Profile of Stoffa

There are a lot of reasons for that though. There's no deep snow in vCoH, so your infantry always have a constant speed. The grenade throw animation is a lot longer in vCoH, so you have more time to react. Animations are different, so you don't have some squad members waiting until after an animation completes to follow the next command.

That last issue is the biggest, and was likely implemented because it makes squad movements look better and more realistic. Which is what my post was about.

Im pretty convinced the sluggish way infantry responds to commands has nothing to do with lag coming from a P2P connection. Hell, even a 300ms connection would be ok for a RTS, whereas that would be horrible for shooters like Counterstrike.

The problem lies within the gamedesign, as you said Inverse: "Animations are different, so you don't have some squad members waiting until after an animation completes to follow the next command."

This sluggishness is seen all throughout CoH2, not just for infantry movement commands. For instance, I sometimes lose a squad to a satchel even though I retreated right when he threw the thing at me. Why? Cause my infantry waits around a few seconds with the retreatarrow over their heads instead of actually going to base right away after you ordered the retreat (and like they do in CoH1).
Also I notice my infantry sometimes stopping halfway during a retreat to hide in cover for a few seconds. I really don't see why it's so difficult for Relic to have infantry on retreat just head back straight to base tbh.
The sluggishness can also be seen when microing tanks in a small area. It is just so much more "unresponsive" than coh1 was: both the pathing itself, and the unit response to your commands.

We seem to have forgotten by now but the unitresponse used to be WAY worse: remember fighting Guard Rifles with your Pgrens only to have them crawl on the floor whenever a PTRS rifle got fired? That REALLY made me feel lack of control.

So yeah, I kinda feel that in order so solve the input lag Relic has to look at their gamedesign, not networkcoding.

Errr its not only about looks Inverse: the very simple fact remains that in CoH1 it is possible to dodge nades, and it is not in CoH2 cause squads respond too late to the movecommand issued.

CoH2 without RNG is like Michael without Jackson.

Volo a couple of things here:

- Youre saying balance is good now, and that we can look at SNF for an example. This is false, cause SNF is heavily dominated by Soviets.
- If I recall correctly you're actively (ab)using the 1cp Shocks in your Soviet 1v1 play. Makes it sound kind of fishy to have you come here saying it's not unbalanced at all.
- True, you're playing both factions. You have, however, played a LOT more games as Soviets. Especially recently this seems your faction of choice.
- The counters you propose are rubbish: FHT means no shrecks means "Hello T70s!", MG42 can quite easily be avoided, especially with the smoke nades, Scout Car gets eaten alive by shocks as we all know, and Pgrens definitely can not hold their own against them.

All in all you seem a little biased.

After all the discussion we've already had about how unbalanced maps like Langreskaya were I can't believe Relic releases this map in it's current state.

It is glaringly obvious that it is heavily unbalanced. Where is that Captain Picard facepalm picture when you need it?