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I just came from HelpingHans' stream.

I heard about this whole drama from him 10 minutes ago. He's always been my favourite CoH2 player and streamer.
And I think he's in the wrong here. I didn't even need to read this forum letter. Through his behaviour he's convinced me of his fault.
I have no doubt he is one of the best CoH2 players and arguably understands the game better than anyone.
But he is behaving like a child. He seems to have no concept of empathy of honour here. Let alone intellectual property law.

In regards to his actual offence:
If he had cast the game at a later date I would understand. He would be adding his expert opinion to a pro game. He would not take viewers away from the live broadcast. And he would direct people who were not already aware of the tournament to view the live broadcast next time.
Instead he broadcast the event live and excused himself with the self-entitled view that he does more work and contributes more to the CoH2 community than the people who organised the tournament.

But ultimately that's not what turned me against him.
I decided to watch his stream tonight to unwind. Instead I get to listen to him abusing chat for (largely respectfully) disagreeing with him. I believe "fuck you" and "go die" were thrown around.

A year of my respect for HelpingHans, garnered through his expertise and entertaining videos has been destroyed in mere minutes. He demonstrated a blatant and childish disregard for reality which prevents him from considering anything but his own self-pity. It is with regret that I will no longer be subscribing to his twitch. I am deeply disappointed by his attitude, and I hope he develops some level of introspection in the future.

The fault does not lie solely with HelpingHans.
All that said, I also believe Stormless and the other organisers/casters had a way to attempt a more peaceable resolution to this than posting it on the CoH2 forums. The post may have been more justified if they attempted a personal conversation with HelpingHans first. I don't know whether this happened... It would reassure me if it did. If Hans still refused to admit the error with integrity then I believe this post is entirely justified.

Finally:
I would just like to stress the fact that the first information I received on this matter was from HelpingHans himself, he has always been my favourite CoH2 streamer... and I do not support him in this.

Even if you call them out for it their tactic is to ignore your comment though.

Here's why they ignore you:

They are too busy talking to people who are hard at work testing these changes. They are trying to determine whether they really are an improvement on balance. Because believe it or not, nobody knows for a certainty yet. Especially not you.

Meanwhile, you're offering no analysis. We are acutely aware that you believe axis has the short end of the stick. But with only your personal anecdotes, authoritative statements and very strong convictions, you have failed to persuade us.

Now being useless is forgivable, but you've taken it a step further, haven't you? You insult the people who are just trying to do a job. You accuse them of bias.
They know they may be biased, or lacking some information at the very least. Balancing this game is more complex than merely pointing out over/under powered units. If they were truly pushing an agenda, they would never have brought the update mod to the wider community for feedback before implementing it.

Axis is receiving a few more nerfs than allies this patch, and the only people that advocate trashing it all can't provide a well reasoned argument with some credibility and evidence. Odds are, the extra nerfs axis is getting this time around are justified.

Try developing a more informed opinion than *axis good allies bad*. Then you might get a response.

How about removing mg upgrade from panther?
I mean seriously, nobody is going for panther to deal anything else except armor.
And it will remove that BS excuse for calling panther a generalist tank. And then they can improve him to be a better tank hunter. When that is going to be his only job, to hunt tanks.

A panther is a generalist tank. Do you know why? Because we already have tank hunters. Jagdpanzers and jagdtigers are tank hunters. The former literally translates to hunter tank.

I suspect what you want is a fast heavy tank to blaze through enemy lines and solo 3 jacksons. That isn't a tank hunter. That's a push to win button. The panther isn't as shit against infantry as you think. It just isn't an instant wipe machine, nor should it be since it is also good (yes good) vs tanks.

The panther is a heavy tank. It is there to be the backbone of a line and help dominate an area. And it does a damn fine job.

that is just not true. i tested it with cheatcommandsmod and the cromwell wins more often than not

If that is true then I stand corrected.

Every pak in range? I always build lots to feed mortar pit veterancy. If microing one unit (the Cromwell) requires furiousness how could we describes microing 2-3 of the following a pak/stug/p4/infantry to counter it?

The cromwell is extremely effective at countering these counters - it can flank paks/move out the arc and flank tanks with warspeed and crush any infantry whilst pushing to prevent firing. Not all at once to be fair but it can always run off. Lets hope it hits the mine or the Cromwell stumbles into the area the map where the axis player happens to have grouped their AT assets. Then a short while later hope they do it again with the next one at 110 fuel (I normally find they come in pairs anyhow)

The Cromwell doesn't 'counter' Paks. Yes, it can be micro'd to avoid them. But if your Pak positioning is good, it shouldn't be able to. Especially if it hits a mine or takes a faust.
The Cromwell is a tank. It isn't meant to die the moment it gets zero'd by an AT weapon. It is meant to put the tank player in the position of move it or lose it. Sometimes you may still lose it.

The Cromwell's speed and fire rate is a trade off for armour and penetration. In a head on battle, a P4 will win.
If you push a P4 into allied lines, they are scrambling AT just like you would. Yes, they probably won't have to deal with it rushing around the AT (depends on the situation), but it has better armour and can stay in there for longer, doing damage.

It all evens out in the end. It's impossible to make a game like this where each side has exactly the same number of clicks to attack and defend with every unit composition, unless you make every faction identical. Which is boring AF.