Profile of tangoporo

Watch twitch streams or uploaded replays, that'll give you general idea on how to play with each faction.

All factions are relatively well balanced at the moment, but not all individual units are.

I can't really call the OST balanced when the only good infantry is the MG (god dat insta pin)

What mod do you play? 1vs1, 2vs2 or 4vs4?

Coh2 Learning curve is hard with every faction, you don't play OKW USF or UKF but you would face the same issue with them.

I play all of the modes

1v1 makes my head ache, 2v2 gives my heart burns whenever my troops get airstriked, 3v3 always have that one guy that goes afk after 5 mins and 4v4 is a circus.

I need serious help

I've been playing COH2 for about 2 months now, I am still learning the game ever since I claimed it for free (which was very nice at the moment) until I was struck by the truth.

This game is super imbalanced with their factions, often the SU and OST will never win engagements against the other DLC factions. When you use 2 cons to kill 1 volk, then you have a problem. I won't even start about the late game. The DLC factions dominate throughout the whole game, the early, the mid and late game. Unless they screw up bigtime, which rarely happens since 90% of the time your opponents have played the game for at least a year.

The SU without effective troops like Guard Rifles or Penals during the early game gets outscaled after 4 mins. 4 frickin minutes, about that time I am still banking resources to build a light tank. The early harass with halftracks without enough munitions poses a problem since I cannot use my AT-grenade without skill blobs. The MG is a disgrace, before I can pump damage to the enemy, my boi MG is running like Usain Bolt on adrenaline shots. The Katyusha is nice, if you call getting one shot by a tank is nice. The AT's can't damage the tanks effectively enough to provide support for the lack of power the T-34's has, only the SU-87 is useful (not including the doctrinal tanks like the ISU and KV-8) but still that tank has a heavy ass. I can easily get ganked on by two medium tanks or a heavy tank.

Now the OST, oh god this faction is extremely underpowered. The only unit I find joy in is the MG (dat insta pin), the other units are so bad at dealing damage that I even felt the SU was better. OST is also the faction I know that the only thing you have in the late game is Panthers, just building panthers everyday. And the tank isn't even that strong, even with AT support, the Allied tanks (excluding T-34's) can demolish the OST.

Another problem I have is the veteran players being toxic towards new players, I know the game is very strategical and needs decent micro but fix the factions for god's sake. It is never fun when two T34's can't even kill one Puma with an AT, and the Brits are stage 4 cancer.

The DLC factions cost money to unlock, which are the much better factions than the SU and OST. I cannot think otherwise that the players who bought the DLC factions (or have them) are blessed by Gaben with unfair advantages and unit buffs hidden behind a paywall, it is not healthy for the game and for the players using SU and OST. Starcraft 2 does it better lul