Profile of Volsky

I think heavies and things like the Panther should be prohibitively expensive. Yes yes, "then what's the point of getting a heavy?!" goes everyone. Well, their stats would be the same. It could come down to having the proper support to go with them. You can put all of your eggs in one basket, but you better have a good guard dog outside of the chicken coop.

Making heavies that much more expensive would also make mediums more viable and common, making core army strategies viable. This would also allow the Soviets and Americans to survive and perform well in 1v1 through 4v4 gamemodes. The Ostheer might have some issues as they don't have a LELrange TD (unless the StuG gets some much needed luvnesting), but the PaK 40 should be able to do the job--I like my ATGs, so maybe that's just me, but jussayin.

On top of everything, pull the population of all of the mediums and lighter vehicles down to vCoH standards (4 pop StuGs ftw), but leave the heavies (excluding the Panther) as-is. Again, you could get appreciable groups of mediums together, and the roving packs of them might be more of a threat than they are now.

This change would also make Riflemen and Conscripts useful and survivable in the late game as they can have respectable infantry support from their mediums without the fear of facing 2+ Tigers from every enemy player because 'muh 4v4'. Cons would have their utility (and Con repairs would be 'super neat-o' again), and Riflemen with Bazookas would be semi-threatening to Panzer IVs.

Would OKW suffer? Possibly, for those unwilling to adapt. Congrats, OKW is now the true PE of CoH2 (specialized units, but no versatile mediums makes combined arms a MUST), as the KT would be even harder to get. Buff the 'Poopchen' by lowering the ready_aim_time (or increasing that of its contemporaries) and we're golden.

Obers would need looking at, methinks. Why not give them slightly improved STGs and tone the LMG34 back to slightly-better-than-the-LMG42-standards. The infrared scope upgrade would make a little more sense then as it could be a scope mounting package for the STGs, making them even better at most ranges while removing the long range advantage given by the LMG.

Give it an inverse reload like the Firefly in OF/ToV. Super-good at long range, very meh at short range. Boom, instant incentive to kite + it actually becomes effective.

I think the Soviets are the root of all 'evil'. Seriously. Because the faction as a whole is just a massive bottle of Failsauce lathered upon a pile of Failcustard, set nicely beside some Failsteak, half of the balance changes around here (here being CoH2 ^^) are to keep the Soviets alive.

Let me esplain. I hate cheesing. HATE. I was a lame-O Ami SIS strat user back in the vCoH circuit; I like me infantry. Lots. The Soviets, at first glance, should be great. Their whole MO in reality was "yees, giant blob of infantry very stronk comrade!". Well, no, not in CoH2. The Soviets, as it has been said time and again, rely on pure cheese to do anything. For people like me who try to play with Cons, Maxims, ZiS guns, HTs, T-34s, and SU-85s with a light, very light, sprinkle of doctrinal support, we get rolled over. I would venture so far as to say that the Soviets are an "abuse or lose" faction. They shouldn't be; that should never be the premise of a faction.

It's like EiRR mod but with even less skilled opposition (not that I was a dirty dirty vetwhore with blobs of Vet5 Riflemen w. Oversupplied triple BARs and the 10% acc in cover bonus from the T2 Bipods unlock backed up by a ridiculous Vet5 sniper w. Heroic crits and an Officer adding 15% accuracy and -15% cooldown)!

Mein hue.

Next, can we have an Enola Gay run that nukes the map? It'll be balanced; you just need to reverse your tanks into a specific corner of the map and have 4 FlaKvierlings set up at least 3.445 minutes ahead of the bomb run, and you have a 44.492451% chance to down the bomber before it can release its payload!








Skillplanez are retarded in all regards. In a realism mod/realistic setting, they would probably be less infuriating (see: strafing attacks in reality were highly inaccurate), but in CoH2, its just a damn silly "click button -> click map to deny tanks/infantry/tanks+infantry in an 80 meter radius because reasons" huefest.