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Jump back to quoted post5 Apr 2014, 06:41 AMOhme

We like arguing about it on the forums a lot, but lets be real, the balance isn't that far away from being rather tightly tuned. What we see now are outliers in units, abilities, and strategic options - and for the most part, only a handful of them are that far out.

IS-2 and ISU-152 need a change. PQ mentioned they intend to tone down the AI of the tanks in order to buff their AT. Watching either of these tanks repeatedly bounce shots off the front of panthers with little ability to flank sucks for the Soviet player. Losing whole squads to these tanks sucks for the Ostheer. Both are rather significant complaints made often and loudly by players of both factions.

Likewise, it is clear the LMG42 and G43 over perform. I don't think they over perform by too much, but one can easily recognize a killing capacity that is too potent.

Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2014, 21:19 PMSenseo1990

I cannot stress enough how much I love the new infantry combat.

Gameplay-wise its simply amazing. No "Run straight at the enemy with shocks/assault grens" anymore. Cover deciding who is going to win the engagement. Its great. And I dont feel that there is too little movement, not at all to be honest. Its tactical movement from now on. The gameplay still is very dynamic but now you have to think about HOW to move your units and in certain situations its truly better to have a squad stand still behind instead of a blind rush into enemy lines. In my opinion: Exactly as it should be.

Balance-wise I cant really say anything though. Sometimes I felt that Cons were little too weak but then in another game my team and me got utterly destroyed by vanilla cons (superior skill involved aswell though). There is currently so much happening Im surprised that so many players already seem to be able to pinpoint what is OP and what isnt. Let the meta game evolve a little, soviets seem to be more reliant on tier 1 or tier 2 now.

Flanking pios are a little bit hilarious though...The pioneer squad does seem a little too strong but then again it also doesent scale well. That might need some tweaking but the important part is not to fuck up the Combat Engineer vs Pioneer balance at the same time. But then again I always thought that CEs should be a bit superior to Pios anyway.