Profile of EtherealDragon

than tell us why raketen crew dies much more faster than from other at guns? Maybe they get all the green cover bonus!?

Squad formations (addressed in patch) and the type of units it faces (HE Shermans, Pershing, Comets and the like all have good AI splash damage). Especially if you are comparing it to ZiS gun which has 6 man crew and theoretically some green cover from the gun shield.

One thing I noticed while testing out things tonight is that the new IS2 Vet 1 ability suffers from ISU-152 syndrome where slight changes in elevation completely thwart it. Maybe consider having it not collide with terrain or give it some elevation?

While the current FBP V1.0 includes many great changes from the Mod Team's Revamp I myself was disappointed that a few changes were out of Relic's main scope for the future patch. (Team Games and On Map Artillery). I realize that Relic can be pretty set on what they will allow to be changed but I still wanted to create a thread to discuss what everyone believes is the most important one or two issues that you would like to see added to the scope if Relic should be so inclined to widen it. Ideally this issue would be applicable to team games so that Relic could seriously entertain the idea of adding it. Please offer your reason why and try to stick to things missing from the patch

Personally I'd like to see

1) Standardization of Repair Rates. Reason - I think most people agree that SOV and OST are pretty disadvantaged here where once you lose your vetted Pios or Combat Engineers it takes ages to repair anything with no easy way to Re-vet your new Engineers or improve repair speed. I imagine this is magnified in team games where armor engagements are more frequent and heavy TDs are plentiful.

2) Conscipts - Pretty self explanatory - Soviet Meta is super stale where Penals are the obvious choice in most situations and I don't think a slight nerf to Penals and DSHK and slight buff to Maxims will really change that. This is compounded by the fact that many Soviet Commanders revolve around Conscripts and in turn are rendered less useful. Conscripts affect every game mode and improving their late-game scaling is particularly important in team games where the late-game is reached much more quickly. Simply put, fixing Conscripts is the one single thing that will probably open up options for new Soviet strategies.

So months and months of Automatch games where unit relationships play out and where top ranked players who know the game inside and out like DevM offer feedback directly to the mod team isn't good enough? Not to mention the hours of testing they themselves do? It's not like you can distill a balance problem/decision in a single replay as the greater relationships between factions and units always has multiple layers of context. It's pointless extra work for them to make replays just to justify their hard work to any casual player who doesn't know the game intimately and would take away time from perfecting the patch.

Look, all of these guys are experienced and know the game and Relic obviously trusts them to make changes and offers their own feedback and shuts down anything Relic does't like. (Many, many changes didn't make the cut). How about this: You play the official balance mod and send them your own replays about how a certain unit does/doesn't need changed and if you make a good case then your feedback will be taken into account.

Sad these changes didn't make it in

- Repair Rate Standardization (this is SUCH a no brainer)
- OKW Tier 4 Panzer Call-In Upgrade (Ability to have Obers sooner, manually target Flak Cannon, etc. is all great for strategy diversity and eliminates cheese of early Tier 4 area lock-downs)
- Infiltration Changes (Again, Grenades on Cool-down is SUCH a nobrainer)
- M20 Minelaying (M20 Mines are rather underused and this was a great change way to encourage M20 use beyond as a rush shock unit)
- USF Doctrinal Unit Fixes (Recon Company, Mechanized, Ass. Engineers, Pathfinders, P47 Stafe - everyone knows these units need love)
- Vickers Vet +20 Suppression with nerf to Vet 1 (Great change, Vet 1 garrison bonus is super obnoxious on some maps and Vickers suppression is lacking at times)
- Artillery Regiment Changes (Suxton, Valentine, Etc. ALL obviously need love)
- Base 25 Pounders - also needs love
- Soviet Doctrinal Infantry Changes (Both Shocks and Guards need tweaked as it is evident that Guards were overnerfed last patch and Shocks are still lackluster)
- M42 AT Gun - This was just a fun change to a useless unit
- Bundle Grenade and Light Gammon Nerf ( I wholeheartedly agree that they are too deadly now)
- Artillery Officer (I love this unit and the proposed changes would have made him much more useful without being OP)
- JU87 Stafe (Most people agree this needs toned down, Hello Lightning War meta!)
- Edit Addition - OKW Flak Emplacements (no need to explain!)