Profile of Mr Carmine

No 2 games need to have the same mechanics. As far as "retreat" goes:

SC2:
Protoss have both recall in their HQ and their capital mothership.

WC3:
All races start with a "scroll" which makes the hero invulnerable and retreats all surrounding units back to a base. They can buy this at their own buildable shop or the ones spread around the map. From which they can also buy a rod of teleportation for their heroes only.
2 races has unique rod which let's them "retreat" units back to their bases as well. One simple retreats them back and the other puts the unit on a "stasis" and regens health.

Indeed no to games need the same mechanics for retreat. But i fear this may happen with such abilities. What i have seen in in esports rts games retreat is mass teleport as a abilitie for 1 maybe 2 units/heroes.

In both cases of wc3 and sc2 this is a "mass" teleport? Wc3 is ages ago for me and havent played sc2. In coh and dow2 its per inf squad ofc, for dow3 they said this retreat is basicly wrong cuz the kill/wipe was deserved and robs players of a deserved wipe or kill.

To me this is an indication that coh as it is designed wont do well in esports, they changed dow 3 really drasticly in their attempt to appeal the esports crowd.

x to doubt... the T-70 got whacked hard and the soviets have not been adequately compensated since... and the faction in live still struggles hard in 1v1s and somewhat in 2v2s...

Ime soviets struggle harder in 4s then in 1s. As the t34 is useles without ram, cons and penals get focused closing hard by long range blobs of axis, leaving only td and katty as viable choices.

I dont crutch on the t70 as much in 1v1 but that depends on the doctrine though. I win some and loose some. I am by no means a top players maybe that has something to do with it.

These areas imo soviet struggled with in live and get fixed.
Healing and molly at nade price buff i like, this was overly costly for so long now. formation change on the mg,s and sustained fire buff i like, less eating nades frontaly is always good. Same with smoke and barrage not sharing a cooldown.

These are not helping the mid to late game.
Zis nerf not needed imo, it wasent one shotting stuff left and right. Quad aa nerf to harsh, its the only stock aa option for soviets and its quite squishy and comes out quite late. T70 nerfs to harsh since how important it is and nothing is given in return at this stage of the game. Su76 change i dont know havent tested it more then once.

Su85 pen nerf at vet is nothing major it still pen most if not all stock vehicles enough imo. Ram v4 is better then v1 v2 and v3.

To add up then. An asymmetrical game like COH will never reach e-sport status by watering everything down and cookie cutting the balance. Ignorance or not, I'm absolutely appalled, and cringe at the thought of e-sport mentioning, to have one of my favorite games being played for money by no-lifers would be a sad day indeed. Not to mention the cheats that would sooner or later be introduced, unless everything was client-side in COH3.

Great that the game is being kept alive, but to water down things for the sake of e-sports ready badge would be sad.

I also dont like it if e sports becomes the focus, it will mean watering down things. Coh as a whole has to much rng to have it be viable in a esport setting.

Shots missing or bouncing are not done in e sports, they would loose their minds, clicks per minute and 100% outcomes of intended actions is mostly the way to go. Hell i bet even retreat is not right for esports.

Now that you mention it i havent noticed or heard about any cheat in this pc game, a pc game without cheaters is rare nowadays.

Keeping the game alive is just fine by me, and i am very gratefull for it.

You really don't need to have random chances to obliterate units with downed planes, or your tanks becoming AI pillboxes because of RNG for the game to be fun and exciting. The random parts of the game are not the main "fun" factor.

Pro players (And many "casual" players) complain about these sorts of unpredictable bits of RNG because they have nothing to do with skill, and many people prefer to have their own skill/tactical choices swing games, rather than because a plane randomly decided to make your vet5 obers a landing strip.

The game has less to with skill they you might think. Everything but movement is rng in this game.

Is it skill or rng when your rng off map arty rounds randomly drop outside of the arc or target zone and one shot a full health squad or multyple squads? Or as i saw today in dane's cast 6 cons models clumping when trying to move next to a hay stack and all six got one shotted by a p4, imagine if this was your p4.
Is this "skill" or massive rng in your favor?
And do you want this kind off "unpredictable" rng removed next if mgc are removed?

Imo how about not only make t3476 cost less, make it build faster, but also t4 tech cost less, but make katty build longer to prevent arty too soon.

Imo too much emphasis on ram here.

That would make the t34 and t4 to strong in 1v1. There ram is less of an issue because the t34 doesnt suck as much in 1v1, its damage output is noticable because it isent wrecked in seconds, because in turn axis recourse inflation is not at play in 1v1, thus panthers/tigers arent spammed.