A large reason why they may not know what to do with the forum information is evident here. Instead of useful insight or discussion forum posters often resort to lashing out and inflammatory statements.
The Dev team has balanced and balanced the previous iteration to stop exploitation of weaknesses or oversights (the pio spam debuff from CoH1 comes to mind). They have responded to the community. I wouldn't expect them to troll around the forums all day, I would expect them to check up on them, find the prevailing thoughts, and invest the majority if their time into development. |
I get running over opponents fires, but I can't micro every vehicle coming up from the rear. The fire's seem to be the smallest part of this post though.
Ostwind penetration is a bit silly. It's a 30mm flak cannon, and it is amazing vs infantry and aircraft and light vehicles.. all of which make perfect sense, and give the unit some nice versatility. What it should NOT be able to do is penetrate armor of medium and heavy vehicles. I've watched penetrating shots on T-34 front armor, and ISU-152 side/rear armor, and that just doesn't make sense to me. In a 2v2 match-up I've watched 3-4 of these things maraud around the map eating up anything and everything.
The spirit of the game, as evidenced by all the patching and balancing of the first COH, is toward intelligent use of proper force mix, countering and reacting to tactical and strategic decisions.. Not spamming one unit and plowing through everyone else. |