Profile of Sander93

Because of how the test mod was implemented, the full patch needs to be recoded from scratch and then throughly tested.

CoH patches tend to make weird bugs.

Correct, but this is also true for the regular balance mods. Can't simply copy the mod files into the game files. Everything in the game files has to be adjusted manually.

http://www.companyofheroes.com/blog/2018/07/03/commander-updates
July 3, 2018, for the year Relic gave all the work to modders, they themselves could create new commanders with new models, if this work was done by several employees for an hour or two hours a day. Just ridiculous.

Yeah we should've just asked Relic to donate 1/4th of their employee budget to work on a game that's barely making them any money anymore. How stupid of us

Better to give them time to polish patch as good as possible and avoid critical bugs and etc.

There was nothing wrong with SWS trucks having an invisible Obersoldaten LMG 34

• VG are badly design, they can fight at all ranges and deal with most situation cost effectively, leaving little room for other unit.
  
• The reason why OKW infatry is powerful is of little importance as long as they are allied infatry will have to remain strong
  
• VG's performance effect both balance and diversity issues, an does penals performance
  
• One has to start nerfing somewhere and VG/Penals is a very good place to start
  

Volks get pummeled by Penals, upgraded Riflemen and bolstered Infantry Sections. It's the reason OKW is so reliant on light vehicle spam into Command Panther. The fact that they can fight at all ranges isn't always an advantage because it also means that they're not good at any range - and lose to Allied infantry whenever those are in their preferred range.

The reasons why OKW's infantry composition is powerful is the most important of all, because the biggest reason doesn't have to do much with Volksgrenadiers' raw performance but much more with OKW's ability to flood the field with a very strong starter unit backed up by good cost effective infantry in very little time, giving them early map control. Tone down OKW's starting manpower (and give them back some power in the mid game with earlier Obers and scalable Sturmpioneers) and the Allies have a much better chance to get into the early game without having to nerf any unit's performance (which would probably have more and bigger indirect consequences).

Assuming you mean current OKW early power (caused by Volks performance according to you) causes diversity issues in Allied build orders as in they are forced into certain units to deal with them, again this would also be solved by toning down OKW's starting resources. The problem is not that Riflemen get outperformed by Volksgrenadiers, over time they won't (Rifles are equal to better at minute 0 but pull ahead once they get vet and upgrades), but that they get pushed off the field early by the Volks/Sturms combo. Tone down the speed with which OKW is able to flood the field, and you'll solve the early game balance problems without also ruining the mid game balance (by nerfing Volks's raw performance) which is mostly even between Volks/Penals/RM/Grens.

I agree that Penals are a little bit too strong at minute 0, but Volksgrenadiers are not. However Penals could only get nerfed after OKW receives some early/mid power changes or the Soviets would get wiped off the field as Penals + M3 is the only way for the Soviets to reign in OKW's early game at the moment.

All looks really cool, I really hope the gameplay will be fun.
I'm definitely interested in backing the Kickstarter.

Does anyone happen to know roughly what it's going to cost?

- I am for giving Volksgrens the AT-rifle-grenade without requirements. (remove the Faust)
- I am for giving Volksgrens a normal grenade (remove the fire-nade)
- I am for giving Sturmpioniers a klick-me-bomb (removing the shock-nade at Vet3)
- I am for replace Püppchen with my alternative design for leIG18.
- Make Püppchen a Commander-Unit.

OKW is simply a shit of a fraction-design, same for Brits. And Ostheer would be better with Soviets-tech-System and Soviets would be better with Ost-tech-System...

so...

I think the Brits adequately showed what happens when you'd remove snares from a faction. Replacing the Rakettenwerfer isn't an option either, as it would either leave OKW without an ATG (if you'd keep the AT/AI ISG in Battlegroup) in the most viable meta (Mechanized) or it would make Battlegroup even less attractive (if you'd move the ISG to the HQ).

I'd also be against units that efficiently serve two distinct roles at the same time. I never liked how with the ZiS going for heavy anti-tank also gives good AI (or anti support weapons) and by now it's clear that giving the M-42 a dual role was a mistake as well. The game is about strategic unit choices with limited resources and dual purpose units are bad for balance.


OKW does need some redesigns, but mostly to spread out the faction's power level more evenly across all stages of the match (tone down opening power, earlier Obers, etc.) and to get rid of some cheesy mechanics of certain units (Raketten stealth creep, Uhu, etc.) so the faction becomes more enjoyable both to play with as well as against.