Profile of J1N6666

It'd be nice if Panzer Grenadiers could get Mark Target again to replace med-kits. Not sure how powerful it was in Beta since I didn't use it given that PGs were god-like back then where Vet 3s could kill everything without it, but seems like something that would be more useful since they tend to be ahead due to their assault/mid-range role.

30-45 Munitions for maybe 10-15% Received Accuracy and maybe somewhere between 10-20% received damage on the marked target? Could also forces PGs to maintain LOS for it to work or it just applies to the PGs. We also have voice lines for it anyways, wouldn't mind hearing those again.

Amazingly, even COH2 beta to pre-march deployment had a nice roster of Infantry Vet 1 abilities. I think the only reason they were complained about was because they were an APM tax (they were free, so people thought Infantry were never fighting at 100%).

The game wasn't quite balanced at the time (granted it just came out) but I think if all those abilities had just been tweaked rather than removed, it would've brought a more interesting tactical element.

Regarding the voice assets, I think it's kind of a waste for all of those to just be removed. I would love to see them return someday.

@Whysoserious: I think the killing a model utility was removed in a ninja patch some time ago. This however, I'm quite shaky about the info so if anyone can confirm this pls do.

Is there really any point in Vet 1 infantry abilities for vanilla factions? I'm not sure about anyone else but from what I've seen in streams and my own experience, they are utterly worthless.

All Soviet Infantry get the Vet 1 Tripwire flares. Seriously, does anyone even use this? It's a total waste of a vet ability as well as munitions. Vet 1 Soviets infantry needs to be reworked.

Shock troops: Out of all the soviet infantry, why is this ability given to shock troopers? Where is that Vet 1 ability (Fire superiority or something)they had in the campaign? Balance that and give it to them.

Ost Vet 1 Infantry get medkits. This ability also needs to be tweaked... Either all german Infantry need to be able to use medkits on themselves, or this ability should just be removed/reworked. For 20 munitions, I expect to heal my Vetted up squad early on, as in before my med bunker hits the field... But, I would much rather see some diversity between the troops, I mean, even ostruppen have medkits, what?


Both Ost and Soviets get almost nothing from their Vet 1 Infantry. Really, Vet 1 should be the place where each infantry unit diversifies from each other (ex: cons, penals) and branches out. Instead, it seems more of a just a wall to prevent players from reaching vet 2.

If relic wants to tweak each unit, I think this is a good place to start.
Thoughts?

Sacrifice orphans for a better chance at a commander.

Airdrop combat group is the only thing out of place.
Its paras should NOT drop with thompsons(they still got 3 and no ability) and either the gun should come with the crew or shouldn't come in at all and the price of call-in should be cut.

As long as it comes with empty AT gun you either need to flank first anyway, which cancels the point of paradrop unless you want to donate free AT gun to your opponent or call them next to your own forces, which again, cancels the point of paradrop.

Wait what?

I thought the patch let them have 4 thompsons if upgraded. Is it just bugged for this commander or did the patch just not go through for paratroopers?

Since the new Patch, my post-WFA already lag spiking games have now turned into gruesome freeze fests.

Played 3 games since the start of this new patch for 1v1. Lost all matches due to freezing and then a random defeat. Pissed me off so much I was about to create a Lolcake rage thread, but decided against it because I thought it was a Asia Only problem. I guess I was wrong.

I don't know if they did something to the Asia server... but all of this lag started a little before WFA release. Trauma of this patch has made me stop playing.