luck is on our side and this mad lottery will at the very least bring more ballance.

Tbh, thouse "unique" build\strategy never were a thing in CoH2, it was like what was the cheesier, with standatisation of few key cheese units, we might see more diversity then we have now.

You do realise that 3 su-76es cost around as much as Tiger or IS-2 and 4 cost much more than KT, right?

Do you realise that there is thing called "snowballing" aswell as 3 su-76 can fight tigers and for sure 4 of them can fight KT, so I dont think your cost aurgument is relevent.

Its still doesnt justufy fact that 60 range, rather cheap TD has free AI barrage ability. Its kinda bad, sure, but at the same time range matters, since if you do it from the sight block or at mid\clode distance vs pinned squads its become very deadly. Not to mention random wipes and the fact that 2 or 3 of them can be destuctive and would deny ground for sure.

CoH gameplay and balance sometimes is like rock\paper\scissors for this reason TDs dont have ANY AI capabilities, aside from ISU but ISU has to switch ammo. Only SU76 is perfect TD for its cost, which has rather good AI barrage and I hardly doubt, that there are at least one good reason why such unit should have it.

StuG has range 50 and lower pen (maybe I'm mistaken here) and hight rof, and its still one of the most powerfull TDs, so I dont see any reason why SU-76 as it is, should have it. At very least barrage should be replaced with HE shot, like JT has.

If we put aside all statements like "top playrs X beated top players Y, thats why game balanced", which is KitKat hypocrisy, since he is in personal holy war with every one who says that axis is stuggeling at something.

Right now, games main problem is that its either allied inf or allied TDs are dominating, but not in the way like shocktroops at 1CP many years ago.

Main problem is that, both axis factions are locked behind fact that they are not allowed to do mistakes, early game for allies are much more forgiving in this case. OKW gameplay is pretty much focused on FlakHT and luchs, while Ostheer game is locked behind either double MG\sniper\prosttrupen, if you try to do anything but this or if you lose one of key units it could be insta gg for you.

Pro players, are good with micro and they are in general good, thats why it doensnt feel like axis is struggling, but again its bad game desing if your survival in the game are based on one or two units.

Allies at the same time, dont have this problem like at all (only early game brits are locked to their Vekers but this problem disapears after T1 unlock).

Their inf play are actually based on micro in general and good placements of units, since all allies inf are better then axis one (only cons are more or less on pair with volks).

And here comes the second problem of late game, because of allies inf are stupidly better in late game then axis one (bar rifles, guards, double bren IF, even cons with ppsh) both US and Sov can go strate for TDs, because they dont need at this point tank with AI capabilities since their inf can fight inf by itself.

And btw, because of this Brits have the weakest late game of all allied factions right now, when it comes to tank play, because you cant spam FireFlyes aswell as their RoF wont allow you rekt every single armored unit. This is why you have to go either comets or cromwells which cant rofl stomp.

Who are you?

He is a guy who has almost 10k posts, who is around here since coh2 release ... and who stoped playing the game like ... maybe in 2013 or 2014
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Idk if this is an April Fools joke but regardless, the Panther is mostly fine.

Its mostly fine in comparasent to what? Its fine it you are floating with fuel, but if you have head to head game, for ostheer PIV or Stug is by far supperior option and for OKW JP is again by far much supperior option. Hell even if some1 goes for ostheer T4 its usually only to get PWerfer or Brumbar

Maybe this unit isnt UP like pre-buffed T34\76 was, but in correct meta and overall gamebalance, panther is the least cost effective and overall effective tank unit in the game.

Panther suffers from retarded desing and all resent changes. Pather is pretty much the single unit in cattegory of "mediut tank destoyer".

All other TDs has either penetration\damage\RoF or abilities which makes them usefull with a trade off having low HP\Armor but non of other TDs requre you to actually get into close combat.

Pather has non of other TDs advantages, which can scare off mediums\other tanks, neither because of damage\RoF\Range.

Resent armor nerfs and buffs of other TDs put pathers in the role of any non-TD tank when it comes to fighting TDs i.m. flanking.

Then comes second problem, all other mediums which has to flank TDs to fight them, also have AI capabilities to not only fight this TD but also fight possible supporting units, preventing being snared\killed by AT gun.

Pather has no AI capabilies (and I will wipe my ass with aurgument that it has 3 MGs, in a real scenarion only hull MG would be fighing most of the time).

This leaves with tank, which cant:
1) scare off mediums just by defending something (well because 160 damage gives you prenty of time to retreat)
2) at least somehow protect itself from any inf based support, like all other mediums
3) it wont perform as good as other TDs (damage+rof)
4) its armor is irrelevant when attacking TDs frontally, due to penetration buffs
5) When it comes to flanking assaults it perfoms just like any other medium tank, since most of the times mediums would penetrate other TDs anyway, when flanked.
6) Price, means that most of the time it would fight at least 2 tanks or second enemy tank would be on the way

So at this point what are advantages of pather:
1) Health ... so so advantage, since this additional health at least somehow compensating fact that it cant protect itself what so ever
2) In situation when you have 2 fuel point or you denyed fuel from opponent and you managed to get pather at the same time your opponent is getting his fist tank, you possibly would have massive advantage
3) Better then PIV at penetrating rear armor of heavies.
4) If you have established tank army, it could be nice finishing move if you dont have heavy tank to call-in
5) Have compleate upperhand when fighting mediums (aside from T34\85), but all 3 allied faction can get themselfs TDs at this point, its just a matter of resources, they are not split into different tiers.

Aside from thouse 5 advantage I cant find really any reason why you should even thinking of getting it really. It performs really bad in comparasent to almost any other options and counterparts, and fails as both AI and TD and middle ground tank.

So my opinion is that whole design of it need to be redone. Make it weaker version of Comet or simply make it cheaper, so at least you would be able to do tank raids with 2 panthers and it wont be luxery avaible only for oil Sultans