Profile of AceOfTitanium

Well, the obvious solution here is to simply make it instant again so that you can counter snipe Sov sniper teams.

Make the incendiary explosive round instant would be broken, the soviet player has to have a chance to react.

Counter sniping requires too much attention and micro, why don't you do what every OST does and run it down w/ a scout car?

That or run double turbo mortars, keep him dancing while you let your mortars auto-fire and he'll have to micro the shit out of them, while you are free to tear up the map.

In higher level play you can't really chase snipers with scout cars because the soviet player always keeps something protecting the sniper against armor/infantry and investing 480 manpower to counter a sniper team means that you'll have less squads in the field and thus have less map presence or your mortars will be flanked and stolen.

OST sniper being able to counter snipe both Soviet ones would be unfair, since he already has an advantage in everything else (especially the crazy rate of fire) except for vet ability

Ofc I wasn't saying that one wehr sniper should counter two soviet snipers, but one should be able to counter one soviet sniper team.

We can all agree that this game is very competitive and thus the more skilled/timing based abilities the game has the better right? Then why do so many commanders have "loiters" such as stuka close air support (Wehr), Il-2 sturmovik attack (Soviet), strafing support (UKF), strafing run (Wehr), P-47 rocket strafe (USF)? These should only be in commanders that don't have any/strong tanks associated with them or commanders that are considered underpowered, for exemple Soviet combined arms doctrine or Close air support doctrine.

It makes no sense that players get area denied because of one click abilities that dont require much tactical decision or skill to use. Why not instead replace most "loiters" with strafe planes and buff those with lower cooldown and/or muni cost or buff damage versus infantry or tanks (not both in the same strafe).

"Loiters" as they are now don't make the game interesting in any way and only reinforces the decisions on why players always use the same commanders all the time. Let's make the game more tactical rather than spammy.

I have never found flamethrowers, demos, or minelaying to be useless.

At all.

They're only useless when you don't have access to them.

Or I guess if you have to spent fuel to get them after x cps.

They are kinda useless in the sense of raw combat.

Both should have 10 sec timers and a lower cost ofc and be used solely to blow up structures caches abandoned weapons ect.

How do you expect to restrict a player to only use those versus structures? Just remove them from the game or replace by something like what I said before. There are and could be so many interesting abilities instead of demos but people like the spike of dopamine when they blow up a squad or blob.

Another thing is the fact that "all" soviet squads have flares... Why?! That just over saturates flares and leaves the feeling of repetitive and lazy unit design. Apart from those, the main soviet army is, imo, the best put together faction in coh2.

Tbh demos are another game mechanic that doesn't work in multiplayer unless it's in the form of the "destroy cover" ability. I would just remove demos, what really interesting and strategic diversity do they actually give to the game? no skill one click wiping squads? hmm yeah...