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Many feel that the Soviet sniper currently is too durable and thus OP in the current meta. The spring balance patch addresses this by changing the SOV sniper to a 1 man team of increased health (same as OST and UKF sniper).

Furthermore, the performance of the hull MGs of most light vehicles against all snipers is buffed. Likewise, all snipers are now easier to hit on retreat. In addition, the 222 was made cheaper and more durable.

Now, it is suggested that snipers are easier to balance if they all behave similarly. However, several people will dislike the trend of homogenizing the factions further. What is your take on this?

Note: The question here is not if the SOV snipers are currently OP, or if the changes will render snipers in general useless.

The question is if you think the SOV snipers should remain a 2 person team or not. I'll rephrase the 4 options here (there is a limit on how long the answers can be):

1) Keep 2 man team; if OP, rather change (buff) the counters similar to what is suggested in current patch notes.
2) Keep 2 man team, but change how that team works or make some other more extensive changes to other units (please explain).
3) I would be in favor of a 2 man team for diversity, but unfortunately it will be impossible to balance that properly, so I'm afraid it needs to be a single person only.
4) A unit like a sniper ever should be on person only, I never liked the idea of a 2 man sniper "team".

Edit:

Just an understanding question.

Where is the difference between the last two survey options?

Yeah, probably not too clear, but what I mean is:

Option 3: "I would prefer to keep the 2 man team because diversity, but I don't think it will be possible to balance that properly, so unfortunately it needs to go..."
Option 4: "I wouldn't like to see a 2 man team, even if perfectly balanced! Snipers need to be lone wolves, not this communist sniper/spotter team thingy. I mean, even in 'Enemy at the gates' the soviet sniper was alone! I mean, come on..."

So pretty much game exists on for tournaments, top players, there are no different maps, no different situations, no different skill levels and playerbases.

Yeah, i'm pretty sure that tournament represents game balance perfectly.

It's not that I completely disagree, but the problem with gauging the balance from automatch is the matchmaking, which is supposed mitigate the combined effect of player skill and faction power.

With the data from automatch you probably can check for stuff that the matchmaker does not attempt to compensate for; likely this would include the strength of certain team compositions (like, OH/OH vs. OH/OKM vs. OKW/OKW), or how well theses teams do on certain maps.

Simply "is axis better than allies in 2v2", erm, well, I don't think that can get very good data on that from all automatches, let alone individual player experience.

Stats from tournaments are of course problematic as well (for starters due to small sample sizes), and while you might have been able to find a hint of certain factions being UP or OP in past tournament statistics, they only thing they always proved is that statements like "faction X can't win vs. faction Y" are wrong....

That's probably not what you are looking for, but if you just quickly want to check what units have been build and so on, you can use this tool.

The name of the night map that was in 1v1 and 2v2 automatch was Bystraya Voda by Qvazar.

Edit: If I remember correctly, the visuals of the map were well liked by most players, including the night setting. The controversial part was mostly the sector layout (with one FP only) and the size.

Also MonolithicBacon's Schillberg Outskirts, removed in the last patch from the 2v2 pool had a night setting.

Since we won't have coh2charts anymore since Relic never ended fixing the API, is it possible to have the bot you were using to extract information about the current W/L ?

Yes, but I'm actually not the biggest fan of these kind of stats because they don't actually measure what everybody intuitively thinks they measure, so they are bound to be misunderstood...