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Anything over a .5m offset does this FYI. He is on an elevated position compared to the infantry, so it is going to overshoot a ton, where as if he was lower on the .5m offset it would hit the ground or fire short.

This is the type of stuff that makes mapping insanely difficult, if the stugE does this, on that small of an incline... maps like Across the Rhine will be impossible to hit on.

We reduced the offset of the Stug-E to 0 for the balance mod, actually, which explains my surprise as to why all these shots land so far.

I guess Cruzz came up with the answer D:

From what I can see the weapon of the Sturmtiger is set correctly to do the homing nastiness you have in mind:
- Projectile is set to homing artillery calculation when no shot-blocker
- Accuracy is high enough

If you are still trying to launch the sturmtiger attack through an ability (instead of letting it auto-fire like a machinegun; shame on you), you also need to change how it operates.

Artillery attacks do not fire homing projectiles. Instead you want to adapt the ability of the Sturmtiger attack to look more like Grenadier panzerfaust (i.e., fire through an accessory weapon, check the targets, so that it's an entity, etc).

PS: You might want to ask to have your thread moved to the Modding forum. There's a ton of helpful people lurking out there.

And what about my comments on USF stuff?

In the live version, you only go USF T1 if you want to rush the enemy. The downside of T1 is that due to the cost efficiency of certain OKW/OST vehicles this can leave a huge gaping hole in the AT department (in the live version).

Our goal with USF T1 changes is:
1. Slow down the shock factor on the enemy, so that they have a chance to react to the various threats you want to throw at them.
2. Make T1 sustainable for the late game. Give a reason for USF players to consider back-teching.

Currently, if you want to lay mines as USF you have to unlock the lieutenant 200MP + 50 FU, and then buy a 340MP + 20FU minelayer.

If, for some reason, your M20 gets destroyed, you need to pay an additional 340MP + 20FU for a replacement minelayer.

All you want in the late-game is a damn minelayer, and nobody has pockets deep enough to afford 880MP in the late game, just so that they can afford to lay mines. Armour skirts also don't make a difference in the late-game. Your M20 is still going to go down in two shots.

As a direct consequence of USF T1 changes you need to plan out strategically how to transition from no-AT to some-AT:
- Are you going to buy Bazookas on your M20 crews, just so that you dont have to pay for the fuel unlock?
- Are you going to go commando with the M20 and try to bait over mines?
- Are you going to build an M15 and use Riflemen AT nades to cover the blind spots?
- Are you going to unlock bazookas and equip some of your Riflemen/Rear Echelons?
- Are you going to tech captain and rely on the Captain's bazooka
- Are you going to tech captain and buy some AT gun?

That is a ton of options to choose from. Moreover, as a side-effect of OKW/OST changes, you also have more time to plan out your strategy and see how you want to counter their counters. At the same time, the enemy cannot predict which option you are going to go for.

If we would give any of the features back to the M20, we would have to hike its price up. And then, nobody would ever want to back-tech to T1. Thus, we took out everything that we consider optional for the late-game.

In the late-game, nobody gives a damn if their minelayer:
- Can have good DPS vs infantry the moment it rolls out
- If it has 240HP or 320HP, since vehicles lack retreat, and the m20 will still go down in 2 shots
- If the vehicle crew (i.e., the weakest infantry in the game) gets access to 1 bazooka or not

All people want for their late-game is a damn minelayer, and teching to USF T1 will reward people with that.

Will there also come a fix that wire/tank traps could reveal mines?

I don't know how to fix this one, yet

I'm mainly playing osther during this patch and was very happy to see the usf mortar finally nerfed.
So i decided to play some 2 vs 2 as USF against 2 osther player who started each one by building 2 mg42 followed by a wehrmacht mortar.

Well, because of the range nerf, ennemy mg42 could almost fire on my mortar when i was using it to counter the mg42 and the damage were .. bad. (at least against garizoned mg42).

