The excitement for ESL has been low because they are catering to the same small group of players each week. Increased prizes will do very little to help.
Poor seeding and the same EU players in the NA brackets all lead to a stacked system.
Relic/ESL needs to restrict players to either the NA or EU tournament.
They should have done an upper and lower league to encourage new players to get involved and gain experience in competitive play. At minimum make it double elimination with a loser's bracket so players have a chance to play a couple competitive games.
Blocking out an afternoon to end up playing a level 500+ player in round 1 then playing a top 10 player in round 2 isn't fun for anyone. I get more competitive games just playing automatch.
Brace is fine but stand fast ability is broken. The ability costs 60mun to repair all structures and works while braced. The repair rate is faster than the damage rate while braced. The ability should have to be applied to each structure individually and shouldn't work while brace is active.
P3 would have been a great unit to include as a part of the core faction for OST. Doubt Relic would add it as anything but a doc unit at this point so no need for it. Already have the puma if you want stronger vehicle to fill the T2/t3 gap.
Hotchkiss was a horrible idea in vCOH and it would be an even worse idea for COH2. You had to trade a good anti-inf tank for this pile of trash which couldn't hit anything. The rocket upgrade was also trash... the whole unit was worthless.