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If it went modern it will include a Chinese faction for those China bucks

Look how well Sega did with total war kingdoms.

But I don't think SEGA will risk such a dramatic redesign with how badly they fell on their own sword with DoW3. SEGA just want a stable money maker and CoH2 was a commercial success. So the game is not leaving WW2

Most likely well get same CoH but with alternative theatres, Italy, africa, Japan etc. If they make the game into "what if" with the invasion of mainland Japan there's a lot of interesting tanks and weapons that could be added. War thunder already has a lot of those fun toys

Secondly, OP mainline infantry is much more of an issue than OP doc-locked infantry.

This is true but so is the dangers of having UP mainline infantry that handicaps the entire faction to the point experienced UKF players give up on them in competitive play.

Unfortunately that's what happened when Tommies were UP the tournament before last, we only saw 4 of the 5 factions get played and even Hans said UKF were not competitive (swapping to USF). The balance team reverted half the RA nerfs to find a middle ground yet according to some this is buffing them to JLI levels of OP? Give me a break.

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I actually agree, I'm not sure if you saw but in the stormjager thread that hit 100replies and was locked I was one of the ones comparing RA values and fighting the case for tommies to stay at 0.85 . But I can also understand why a lot of them were angry, abilities like Assault certainly encourage blobbing and for 30 seconds or so a tommy blob will win most engagements.

However the original nerf to tommies from 0.80 to 0.90 was a pretty sledgehammer nerf to survivability. I can see the logic them trying to discourage out of cover blobs, but this really messed up 4man tommy balance even more. As UKF you really suffer in the opening stages against smart volk and sturm play and that 0.90 value really makes retreats vs OKW and later Pgrens painful.

This with the slight vickers and sniper buff were supposed to diverse openings, but they're not enough to hold the ground for you vs StG volks or upgraded grens/pgren early-midgame. You need boots on the ground to screen for these units after all. This is why we had ashablois etc coming out and making threads saying UKF need some love again.


In my opinion next patch for UKF should look something like this


Nerfs/reworks


Commando doctrine "Assault" ability removed combat accuracy bonuses, instead grants sprint and halfed cooldown on all infantry abilities grenades etc. Price reduced to 45muni.

Cromwell increased by 10 fuel to compensate for new MG performance.

Tommy 4man section stays at 270mp, but core price of fresh sections increases to 300mp after bolster. (Sappers price unchanged)


Buffs/reworks

Mortar pit swapped out with mortar in lend lease doctrine so brits have indirect non-doc. Mortar in tactical support airdrop replaced with 50.cal.

"Heavy Sapper" movement penalty removed when in friendly territory. Active again inside enemy or neutral territory.

Churchill popcap mirrored with panther and comet. FF popcap to be reduced and put on par with SU-85.

AT tommies PIATS given "elite piat" with similar stats to elite bazookas. Upgrade price increased to 100 muni.

A balance team made up of top modders, unit stat nerds, top players all with years of experience are good at balancing?

You don't say (yes there is sarcasm used here ). Some people need to get off their backs, patching a game is not as simple as putting arbitrary numbers up and down. It's a lot of work and constant testing.

They produced probably the most balanced patch in CoH2 history with the release of all five factions. Which is not exactly an easy feat with how relic have been balancing the game like a drunk elephant in a china shop for years before they were allowed to take helm at the wheel.

As predicted a hotfix was not needed despite the screams of a few certain indivduals saying apparently UKF were unbeatable. Actually this was the first tournement in a long time where all factions got solid use and there was no "meta" pick of any one commander. Ost got a lot of use despite again people saying they were unplayable. Balance a lot better than the last "heavy" meta tournement.

5 men IS "blob" did work as it was expected. What didn't work is "not blobbing". That was shown in the second game between Kimbo and Noggano, where Kimbo didn't blob enough, better to say he didn't blob at all and lost. But that's only about UKF vs OST match up.
Between UKF and OKW it looked fine, at least asiamint did it like that.

There was the pfc games too, pfc dominated the map vs 5tommy early/mid game and got a wipe or two due to sturm and volk DPS on retreating squads. Only to lose lategame due to poor tank engagements. All in all I'm glad the balance team didn't kneejerk react listening to a vocal minority calling for allies nerfs, tiger buffs etc.