Profile of gokkel

Katusha remained good? LOL! After the patch on July 31, Germans spamming blob 7 infantry squad and they do not care at Katusha. Relic you even played the game that will make?

There is always some luck involved. I still frequently lose full squads to Katyusha in first volley and I don't even blob.

Not thrilled about the campaign, I didn't enjoy the Russian campaign personally and I have not much interest in playing a campaign from the American point of view. I am pretty sure that I won't buy it.

However, at least they didn't make us buy the new campaign together with WFA, so they could reduce the price of the addon for those who are only interested in the Multiplayer stuff, so cannot really complain here, actually that was a nice move of Relic.

Hahaha this would be so awesome and funny. But sadly, this isnt old westwood, where you would get breifings with stalin in Red Alert 1 (and him choking out his general LOL!)

Haha, yes, I totally loved the Soviet campaign in Red Alert 1 just for the scenes with Stalin already

Thanks MilkaCow, I hope that gets the thread into the right direction now. Yes, a slight cost increase for Shocktroop grenades to 35 just to reflect the difference in grenade performance would be fair in my opinion. It will still be lower than Bundle grenades, but it won't be the same price as a weaker grenade for no apparent reason.


Also, I thought I wrote that in my first post, but apparently I forgot. Yes, I also wanted to compare the time to throw a grenade, but currently there are so many bugs regarding this that it makes it hard to know what is really intended duration required and what is just a result of a bug, so I left that away.

A lot of grenades seem to currently take ages to throw or not throw at all (with no refund). Some units seem more prone to this than others. For example Volksgrenadier grenades seem most of the time reliable, Panzerfüsiliers on the other hand very unreliable.

If they fix those bugs, they should also take the throwing time into consideration, as this is a rather important stat.

There are several different grenade types which all perform differently, and some cost more and some cost less. There is also a difference in the range they can be thrown at and how long they need to be thrown.

I find there could be some small tweaks here and there. I think grenades like Rifle Grenade and Molotovs are pretty unique in their role so they are basically fine in their own right, but some other grenade types work rather similar but still behave different.

For example the Stielgranate used by Volksgrenadiers or Panzerfüsiliers costs 30 munition, same as Shock Troop RG-42 grenade, however the Shocktroop grenade does more damage in a bigger AoE. Now you can justify that the more elite squads gets the better grenades, but why do the grenades cost the same then? The Bundle Grenade used by Panzergrenadiers, Obersoldaten or Fallschirmjäger is even stronger than the RG-42, but it also costs more accordingly with 45 munition.

Then you have some very different grenade with the Stun grenade used by Ostheer infantry with the Elite doctrine, but also by Sturmpioniere once they reach veterancy 3. This grenade seems completely useless right now; the stun duration is so short that it has practically no impact on any fight while doing nearly no damage as well. The latter is ok to me, after all it is a stun grenade so it should be used to stun and not to kill, but currently the stun is not useful. In my opinion the grenade should stun for significantly longer. If necessary, the cost can be also increased accordingly if it is found to overperform.

Just to make things complete, there is also the Infiltration grenade which some people find too strong apparently because of the cheap cost of 10 munition. While it has already quite some drawbacks (very long animation time, reduced effectiveness with every model already dead in your squad, long cooldown which only recharges out of combat and might have also a bug where it resets the cooldown back to 120 seconds when it was already partially recharged), I can also understand that people think it may be a bit too cheap for its effect.

I would like if Relic puts an eye on overall grenade balance a bit in the future (especially Stun grenades).