Profile of Rasputin

The game is a broken mess. Balance is whacky. There are plenty of bugs, as befits a relic title. Lessons that were learned, features that were implemented and bugs/design features that were adjusted and fixed in coh2 are all absent or reverted back to being broken or non functional, culminating in what is ultimately an inferior product - especially at the price point of a AAA game.

And the thing you guys get hung up on is a SP story about jews in benghazi and go woke go broke? Really?

I don't like being force fed all the woke sjw trash in my media either, but I think there are more sensible reasons for why the game is failing right now.

At this point you're just taking the complaints to a next level of being ridiculous imo. Which, if that is your drift, is fine by me. I get why you would be frustrated as avid fans of the franchise. I am too. I just don't think going there is gonna help your case in any way. Just some food for thought.

Dont USF have non-doctrinal mines now? I havent really paid attention to that in the few games I played USF since that patch. Anyway, KT is pretty much dead meat if it hits a mine. Its slow and cumbersome as it is, easily getting outrun by 2 tanks and without proper support youd be able to circle strafe it with a single t34. Now imagine what happens if it has engine damage on top of that. At that point, you could drop any sort of offmap on it(though p47 still works best I suppose) and just slowly chip away at its health with your jacksons and AT guns or whatever you might have at that time.

Other than that, I guess its pretty much what CookiezNcreem said. Everytime he has to repair and cant deal with you on the frontline, you can go and bleed him a bit more.

Alternatively, just focus on slowing him down. As mentioned and as everyone already knows, KTs are slow as fuck. Just use hit and run tactics. He wont have a KT covering every VP, every fuel point, every single one of his cutoffs etc. Piss him off by capping where his tank cant get to you in time. Eventually, he will make a mistake and present himself open to a counterattack.

I dont get why people keep complaining that the SU85 needs a buff. Its an excellent TD that does its job properly. Against a tiger, you can keep kiting it all day and a P4 is hopelessly losing vs it. The only thing it has problems with are panthers, especially on more open maps where its easier to get behind it. But thats a problem all assault guns and non turreted TDs share. Its easily fixed aswell - just mine the side approaches and 30 munitions will suddenly turn the engagement in the SU85s favour. You spent 30 munitions for a 50 fuel cheaper TD to take out a panther, thats a fair trade off.

Yes, the SU85 can be a bit cumbersome when turning. Yes, non turreted vehicles tend to have shit pathing(the stug shares this with the SU85 to some extent) but youre not supposed to have it sitting on the frontlines, where itll constantly have to do a 180. Just like wehr have to scout for their MG42, Stugs and all that, SU have to scout for their TD - but wait, the SU85 is actually the only tank left with focus sight. Hm, wonder why. Probably because its intended to be maneuvered around a p4 point blank, preferably with your gun facing your own base when youre being assaulted...

Add to that the excellent vet bonuses of the SU85 and you have one of the best tank killing machines in the game. Even a panther will suffer greatly from a vet2/3 SU85 if it cant find a proper flanking approach or hits a mine on said approach.

Now what if we buffed the SU85 - we would have a fast moving, fast turning, hard hitting and fast reloading TD with virtually no drawbacks except that it cant kill infantry. I dont think this is really what is needed here.

Now dont get me wrong. I am not opposed to changing the SU85 up a bit to make it more appealing. I am however opposed to outright buffing it.

I believe the biggest problem here, as has already been mentioned, is that the SU76 is so incredibly good that people dont see an incentive to tech up and build an SU85. You may get one as an opportunity purchase if you already got T4 up. But currently with the previous nerfs to the katyusha(its still a very good unit imo), with how bad the t34/76 scales into late game and with how much the SU76 really does the same as the 85 but for cheap, theres no real incentives for soviets to tech up unless the enemy is camping like crazy and you really really need that katyusha.


I believe what is needed is an actual change to the SU76. Bring it in line with its cost and tier to give people an incentive to go and build an 85. Right now the 76 has roughly the same reload, does the same damage, has roughly the same pen, has excellent vet bonuses and got a free barrage ability. So for essentially a bit less armour than the 85 and 1 hit less hp, you get an 85 with AI capabilities. No wonder, nobody wants the 85.