I guess you tried to make a mobile mortar to allow usf to put smoke barrage there, flank then moove again the mortar and repeat .. but against double MG42 covering each other, you can't only use flank and smoke.

The problem is that the usf mortar damage was low, easily countered by grenadier rifle grenade because of the low range and VERY HEAVILY countered by osther mortar, especially at vet1 when it got its ability.

sadly, i didn't save the replay.
But you might maybe consider buffing a bit usf mortar range in order to make it viable.

i felt like it would be easier to upgrade smoke grenade & rush pak howitzer, just like in the old days.

no need to thanks you again for the time spent on this balance mod.

Thanks for the feedback on the mortar.

It was indeed our intention to make the USF mortar more vulnerable to counterbarraging by the OST mortar, and rifle grenades from the grenadiers:
- Correct me if I am wrong, but OST mortar is usually a suboptimal choice for an OST vs USF matchup, due to the highly mobile nature of USF.
- Grenadiers, which will have to get outscaled by Riflemen (due to disparities elsewhere in the mortar), will have an additional utility role, so that they won't feel that much of a burden to carry.

The primary reason why the USF mortar stands to be less cost efficient than other mortars is because of the free officer. We will have to monitor closely exactly how strong the mortar feels, especially in relation to USF's teching perks, before we can make adjustments (upwards or downwards)


The shorter range was so that the USF mortar can be countered by either the OST mortar (so that OST mortars begin to make sense to get build vs USF), and the rifle grenade (so that Grenadiers will

222, I like it but will give some more free room to the M20

M20: if you make the zook cost 50amo, make the skirt free. How can you imagine people investing 100 manpower on something that die in 2 shots so early in game.
Sounds to me that nobody will pay the zook and thus become a useless ability. Thinking more about it, well, who will even think to upgrade the zook, who will even think "I'll upgrade the zook so if I face a 222, I'll jump out of my car so...." no no no, noboby is gonna buy the zook. If your M20 get destroy you lose it and lose 50amo for nothing.

You made some interesting statements about the M20 and the 222. Now try to read them together, one after the other and see where you contradict yourself.

Bonus points: Now that the forced zook is gone, you can upgrade Elite Vehicle Thompsons, if that's what rocks your boat.

M15: Due to the changes made to the Stuart , the M15 needed to be brought in line to prevent it from becoming the new dominant meta choice. To me it sounds like bullshit.
we are talking about a high fuel unit that delay for quite a long time hard AT capacity (it is not like Sov T3 giving you access to Su76 or OKW having ATgun from the start), so it better be good at AI. thing you simply removed. So here again, what will be the purpose for this unit, you cannot say it is a wipe machine today since it is not. It is also completely unable to chase retreating squad. Every squad I have wipe with the M15 are squads players were not retreating in time. In time like 10-15 seconds firing at them non-stop before ending killing the last model.
Last point, since it is not a wipe machine and not really super mobile, it is not like you vet it up really fast, so less damage output but same vet requirement = You'll never see this unit reaching vet2 anymore.

The M15 received a major anti-vehicle efficiency buff, due to the fact that the vehicles it should counter have become significantly more expensive.

Since the M15 is the most reliable form of AT in the tier, it had to lay down on the anti-infantry efficiency. If I am not mistaken, the M15 is the only suppression platform that can suppress while moving.

251, good buffs, but the munition cost reduction is definitively too much, this + free medic kits on Sturmpio sound to me like "hey guys, just spam Volks STG, you don't need to choose where to spend your munition".

The smoke ability used to cost exactly 0 munitions. Now it costs 25 munitions at Vet0 and 15 munitions at vet1.

Piat: spam/blob is the new shreck spam/blob.

Try to blob 30-range PIATs vs 35-sight range tanks, and tell us how that worked out for you. Brits don't have snares.

If you manage to pull the PIAT blob off, make sure you post a replay so that we can review it and make adjustments.