Profile of Mr.Smith

I love the argument that some things should stay as they are because they are unique. I think Relic had the same idea when they implemented the Tiger Ace. OKW Vet 5 is incredibly stupid because it rewards a player for being ingame at the 20 minute mark and not for being good at the game. While Allied squads stop receiving vet at that point, OKW still do.

Vet 5 Füsiliers vs vet 3 Cons is a very unique matchup indeed.

OKW is just a huge mess at this point. Originally designed to be a resource starved faction, they now have regular income while still having access to Infiltration grenades for as good as no munition cost. They are the perfect product of a faction with bad initial design and damage control updates and a lack of polish.

My reasonable suggestion is to remove OKW, USF and UKF alltogether, but I can't find that in the poll for some reason.

A lot of the following types of issues are statistic outliers and will, hopefully, at some point be addressed:
- Vet5 for certain units giving far too strong raw stats
- Munitions/fuel cost for certain units/abilities not adjusted after resource penalties lifted

The problem with making OKW feel "right" though is because OST already picked up most of the juiciest elements of vCoH Wermacht/PE. By copying too many OST elements, you might as well merge the two factions together.

That leaves OKW as the mishmash faction with expensive tanks, inferior weapon teams and a fuckton of infantry. Somewhere in-between there are 4 elite infantry squads vying for attention. Also, trucks.

PS: Veterancy5 is not as unaffordable as people make it out to be. This is because of how veterancy thresholds are parametrised.

For example, assume it takes 1000 points to go from Vet0 to Vet1. Then, it takes:
- 1000 points to go from Vet1 to Vet2
- 2000 points to go from Vet2 to Vet3
- 1000 points to go from Vet3 to Vet4
- 1500 points to go from Vet4 to Vet5

Thus, it takes roughly the same amount of effort to go from Vet2 to Vet3 as it takes to go from Vet3 to Vet5 (in-between, your squad benefits from better bonuses)

Bringing things down in line doesn't necessarily mean that units/armies have to lose their uniqueness to be competitive.

For instance, if WBP can be a testament to that, we didn't have to introduce snares to UKF to make their early game varied and viable vs Light Vehicles.

Mortar pit might not have to be removed; 25-pounders could be buffed and brace could be reworked, instead, so as not to reward sim-city play as much as it does.

For OKW, if something has not been touched since OKW resource penalties, or especially since release (Command Panther Vet5, Sturmtiger), it's probably broken as fuck. It just that it doesn't show because in 1v1's Vet5 is unattainable. Just make veterancy more accessible and give units things other than raw stats that promote a-moving.

Anything else is just pushing things under the rug, and pretending it's OK, just because 1v1 games end before that moment.

Crushwell needs a big nerf (especially the Crush ability). However there are ways of doing that without making it into another P4/Sherman clone. Ideally every tank should have an edge over other tanks, which makes the game interesting. However, it's not fair when certain tanks possess that many edges over other, more expensive tanks.

e.g., what would happen if Cromwell remained a highly-mobile tank (not to this level, though), that, however, has crap moving accuracy? That way the player will be forced to make a trade-off between using superior speed to position their tanks and shooting.

Having inferior moving accuracy will also deal with Cromwell blobs. You can't just right-click your tank-blob behind your enemy and still expect them to beat the enemy.

Is it possible to auto spawn all AT guns with prioritize vehicles on?
Nobody uses AT gun against inf and if they do it, they can simply deactivate the state.
Otherwise in 99,99% of all cases, people activate vehicle priorization as soon as the AT gun hits the field.
Currently it just creates artificial micro without any usefulness.

Also, is it possible to fix the bug(?) that snipers deactive their 'hold fire' ability after retreating?

We planning on doing something like this for the patch immediately after WBP. First we want to make sure that the existing payload (bugfixes and balance changes) make it through in one piece. Then we can start experimenting with some hold-fire/prioritisation changes we have been hatching.

The usefulness of AT guns being able to engage all targets become clear when you are fighting vs sim city (Brits/OKW). You don't always have vision on the target, while you also have to move your AT to dodge artillery.

We all know the panzerfaust bug, and hate it.

However, there's also its little evil sibling called conscript disappearing AT nades.

I think we have discovered the root cause behind this. However, with no way of reproducing the bug, we don't feel confident including a change that might not fix the problem.

Pls give replays/videos/etc.

I suspect this may potentially trigger if the AT nade takes more than 1 second to wind up.

I went through the files. There is no issue with the USF support weapons.

Instead, there seems to be an issue with certain vehicles that still have a random change to get engine damaged in the right conditions. The affected vehicles are:
- Universal Carrier
- SWS halftrack
- OKW P4
- OKW Puma

The chance of getting a random engine damage critical is 1%, if and only if both of the following conditions are satisfied:
- Hit in the rear
- Health precisely between 25% and 50%

Given that you had this happen twice in a row, it looks like you hit the lottery there xD

I'll try to see if it isn't too late to add a fix for this. Otherwise we will put it out in a future update.