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Not trying to sound condescending (though thats probably exactly what I'm doing) but there are a lot of extremely good players who have already offered their opinions on most of these subjects. A lot of the changes that many people have ridiculed (whether theyre blatantly biased players, rank 2000+ 4v4 players, decent players, forum members that dont even play the game anymore, etc.) were made under the advisement of or were suggested by the literal best players that this community has; this includes players from all game sizes (1v1, 2v2, and 3v3+4v4). With these kinds of balance threads generating a lot of...noise, and with almost every other person having directly opposite impressions and opinions of the changes, its kind of natural to place the most importance on feedback from top players who, quite frankly, have shown that they actually understand the game. Given how large the skill/knowledge gap is between the tournament winners and, well, everyone else, they kind of earned the credibility that was given to them. And yes, that unfortunately means that a lot of people's opinions will go under the radar.

Just because someone is good at COH2 doesn´t mean he knows how to balance the game. Some "elite" players "balancing" the game behind closed curtains just doesn´t feel like a very good idea. Everyone who disagrees with them is labeled a bad player, troll, fanboy etc. Having great micro and abusing the latest op meta strats doesn´t make you great at balancing the game. I bet there are tons of people who know/understand more about the game than our last tourney winners.

The patch as it is right now is just not very good. Unfortunately no one listens to valid points people make because of ranks etc.

Why even make this thread if every valid point someone makes just ends in "best players contributed to patch bla bla bla"...

Just gets to show you how elitist the COH2 community is...Which is kind of ironic because winning some COH2 tournament is basically meaningless. "Elite COH2 players" should come down from their high horses IMO. You guys are not some SC2, LOL, DOTA2, CS stars...

So like brits, but 3 times instead of infinite that is still going to be in your base since medpacks cant move around like IS and you'd have to march units to their exact position each time, not to mention the risk of feeding them to your enemy if you dare to pop those anywhere near the frontline?
Yep, still trash. Every other faction's healing is a fixed cost purchase that you are more or less done with once you've spent resources on it. There is no reason for OKW to have this stupid "build T1 or constantly bleed muni" system.

You cant compare stuff like that 1:1...It´s asymetrical balance. OKW needs T1 for healing. But they get MG and Rak in T0. Unlike USF who usually either has LT or CPT. So they either have MG or AT-gun but not both.

maybe cons with ppsh was really to strong? they schred every axis infantery except panzergrens. why should such cheap unit so much better than any other unit which cost the double?
and the UC is to strong in the eraly game, because of high mobilty and nearly small arm immunity.

UC is not immune vs small arm fire + can only be repaired with ammo since Brits dont have T0 Sappers. Most importantly getting UC means even less capping power for Brits which is crucial in 1v1.

PPSH Cons needed to be adjusted. But right now their damage profile makes little sense. I would have liked to see either PPSH price increase or keeping the price but giving them 6 PPSH with nerfed DPS so they become a CQC only unit. Now they are a weird in between unit. At mid-range PPSHs are useless. At CQC range only two of six cons fight effectivly.

Also....G43s are too cheap and aren´t nerfed. Why?

Mortar and OKW ISG changes are good, lets see how much these stats actually change in game performance though.

Volks should keep their t0 flame nade. Not sure why it was locked behind tech again. Just makes playing OKW so annoying when you have nothing to clear garrisons and green cover in early game.

Sniper changes seem odd. UKF and Ost sniper didn´t need any nerfs IMO. I am personally not sure what should be done to the Soviet sniper. IMO a simple RA nerf would have been enough.

PPSH Conscript changes are SUPER STUPID. Now you have two PPSH and four Mosins. What range are you supposed to fight at? That just seems odd to me. Instead of this they should have just increased PPSH cost to 80-90. Grenader G43s should have had their cost increased too since they are way too cheap at the moment.

UKF changes seem completly wrong to me. They dont need to be nerfed into the ground even further. Why increase tech prices? Infantry section capture rate nerf seems like a joke surely? Brits already struggle to get any map control in 1v1s...Now you nerf their ability to control the map even more? Seriously WTF?

UC gets fuel cost + armour reduction + WASP range reduction...Please not these over the top "nerf everything and increase price" nerfs. Just keep UC as it is but make it cost 250MP/15f.

Change to AT infantry sections makes no sense to me. They are specialized unit that can´t equp weapon upgrades. Why take away their healing/pyro ability?

Other changes seem ok to me.

are you forreal? easiest strat to counter as ->okw????
even if you get the fuel and all that shiet. it won't stop him from countering your light vehicles and bullying your mp with those double snipers.

Double Snipers vs OKW? Am I playing the same game? That´s like a auto loss. In my 1700 hrs I have NEVER seen someone use Soviet double snipers vs me (when playing OKW). The reason is simple. You have no stopping power. It can´t work...Against Ostheer it can work depending on map but no chance vs OKW. I have never seen anyone use double sniper vs OKW in any tournaments either. So it doesnt have anything to do with player levels either.