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But that sentiment is not entirely false. Only ost is somewhat different from the rest.

Only the Ostheer and Soviets are standard build Armies, like the US and Wehrmacht in the original CoH so they're quite similar to each other as I said before with each having their own specific and unique counterpart units which prevents a mirror match like most people are afraid of.

The rest of the factions are weirdly designed in my opinion and trying to forcefully be "different", as in the reason why we got both British Armies being focused around static defensive emplacement gameplay or both the PE and OKW being the "Elite" more vehicle focused factions.

What should have been done in my opinion was go for a theme and stick to it, for example I think it was well done in the original CoH with the US and Wehr representing their real life 1944 counterparts well while in this game the Ost is some sort of mish-mash 1943/1944 defensive Army while they should be an early war more mobile and aggressive Army with the OKW's trucks instead to represent the "Blitzkrieg" time of most of the Theater of War missions for example.

The Soviets are... fine I guess altho if the Ostheer was more accurately modeled during the early parts of the war then they too should have been done so with a bit older vehicles and weapons.

USF are probably the poorest designed faction just because of their limited options and unpractical base design. Their concept was a force that "bends but doesn't break" at the start but I think it kinda died off with the removal of the rifle smoke, not to mention lack of an actually normal MG like the M1919A4 instead of a .50 cal which makes no sense to be carried around by a bunch of infantry which need to be bodybuilders in order to actually do so in real life and stuff like the M20, M15, M8 and M36 being standard vehicles while the M10 is not or the lack of a 76 Sherman upgrade again which doesn't make sense as well for a 1944 US Army, no M18 Hellcat too which was one of the most effective TDs of the war, no Jumbo which would have fit more for again a 1944 US Army instead of the Pershing which saw extremely limited service in 1945 and so on and so forth.

Then we come to the OKW which again, it doesn't make sense for a 1944 German Army to be so aggressive and focused on the early part of the game when they should be a more defensive force with concrete buildings and so on. Their whole design also went out the window with the removal of the fuel and ammo toggle mechanic at their Mech HQ, I mean why not just give them resource caches at this point as well?

And lastly the British, which with their Comets are meant to represent a British Army in 1945 on the Rhine but instead they're again limited to static emplacement gameplay with the mortar pit especially and no mobile non-doctrinal mortar team to rely upon as a cheaper means of indirect fire like the rest of the factions.

One could argue that yes, the same thing did happen in the original CoH with the PE and Brits being forcefully "unique" altho the themes of said Armies did make a bit more sense with the PE being based on the Panzer Lehr Division in OMG while the British were more defensive oriented because in real life they took up the brunt of the fighting in Normandy until the US could break out of the hedgerow country and into more open ground but in this game again at least in my personal opinion, the Army designs lack any such sense with only maybe the OKW being ever so slightly at least somewhat faithful to the 1944 German Ardennes push but even so their entire HQ system again makes little to no sense.

I need this now. You could even scrunch it in a little more on the sides for better space conservation so it could have almost the same dimension as the Brit Base. Base Sectors would be so much less cancerous to work with.

Well you can play with the mod if you click on the original picture that I posted.

It's also included in the All Units one as well.

But otherwise I doubt it will ever be added to the game sadly.

And since in this update there is strict "no swapping units between factions", Relic got tired of that as well and it clearly is not a way forward.

And what do you suggest then, the same old nerfs and buffs that have been happening for the past 7 or so years now?

The people want new units and abilities, if it wasn't so the All Units mod and others like it that add those wouldn't be so popular right now.

Hell most of the new content that the current dev team put in was made by the community in the first place, so obviously it works and it's appreciated then by most of the people.

You can even hear HelpingHans himself say that we'd all like to have more units in the game while reviewing the upcoming Gates to Hell DLC for Call to Arms here at 6:48 this video:



Note: These guys are an indie dev team and already have enough German vehicles for probably 2 or hell maybe even 3 German factions.

Irrelevant, otherwise we wouldn't need balance patches and commander reworks.
You'd be going exclusively against meta or using your own non meta, being clapped hard and spammed forums asking for balance and nerfs, leading to new meta and so on.


For one, due to how decks work in AoE3, only about 30% of cards are non meta.
With how it works in CoH2, 95% of all abilities would become irrelevant and at this very moment, in case you have yet to notice, we're working towards making as many abilities viable and desirable as possible, which is not the case of custom builds stacked all with meta options exclusively.


In case you've missed it, we're in the middle of the process of changing that.
And even within the current meta commanders, not all 5 abilities are top of the line when it comes to potency, contrary to stacking custom one with best stuff only.


For you, sure, you're just a comp stomper, literally anything goes for you and you can't blame balance for losing to AI.
However for people who do play pvp, facing the exact same thing all the damn time is the worst possible outcome ever, again, this is also we had balance patches for last 8 years.



Sure, if you deliberately choose to ignore all the reasons against it, I guess there is no reason not.

It's relevant as far as the money coming in is concerned.

People spend time and money in something like Starcraft or Age of Empires to be competitive, I doubt you'd get the same results if you were to ask the community at large in this game.

Also who are you referring to as "we" here exactly? You're constantly making fun of me but at the same time you're a giant hypocrite because you don't even PLAY the game.

Now you're suddenly making it sound like you're part of the community dev team which I see no possible way of happening, or at least making it out to be like you're doing some God's work on behalf of the community for the betterment of the game instead of trying to troll on these forums.

Do you even have the game installed?

Well how do other customizable games do it then?

I remember a fair amount of games where you build vehicles or robots and so forth with parts that you buy or trade for or whatever and they somehow managed to balance it so why not here?

I'm guessing some OP things would be disallowed like for example only 1 Heavy type vehicle per doctrine, only 1 type of call in infantry/ability and so forth.

Units and abilities could be made, balanced and restricted on an individual basis and then they'd only need to balance individual parts instead of whole commanders and I think people would be more happy if they could customize their own experience instead of being locked into someone else's vision.

Similar to what Steel Division is doing as well.