Profile of ShadowLinkX37

• OKW
  
• Probably best to start with a volks squad, kubels are map dependant and can die easily because of RNG. Its tank effect is due to the 4 armor,but becauase it's rng dependant you can suffer a lot of damage very quickly which means your first unit regardless of choice is probably going to die in 90% of games anyways.
  
• Unsure where the JP4 is overperforming. It's 135 fuel incomparison to the SU85 and Firefly, 130F and 155F respectivly. It has better RoF at the cost of penetration. Its range is the same, can cloak with vet but cannot sight for itself like the SU85 or upgrade with commander/tulips like the FF. Sounds balanced to me.
  
• Not sure why they're under used. +30% penetration and damage is fantastic against the right targets. That all but guarantees panther frontal pen against all allied tanks except the IS-2. OKW tends to float munitions once StGs are upgraded. Most other sinks are mines, grenades and obers/callin infantry upgrades. I've never really had a problem with it being overpriced.
  
• Are these not the same?
  
  USF
  
  
• So the issue with moving all the team weapons to T1(LT) is what is my incentive to go T2(CPT)? Light vehicles matter less the more players you add to the game because more people can have AT guns, plant mines, more infantry for chain snares etc. CPT would become more or less useless unless situationally you needed a unit. AAHT is great for shooting down planes; pack howitzer could be neeeded over the mortar at some point.
  
• Why does USF T3(Maj) come "very late"? If you rush tech in a realistic way with changes to the T1 and T2 as you've suggested, I'd go LT into Maj. I'd purchase an ambo and weapon racks of course as well. So in total USF spends 195F inorder to have their Maj, OKW must spend 190 in total to have schwer HQ up. Ostheer 175 total to tech into their T3. Sovs 185F for T1 into T4 with no T2, molotovs, or AT nades. The only major faction difference is UKF. Sitting at 160F for full tech and weapon racks.
  
• Shermans arn't really useless, they're actually very good for their price. I do agree though that the USF should have some kind of meaty tank to soak damage. At least in team games that isn't really a problem because you just let the UKF and Sovs get their tanks while you spam calliopes or something.
  
• Because USF is a munitions consuming faction doesn't mean lower price of p47s. Should lower the price because the ability is crap when you compare cost to power.
  
• Riflemen mine laying takes a long time because you spam rifles. If they had fast mine laying and you had rifles everywhere you'd have mines everywhere as well, and that'd be hell for axis.
  
• Pershing CP is fine. Compare the pershing to the Tiger. Tiger has more HP but less penetration. They have equal armor and come at the same CPs and IIRC they cost the same as well. Technically both these tanks are overperforming, since they're both no brainer choices. No choice should be a no brainer that just deals with most targets. Also command panther is 11 CPs now, it just says 10 on the menu doctrine but ingame it will be 11.
  
  Soviets
  
• Thank you. Someone understand the T34s are overperforming. I know you only mean the T34/76, but they're to efficient for what they do. 10F increase to 90F would be fine.
  
• Katy durability matches pwerfer. I think we should lower the durability of other rocket arty vehicles instead of buffing the lower durability ones.
  
• Do you mean increase the cooldown between salvos? because decrease would be more beneficial for soviets. TBH I don't actually know to well how this unit performs because if one is ever built ostheer just drops a dive bomb on it. Either that or railway.
  
• If you're going to match the ISU-152 to other TD of the Axis you need to balance it respectivly. significantly lower RoF, or removal of HE rounds.
  

Jump back to quoted post5 May 2017, 11:43 AMskemshead

You must be kidding. Halbe is atrocious.

It is too small to start with, making indirect fire a real pain in the arse. Mgs are easily accounted for with morters and or smoke. It is plain in the extreme with almost no interesting features making it utterly boring. There are multiple trees that obscure the players view in general and there are also blind spots where points are obscured by trees so you have to rotate the camera incase demos are hiding.

It is extremely cramped in certain areas allowing for CQ units to hold a bottle neck. The entry to the bases also feels particularly awkward. Penals in amongst the trees are a freaking nightmare to deal with in general because they can position anywhere, where as grens must stay at max distance and tanks are easy targets for at satchels..

No, Halbe is god awful and i cannot wait for it to be removed...

I don't think the level of symmetry you desire is necessary in coh2, although a few maps that are utterly unsymmetrical are quite bad, eg semosky,.