Profile of Luoppis

Well I was talking about the gun hardware itself taking a load of damage and needing repairs to keep it from turning into dust. Good thing you guys uncovered the target size, which is surprisingly small, so does it come down to the weapons health? Of course also the crew does like to step in front of bullets. Having 5 men does help a little, unless they get caught in a similar death loop as the maxim crews. Of course you should expect me to have a very biased observation towards this units performance. It's small quirks have blown my mind a few times too much.

My main concern is most positively the horrible rotation when the weapon is doing it's dance of death. Add this to the setup timer and animation and you got a very long pass time of (re)positioning of this dearly belowed gun. A reverse command option would be the most helpful to me atleast, because I don't feel I have the same issues with other AT guns even though you can get them to do all sorts of quirky things too.

What makes this patch size up to 2,3gb?

I'm very happy to see so many bug/feature fixes made by community members included in the actual patch. I salute you for the extra effort!

Im also very pleased with how camo will be changed. No more instant phase-shifting squads rushing your units but instead you actually have to play for ambushes. And people will also have to better manage their snipers.

Of course a lot of broken stuff still remains in the game. But atleast we can hope that they could be next in scope

More and more people are using this ability offensively than defensively.
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people usually send 2 of them across large distances, right out in the open and just forget about them until they fire, then retreat them.

I can't think of any other offensive capability for this unit other than sneaking to an unguarded territory point and capping it while cloaked. It sure as hell is not going to kill any tanks even with 2 of them "roaming" around. It doesen't have any bonus sight so without support its really, really useless. Retreating after shooting is nowhere near a guarantee that this unit will survive an unsupported fight, since the guy "carrying" the gun is the most likely one to be shot and hence the retreating will stop untill any surviving crew member takes his place (or gets killed before doing so). So if you do find that your enemy is using unsupported cloaked raketens against you, you will have more than enough time to react. You might get hit once, but the odds are not in the favour of raketen by any long shot.

In my opinion the greatest shortcoming of the tiger is its poor maneuverability and sometimes unreliable accuracy. It is the slowest heavy tank, not taking elefant or king tiger into account in terms of top speed. It has 4,7 max speed, 1,5 acceleration and 1,8 deceleration. For exsample King Tiger has much lower top speed of 3,8, but it's deceleration is excactly the same as Tiger I and King Tigers acceleration is only 0,1 lower than a Tiger's. Now comparing Tiger I to IS-2, IS-2 has 1,7 acceleration and a much larger deceleration of 2,4 and a bit larger top speed. As for rotation speed, Tiger I is marginally worse than King Tiger: 24 on Tiger I VS 25 on King tiger. Again a much heavier tank can actually rotate faster than Tiger I. As for IS-2, its rotation rate is considerably larger at 32. IS-2 has a very high chance to just rotate it's very thick front armor towards a strafing enemy or just use its rotation to circumvent its slow turret rotation.

This all leads to the Tiger being much more sluggish than it perhaps should be. In some cases it does have doctrinal smoke, which costs a fair amount of munitions to use. And of course blitz, but even that only momentarily mitigates its otherwise sluggish movement. Its main gun is in line with other heavy tanks, but it sometimes misses a lot, just like Panther. So when it starts taking hits, it gives more than enough time for the enemy to hit it multiple times before it can reposition itself.