Profile of LoopDloop

Actually no, Storm troopers (ST.T) get the anti caches because it increases the synergy with "close the pocket" ability.

If you want to compare infiltration Commandos (IC) with St.T you will see that there a number of difference since the spawn with K98s and not smgs.

St.T not only lack as a infiltration unit they also overlap with camo PG that have camo with first strike and can sprint.

For one thing, demos are 2 times as expensive as the stormtrooper flamenade, and for another thing, they’re practically useless in this patch. By at least allowing them to kill caches it’d give it one form of utility that really never should have been taken away. Letting a 3 man, .86 RA squad waltz up to your cache (in sight due to the vision provided by points) and plant a demo for like 10 seconds then you either are not paying attention at all and losing the cache makes sense, you’re unlucky and most likely will at least wipe his tiny squad retreating through the entire map in the midgame, or you’ll intervene beforehand and push off and maybe even wipe his commandos right there. Whereas all you need to do with stormtroopers is spawn them in and hold them in camo for 15 seconds (wow, what a concept) while they upgrade their mp40s for free and then run over and chuck a flamenade at the cache and let the mp40s do the rest. Stormtroopers are also much more likely to survive retreating through enemy lines as they come in at 4 men and have better RA than commandos.

Saying the new stormtroopers overlap with pgrens with ambush camo is a little silly for a couple reasons. First and foremost, having commando-type camo opens up wayyy more possibilities than ambush camouflage. There’s no way you could pull off the same things commandos (and now stormtroopers) can with ambush camo pgrens. In addition, they have mp40s instead of stgs which makes them a little better at ambushing IMO because they have better close range dps (better midrange dps on stgs is irrelevant if you close with the enemy in camo and engage them at minimum range as commandos do). Storms also get smokes and a different nade as well as tactical assault for wiping stuff on retreat better than pgrens could (not that pgrens are bad at that).

I mean I don't think it's bad. I think all the flaktracks are a little underwhelming in their own right. USF one is just awkward and difficult to get to function. Soviet one while great for AA is very meh compared to t70 which makes it near useless. OKW one is ok as well, but I think the most viable of the 3.

Flaktracks are tricky because they’re all kinda unwieldy and all get 2 hit, but if they could survive two hits right off the bat it’d be op. I think they’re balanced fine in relation to each other but they’re all just a bit weird to use. You’re much better off just getting an hmg or a light tank or both.

Welp, about time this thread got hijacked to complain about other totally unrelated stuff lol.

Hey, remember that balance thread about how bad stormtrooper mp40s were? I wonder who wrote that.

Also, stormtroopers are wayyyyyyyy better now so I don’t know why you’re complaining. Sure, they actually take more micro now but commando-style camo is so freeing and lets you do so much more with the unit. Also you don’t have to spend 100 muni on mp40s.

Also, gotta point out the irony of citing a previous balance thread poll in a thread called “balancing discussions are all pointless”

Teching is obviously an issue but I don't know how to really fix it without blowing up balance. I guess you could have conditional unlocks tied to major tech- for example AT Gun is available either Captain or LT + Major or .50 Cal is LT or Capt + Major. This obviously makes Airborne completely irrelevant (hello commander revamp 3?)

You know, the worst part of usf teching is that it’s so bad that there’s a commander where 2 of its abilities are literally just more expensive stock team weapons. They should make a commander next where okw gets a 300 mp version of the kubel as a callin at 1cp.