Profile of RobocopHighlander

It's already got the longest deploy and redeploy timers in the game for an MG. It's been unchanged forever. Speed is no different than it ever really was.

"Speed is no different then it ever really was" is exactly my point - there has to be some balance to the unit. If you are going to make it significantly better at suppressing infantry and also deal more damage and at greater distances, then increase the deploy/redeploy timers so that getting flanked actually has real consequences and you actually do have to worry about a molotov instead of just picking up and moving faster then a molotov can even break and cause damage to the unit.

Yeah, launch a good carefully planned attack combining your infantry and your tanks to try to take an important point of the map, and then "easily dodge" the loiter strafe by removing all of your tanks from the engagement, causing it to fail because now your infantry can't be supported. And be careful not to get too wrapped up in the micro of the now solely infantry-based attack, because sometimes the loiter plane will chase your tank around the map if the ability directly targeted the tank. Congratulations - you just lost map control and your well planned engagement due to the effort of "easily dodging" an overpowered ability.

If soviets had an ability that removed axis tanks from engagements whenever they felt like it, you could sustain life in the desert on the tears of axis fanboys. They already cry about p47s, which do much less damage spread over a much larger amount of time at double the cost of the loiter strafe. If you don't like p47, how can you like something that is better than p47 for less cost packaged in a doctrine that feeds ammo so you never run out?

For that matter, even if you think p47 is fine, you have to realize that something much better than p47 for much cheaper would have to be totally broken.

6 - There is no RNG that goes into Grenades. They do fixed damage over the area, decreasing from the center of the explosion. It all depends on where the grenade is aimed and how much the squad is clumped up, and what cover they're in. No RNG.


A lot of what you're mentioning aren't really good examples of bad RNG. Relic can take many easy steps to fix bad RNG, while keeping good RNG in the game.

There is RNG in how your squad decides to clump up. This will be the case as long as there are no player-selected squad formations. Sometimes the crew of a set up maxim for example is spread out all over the place and sometimes the crew members are sitting right on top of each other. Sometimes even infiltration nades land right on top of team weapons and do virtually no damage, etc.

Its funny people even complain about vet5 jp4 - you basically never see one. You have to be so much better than you opponent to get it to vet5 that you don't even need the vet to begin with. The problems with the jp4 are at vet1 and 2, which are realistic to obtain even if your opponent is pretty good. Really the invisibility wouldn't even be quite as much of a problem if turreted tanks didn't turn their turrets away from the jp4 every time it cloaked again, so then when it uncloaks you can't shoot it because your tank is looking the wrong way again.

That being said, it still shouldn't be able to move forward while cloaked. You shouldn't be able to farm veterency by rolling forward, sniping a shot at the enemy, then rolling backwards. The tank isn't meant to be a scout so why should it be able to scout? Cloaking on the Luchs makes sense because it is a tank that is basically only useful for scouting late game anyway, and it gives this tank a potentially fun/interesting role once heavier armor stops it from being able to drive around shooting infantry. jp4 should be revealed when it is in motion and I can't think of a single logical argument why this wouldn't be the case - even snipers can't run around cloaked.

An ability can counter something, but it isn't a hard-counter due to the dodgeable and momentary nature of abilities. The only exception I would say would be vs static targets which will pretty much be 100% killed with call in strikes.

There are plenty of ways to set up abilities so they can't be dodged - strafe on the edge of a map, offmap on retreat point set to hit right as retreating points arrive, etc. There is quite a disconnect right now between different offmap abilities - some are so easy to dodge they are effectively worthless, and some are nearly impossible to dodge. Many are in between. I guess I will repeat myself again - if something can quickly and easily kill your unit, and your unit cannot retaliate, then it is a hard counter. The stuka CAS strafe is an easy hard counter to jacksons - it will adjust its strafe aim even as it is mid-strafe and it is very difficult to dodge - on small maps it can be nearly impossible.