Profile of Mirdarion

I'm experiencing alot of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WQh4f0bOS4 so maybe it isn't connection? I don't know how to resolve it. Running a 980 GTX with Decent Cable internet actually great internet Overwatch and SC2 have no issues.

That looks very much like resource problems with the battle server. Either the virtual host didn't get enough resources and it took a while for the system to reallocate enough calculation power, or the virtual host was switched to a different physical machine entirely. Optimally this should happen fast enough for you to not notice it (aside from it being another source for the above mentioned "black hole bug"), but if the host was switched to a machine at a drastically different physical location in the network, the data transfer may not happen fast enough.

This was much, much worse during the times of player hosts though, to the point that the game was unplayable if the host player had a bad internet connection and/or a weak PC.

?Panther:The disgrace of the fatherland.

Historical accuracy... ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

On a serious note, the patch was intended to fix mostly infantry and some light vehicle problems. While I don't agree with many of the changes made, it indeed does make sense to concentrate on certain areas of the game to fix first, in order to be able to determine cause and effect of each change. This is actually hard enough as it is with such a large patch, which is why I don't think many of the intended ideas will work in any shape or form.

Ho about we fix Forward Retreat Point cancer first. Blobbing around your titanium truck should be punished. not encouraged.

How else do you want to balance the immobile nature of the truck set-up if not by making it sturdy? I mean, that's the entire reasoning as to why the Major can simply pack his stuff and move on after having been used as a (free) retreat point. The British and OKW retreat points don't have that luxury.

Aside from finally applying the same principles to all retreat points (that is to make them expensive) they should give a debuff within their reinforcement area. A damage multiplier (basically the opposite of the Command Panzer IV) would work greatly and be easy to implement.

Volks incendiary nades t0 side tech. 100m 10-20f. Allows quick response to garrisoning without having to invest all the way into the next tech.
T0 MG34, no truck needed.
ISG smoke barrage.
Reduction of medic and repair side tech costs by accommodating the costs into things like truck setup costs or forward retreat point upgrade. (Side tech of Flak gun to unlock panther seems quite feasible.)

Those ideas are beyond being considerable for two reasons:

1.: The side tech would be entirely pointless, because every OKW player had to go for it anyway. No grenades on their main infantry? No easy access to an alternative? That's the reason why USF got their ridiculous mortar and why everyone wants to keep it in the game, despite it working against anything the faction was designed for, which in term makes it completely unbalanceable...

2.: The costs you want to redistribute to other things would be extremely pointless, because these things are already fucking expensive. Sure, that would make healing and repairing (which is kind of stupid on OKW anyway, if we compare repair speeds with, say Soviets or Ostheer) more accessible, but at the same time nobody would ever again go for the retreat point, because it is on the verge of being unobtainable in anything but 4v4 already. At the same time, the cheaper USF tech gets their retreat point for free by the way, combined with cheaper healing. Something doesn't add up here.


If you want to lock things behind side techs, the teching itself has to become cheaper - that's the reasoning behind Brit teching being so bloody cheap. Alas, that adjustment never properly took place when it came to OKW and their healing (yes, there was an adjustment, but we can easily see now that it wasn't even close to being enough).
This actually serves as a pretty good point to demonstrate the main problem with the game's mechanical design: Inconsistency of rules. Be it the Cromwell having a lower moving penalty than its equivalents without having the weaknesses of the Sherman (which justify the Sherman having that lower penalty in the first place), or be it the StuG E still working with the call-in meta that was supposedly fixed over a year ago...

SO blob spammed is beat by arty spam gotcha

Arty "spam" is countered by high costs, long reload and aim times, as well as supply. Sure, you can bring out your tactical missile, and it will put down the hurt, but every reload costs you over ten percent of a single FOB which in return is worth a lot of points.
Not to mention that the game actually allows true flanking with a sneaky helicopter or recon squad to take out your arty.

The game is so vastly different from COH2 in basically all mechanics that the only similarity is the genre of both games.