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I really hope there's more to it than that. Cause without having okayed it yet this seems to be "balanced" right back into heavily favoring the axis. What warrants moving sov industry to 3 but not adjusting elite troop training at all? It was and still is the single most op ability in the game. But since the German fanboys don't mind it it stays. Also shocks and guards moved to 2cp? Good job german whine crew! Why learn to adjust when you can just cry long enough to get something changed haha.

Anyone want to take bets on what sov unit gets nerfed next? Probably cons or something cause really why do they have guns? Thats clearly op. Germans should be the only ones with guns! Oh well it'll make beating Germans that much more rewarding! Bring it on. Sadly the down side is itll make playing axis even more dull and less challenging :/ oh well I guess I'll be logging even more soviet hours!

Kind of funny seeing someone whine, and complain about whiners in the same post

I think Relic wasted a golden opportunity with COH2, and will have to work that much extra to get the community growing again. I mean, it is the sequel to "the highest rated RTS of all time", and they already had a healthy fanbase, yet they managed to alianate a lot of fans, and generally give the game a bad name.

The game was released in a verry unfinished state, they messed with the COH formula and made changes noone asked for, they designed the game with DLCs in mind, thus shaping gameplay and core elements of the game in order to milk the product, not to promote better gameplay, the game lack some of the mest basic multiplayerfeatures, like lobbies, and they managed to piss off the Russian community, wich could have been an extremely profitable market, given the setting of the game.

The word of mouth effect greatly benefitted vCOH and the community, and I think COH2 being such a dissapointment to a lot of people has had a similair, though negative, effect.

Relic will have to do a lot of work improving theire product if they want this to change, and pherhaps even change some of the game fundamentals, wich it is doubtfull that they ever will. I really dont see the franchise fully recover anytime soon though, as the damage is already done, and rebuilding the COH name is way much harder than ruining it.

I dont have the time, and im afraid im not good enough. With the direction COH2 took, compared to vCOH, I simply dont find the game interesting enough to invest the time required to compete in the top segment.

Surprisingly I had a lot of fun watching the finals, and learned a lot from doing so, so even though I didnt participate it got me more interested in the game again.

As far as I've tested (and this has been reported) the second Soviet sniper model is immune to countersniping while inside the M3. It can still die to anything else (mortars/mines/nades) etc etc. I wouldn't really call it an exploit because I don't think anyone knew about it (myself included) until a friend and I extensively tested it, so I don't think anyone was purposely abusing it. Additionally I've ever seen anyone but myself and a couple close friends countersnipe into the M3.

Anyways, a lot of this game is dependent on RNG and it is easy to chalk up mortars to just being "rng" counters to things but you could claim that about a mortar shooting at any squad. Sure there's a small chance that you can go an entire game without your mortar landing a single hit on anything, but it isn't likely. Even a perfect PGren flank could fail to kill both models because... well... "rng." Part of this game is creating situations where rng favors you, and taking advantage of that. The mortar HT (or even a regular mortar) over the course of a game will have a pretty damn good chance of instantly killing the sniper, but even if it doesn't it still puts heavy bleed on guards and the incendiary round is an extremely useful area denial tool.

The 222 is great just to keep the M3 at bay and to force guards to be constantly present. Sure you're probably never going to actually kill the M3 against a good player, but you also shouldn't lose your 222. Guard/Sniper early game is generally something like 1 Sniper, 1-2 Cons, 2-3 Guards - the important thing is that they usually only have 5 infantry squads, even less if they go double or triple sniper. If you force one guard squad to constantly babysit the M3 because of your 222s presence on the field they only have 3 squads (4 if you really want to count CEs as a combat squad mid game) to contest the rest of the map, in which case you should have a larger portion of the map held than the sniper player.

To beat a strat you either have to undermine its strengths, or exploit its weaknesses. The strength of sniper/guard is extreme manpower efficiency since you're almost never directly engaging in infantry combat, and your sniper can put heavy bleed on the German player. I've played sniper/guard/su85 since beta and trust me when I say, if you start losing lots of guards you're going to be *extremely* manpower bled, ultimately making it very difficult to tech or get T34/85s. Consequently the best ways to bleed guards, while avoiding snipers are the German sniper, and mortars/mortar HT.

Alternatively you could exploit the weakness of this strat - map control. You don't want your sniper to be capping, and you always need a squad spotting for the sniper, and you probably won't have PPSh or molotovs which means your Cons will lose to grens, badly, as soon as LMGs/G43s enter the equation. All of this culminates in the fact that if the German player spreads himself out and caps multiple points on the map simultaneously it becomes difficult to hold onto everything, since you'll probably only be winning fights where your sniper is present. Guards with DPs can stand up to vanilla grens, and can beat LMG grens if you land a good grenade but in terms of MP efficiency you'll still probably be on the losing end of the trade.

Do you know if this has always been the case or if the bug arrived with the patch that bugged snipers in other ways too?

Im not sure what I think yet. On one side I think that the whole dynamic with "superinfantry" is bad, and rewards recklessness and spamming units in all directions. And I do find it frustrating that no matter how much the enemy blobs his shocks or how much I outsmart him, he wount loose his shocks. The fact that horrible players will have vet 3 shocks in the end, even if they use them in all the wrong ways dosent feel right.

On the other, a "shock only" player is fairly easy to beat. Its just not all that much fun.