Profile of MajorBloodnok

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Jep- there was both a 1v1 and 2v2 version of Semois.

So UKF is fine and we should all be happy?

That is not what Tightrope said.

As things seem to be getting a little personal here, I would just like to make a few quick points:

1) Please lay off personalising your dissatisfaction at a balance patch by attempting to name and shame an individual from the Balance team. Mr Smith was a guy who put in a lot of man hours to try to make the game better for you. He did not do it on his own, and was always guided by Relic. When balance testers inform you that they are working under 'scope', they mean just that. i.e. there are constraints on what they are allowed to modify. Post #38 by Effen Newbie is a better way to proceed. You can make your points by playing the ball, not the man.

2) The idea that

It wouldn't have been so bad if he didn't have the entire moderation team of CoH2.org propping him up on the forums, but it basically came down to discussions being heavily moderated to fit Mr. Smiths balance agenda, giving him and Relic this false sense of justification for all the changes made to the game within the past year or so that he was involved in the balance team.

is flat out wrong

Moderators will only intervene if personal attacks are being made. Robust polite debate is encouraged. But play the ball, not the man.

3) Mr Smith left staff bcs he had intensive RL commitments. AFAIK, he is not now really involved with the balance testing team.

4) I have written it before, but I will do so again. There is no intention to make a poster on the Balance forums produce their player card, if they choose to conceal it. You can draw whatever inference you like from someone who does not display their player card. Forcing production of a player card would simply reduce the level of debate to "My player card is better than yours".

Equally, it has been discussed on staff as to whether posters with a low post count should open threads - or even be prevented from posting - in the Balance forums; those proposals have also been rejected.

Nothing which I have written above is designed to discourage any of you from making valid criticisms about balance patches.

But please bear in mind, all of you, that if you want more maps, better maps, better designed factions, better balance etc that you are more likely to succeed if you proceed with some courtesy. Barking out dissatisfaction and ranting may be amusing to read to non-participants but it is not the way to win the war of ideas.

Advocacy is the technique of persuasion.

Back to the poor Britz and their Atlantic cousins...

The following are promoted to Senior Referee:

• Legio-ix-Hispana
  
• Ishtar(i)

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On a more serious note, what do you mean by "a global upgrade available for all UKF commanders"? Like, them becoming a default thing or being included in every commander, which doesn't make sense since they'll be taking a commander slot which could be used for something else, like for an example a Recon Section and a 25 pounder artillery emplacement like in CoH, just my opinion of course.

I mean you make the Tank Hunter squad available outside the Commander system, in T1 or T2. Then all you have to do in replace them in the Special Weapons Commander with say, aq mobile mortar, or better still, a flame pack for the Engineers. The mortar should be globally available available, if necessary from from T2.

But yeah I mean, I think that the lack of snares and a mobile indirect fire option is what's hampering the Brits the most, apart from perhaps Tank Traps which I would love to see in a doctrine for them but it might be just me, do you think they need something else to get them back on track without being OP again?

It is the inability to snare early the Axis light vehicles which makes Britz too linear. e.g. If you choose a WASP carrier, you lack the heavier Vickers MG to face Axis light vehicles, and frankly, the UTC is too much of a glass cannon.

Apart from that, there is no need for directly implemented snipers for the USF and OKW in order to have them, ideas can be taken from CoH like for example a 250 Halftrack with a 37mm light AT gun acting as a vehicular sniper like with the Panzer Elite, or an upgrade/ability for the riflemen allowing them to "snipe" like the British Recon section in CoH, there was even an ability called "Marksman" found in the game files for the USF....

You could certainly do that, or take other options, but, despite your meme, I don't see Relic introducing new models at this stage in the form of a PE Command HT.

My suggestions are merely to tinker with what already exists. 'Politics is the art of the possible'.