Profile of CieZ

Except I find my expensive IS-2 gets killed by circle strafing PzIVs or Panthers, and I mean one or the other. Single tank. Defeating an IS-2. I basically have to get it the hell out of there. It's a friggin joke that I have to run my super expensive uber tank away from the STOCK STANDARD Germans ones because they are already so good. Make panthers doctrinal again and bring them out in pairs like in the orignal.

If you're letting one tank circle strafe your IS-2 until death without bringing up an AT gun, Guards, AT nading it, or luring it over a mine... you're doing it wrong.

The IS-2 is a monster of a tank. Sure it won't beat a Tiger head-to-head but as long as it is supported (as every tank in this game should always be) it really carries its weight - and its ability to one-shot entire squads is second only to the ISU-152.

As for build orders I've been enjoying T2 with shocks:

Engi builds T2, start making Con. Shortly after T2 is finished make a Maxim, then get either a Con, Maxim, or Mortar depending on the situation/map. Bring in a Shock squad and follow that up with Con/Maxim/Mortar/AT gun all depending on the situation. (Borrowed this from my friend Raz)

I've also been liking Sniper/M3/Guards into either T4 + ISU-152 or T34/85s depending on the map/enemy doctrines. But then again I've been overly fond of snipers since the beta, very rewarding/satisfying to use. Although it can feel cheesy sometimes with the fact that I'll have 2-3 Guard squads on the field before a 221/222 even shows up.

Finally Con spam with PPSh is still pretty decent/viable. I'm not a huge fan of it because frankly I find it to be boring, but it is certainly still effective.

Collector's edition has some of the dlc included and a few cosmetic perks like unique vehicle paint and a faceplate. If you want to get everything the CE is probably the best value but i haven't done the math. Whatever you get it is like coh1. You can play multiplayer with everyone. You will just be missing some special missions that you can do with a partner but you'll have access to playing vs anyone else. Some of the commanders that you have to pay for are very good, but you can always buy them later if you get really into the game. And you don't really need them for single player or the special missions. If you need/want any specific tips you can add me on steam and I'm glad to help out - ciez23

Yeah maybe... but this patch came out way before xmas and to be honest within a few days the problem was apparent.

It took 24 hours for them to deal with apparently "OP" Assault grenadiers

But since then we have had to deal with the T70 issue which lasted about 2 months of pain.

Finally when that was fixed for some strange reason they decided to create the current issue with the command points.

All in all its about 8 weeks now when the game has been a bit broken.

Why mess around with CP points, no one was asking for it.

The new CP system is superior to the old one in that there is now twice as much control over the timing on when doctrinal units, upgrades, call-ins, etc will be unlocked. The only problem is that a few units (guards, shocks, t34/85s) are coming too soon. Other than that the change to the system is great and very welcomed.

I'll give you that industry was bad, I stopped playing German for that patch because it simply wasn't worth it - even when I beat the commander I didn't have fun doing so. 1 CP Guards/Shocks are frustrating but nowhere near as unbeatable as Industry was.

Just enjoy the holidays man, I'd be shocked if the next patch doesn't address these issues that we've all been worried about. Balancing a game isn't as easy as people try to make it out to be, and (once again I don't work for Relic and am in no way trying to speak for them) coming from working directly with developers on a daily basis, there are certain QA requirements that "patches" have to go through - at least where I work. So (I'm assuming and could be blatantly wrong) I'd be surprised if Relic didn't have some sort of QA process that patches go through before they can be put onto live, so while changes may seem obvious, they still have to go through the proper channels.

Losing more and more to low rank soviet players in 2v2 now. Shock troops spam and PPSH just rape all of ost infantry. Combine that with mortars hurts bad as snipers just blown up.

Spam troops, draw massive drag box, point at ostheer troops sit back and enjoy.

Soviet is really low skill at the moment.

Just think its a real shame that we are left for so long with these glaring issues without any statement or patch to fix.

It makes people lose interest and look for other games whilst it is fixed which is a shame.

Is it just me or has anyone else noticed the lack of pro streamers on twitch at the moment, I think its a worry for the community personally.

Well I think both the lack of streamers and lack of an "official" response has a lot to do with the holidays. I don't want to try and speak for Relic as I have no clue how they handle vacation time/holiday time etc etc etc but I know that I've had tons of time off of work the past month because of Thanksgiving/Christmas/New Years and every "real" job I've had has been the same in this regard. I think it'd be reasonable to assume that a lot of the Relic staff has been enjoying time off with family/friends and they really deserve it

Btw, happy new years everyone!

Weird. It almost looks like the back of the base (near where units spawn in) is actually connected to that regular point that the truck is parked on? Hard to tell just from the mini-map but perhaps that is what was causing it?

Would be interesting to test if this happens in the spring version of Langres