Profile of Mauser

They both suck. Everyone happy now?

Rofl mr cat.

Once the enemy player activates the ability (In range of the target) the squad will throw the grenade/panzerfaust, so unless there is a shot blocker between you and the enemy, it will hit you and damage your engine. We made it so that players wouldn't miss the opportunity of firing their weapon just because of animation delays.

I like the rationale behind that, however i think frustrating situations sometimes come as result of it.

To illustrate: I am driving my 222 at full speed on a road past a script squad. It barely touches the casting range and the animation starts. By the time the at nade is thrown, i am already around the corner of the bushes/house/trees/hedge and it still hits me. This shouldn't happen imo.

Maybe make the animation shorter or I don't know what, but it shouldn't be a missile lock 100% chance to hit once the animation starts. Maybe decrease its chance linearly to the range it is fired/thrown or make it so that it doesn't complete the animation if you are too far away/around a corner.

I realise that fausts and at nades are a players only option early game and without them a player will be screwed but a good player should be able to somehow micro out of them. Scripts having hurrah for a measly 5 munitions makes it even harder for german players.

Keep in mind any changes to the Stug to improve its viability will inadvertently reduce the viability of the T34, which also seems to be a key concern within the community.

This issue is fairly complex unfortunately.

I can totally understand that, it can't be easy balancing a game like this. That being said the stug rarely ever gets built since waiting 25 fuel for a p4 makes so much more sense. If the T34's viability will suffer from giving the stug a cone viz ability, then give the t34 a slight buff to make it more viable?

Thing is just that its kindof irritating that the russians can field an su85 so quickly (roughly the same time as germans can field a p4) and have extremely long line of sight. I dont want to be forced to go the elefant doctrine to get scopes to be able to see the su85. Vision is everything in coh, and his su85 can see my movements and basically 'spots' for itself.

Here is an alternative solution: (just theory-crafting...)

Bring back the "spotting unit element" we had in vcoh. I used to love to get a bike to spot for my stug mid game.

Thus give the german 221/222 very long sight range, or a spotter ability when standing still, so you can at least see the su85 when it can see you.

Give the m3 the same spotting ability as the 221/222.

Von Manstein I can't agree more. Both tanks are over-priced and underwhelming. I'd say, give the IS-2 more at, and give the tiger more damage and range. Tiger shouldnt lose to su85.

Tiger should win 1v1 vs IS-2, but IS-2 should have better AI.

That being said, the devs have to think about overall balance and not just the two tanks in isolation..

• Give the Stug a cone viz ability (at vet 1)
  

• Make Su85 cone viz come at vet 1.
  

• slightly reduce reverse speed of su85 (This is not as crucial as above two solutions)
  (rotation speed is ok'ish imo)
  

• Give stug same range as su-85 or at least close to(leave their damage as is.)
  

These points will give the german player a tier 3 solution(non-doctrinal) to the su85, without making it less useful to russians.