Profile of easierwithaturret

So I've put a little thought into this during a shower and here is what I landed on.

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Must have been a long shower.

Anyway that actually sounds very interesting, the setting is good as it allows all the iconic WW2 weapons to feature in the game without having to worry about realism implications.

Only significant issues I can see are the different skill requirements and resource gathering/requirements of the factions. Having one faction as a fragile finesse faction with inherent high micro requirements while the other is a durable, easy to play faction poses issues for balance. In low-skill matches the finesse faction will be UP, in high-skill matches it will either be OP or balanced but with higher skill requirement (kind of like how Ostheer is positioned currently).

As for different approaches to resource gathering that is an issue, as many CoH balance problems have stemmed from the fact that factions have interacted with resource points in such different ways, making it basically impossible to get balanced match ups across a variety of maps.

Of course both these issues will exist to some extent no matter what, but branding them into the factions' core design from day 1 seems like a recipe for trouble down the track.

what a bad joke. raks cann´t do their job to light and medium tanks....t70, stuarts etc can wipe rak with 2 shoots...and if not..the circle them.

u need a bad enemy.... or luck ...or 2 rak to the job from any other AT gun.

Please take a deep breath and read the post again. It was clear that I suggested fixing the issues with the Rak so that it can be better used as a light vehicle counter (something it struggles at right now due to several issues that have been discussed at length in other threads), instead of asking for new content that 1: probably won't ever be made and 2: doesn't satisfactorily solve the issue anyway.

Not Necessary. 400+ MP for an AT rifle squad is way too expensive, for that to be worthwhile the squad would need AT rifles buffed to immersion-breaking levels. It could work if the AT rifles (across all factions) were made to be more of a snare/vehicle crit platform, but OKW don't lack that capability; they lack a reliable way of putting significant damage on armour in the early-mid game.

Giving it to Volks is also a bad idea:

• If you give it similar stats to other AT rifles, it won't be a threat to anything with tracks and it will gimp volks AI abilities by denying them STG44 upgrade.
  
• If you give it better stats to make it actually useful against tanks it will just be the same situation as when shrecks were an option.
  

Just fix the Rak.

My hopes:
Still set in WW2, with clear focus on time period e.g. Africa Campaign, Battle of France, Italian Campaign. Possible pacific theatre but no melee combat.
Focus on varied missions with challenging objectives, not 'sit here for 10 minutes and blast everything that charges headlong toward you'.
Focus on quality over quantity with map and commander design, move back to commander tree system
No more 'X faction early, Y faction late' balance
Either make bulletins useful or remove them
Side Armour
DLC for maps and single-player content, not multiplayer assets
Streamline UI
All the other small improvements that have been suggested 1000 times but ignored

My expectations:
The game doesn't get made

I meant if I intend to skip tier 2 and rushing light vehicle/tank
Obviously I'm gonna get a su85 for more armored target

Yeah fair enough, in that situation I usually get guards, partly because they're just a very useful unit, partly because they come in a doc that has lots of other useful stuff in it.