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this is amazing, but what is wrong about it? WHY DOES THE COMMUNITY HAVE TO FIX THIS? lelic, where are you???

I guess it boils down to "Be the change you want to see in this world".

Please, don't judge a book by its cover; in this case, the QoL mod by its patchnotes.

Nearly all of the fixes I have proposed here have issues of their own; due to tools limitations and my limited understanding of modding for CoH2, those are the best solutions I have come up so far.

The purpose of this mod is not to become a pissing contest; it's meant to give people a chance to actually trial the fixes I implemented (in-game!) and give me feedback:
- Are those fixes still buggy? (some of them have lesser issues of their own)
- Do you consider the implementation of those fixes an improvement, or do they just make life worse?

As long as I don't get actual feedback, I cannot feel confident proposing these changes to Relic.

PS: You can already trial many of those QoL changes in Miragefla's mod

I think that the commander is decent for the more populous gamemodes, assuming you adapt your playstyle to it.

Generally, speaking, there are two modes of commanding your army in the late-game (for most factions):
1. You either rely on a spearhead unit that will act as a lethal damage-sponge
2. You rely on units/abilities that give you increased sight range to control the battlefield and kite the enemy

Playstyle #1 is, by far, the most straightforward playstyle, and you have probably used it, whenever you field a Pershing, Tiger, KT etc. Nearly all factions can go for this playstyle, but it requires Pershing commander for USF.

Playstyle #2 is much less common, which is why Recon Company feels very alien to most people. Excluding the superb USF artillery commanders (Infantry, Calliope), Recon company is all the way to the top for me for 3v3/4v4.

The thing with USF on these game-modes is that:
- USF completely lacks any units in their roster that can see beyond their own noses
- The opposition will almost always field heavy armour and in large amounts
- Jacksons require a spotting unit to work
- Without long-range spotting units, your Riflemen will bleed really really hard to KT's, etc

From best to worst:

Greyhound
- If you use this properly, this is the best ability in the entire commander (see below)
- Call in a Greyhound, and swap crews (putting your most-vetted crew inside the Greyhound)
- The reason is that the Greyhound has the longest passive sight range of any unit in the game, when at Vet3 (excluding 222 spotting scopes)
- Now, you can finally outspot the enemy, and your Jacksons can work
- Do not bother with Greyhounds as shock units. They are completely useless until after you have fielded your first medium tanks.

Riflemen sight range
- Only really useful for the opening phases of the game, when you want to dodge MG-walls
- When you are trying to advance, find some cover nearby, and try to out-spot the MGs
- Note that the UI icon visual will betray that you have picked Recon company to your enemy.

IR Pathfinders
- Cloak the Pathfinders on key spots where they can provide vision
- Once the enemy is aware you have pathfinder artillery, start spamming decoy flares instead
- AVOID ENGAGING THE PATHFINDERS IN COMBAT AT ALL COSTS

Recon run
- It can't be shot down
- However, it costs munitions (that you need for your arty)

Paratrooper drops
- Try to avoid them as much as you can (no added sight range, no snares, you can't control their weapons)
- If you do summon them, keep in mind that they have mines that you can use.

(Of course, the best commanders for USF 3v3/4v4 playstyle are, by far, Infantry and Calliope commander).

The best way to phrase this request is through a real-life example

Suppose we have two people, let's name them Miragefla and Mr.Smith:
- Miragefla is the curator of a very well-known CoH2 overhaul mod
- Mr.Smith is tinkering with some minor changes which might be of interest to Miragefla
- Mr.Smith is also tinkering with multiple smaller mods (since the changes are orthogonal to each other)
- At some point Mr.Smith wishes to put all smaller mods together into a bigger one, and share that with Miragefla

1. Is there any way for Mr.Smith to merge the smaller mods into a bigger one?
- Assume no two mods touch the same unit/ability file.

2. What is the best way for Mr.Smith to give Miragefla access to the same mod, so that Miragefla can also see and modify them?
- i.e., what are the source code files Mr.Smith can send to Miragefla, so that he can also have a look?

I'm not sure why this is a problem all of a sudden. Call-ins make the game more diverse and exciting.

The reasons why stug-e is bonkers op is a combination of the following factors:
- No tech
- Same accuracy/aoe as the t-70 iirc correctly
- 50 range
- 200 manpower
- stug twp (guaranteed pen for 160 damage. Disables gun for 15 secs)
- stug hp (that's not commendable by itself, but try puttimg everything together)

When you have the option of calling this unit in like this, helter-skelter AND them following up with a tiger, you can see what the rage is all about. Now also factor 222 in.

Light vehicle meta kind of jumped the shark when the 222 was buffed to the state it is today, since ostheer had no other vehicle candidate to fill that role.

Wouldn't it help if all ligjt vehicles received a heavy manpower price nerf?

If you look arpund the prices for a bit you are going to realise that light vehicles cost an arbitrary amount of MP. I am assuming this is because the community is so fixated on Fuel prices that they forget about MP.

God tier (200MP): Stug-E, Stuart, T-70
Mid tier (200mp, but weaker): 251, 222
Low tier: m20 (340mp) Luchs(340) Puma(280) aec(380) m5(280)

A low mp cost allows the offender to field both the light tank, AND whatever other unit they meed to harass the defender (who probably needs a 320mp gun if they don't want to partake in the meta). The Stuart in particular, is on a league of its own since it comes with a free usf squad (which now isn't forced to lug around a bazooka at all times).

Since it would be nice to see light vehicles remain relevant in the late game, I would propose:
- nerf mp price to 300-ish for all vehicles.
- give a steep mp price reduction when the player researches all tiers.