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RNG will always be a factor. See my video regarding two p4s flanking a kv8 on that balance thread

If you were the one I automatched on semoisky winter, my squads were instantly raped by the is2 as soon as they were looked at and it cost me the game. that matches my experience vs an is2 in other games as well.

edit: Soviet units just have a very solid synergy to them. German units are pretty much generalists in all tiers vs soviet generalist spam (conscripts) with very powerful specialist units making up the doctrinal or later tiers. Its not hard to park a zis or su85 and micro your scripts around and they will all be effective. I don't think its any individual thing, but overall the soviet faction is stronger because of the advantage these specialist units such as an su85 or sniper give when used by a good player.

Say wait, wasn't the IS-2's scatter drastically reduced 2-3 patches ago?

It was part of a livestream too. I'd be willing to see the scatter increased by a small amount, should alleviate that problem.

But remember, for all the problems German players keep whining about 1-2 shotting infantry, Soviet players have had to deal with 2-3 shotting our tanks for a while now. German tanks have a lot of escapes, such as smoke launchers, and even the much more reliable panzerfaust.

Soviet tank survivabiliy, especially in the late game where they matter the most, is lacking against many sources from equal tiers, and not just from one doctrinal unit that is supposed to be powerful.

German tanks most certainly dont 2-3 shot any soviet tank; ignoring vet3 and maybe an elefant, which is rare enough in 1v1s.

Soviet tank survivability is not an issue in my eyes. T34s come quickly (often with a t70) and are meant to overwhelm not overpower.... except the t70 which is still annoyingly powerful for how fast it comes out. But I digress. The T-34 can deal nice damage to a p4, will clear the field of any vehicles weaker than a p4 or stug, runs over infantry like theres no tomorrow, and does pretty well vs infantry. Its a much more well rounded tank after the latest buffs.

Su85s are very survivable because of their range. Range > armor anytime because you can simply kite. Its the same reason a sniper is useful vs panzergrens with good micro.

Regarding the shock doctrine tanks, I have been seeing a much larger use of IS2s, which I believe are quite powerful now. KV8s which has been long established to be OP in the hands of a decent player. Cheaper shocks and more useful incendiary barrages vs support teams with the new damage penalties are flavor of the month for soviet meta IMO.

I don't agree the faust is any better than an AT nade. They have the same range and conscripts have greater ability to close in on enemy tanks and absorb losses to knock their engine out.

The IS-2 scatter does need to be reduced. As it stands now it will 1-2 shot entire full health, even vetted, grens/pgren squads or support weapon teams on the move. Units like this dont exist in a vacuum and I'm not a fan of super units on either side that can reverse the change of a battle. I'd rather COH be a game of winning gradually throughout the match with superior micro/tactics rather than a turn around thanks to an epic unit in the last 5 mins.

soviets have molotovs and a good soviet will keep germans out of buildings in t1 and rush cutoffs. bad t1 gameplay

Not really, unless the squad is really low health, molotov takes allot of time on mobile infantry. Putting it's effect on garrisoned units aside, I think its the worse grande in the game, and perhaps that's why its the cheapest.

incorrect, a molotov will almost always insta kill 1 guy. Its cheap cost mean its spammed regularly. In fact I just had a mg42 ran down by a conscript which placed a molotov on the mg when it auto-deployed to shoot and it burned to death in about 1-2 seconds, total crew kill.

Far more importantly it completely changes the meta of the t1 game.

The only thing soviets do now is rush conscripts into buildings and sit there to cut you off from fuel/cutoffs knowing that, like a fast t70, its extremely hard to counter. Scripts are generalist units which means they can build 4-5+ of them and have an infantry force to last the rest of the game with no downside.

I agree with OP, mg42 can no longer reliably suppress a single unit charging at it from the front.

I would like to see an mg42 that cant just instantly suppress at its max range multiple units like pre-patch, but can instantly suppress a single squad charging right at it, oorah, shocks or not before they reach molotov range.

Therefore I think the solution is allowing the mg42 heavy suppression on the first target it shoots, but making keeping it slow to switch targets as it is now. the closer a squad is, the heavier the suppression. Who in their right mind would sprint full speed at a machine gun firing at you?

A downside to this patch is that mg42s in buildings are now awful because they take too much time to lock on a target. Expecting mg42s to hold territory as a defensive unit is no longer viable, if your grens retreat you may as well retreat the mg too before it gets lulz killed