Profile of ZombiFrancis

Quite frankly, the issues with the kubel are the same as they had been (still) for ages with maxims:

None of the stationary MGs save the maxim ever hits the field in a manner that can keep time with enemy unit production. By the time the other mgs have hit the field, there are as many or more enemy units to advance and flank it.

Not so with kubels, and not so with maxims. Maxims have been heavily reduced from their former glory, but still, they have always been able to suppress a unit, and rotate to suppress a flanking unit before the first unit has recovered.

This is why maxim spam is so powerful, because the initial maxim can handle its own long enough until the next ones arrive to completely lock down the area.

Kubels were ridiculous in that they could chase units AND suppress them, as well as rotate and reverse to take on any number of advancing threats. Where a maxim (alone) can eventually be overwhelmed, a kubel really never was until a literal hard counter hit (if ever the game lasted so long.) It appears that they still can, but their their ability to suppress on the move is gone which was very much a blatant problem.

Honestly, I feel like the kubel should've has all it's suppression removed and kept it's damage, but that's because I miss jeeps and bikes. Those units and the roles they played are one of the many components and mechanics of the CoH franchise that seem to have been purposefully omitted from CoH2.

Well, the level of interaction and communication during the balance patch beta and 2.602 drummed up a lot of community support for the game and franchise. Mind you, this was around the time preorders for CoH2 were needed, so it makes sense in retrospect.

I like how the MG fired such a tiny initial burst before pausing to give the player a chance to react before finishing it off.

Read the thread guys: From page 2.

There is a thread about this over on our own forums - http://community.companyofheroes.com/forum/company-of-heroes-2/company-of-heroes-2-general-discussion/company-of-heroes-2-bug-reporting/86369-game-is-getting-outright-unplayable-again-due-to-lag

The devs told me that what you're seeing is due to the fact that they added reconnects to the battle server. So if for some reason you got disconnected, you are no longer kicked from the game, but get re-connected automatically. That’s why your game will freeze and speed up to catch-up with everyone else. Previously in these cases, you would have simply been disconnected from the game but now can continue playing.

We're looking into adding messaging to communicate this. But also want to investigate this further. Anyone that can provide dxdiags, replays and warnings logs - please let me know. It goes a long way in helping them diagnose things.

Thanks!

So think of it this way, any time this freeze happens, it's when a sync error would've occurred.

Which, imo, is still an incredible issue. But I honestly believe it has to do with matchmaking. People are being matched up from across the globe in a very suboptimal manner right now for a variety of reasons. For instance, having two to six players spread across the continental United States along with a player from Germany and a player from Korea is bound to cause extensive connection issues.

Well, considering DPS values are all theoretical situations of units in a vacuum acting under circumstances that appear ingame approximately 0% of the time, these stats should be taken with a grain of salt, or at the very least with a bit of dubious air.

Things like accuracy, health, armor and scatter values matter, but raw DPS is a hard stat to track reliably.