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The MG traversal bug should be fixed ASAP. Then, if the 222 becomes too deadly, we can nerf the damage. There's no excuse for retaining inconsistency-preserving bugs; inconsistency is frustrating for both the victor and the victim.

The insane price-efficiency of the 222 is something that is completely ridiculous. At some point it will have to change. CoH2 is a game about trades. Usually when you want to counter something expensive, you have to pay some premium to have a good chance. 222 is a tool that allows Ostheer to completely chicken out on that part of the game.

However, I wouldn't touch a thing about the 222, yet, until somebody would present me a credible alternative for Ostheer early game that will help them survive the light-vehicle meta. Even though OST is supposed to be the defensive faction, it wouldn't hurt them having access to some early aggressive tools (which they have to pay for).

However, even before that, I would give priority to wiping the call-in meta off the map, first.

Then boost the other aspects of Ostheer so it's less crutching on snipers, 222s, and call-ins? I can't bring up every topic on the faction for a single unit.

Let's say we did boost Ostheer's early game, would 222s then be too powerful at that point for their cost?

I think it would help if you could elaborate a bit on your vision about Ostheer.

(The other thing that's completely ridiculous about 222 is the multiplicative stacking of spotting scopes & Vet2. This completely deletes the fog-of-war mechanic)

TL;DR: USF mortar Autofire is now legit. USF mortar barrage needs some ironing out. Vet1 and Vet3 are a bit different.

I just ran a difference check between the OST mortar and the USF mortar. There are a lot of differences that are to USF mortar's favour. Some bugs exist (which might cripple USF mortar's performance).

The differences between the two mortars are the following:

(+) Vet1: USF mortar receives -20% scatter on all attacks (instead of useless counter-barrage)

This is significant bonus, and is exactly enough to offset the penalties of firing into the fog-of-war.

Since this is an area, you can say that the OST mortar will be ~50% more inaccurate than the USF mortar starting from Vet1.

(+) Barrage: USF mortar fires a lot faster

The two mortars have different wind-up and wind-down times (1.5 for USF vs 2 for OST, for each). What this means, is while the two mortars are barraging, their reload rate will be:

- USF: 3.125 secs per shell
- OST: 4.125 secs per shell

(The USF mortar will also start firing 0.5 secs faster due to wind-up).

(+) Vet3: USF mortar receives scatter bonuses on all attacks (instead of only autofire)

Similar story to Vet1. That USF mortar turbo-barrage will really, really hurt.

(-) Max scatter cap too high for USF mortar barrage weapon

Max scatter for barrage should be 6.4 instead of 8, so that scatter caps at range 80.

Currently this makes no difference because the mortar cannot barrage past range 80, anyway.

Moreover, the Vet1 and Vet3 scatter bonuses to the barrage will be more than enough to cancel this (OST mortar barrage scatter doesn't benefit from Vet). I am only listing this here in case Relic decides to fix USF scatter veterancy.

(-) USF barrage weapon has 20 penetration instead of 35

This one is completely random. Should be 35, like all other mortar weapons.

(-) USF Mortar crew are easier to hit on retreat

OST Crew received accuracy on retreat: -60%
USF Crew received accuracy on retreat: -50%

(that means USF crew is +25% more likely to get hit when retreat)

(-) Bug: USF mortar abilities do not benefit from +33% increased range at Vet3

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If I understand movement scatter penalties correctly, movement scatter should only apply to horizontal scatter, not vertical scatter (tanks almost always use max vertical scatter).

T70 has normal horizontal scatter (7.5 degrees). Thus, movement penalties should hurt it quite a bit.

However, T-70 has very small (small) vertical scatter. Regardless of whether scatter penalty also applies to vertical scatter, the end result will be something very small. Thus, the T-70 gives the appearances of a vehicle with no "movement accuracy penalties".

But yeah. As elchino7 noted, if you have issues with the T-70, Easy8's will blow you apart. (hah!)

Basically do exactly what Miragefla said.

The "problem" will go away the moment a real monetary cost becomes attached to the Schwerer flak cannon. OKW, as faction flavour, will still have the option to get access to popcap-free AA.

As Miragefla also suggested, the AA mechanics should be changed to accommodate a more consistent experience. For instance, the Soviet AA halftrack is probably worse at shooting planes down than the M20 utility car.

It costs 45 munitions, isn't that to much for its performance? It feels like it has the same damage as the pineaple grenade from USF.
A bundle grenade cost the same and it is much better, or even the gamon from UKF (almost the same cost as the bundle grenade).
Does someone know the exact stats?

Correct me if i am wrong.

You are correct.

Damage-wise, there are 3 tiers when it comes to infantry grenades:
Light Gamon Bombs = Bundle nades (Falls/Obers/Pgrens/Stormtroopers)
Guards troops nade = pineapple nades
Shock troops nades = trash

However, do keep in mind that guards troops nades have very tiny wind-up time (i.e., time to throw), which is comparable to Volks flame nades. Given that PGren nades were recently buffed, I don't think that guard nades performance justifies their cost, any longer.