Profile of MissCommissar

If you do not care about other people's posts, nor about the opinion of what you call nerds, go write a blog about the game, but don't post them in a forum.

These so called nerds to know the game much better than you do. You have been demonstrated by countless other people in this and other threads that your instincts about the game are wrong and that they are completely denied by hard, quantified numbers obtained from the game itself.

Ok, Im really ready to listen their opinion "from them personally". Maybe they would even agree with me, don't you think? I don't want to read "retelling of someone's opinion from no-names".

I just really tired of that argument: "Oh, top-players don't think, that USSR is trashy trash, so it isn't and we don't have our own opinion, we can only agree with people, who play better than we do...". Or: "There is majortiy opinion, nobody agree with you, so go out of here".

It's not an agruments. That's just signing, that you can't into healthy dialog and only can cover youself with not your own opinion.

It's much better for balance and gameplay experience for howitzers to be made more attractive by reducing MP cost (and maybe adding a token fuel cost) than it is to re-add an ability that has minimal counterplay and can be devastating. It's just super cheesey to get a massive wipe on a retreat point or get a tank sniped from across the map for only 90 Muni - yes you can hear it but in most games its simply just too micro taxing and unfun to play against.

"Cheap but useless" isn't great but cost IS one of the major hurdles that howies have to being useful. Maybe slightly reduce scatter too (I find that B4 in particular has too much scatter for my taste). I do really like Australian's idea of 3 shots and think that's the best compromise - B4 sucks because it's 1 shot is "all or nothing" and more often than not its nothing. At least with 3 shots you have more chances and less damage means less cheesy tank sniping, plus my personal preference is for using howitzers as area denial and saturation fire.

Reducing MP cost won't make it better. Again - look at QF 25 poudners. They are not just cheap, they a free. Do that fact make QFs more attractive for you? I guess not, because they just can't hit target with their -1488% accuracy. Same goes for Sexton, which actually costs something. And now you suggest to do same for all other howitzers. "Let's not buff, but make price lower". It works IRL, when you are buisunessman and want to make your shit more attractive to people without making it better, but doesn't work in CoH2, where people need not cheap trash, but normal priced combat units.

But still, I can agree, that if Relic won't find any reasonable way to buff artillery and don't touch "artilleryhaters", then let them cut of prices... Better that than nothing.

And idea of 3 shots in B-4 could be great, but... It would be really strange. I would like to have ol' good B-4 puncher back with 1 powerfull shot and ability to use that shot right on target. It worked good, everyone was happy! And they ruined it... just like ISU...

Make it so it can shoot with 3 shells/320dmg each.

I don't see any difference between precision shot and for example PzWerfer or Stuka zu Fuss wipe or Stuka dive bomb.

Exlpain me the difference? Sure, B4 is more powerful but if so, presicion shot could do 50% damage of normal barrage.

Actually, Stuka Dive Bomb is more powerfull, that B-4 shot. It has 3-4 times bigger AoE (causes huge infantry losses). But... its hard to compare power of such Howitzer and rocket artillery, like Wuhrframmen of Werfer. Rockets cover huge area but dealing low damage per one charge, and B-4 shooting 1 powerfull shell which should hit only 1 target - no area cover.

And 3 shels shooting is intresting, but unrealistic idea. B-4 should reload long, cos it's not such easy to load 203mm shell. It will be a joke to see 3 fast shooting shels with B-4.

This type of highly biased misinformed posts reminds me a lot of these weird elite news-bulletins threads from the official forums a while back.

Well, I still would like to write in that style, I liked it

And don't you agree, that B-4 need to get "Precision shot" back? How often you see it in games using by your mates or enemies? And how often they can be called useful, with their horrible random accuracy?

Ok, here is a point:

Sometime ago, B-4 was cool arty. More than that - when OKW just came into war B-4 was only (and ONLY) tool, which could stop KTs and JTs. If you remember, they were absolutely unstopable in those times.

But, someone "mindful" decided, that "Precision shot" is OP, or something like that and left B-4 (and ML-20) without it. And if for ML-20 that was compensated by few more salvos in Vet1 (and it's OK), B-4 was left without any compensation. Right now B-4 is "little better than Sexton" artillery. That is a shame.

I suggest to give back Vet 1 ability "Precision shot" to B-4, because without it it's just throwing 600 MP and entire doctrine in nothing. It has awfull accuracy and only with 9 or 10 Luck in your SPECIAL you can hope, that it will hit requiering target. With that ability back, B-4 will be reliable 600MP investment, as it should be.

And now some "axis-players" will come here and say: "No, don't give to B-4 that ability, because USSR player will just camp with B-4 and snipe out my units!!!". It's just predictible.

Here is an answer to you, my dear axisplayer - Stuka Dive Bomb. Don't you think, that it is quiet similar to old B-4's "Precision shot"?

Same huge bomb falling in 1 very accuracnt point and causing huge damage to everything in area. Don't you think, that it is hypocrisy to say: "Precison shot is OP", but "Dive bomb is OK, don't touch it"? For me it is obvious hypocrisy.

You could say that "Dive Bomb costs 160 Ammo, so it's ok". Allright, then that "Precision shot" costs 600 MP (for unit to do it), some time for to get Vet 1 and also 90 muni per each shot, cos if you remember, that was a price for that ability - 90 muni. And don't forget, you can always lose that 600 MP, time you spent on veterancy and lose that ability, while you can lose nothing by just calling 160 ammo airstrike! Ju.87, which dropes that bomb is unvuerable to all posible AA, so - you lose nothing.

And yes - it's not harder to dodge B-4 round, than Stuka bomb, cos B-4 shots pretty loudly. Loud enogh for to hear it and start to move vunerable to strike units.