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While that would be interesting, streamers often discuss balance on their streams, so you can ask them specific questions and get answers right away.

But that still will be opinions.

One streamer says ISU is batshit OP, another says its just noobs QQ about it, both are top players for both factions, which one is right?

Well, I don't really follow streamers for that reason, too one sided. No one player (or dev, for that matter), knows the state of the game. Unless Relic already have talks like that with the community, I think it could be very beneficial for them to hear it (and for the rest of us just enjoyable to listen to).

I'm pretty confident it will get nerfed at any rate. I'd be happy to see an entire update dedicated to reducing one-shot wipe potential across both factions, to be perfectly honest.

This, very much so.

Again, putting content behind a paywall in a multiplayer environment is detrimental to the gameplay experience. Commanders gets you new tactical choices, choices that you only have because you payed for them.

That is fine in singleplayer. Comp stomp away, but let me have the ability to NOT play against people who buy commanders.

Let people use filters that excludes Commanders, and this wouldn't be an issue at all. A site like Coh2.org could easily have a "Coh2 Commander Filter" with community approved Commanders. Of course this will lead to other problems (like longer ques), but it will put and end to the 'unfairness' argument.

A lot of people are missing the point with the DLC from Relic. Monetization is fine, but selling DLC should not come at the expense of multiplayer balance and quality, and that has been the case with almost every Commander so far. No doubt Sega is pushing the agenda on DLC (I dearly hope), but it can be made with much more elegance and thought then in it's current form which steamrolls the game and forces new and contrived meta games after every release.

Hold fire would make so much sense. It's I need sniper to be able to do any form of scouting. Being able to hide and choose your engagements would really raise the skill ceiling.

The T70's yoyo ability is indeed very strong. If you just keep backpeedling and moving in and out of sight, you can kill any infantry. Keep it as support behind your pushes, and you can't lose it (and it will just annihilate any ost infantry). It's a strange decision, having the T70 outrange shreks. One would think they'd at least be equal.

If I detect my opponent going for a T70, I pray to god that I haven't spent too much muni on rifle nades, or even worse a FHT, cause then I'm pretty much boned.

The little tank that could is just very very effective at killing infantry. It even seems better than the ostwind (no doubt better than the FHT). And it can chase down and kill any retreating unit.

Preventive mine placement works, but that means no LMGs or flamers.

I never got why the soviet gets so many abilities to 1 shot models (or entire squads), when that's the greatest weakness of the ost, and the thing you cannot counter.

You can talk all you want about sov micro, but honestly, with 6 man squads, how hard is it to keep them alive? I only dabble in the soviet army (played 50/50 during the beta), and I always feel relief when playing them, because I know my squads wont magically get 1 shot by everything as soon as I stop focusing on them.

Bit of a rant, just always felt that the two factions were poorly designed in a lot of ways.