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Hey all, my first post here.
Anyway, given the upcoming patch, would it be too much to ask for a patch to soviet radio intercept vs OKW?
The issue is, when fighting OKW, some announcements won't be intercepted because it uses the OST announcer audio files, (eg you wont get an audible notification when they build a P2 ect and you have to monitor the left side of your screen).
What do you all think?

interesting, i didn't even know this was just an OKW thing... i always thought it's a common bug / feature that some audio cues won't play and it affects both axis factions.
anyway, agree it would be nice to see this fixed, if possible.

Low profile? It's the same target size as the p4, it has the weakest Ai out of any stock medium tank, and has similar At capability of the Sherman.
So all it has is speed, and with nothing backing it up, that's pretty terrible since it does get the on the move accuracy the sherman gets.

how so? the cromwell's main gun ai performance is superior to the majority of the medium tank roster, and with the recent buff to its hull/coaxial mgs it shouldn't be far behind in that department, either.

"M1 81mm Mortar
We are slightly adjusting the scatter of the 81mm Mortar to match the accuracy of other mortars and be more accurate than its auto-fire.
Barrage scatter angle from 10 to 9
Distance scatter max from 8 to 7"

This change is step in the wrong direction since it will make the USF mortar superior to Ostheer one (at least according to MMX analysis) and that will be a bad designed call since Ostheer are pretty bad at attacking USF positions.

uhm... i don't remember having concluded anything like that. in fact, the proposed change would bring the m1's performance roughly on par with that of the grw34, as apart from the 5 range difference both mortars would end up with essentially the same combat stats.

I can understand that some competitive players don't like crits, but I think there are even more casual players who do like them. Therefor I'd like to propose an idea which keeps the feature, but makes them more predictable and less a deciding factor (and more realistic).

There seem to be two major complains about crits: the randomness and the extreme effect of losing the gun.

1: Re-introduce an engine crit (one of the many variants), but only for rear penetrating shots. That encourages to outplay your opponent and can be avoided by good play.
2: The gun critical can be tied to frontal penetrating shots and changed to an already existing gunnen/loader injured crit which is temporarily.

The total crit chance stays the same, rear hits can cause a severe crit, frontal hits can cause a temporarily crit. Chances and durations can be tweaked ofcourse.

(This is easy to implement, it took me less than 1 hour to implement a similar idea in my mod)

this sounds like a good compromise!

just as an aside from my own experience:

these in-game tests are clearly the gold standard when it comes to analyzing unit performance and such. at the same time, they're also tedious to set up and repeat in a consistent manner, and on top of that take literal ages to conduct if you aim for a reasonably large sample size.

a trick i've used to 'speed up' this in-game data collection for dps calculation involves only a bit of knowledge of the modding tools.
just create a target squad with a huge hp pool (e.g. 10k per entity), then mod the attacking weapon (the PM41 mortar for example) to fire a set amount of rounds (say 1,000 for simplicity's sake) per reload cycle. now set all firing delays (cooldown, aim time etc) to zero and reload to sth like 10 to 20 s, et voila, you now have a test setup to record the damage of 1k rounds fired at the target that can be used for dps estimation and takes no more than a couple of seconds to complete.

the same can be done for direct fire projectiles as well, but the key to getting repeatable outcomes here is to disable terrain deformation for the projectile used (otw 1k rounds will dig a deep crater around the target that messes up the scatter pattern due to terrain collision).