Profile of Jae For Jett

The main thing about most infantry upgrades is that they're upgrades: pay 45-60 munitions to increase the overall fighting power of your squad. There's a lot of nuance to it, but generally you pay munitions to get increased performance.

The thing about putting brens on commandos is that this doesn't really increase the overall combat effectiveness of the squad, it just changes them from a great close range ambusher to a great long range unit. Commandos with brens ARE great, but so are commandos with their base stens. In fact, bren commandos don't really do anything that sections don't already do, unlike the ambushing sten commandos.

Basically, you pay munitions to turn a strong unit that fills a gap in your army into a strong unit that does what your army already does. Not really worth it.

Is someone of the balance team allowed (assuming they even know) to talk about if or how CoH2 updates will be delivered from now onwards?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CompanyOfHeroes/comments/i83or5/does_the_balance_team_need_any_help_with_anything/g160xmu/

Tl;dr: As far as im concerned, there will be no more patches. Relic has avoided giving any definitive answers though, so I wouldnt be surprised if they tomorrow announce that there will be work on a new patch. I mean, some 3 years ago, we were told Relic would cease supporting coh2, but look whats happened since then.

A pretty respectfully worded post overall. As a member of the balance team and a tournament player, I'd like to clear some things up though.

Call in vs. constructed inconsistency is annoying, but I think the more important question on that front is if the implementation in each case makes for better gameplay. Why keep a unit as a called in unit if this very aspect causes problems (balance or otherwise). Sometimes switching a unit from a callin to being constructed fixes real issues in the game. That said, I am personally of the opinion that units should default towards being constructed instead of called in. On another point, frankly, what people wanted from this game or what people decided about this game in alpha is completely irrelevant. Everything was different back then, and those opinions were held based on factions, units, and gameplay systems that were entirely different. If anything, game design decisions/perspectives held early on in the games life cycle didnt seem to make for a game that was fun to play or balanced.

As for polish and bugs, thats mostly just out of most of our hands. Mods are built by miragefla, then when they go for live implementation, theyre rebuilt by andy on the relic end. No one else really has direct control over the implementation and polish of these changes.

Make a team of people like Duffmann, Pink guy, Tightrope and Ashabroz etc and pay them.

Stop giving the balance department to people who think they know what they are doing and give it to people who actually know and play! the game.

Its always a good laugh when people claim that balance would be better if we kicked tightrope and added tightrope.

Im just also confused at why asha, pink guy, and duffman supposedly "know" the game but current members dont. Im especially skeptical that asha has been able to demonstrate said knowledge considering he hardly ever speaks in english to begin with. Thats to say nothing about the language barrier itself.

Good to know, I take it then it has absolutley no impact of the performance of the gun, its just a visual... glitch?

An intended visual quirk, yes. That's what I understand it to be.