It really depends on the type of tank IMO. Heavy anti inf or multi role tanks (KV2, ISU, Tiger, IS2, Brumbar) should rape a solo AT gun. They should take some damage, but still win pretty easily. Dedicated AT tanks should do pretty terrible vs AT guns (SU85, Elefant, Stug, etc). Medium tanks like T34 Ostwind or Sherman should win sometimes but unreliably. So with the exception of the Stug (I haven't seen it beast AT guns but I'll take your word for it) I think its fine in the current state.
Really heavy tanks should take combined arms to kill. Even though AT gun is the right type of unit for the job, it doesn't mean one should be sufficient. Snipers are designed specifically to counter infantry units, that doesn't mean one sniper should single handedly repel lots of infantry. |
He is right about the support crews they just sit there waiting to pack up for 2-3 seconds before they actually start. Its not lag because they will idle for a bit after the retreat symbol pops up. Mortars are the worst offenders. |
germans tank rarely penetrate the KV8...if you managed to faust not sure it gets motor dmg.
Same thing can be said for most other doctrine tanks in the game.
instant kills grens
Nope not anymore takes several seconds to kill a squad now which is fine. |
you retard sir? KV8 was, and still is OP
I said it had too much health BUT it shouldn't be a problem for anyone halfway competent at this game because you can easily block that huge thing from driving past your AT units. Anyone who whines about it like they did 6 months ago is just a butthurt retard trying to point a finger at something instead of learning to play the game better.
tl;dr micro more |
KV8 isn't OP. It was insanely OP back when it would consistently insta kill an entire squad, now it doesn't do that anymore. Its pretty bullshit that it has so much health it could still drive through a wall of AT with zero fucks given (most good players used vehicle blocking to negate this anyway) and continue to burn your theoretically safe troops, but offensively it was fixed a while back. |
The one game I used it I was chasing a Pz4 getting all rear armor shots while he was hitting my frontal armor and I won with about 60% hp left. So a tank that is doctrinal, slightly more costly, and getting rear armor shots is about twice as effective- sounds fair to me. I think the biggest problem is the fact that the Pz4 is so inaccurate vs infantry and even though supposedly its a multi role tank in reality its only a moderate AT platform. |
That is pretty standard fare handling of DLC these days. Nothing, perhaps except for physical copies of "limited editions" games or limited-run codes can be expected to remain exclusive forever.
Its not the fact that content wasn't exclusive, its that what was given to DCE sounded like a decent value in the steam store description but in reality wasn't worth more than $10-15 |
because in the past 10 months Budwise has played the same amount of games these guys are playing every 3 weeks or so |
I felt the pacific was a let down really. never even finished watching the series.
It seems nobody liked the Pacific because they were expecting another BoB where its the same group of guys throughout the entire show. The casualty rate in the pacific was so high compared to the 101st, even if they did tell just one units story there would still be just as many new faces. |
maybe others lose too
Impossible that 150 of the top 500 teams would drop behind them over half an hour...probably only 150 different teams play CoH2 over the course of the day |