So yeah, right now SU got 2 different units that do exactly the same for different pricing. Of course people will build the cheaper one, then look at the more expensive one and, judging from the cheaper ones performance, conclude that the more expensive one is bad.

What I believe has to be done is give the 76 a more defined role in support, as opposed to pure TD with light AI capabilities.

Here are a few changes that I believe could work.

Add 10 muni to the barrage ability, but make it do more damage vs structures such as bunkers and garrisoned houses(the ability being free as is was a bad design choice from the start if you ask me). Lower pen to about 180. That way it can reliably counter a P4 unless flanked but it will have trouble dealing with panthers and tigers, effectively forcing you to tech up and replace it. Adjust its vet bonuses to further enhance the barrage ability and remove and current pen bonuses in exchange. Give the main gun(without barrage) round about the same aoe of the 76 gun the t34 is using. That way it will be an assault gun that can reliably deal with structures and that can take out a P4 and defend itself moderately well against infantry. A non turreted t34 with slightly higher pen, less hp and a barrage ability if you will.

Because it doesnt have a turret it will inherently still be vulnerable to flanks and because of its low hp, a dedicated AT effort with a couple shrecks and a pak can still take it out but it will be an all around unit that is good for supporting assaults.

For the SU85, I feel the unit should stay the way it is. Maybe MAYBE give it the removed penalty for focus sight at vet2 that UGBEAR suggested, but thats about it.

Pretty much topic. Sometimes I get the crazy loud gunshot bug up to 4 times within the same game. Its so insane that more often than not it doesnt even scare the living shit out of me anymore because Ive gotten so used to it.

Had the bug probably about 5 times or so since release, up until brits arrived. From that point on, the amount of encounters with the bug, for me at least, skyrocketed up to some 30 or 40. Anyone else experience anything similar?

In real life, conscripts and grens wouldnt yolo charge at a tank to get a snare off. In real life, a single mg42 would probably be able to pin those 5 squads in place, even if they are all spaced out. In real life, you wouldnt see an ostwind every other engagement. You get my point...

What do we need to adapt to then? Its always easy for people to say adapt. How do I adapt to something wiping my squad, even as I retreat it as fast as humanly possible, the moment I realize "oh shit, its a centaur"? Should I just shrug it off and build a new gren squad? Should I just live without the squad I just lost? How do you adapt to something shredding your squads within moments at a time during the game when the only counter to said unit apparently gets hardcountered by the unit itself?

Placing mines is all nice and well and Im a huge fan of tellers cause most allied players, to this day, refuse to get sweepers until its too late. Problem is by the time a centaur arrives youll probably have 2 tellers or even only 1, depending on how many lmgs you got and how much munitions it cost you to get rid of that bren carrier. Relying on that one mine alone and placing all my AT around it is not a viable option, unless you can look into the future and know exactly what path your opponent is gonna take. But then you wouldnt need the AT in the first place cause youd always be able to avoid the fucker to begin with.

What else is there? I can try to faust him if I fancy losing yet another squad to the thing. Or maybe have 2 paks and set up an ambush. Problem is, in a close game you dont always have 640 manpower spare, especially so "early" during the game and if your opponent doesnt go wtih a centaur, youre pretty well screwed cause you just wasted a ton of resources on something thats of no use to you for the next 5-10 minutes and theres a good chance you might get overrun now.

CoH is a game of counterplay. You see a unit(or anticipate its arrival) and build the according counter. If the very thing Im trying to counter kills its only hard counter at the time and then runs wils and kills half my infantry force, this concept isnt really working - wouldnt you agree? This in return means that either the concept is utter shit or the unit may be broken in one way or another. If my P4 murdered your 6 pounder from the front and then went on and ohk'd half of your squads until you got a tank out or I hit a mine and you got another 6 pounder, you wouldnt necessarily think that its balanced or tell me that you need to adapt, would you now...