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A lot of the current balance issues (axis stomping allies) lies in the free stuff axis gets while every allied faction needs to pay for even the slightest upgrade. How can we fix this?
My proposal is splitting the main- and sidetech cost, and increase the cost to finally match the ones of allies.

StugLife and I had a very lengthy discussion about this a few months ago. Matter of fact is they don't get free stuff, it's just the timings that vary. For example OKW gets weapon upgrades earlier than it would be feasible to get for USF or UKF or SOV to get snares (they mostly save MP, but also a bit of fuel) which explains their early game strength. However, their late game tech is more expensive than other factions which allows Allies to catch up. Also Allies often don't need to tech everything. You can often for example not tech the grenades as USF/UKF and still be fine, which might give you a slight edge for getting the medium out a bit earlier.

You can always use the attribute editor to get the xml and write some kind script(python would be good most people know this) to convert them into easy stats.

I tried this already with my very limited programming skills.

The main problem is that the editor can only export a csv file. Now take a wild guess which symbol is also used to separate decimals. It's basically impossible to tell apart which is a separator-comma to separate different stats and which is a comma within one stat value (for example 0,15 far accuracy).

If you got a solution to this I would be very glad.

60Td is also a click of a button.

Wehr smoke has been a faction design since day 1. Same with blitz. Every ability is a click button. Dont understand what you trying to say? Does clicking smoke or blitz, somehow teleports the tank from A to B and immune to fire? No, you still need to make the exit choice, you still can attack ground, drive a wrong turn, and the smoke doesnt cover you.

Usf crew repair while faction design, is broken. It was acceptable back when their tanks are more squishy, where Axis have armor that counts. Still the ability to exit, build new units, enter. Totally broken. While not the same topic, where are you on this? Why sound so high and mighty?

What are you talking about?
Stay on the topic, this has nothing to do with tank destroyers, gun range or whatever. PTac is instant activation at one click without even the need to stop, many other abilities require another click on the map, a unit aiming or the vehicle stopping to perform it. And that is also the main thing that this topic is about, not crew repairs, not other faction features.

Ok smoke shots for P4 P5 P6, but you buff their turret tracking, their reload, their speeds, their moving accruacy.

There is your reason for smoke shells firing from turrets instead of their asses.

Why? Or actually not. Open another topic for this, but if I remember correctly there was already a discussion not too long ago about Tiger I turret traversal.

I mean it's not like it needs to be an all or nothing thing. It could easily be only available to certain units if need be.

Alternatively we could just add like a 3 second drop time on the current smoke so it doesn't act as an autoattack shield you use after you take a shot.

+1 to this.


Not sure why balance team has not implemented a delay yet or (as far as I know) given an argument why it would be a bad idea to implement.


What would also be a great ability is the Sherman smoke dischargers. You can keep driving if you micro well, use it offensively and defensively and your tank does not lose much DPS if you do it correctly. On the other hand it would be a nerf for players who are not able to use it and therefore create a slight learning curve and reward micro. The Smoke shell like the Cromwell's is also good, but way more situational as it causes your tank to rotate the turret and aquire a different target.

I thought this way too.

Imo cons were never mediocre before, just underused under explored. The 7 man buff incentivised player to try cons and discovered they are pretty solid and hold their own when play to their strengths.

Cos t70 was not touched and 7man comes late. So what filled the gap was simply cons are never mediocre.

I made an old whiner topic about new 7cons vet needs tone down, so thankfully post wc19 findings tally with me.

As for is2, similarly i felt Wehr/axis lack pen and the nerf to axis armor values now puts allies armour ahead in hth. Good now we can consider this too with pro results analysis

I disagree with the first Conscript part. Cons were an overall worse unit, even for the price. Against OST they were kind of okay (talking about 2v2 mode where I have most experience), against OKW they were an absolutely bad choice. When I switched to Penals things were getting a lot easier. Cons vet bonuses are very good, but since the squad itself lacks any upgrade losing a Conscript in the late game is very harsh since you cannot boost its DPS to vet it more quickly. The mobilized Reserves experience buff makes a lot of sense in my eyes. Now with Volks being very slightly nerfed and Panzergrenadiere coming earlier for OST, we cannot directly compare to the very old balance anymore, but in my opinion Cons were clearly a worse choice overall, which is also backed up by the metas in all of the tournaments at that time, just like Cons being a bit overbuffed is (also only my opinion) backed up by the most recent tournament. Of course you are free to disagree.

I think the IS2 is part of a general heavy tank problem. All of them come too early now. Some units might need special adjustments, but the first step should be to push heavies back a little and then see how the meta changes and if/what further changes are needed. Timing is a very big deal, as we could see with a lot of units like the Panzergrenadiere.

Soviets are fine, maybe T1 and maxims need changes to become viable, it’s okw and ostheer that need tostop crutching on heavies and improve. Same with UKF.

Fix heavies (more CP and more expensive) and soviets will be fine.

T1 did not get any major changes in the last patches. T1 was very viable and meta before the patches for a very long time. It now just got overshadowed by a late game low-bleed build using Conscripts.