Profile of Vipper

a) How will this combat the "death loop"?

b) When can we expect the patch to hit live? My fingers are itching!

you can always test it in game and get a better picture for yourself.

Since GCS is more less decided, I will suggest once more that the NEXT patch should focus on the very large number inconsistencies, vet abilities, vet bonuses and commander abilities that need to be looked at and not on balance issues.

here are some:
https://www.coh2.org/topic/60221/inconsistencies-that-should-be-fixed

Price: Unlikely to change at all.

Did not ask for change in price, I pointed out that it is too cost efficient when in garrison

Squad size: In garrison... really?

Yes really. See how tommies in green cover can counter a HMG-42/HMG-34 in garrison and try the same vs a maxim and you will understand why.

Ability: Nerfed in this patch, in order to reduce Maxim spam. Therefore irrelevant.

The ability is not a nerf contrary to what you think it is a change of role from a mainline infantry substitute to real HMG. Now if you actually test the ability you will see that it help the maxim to pin faster.

Available counters: Flame name on vanilla volks + flanking. ISG. Kubel kiting + Sturmpio flank. These seem strong to me - could be L2P issue

Now check how much time OKW have to spend with flame grenade or how many resources they need to spend to gain access to it.

ISG not only it one of indirect fire weapon that takes the longest to hit the field it also expensive and worse vs garrison than most.

Kubel+ST mean that maxim player simply need to micro his maxim to counter...


Contrary to what you claim Maxim is on of the strongest hmg when in garrison in GCS.

Not theory anymore due to facts laid out above.

Already accomplished - you are pushing for harder nerfs.

I see no real point in debating with someone who sees international conspiracies, so I will simply avoid responding to you. Have a good day and good luck chasing the conspirators.

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Making Maxim spam unviable vs OKW is not our primary design goal. Given scope scope limitations and OKW's insane lategame that goal is a bit further down the list of our priorities.

OKW simply sets the bar for MGs too low, and that's an OKW problem. Similarly, OKW sets the bar for late-game performance simply too high. That's, again, an OKW problem. Thus, we will probably have to deal with OKW problems when we examine OKW as a whole.

When I talk about garrison it is not a pure balance issue but map/balance issue. Some maps have vital houses some do not.

(late game performance of OKW is rather irrelevant here since we are talking about map related issues)

Having a Maxim that is too strong when in garrison will make Soviet (or Soviet T2) a very map depended faction, and that is bad design.

As I said before in my opinion Maxim is too strong when in garrison and changes should be made to either nerf the maxim when in garrison or buff the tools available to axis to deal with it.

Well I tested the new maxim vs AI and IMO it is OP when used in garrison.

Making the arc narrower will help axis and especially OKW to deal with it more easily while IMO creating less problems than most other solutions. If you do not like my suggestion as solution its fine by me, I do suggest you come up with another thou.