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Jump back to quoted post30 Aug 2013, 08:56 AMGreenDevil

This is all they need to win games.

Jump back to quoted post29 Aug 2013, 11:14 AMwarfish

I know that in ideal world you should not let your opponent get to units you are uncomfortable with, like letting ostheer reach T3 to get panzers but when you are playing an equal match or even loosing there is no helping that.

I really like the game and its a fun RTS but the developers are going way too slow on fixing balance issues and even with the latest patch seem to be going the wrong way and making balance issues even worse. We need more dev support quickly. I never heard of relic before picking up this game and i see why.

My record with German is about 64/40 and most of those loses were when i was first starting to play. They are much much easier to handle and much simplier play design. U pretty much micro ur mg42's and grens until u can get a p4 better armor and its pretty much GG. (i know im oversimplifying) but its a very easy to play faction and very powerful (imo since last patch they are glaringly overpowered) Its still fun from to play them from time to time and i know alot of german players will cry because, lets face it, they either dont play the other faction very often at all, or they just dont see whats obvious.

one look on the leaderboards show that there are much more german players than soviet players. also, its very easy to move up to decent ranking with soviets because there is less a pool of players, soviets are just much more difficult to play effectively.

I started playing soviets recently and am 46/40 which puts me floating around rank 500. They are more fun to play because it is alot more challenging and i feel like im flying by the seat of my pants most the game playing against the german war machine. But it is too discouraging knowing your out playing your opponent in every way and still losing in the end because of balance issues.

(now the rest of this post is me ranting about the balance issues i find most bothersome, please bare with me and please lets talk civily about this without fanboyism, its ruining the game acting like everythings okay, since its obvious the devs dont know what to do)

Mg42 is too cheap, strong, and powerful for early game when most soviets cant make mg's at all. Plus flanking is useless u might kill 1 guy.

Mg32's on your grens before u even upgrade to t2 make them able to completely decimate any conscript squads or other early game infantry. The upgrade needs to atleast be t2.

Armored cars now trump all early game counters to the mg42 even more than before as well as chew infantry at the same time. But whats worse, is that if the armored car gets a vet star or two (which for some reason it gains veterancy VERY quickly) then it becomes nearly as powerful and durable as a t34 or p4. They counter snipers very effectively as well (the other mg42 counter) And this is early game.

armored cars and flamer halftracks gain veterency too quickly, making them able to tank 3-4+ AT shells which is just absurd. and gaurd cant touch them. vet 2-3 armored car can kill a regular t70.

all soviet t3 is a joke. even with t34 buff and nuetering its ramming ability, by the time a soviet can get t3 your pulling out p4's which are so so much better than t34's. Pretty much if you go t3 you just lost the game in most scenarios unless u did so very quickly for the t70 rush and u have kept the german player fuel-less thus far, otherwise ur t70 is going to get 2 shot by a panzer shortly after getting on the field.

if you go t2 your risking being owned by mg's becaues u will have no counter other than slow mortars, soviet buildings cost so much fuel you can realistically only pick 2 buildings without falling behind. something germans dont have to worry about,.

conscripts now are even more garbage, as AT nades which helped us stand a small chance against german armor have now been nerfed and oorah has been doubled in price.

and u nerfed su85 too? really? the other chance we have against german armor? every single one of the other tanks soviets have gets killed by anything p4 up and now our one slow lumbering chance of survival has been nerfed as well? what are the devs thinking? without an su85 its pretty much game over in late game.

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and last but not least, these balance issues have made it so soviets seem to only have 1 option/strategy which i see all top players using, this leads to boring predictable game play and sucks the fun right out of the game, it even sucks the strategy out of a real time strategy game. Im done and going back to planetside2 till some balance is returned to the game. The community here needs to speak up more about issues instead of acting like the game is completely fine. Thats how games die out.