Profile of rofltehcat

But if thats the case, why are there so diffrent outcomes in the time the mg needs to surpress? Only because of occasional yellow cover? Hmm.

I did a quick search but it seems they took down the last mirror of the old CoH1 stats site. The site had a pretty good writeup of how the cover system worked in CoH1 and I can only assume it behaves roughly the same (though infantry in CoH2 don't seem to show the variance in treshold and recovery speed as CoH1 infantry so there may very well be differences). The writeup on the companyofheroes wikia doesn't seem to be as in-depth :/

The variances in the amount of suppression done might be a result of cover as well as squad spacing (e.g. nearby suppression values/modifiers though I think those only affected nearby squads in CoH1). Cover seems to be pretty spotty in CoH2 with light cover nearly everywhere from small bushes and a little grass to small craters. Maybe it is already enough if one infantryman has light cover for the suppression calculation? We know that a single guy in light cover can show the yellow shield icon but the rest of the squad can still die because they are in negative cover. Maybe we're seeing the inverse of this effect for suppression? Just a lot of speculation, of course.

I tried changing it and took screenshots of both and I can't spot any differences.

@OP: Have you disabled post processing? Or tried changing anything else in your configuration_system.lua (Documents\My Games\CoH2)?
Post processing is often activated for whatever reason, try deactivating it in the file and then copy-protecting the file.

Well, it was rather useless. Sometimes one mine would trigger another one that wasn't even close enough to do damage. Or the enemy suspected that there'd be another mine there...
You can build multiple mines by holding shift and placing them one at a time. Manually placing single ones are normally much more effective in battle anyways because they are where they matter, not where it was convenient to build a whole line of them.

They were even buffed a few patches back:

Demolition Charge
• Damage from 250 to 312
• Additional building damage from 550 to 488
• Area radius from 6 to 8
• Area distance far from 3 to 5
• Area distance near from 1.5 to 2.5
• Recharge time from 30s to 0s

Those explosion stats are pretty insane. An area radius of 8 is huge. The damage against vehicles may not be much compared to mines (200) but its blast radius is huge, which should badly maim vehicles and annihilate any infantry caught within.
The manual detonation also prevents it from blowing up on the first guy of a squad, leaving the others alive.

However, it really requires choke points etc. and even then three mines probably have a better turnover/stopping power. Against stuff like scout cars and flame halftracks, mines are probably better because they deal enough damage to stop/kill those and because you can cover more area with them.

I don't like that ability. It is not like the T70 desperately needed it in its design and it decreases reliance on other units (screen the tank from infantry, engineers for repair) like other tanks do.

Still, I think fixing the ability to restore the T70 to full health with no engine criticals would be appropiate for the cost.
However, I think the T70 should either receive increased damage (and have reduced armor) or cancel the ability if fired upon while the ability is active (even if it is just a rifle grenade or mortar shell).