That's normal.
Some elements are 2d to save on resources on graphical strain and, lets be honest, literally no one closes on and focuses on the bushes.
No there is absolutely nothing wrong with the Hetzer when you look at all of its stats. Damage is good and so is the armor and especially the target size.
It arrives a bit earler than a p4 and always kills a single AT gun frontally, a p4 cannot do that.
Tiger sucks, unfortunatley. With it being quite slow, it really needs to hurt inf. Slow = easy target, harder to keep alive. So it needs to be threatening as trade off.
Panther will do the job vs armour, but is way less risky as its much faster. And you can afford an addional Pwerfer for same price.
Only time its good is if you got a very big lead and want to crush them early.
If its really not allowed to have too good AI, maybe it should have a bit more damage vs tanks, to really reinforce that role and make it feared.
Slow units should hit like a truck.
How do you guys always find these month(s) old threads? Like, did you just lose a game with Tiger then search "Tiger" keyword on the forums in order to rant about it?
Yes, you need to cheat to the point where relic will punish you by resetting your stats.
But its more likely you'll get a straight ban nowadays.
if he means smurfing then it's no problem.
Creating a new steam account and playing coh2 on it through family-share is totally allowed as long as the smurf isnt being used to break the "code of conduct" or to bypass previous bans