Im not entirely sure your what your point is. Yes, pak doesnt have an artillery barrage, but the zis doesnt have target weak point either. Yeah grens dont have a non doc close range grenade, but cons dont have a long range grenade either.
Are you saying that all units should have equal types of abilities?
Exactly, faction diversity is something which make playing each faction feels different even though this game is not in a fantasy setting but rather a game where units are soldiers and tanks for the most part.
I have to check the 1vs1 situation again, the performance between HMG42 and Maxim often changed and multible Maxims are still normal tactic. On real scenarios with multible units Maxim perform more flexible than HMGs, because Ostheers arty and infantry-abilities can't counter as effective, in comparison with needed cost and micro.
Molotov, diverse mortar, Zis arty-barrage and early T70 simply are more potential than rifle-grenades, mortar and 222.
Germans units had unique abiliies, now they often have overpriced stuff. e.g. geballte isn't worth the price, it isn't better than egg-grenade, because of longer timer and worse range. Rifle-grenade only works versus bad path-finding. PaK40 isn't better than any other AT-tank-gun, it still bounces (IS2, KV, Chruchill) etc.
Germans arn't bad, but it is more butt-hurt to play.
Pak40 is the best at gun in the game starting at vet 1 with its really strong vet 1 ability
To be fair, you can easy outplay HMG42 with Maxims and Vickers, because it will stop shooting when it gets yellow pinned. Maxim more or less ignores suppression, Vickers also perfomes besser under that situations.
HMG is here, because the rest of Ostheer can't fight on in price/power comparison.
Edit: I would like to see HMG34 instead of HMG42 for Ostheer, move it to OKW instead.
Making shock-grenade non-doc and give Pios some light AT-option would bring the change in line... only a thought.
While it isn't "the most OP unit ingame", playing against 4x MG42 backed by 2x mortar and bunker spam on rails and metal certainly makes me want to uninstall as any faction, especially brits though.
Read the patch notes and keep in mind that USF where beating Ostheer easily at the time:
MG42 HMG:
To encourage and diversify builds we have decided to move the HMG to the HQ. We expect this change will prompt more Wehrmacht opening strategies. We have adjusted the MG42’s cost and build time to bring it more in line with its performance.
Moved to HQ
Cost increased from 240 to 260
Build time increase from 30 seconds to 36 seconds
Wow I wonder what is the date they changed it to what it is not today, seems like it almost always has been t0 lol
So I have to babysitting my mates? Really?
If I had proper matchmaking they wouldnt need me to carry them
Even if I look after them... Do you think 800 rank players can beat top 100? Its no way man
Problem is that I only get this kind of matchmaking
Well we all have to make sacrifices if you truly want the best rank you can get lol. I won games where my mate was rank 2500 against like rank 500 and 400 so yes you have to carry your teammate if he is being bullied.
Well the trick is simply to try to care less about each game and keep playing even if you have an unfortunate teammate. Keep playing to your fullest and try to win and crush your side (if in 2vs2) then try to go help him if you can spare the ressources, that's what I do when I see my teammate lose hope. As long as you get your side it's fine if your teammate can't cap his side, only thing that matter really is wipes. Also if your mate start crying in the chat and is about to leave try to cheer him up by saying ''we are fine'' or ''we can still win'', this might sound silly but this is what you might need to say if you want some of your weaker minded mates to stick around with you in harder games lol. If you start flaming your mate then he will probably start playing worse or outright leave, sometimes they will still leave if you did everything right, but you can't control that ^
I m trying to have fun. I dont want necessarily win. I have no problem to loose every game if it is balanced. All I want is to have good games.
But tell me.... How can you have fun when you always have 800 rank teammates and top 200 to top 50 opponents?
Well the trick is simply to try to care less about each game and keep playing even if you have an unfortunate teammate. Keep playing to your fullest and try to win and crush your side (if in 2vs2) then try to go help him if you can spare the ressources, that's what I do when I see my teammate lose hope. As long as you get your side it's fine if your teammate can't cap his side, only thing that matter really is wipes. Also if your mate start crying in the chat and is about to leave try to cheer him up by saying ''we are fine'' or ''we can still win'', this might sound silly but this is what you might need to say if you want some of your weaker minded mates to stick around with you in harder games lol.
Omg this is insane, I have never seen someone having played more than 8k games on a single mode but he played 13833 1vs1 games as USF ROFL. I wonder how many hours that make.
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