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I have an idea for a QoL change:
- Give units a toggle ability that disables them from firing their weapons while moving.

Burst-capable units that fire their weapons on the move suffer from:
- Burst penalties (which means less damage even if the attack is scatter based; eg Ostwind)
- Cooldown decreases, which means you fire suboptimal burst more often
- Reload frequency does not depend on how many shots you actually fired

This means:
- You fire bad bursts, and you end up reloading way too often

The other use case is rifle-based infantry:
- Accuracy-on-the-move is attrocious
- The only way to get decent DPS and the ability to cover ground with those untis is using a stop-tapping trick
- Even then, it is exceedingly micro intensive to benefit from this, as the firing patterns will end up diverging.

Bear in mind that the Centaur has been indirectly buffed this patch (especially in relation to the Cromwell):
- Pre-patch, its speed made it very possible to bumrush the Centaur with Volksblobs
- Crushing with Cromwell might become more risky now that fausts are better-available
- Centaur doesn't care about fausts, since it can kite low-range units for days; even with that acceleration

The Vet1 ability is insanely sweet, but:
- It costs 50 munitions
- It is a scatter-based attack (you need a clear path between you and the (ground) target to hit

Regarding Ostwind. The things that really kill its performance are:
- The attack is mostly scatter-based; thus you need to make sure there are no obstacles between you and the target
- To ensure that there are no obstacles between you and the target, you need to keep moving
- Since the attack fires in bursts, moving means you lose a lot of your potential dps due to burst penalties

(Ostwind is insanely more manouverable than the Centaur, which means it's not as risky to use. This means that on the right mode you can spam 3 of them and not worry about losing all of them to a single flank).

The easy way to fix Ostwind is reduce its moving burst penalty.

Another way to fix this is to give Ostwind is to give it a toggle ability disables Ostwind guns from firing while it is moving. That way it becomes easier to micro for the player when the Ostwind should fire, and when it should relocate.

With either fix applied, Ostwind becomes the agile melee-range murder counter-part to the Centaur.

Flak Halftrack is useless on its own right

If they are to keep stun, I would change it so that only one rocket applies the stun (preferably the second). Otherwise, if you get stunned by the first rocket, you can't move, and you will also eat the 2nd rocket in the face. The counterplay is that if your tank is fast enough, you can maybe dodge the 2nd (stunning) rocket.

Otherwise, we could nerf the stun the same way Relic nerfed Stug TWP.
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Also upgraded Volks can't pick up weapons, is this intentional?

Judging from Miragefla's mod I think this is intentional.

However, I don't see the harm in Volksgrenadiers being able to pick up pilfered weapons; PPSh cons (with broken vet) can do it just fine. Why shouldn't Volks?

Even if an STG Volk squad can pick up a schreck, the weapon-pinata effect will kick in, and they will probably lose it very fast.

+1 to Shrek cost being reduced... on a side note does anyone feel like the StrumPio aim time with Shrek is god awful compared to what Volks used to be like? Any time I've used them it feels like they take for-ev-er to shoot. (Maybe that's because the shrek model is more likely to be sniped?)

I can't verify this right now, but aim-times are tied to the weapon; thus any unit that picks up the schreck should have the same aim time as the original unit (I doubt that relic created a new weapon profile for SP schrecks).

However, what has changed is that Volks vet5 had a -30% reload time; Sturms do not. On the other hand, high-vetted Sturms will almost never ever miss their schrecks against vehicles.

(The only one infantry unit with reload time veterancy is the Captain; thus keep those slots empty in case you manage to pick up a schreck).