Profile of EtherealDragon

Have you seen these units? In anticipation of an eventual "Big sweep" balance patch I wanted to generate a list of units that almost certainly need buffed and workshop some ideas. I mostly play 1v1 and some 2v2 when I'm feeling masochistic so feel free to throw in some team game perspective.

Scott and Hummel (251 upgrade) - AoE on barrage is pretty pathetic.

British AA Truck - pathetic damage on a fragile platform. Not sure if it's even intended for offensive use with Humber being a thing but compared to US Quad it's trash. Maybe add suppression mechanism?

Easy 8 - Overpriced when penetration is barely better than 76MM Sherman. Needs cost reduction so you can actually afford the damn thing without saving up Tiger-levels of resources for a marginally better medium tank.

Bulldozer Sherman - Needs armor buff IMO - has same armor as stock sherman so it gets eaten up by shreks and PAKs making it unusable as a AI specialist with an unimpressive auto fire range. I never see them.

221 - I think I've seen 1 ever built against me? Probably a timing issue/ AT rifle spam issue.

DAK Flak HT - Not sure I want to say "certainly" needs buffed as I suspect it doesn't see play because of how overtuned 8 Rad is but it could maybe use some love if they don't revert the cost increase to Fire Support elements.

Grant Tank - Performance is pretty good but maybe slightly overcosted. I'd maybe lower the teching cost slightly but nothing too crazy.

Edit, add LMG Commandos (Brits) - The last patch buffed them to roughly Stostruppen levels of DPS as far as I can tell but they have negative utility as an expensive 4 man doctrinal unit with Bren. Why would you EVER get them when you can have Bren section with snares or LMG Gurka's which are 6 men, have grenades, and a good ability as a supposed to a piddly suppression ability that might mildly inconvenience a squad momentarily. They definitely need some kind of utility added when every other doctrinal/elite unit is loaded to the gills with abilities.

General DAK Fine-tuning- I think it's worth acknowledging that DAK needs some improvement to their early game and to make Armor Reserves more accessible without making DAK too strong at all stages of the game. I'll admit I have no clue how to do that but probably something along the lines of increasing baseline Panzergren performance but toning down Combat Bonus and toning down Armory upgrades so that late game isn't completely bananas - stuff like Tiger can't capture points with Rapid Advance (tiger is already super strong without also yolo capping).

There are so many people pissing and moaning about balance that really needed features are probably being pushed back. Is the balance that bad? Is it possible for people to shut up about it for a couple weeks to get better QOL stuff fixed?

Either way, Relic started off on the wrong foot and now are in a fight to get back to normal. But it is possible.

Word, the vast majority of balance complaints I see on the offical forums are faction warriors some of which have a basis in reality but in 1v1 balance seems good enough. Sure some things are overtuned (Sappers early game, 8 RAD) and other units might as well not be in the game (Flak HT, Bulldozer, Scott, Hummel, 221, Easy 8) but the game is plenty playable.

It kind of amazes me how most of the community has completely forgotten how much of a hot mess COH2 was for YEARS but after 1 month of COH3 not being completely polished it's all doom and gloom or complete impatience at the lack of knee jerk balancing. News flash: half of you faction warriors are still in the process of gitting gud and maybe your faction of preference isn't completely UP after all.

Feature: Configurable Audio Cues

This would be the dream! I feel like COH3 is a lot more noisey and I either miss import stuff like grenade warnings or they don't trigger.

You just have to realize that you can't count on armor to bounce shreks at all. For US you just screen your tanks with Infantry while popping HE shells and get cheeky wipes until they run out of Munis to spam shreks. Brits can out-infantry spam and have more LMG options to just laser them long range. Either way Jaeger blobs are lame as fuck.

They do not. Just checked.

Which I don't consider surprising because it doesn't even apply to freshly built Sherman 76es.

Which is probably a god-send considering how strong 76 spam is even without upgraded armor. I don't know if I feel brave enough to play Axis if they ever fix that bug without nerfing 76 spam somehow lol