Profile of HoverBacon

What's in the title really, The comet has always seal clubbed most mediums into oblivion and originally was basically just a better panther, since the nerfs it's been basically a more expensive cromwell and hence unusable, especially with how ridiculously good the churchill is right now.

The panther has had an armour nerf now. I haven't used the comet yet in multiplayer, but is the comet worth using again? i.e.- does it penetrate panthers frontally again, at least decently often??

We're not asking to ban people for swearing or taunting or even a little 'bullying' or rivalry etc. really. This isn't club penguin. We're talking about repeated abuse, harassment and hate speech, something you can be arrested for.

This is people who are hardly even playing the game, often teamkilling and spamming chat and offering nothing to the game, they ruin otherwise fair matches and drive away new players. I personally am not bothered salty 11 year olds/20 year old man-babies in chat either, It's pretty funny how ridiculous some people can be but it's not about that. I'm bothered by teamkillers, intentional a.f.k.ers and match throwers and people who bully and harrass my teammates into quitting.

Seeing as the game says M for mature, as you said. I would argue that you should be somewhat mature when playing it, if you cannot do that, you shouldn't be playing it, hence if you are affecting others, you should be made unable to. Either by being banned from match chat or banned from the game, whichever suits.

It's not asking for 'safe spaces', It's not 'political correctness gone mad' or 'inhibition of free speech' or whatever some of you seem to think it is, it's a rational argument for preserving the integrity, fluidity and fairness of the game, preserving the community and expanding it. Something I think all of us here want.

I cannot believe I'm having to defend a blatantly common sense policy that not just all video games but also all sports and competitions etc. of any kind have had for decades.

640 hp vs 160 dmg = 4 shots.

640 hp vs 200 dmg = 4 shots.

It does not make any difference vs medium armor, only vs panther and above.

I say again, that damage increase is still worth something and is really good.

People need to stop thinking in terms of tank "kills". In this patch repair takes a LONG time unless they have like 3 squads of sturmpioneers and if they do, you should be using your recon and artillerying them whilst they are repairing with that blob, that blob is worth like 1000mp and they will all be clustered and easy to kill. If you heavily damage a panzer 4/jagdpanzer etc, the tank is down for repairs for several minutes. This is ample time for you to push/attack/follow up with artillery. I believe the vet 3 buff also says it gives more penetration? or is it accuracy? which is a straight buff.

More damage = notably longer repair time <--- this is very very good for you.

Not to mention more damage means you are also more likely kill it if the vehicle has been damaged by other things (making the firefly very good at getting kill hits) and makes it easier to kill with other things (i.e. an ally's bazookas that deal like 1 damage ) Tanks are always going to be taking damage from other things at the same time which will make the extra damage usful, (allied ptrs rifles? bazookas? 6pdrs? other tanks? mines?. They all deal varied damage so it will not always be still 4 shots to kill, your firefly shouldn't be operating alone anyway.

People get scared of their tanks taking a lot of damage at once, especially if it's more than the amount they expect it to take, they are a lot more likely to get scared and pull out if a vet 3 firefly is shooting at them so you can scare them off diving you.

Also if you hit that tank 3 times, the maths state it will be on 40/640 hp... there is no way that tank still has an operational main gun.

I say again. Forcing something to repair for 4 minutes is very nearly as good as a kill, on 30 fuel a minute a person can build a panzer 4 every 5 minutes. (Obviously they aren't spending fuel to fix it however)

So yeah maybe 4 shots if it's on it's own which it shouldn't be. So if it has to take that extra shot, it's your own fault.

Honestly I think part of the best way to make British artillery relevant would be just to make it (especially the regiment) actually work, it’s always had bugs like the 25pdr having less blast radius than a frag grenade but that’s fixed now. I personally think airburst should get some kind of crit damage, it’s meant to make the barrage more effective against infantry but it’s worse than the shells, so many times have I seen airburst land directly on a squad and reduce every member to half health without killing anyone. If you’re stupid enough to leave your stuff to stand in an airburst volley for 30 seconds whilst they aim at you, your stuff should die.

The recon flares are garbage and random, they should either be drawn towards concentrations of units to make them reliable or you should be able to place it like the soviets can. Especially seeing as now that you can’t place concentration barrage in fog of war, it’s the only way to make the barrage useful.

The issue as well is that everything is soooo goddamn expensive. Now that you need vision to fire it, it costs you 160 munitions to fire (because you need the flares) to essentiallly do what the LefH does for free. They should either get rid of airburst from concentration barrage and make it cost 30 munitions or something, you just can’t keep up with LefHs when it costs you all of your munitions. Or better yet leave it as it is and make the LefH and ML20 cost munitions to fire. The sexton is fine, could maybe use a tad more range as it basically has the same range as a jagtiger and lefh’s just can’t be touched by it.

Despite all this, I still think royal artillery is the most playable commander right now as it’s the only one able to deal with LefHs reliably if you have a friend with recon. Basically British with the best artillery would make them overpowered yes as they are defensive and you need to be able to break that somehow. But what little they do have should actually be competitive and useful.

Ummmm... I can't believe I just read that we shouldn't be banning toxic players because it reduces the size of the playerbase.

People play games for fun, toxic players can make the game not fun for others so they stop playing. I'd rather ban 1 toxic player than let him run rampant and cause 10 healthy players to leave the community. I'd take a community of 1,000 friends over a community of 10,000 arseholes anyday anyway. (Not saying there's 9 to 1 of arseholes to players)

I also don't care much about crybabies in chat but people aren't getting banned for a little salt every now and again, it's not black and white, it's not you get banned if you say bad words, it's repeat offenses they look for, people like that are CAUSING the reduction in community size, keeping them makes the problem worse not better.

Also what a terrible sentiment to set, "We won't ban you for toxicity/racism/homophobia etc." It encourages people who normally wouldn't be toxic to become toxic because they know there is no consequences. What a way to kill a franchise.