Profile of LoopDloop

I am loving this commander so much. You guys really hit an amazing spot with it and it feels good while not being op.

So the greyhound is basically supposed to come later than most other lights? I think it does feel pretty good that way. I've noticed that the main gun seems to be somewhat inconsistent, but that might just be rng playing tricks on me. I remember the first time I called it in it sniped a grenadier model from moderate range while on the move, and proceeded to miss pioneers and mg42 crews for the next several shots. Again, might just be rng. Since it and the paradrop both come pretty late, however, it's kind of awkward trying to hold on if you're trying to get a paradrop, as you either won't have at to defend against lights or you'll have redundant amounts when you get the airborne drop (especially if you give the paras zooks, which I really love so far). It's workable, but IMO notably awkward/strange, but I can't really see a way to solve that problem while keeping it balanced. I noticed that when I tried to target a garrisoned mg42 with the canister shot it didn't seem to want to fire or respond to my commands. Could be a possible bug maybe?

I'm loving the new paratroopers and the newly priced drop, and IMO it feels about right as 325 mp isn't crazy crazy cheap, and it comes with a pretty hefty muni cost as well.

Also loving the new pathfinder changes, makes them actually worth calling in and they don't take up a tenth of your army anymore.

The cluster bombs feel very fun and unique, but I really think they should stay as a detonate on impact. It's already a very powerful tool for breaking at walls and stunning tanks, so a instantly placeable s-mine field would probably be a little opieop, especially since usf has non doc major recon Not sure how I feel about it having green smoke, but I don't think it's gamebreaking/imbalanced (much better than no smoke- stuka db looking at you), and you should basically expect green smoke to be cluster bombs as soon as you see one of the commander's unique callin units. Allows for even more psychological play too I guess, along with I and R fake/real barrages.

Also, on the topic of airborne vs recon support, why are ir pathfinders strictly better than normal pathfinders while also being 40mp cheaper?

Seriously, who would play airborne post patch? Recon support gets pathfinders, paras, and airdropped at guns (all for much cheaper than the airborne equivalents), while also getting a sight/cap speed buff, one of the best light vehicles in the game, and a meh arty barrage. Airborne, on the other hand, gets a massively overpriced mg calldown, p47s, and thompsons on its overpriced paras. Yeah, this seems like a fair tradeoff.

If airborne's units were reasonably priced, this actually would be fair. p47s are nice, an airdropped mg can come in handy as well, and being able to choose precisely which units you want to call in has value. However, when recon support gets 60% of airborne's units and every single one of them is significantly cheaper, significantly better, or both, then airborne becomes pretty pointless. I actually think that recon is fine (possibly aside from the greyhound), but airborne badly needs cost reductions on everything but p47s.

I'm pretty sure it's just because they can't revamp more than 2 commanders and recon support was originally (in live I mean) worse than airborne.

I do also think that 4cp is a bit much for the greyhound, as in my experience both light vehicles like the luchs, aec, Stuart, etc and other early mid game assets like elite inf hit the field at the same time as about 3cp (exactly in the case of elite inf), in 1v1s anyway. So unless its really intended to come even later than other lights at the very very tail end of the tankless period, 4 seems a bit odd.

I kinda think it would fit better with the commander and unit if the recon support paratroopers had a short range upgrade (maybe something like g43s or just the good ol thompsons) instead of the 1919s, as to me they seem sort of like harassment units, seeing as they have mines and good recon support.

I'd be fine with as be fair for it to take up a weapon slot. Should've added that in my post. Yes use it anywhere anytime as it's relatively easy to dodge given the time it travels and due to it having a timer. It could be a skill shot with a small cool down time that could reduce with veterancy or just be auto fire with attack ground. It'd counter MGs and with the garrison changes in DPB squads in garrisons. If used on a squad in cover they could just move back then move forward to dodge it.

I would absolutely love that. It'd give REs an actual role besides being bazooka toters/mine sweepers, fix the issue of garrison clearing, and make it so the player has to choose how to delegate their RE's roles (and possibly build more) all at the same time.

Edit: I'm curious as to how you would want infantry smoke to work (as in only on rifles, only on officers, only on REs, officers and REs, etc.) if REs were given smoke, because I'm not sure how I'd approach that, but I think my vote is probably with sticking to having it on rifles.

Dang elchino7 thanks for the testing. That's really odd.

Oh well, apparently green cover IS provided.

#surprised

If there's a bug that make green cover inconsistent it should be fixed as well as raketen cover introduced.

"@Smith do you think this is possible to fix so it works as it should (operators getting cover all the time)?"

Wow turned out to be an intended feature that needs instant fix.

I think you need to work on your writing analysis skills. It's also hilarious how you doubt elchino7 (who by the way did provide substantiated information and was backed up by multiple people) right up until his information supported your argument, at which point you immediately took it as gospel.

Further than that, you didn't even understand that it hardly ever provides cover properly, and only does so in extremely arbitrary and odd circumstances.

I wonder if how USF would function if RE were given a upgrade to allow to use their Rifle grenade anywhere as if they were in a FP. Would counter garrison and give them a unique place in USF roster by providing mobile fire support and allow the USF mortar to remain more of a smoke dispenser. RE rifle grenade isn't exactly broken either due its time to detonate and lower damage. It also give them more utility as they can move up behind Rifles to assist with clearing buildings and cover positions. Course the munitions cost of such a upgrade would have to toyed around.

IIRC smith added that in the unofficial revamp that resulted from relic's abandonment of the last patch that was supposed to come out (fall balance patch I think?) if by "use their rifle grenade anywhere" you mean like it fires automatically and is not a muni based ability like the grenadiers'. I never actually got a chance to test it, but I think it'd be pretty cool and could be a well balanced solution to usf's chronic lack of decent (nay, functional) early-mid game non-doctrinal garrison clearance.

It should probably lock out at the very least one weapon slot though, and/or be mutually exclusive with sweepers. REs with a 1919 and automatic rifle nades could be a bit op. Just a bit.