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Pick up your mic.

If you scroll down a bit more to a later preview post you'll see this:




Don't see anything about "on par" with other infantry.

(drops mic) I said "based on preview build" aka that particular iteration of the build, not later ones.

They forgot to add that to the official changelog. I've asked Sturm if that could be fix at the time but oh well.

The final preview SHOULD be what we got for the patch.

Yeah, forgetting happens but Relic's prone to ninja-changes and non-changes. It's best practice to only refer to proper patch notes, and not to previews.

On par means similar performance, not carbon copy.

You're right. In English, "on par" factually means equal footing or same playing field with similar attributes. It does not mean a carbon copy. The term comes from sports, when two teams or two players are facing each other, and they both are considered to have similar chances to succeed, despite being different from each other, even if one of them has some kind of superiority or malus over the other, then they are "on par". Source: Englishman here, oi! So, the sentence to give Shocks a better grenade so that they're in the same playing field as other units' nades is valid and contextually correct.

Let's not focus on patch notes sentences. That's nitpicking for the sake of nitpicking schematics. We should Focus on the data that Hannibal presented earlier in the thread.

I also do not think that arguments should rely on sentences of patch notes which were most likely written as the very last thing before releasing the patch. We could argue that the grenade should be on-par only with other specialist anti-infantry units, and any infantry which is not a specialist anti-infantry unit, so a generalist and whichever infantry which has the potential for AT upgrades (not via drops) should be taken out of the equation of the term "on par". That's a can of worms there.

It's better to focus on units in their context, and not plain 1:1 data comparison.

I tend to get a Tiger at some point. I kind of agree that it needs a buff, but at the same time I'm VERY HAPPY that it's not a must-get unit any longer. It was boring to skip tiers, spam Pgrens, and rush to Tiger as good as every game.

No radio intercept works on the E8 when any heavy and medium vehicles are within 35m.

Whats really weird is that radio intercept works when around one light vehicle only, the t70. Literately states in the attribute editor to work only around the t70 (in terms of light vehicles).

Can confirm that it is correct and well known in higher 2on2 gameplay. Useless ability, as barely anyone goes for Shermans nowadays.