Profile of Lago

It probably falls under both actually, depending how you classify "player A is not entitled to have an opinion because player A is not a highly ranked player". It is both an attack on the person's credibility, as well as a refutal of the "Player A is entitled to an opinion" argument, which is not what is being discussed.

When someone says they're "entitled to an opinion" what are they actually saying? If you take it literally it's completely absurd. There's no way to stop someone from having an opinion. You can prevent them from expressing it, sure. But preventing someone from having an opinion? The very notion is just silly. You might as well say you're entitled to think.

But when balancing the game you're not after people's opinions, you're after sound judgements of unit performance. And how do you decide who's judgement to trust?

Hopefully MrSmith will see this in short order and be able to tell us if this is even possible.

While a TrueSight based indicator that blocks out the parts the vehicle can't see (like Steel Division) would be great I'd be very surprised if CoH 2's patching tools can do that. The change as proposed is just a matter of adding Sniper/Flak HT rings to the full vehicle roster. Even that might not be possible.

Seeing as it's patch time I see a chance for a small but potentially very impactful QoL change I've been thinking about for a while.

There are a few long range but mobile units in the game that have visual range indicators when you select the unit: the three snipers and the OKW Flak Halftrack jump to mind. They also show up when targeting abilities on units such as mortars and when selecting structures with 360 fire such as the Schwerer Panzer Headquarters.

These indicators could be a very useful positioning aid for vehicles, especially very long range tank destroyers. Tank engagements often involve dancing around their maximum range to avoid snares and enemy tank fire so I can see a lot of utility in them. They'd also be useful for positioning tanks to attack ground against static targets like bunkers and OKW trucks.

If it's straightforward to do maybe it could be put it in the balance preview mod? If it's generally liked in practice keep it, if not remove it before the patch goes live.

Important note: the rings only show if you select only one unit. You can test this if you build two snipers in a custom game and select both. Ring overlap can't happen.

I've put a few visual mockups together to give an idea what this would look like.







Thoughts?

Fairly sure he meant make M10 nondoc without locking the M36 behind a commander. Replacing the Jackson with the Wolverine would leave you with exactly the same problem as before: one tank destroyer having to fill all the vehicular AT needs of the faction.