Profile of Colonel0tto

Lots of thoughtful changes with some big exceptions:

Marders needed to be changed but this is a dramatic nerf. 120 damage makes them completely unviable. They should remain powerful but be more expensive and have slower rotation rate - this patch does the opposite making them rotate even faster but do worse damage.

Removing in-combat reinforcement is odd given that this wasn't that broken in Coh2 - what's different? If this mechanic is to be removed then support weapons need their hp increased. One of the reasons they're so squishy is that they're balanced with on-field reinforce and re-crew in mind. However this might bring back support weapon meta from coh2 which I'm not a fan of. Big changes like this have big consequences.

Buffed penetration DAK Stug Gs will be completely broken. They already have rapid fire which makes them pretty strong, and with access to multiple forms of AOE ROF buff (8RAD, Command P4) they will slaughter everything. The philosophy of having 'clearly defined tank destroyer roles' doesn't make that much sense to me - the STUG is a bit of a hybrid unit because it's a tanky brawler.

Enormous AOE buff (1.5 to 4) to the Chaffee's anti-infantry capabilities in a faction that already has very good anti-infantry, making the greyhound worthless.

500% buff to MG suppression sounds ludicrously high - we really don't want a return to MG meta.

Buff to concrete bunker HP making them really unpleasant to deal with in 1v1.

Also some weird changes that remove unit flavour - why replace Bersa Urrah with Sprint? (explanation - 'it's not supposed to be a close combat unit' - but this helped them reposition to get cover/ throw nades).

It's probably the case that accuracy modifiers have much bigger in game effects when they're applied to suppression weapons, where the goal is to hit a certain suppression threshold over a set time rather than deal a (larger) amount of damage

Volley Fire just needs to scale with Veterancy as it only really makes an impact early on.
(Yes its possible to make progressive scaling with abilities based on Veterancy in the Mod Tools)

Volley Fire
+40% received accuracy, -50% accuracy, +1% suppression, squad moves extra slowly
After 5 seconds of being active: +1% additional suppression, +3% additional accuracy
After 10 seconds of being active: (if the squad is still alive) +3% additional suppression, +4% additional accuracy, -87.5% cool-down



So the ability makes it so that you essentially take 40% more damage while doing 50% less damage yourself.

It's +15% RA not 40%. The ability was buffed in 2019 https://www.coh2.org/guides/88945/the-coh2-ability-guide-mark-2-0#2654

With the right timing and positioning this ability can be pretty excellent. One of the better feelings playing the faction is when your rear echelon manages to 1v1 an onrushing sturmpioneer because you started behind a tank trap and he crossed red cover.

On its own the Firefly can feel a bit lacklustre. However it's the vehicle that benefits the most from command vehicle aura, and with that it becomes an absolute monster. The 8 second reload is cut to 5.6 seconds, the far penetration goes from 210 to 240 and the far accuracy increases from 0.4 to 0.5. So it's firing as fast as a panther, with more damage, penetration and a lot more accuracy. This really helps the Firefly start racking up the damage and gaining veterency. At vet 3 it's a different animal all together with the aura bonuses. 240 damage on a 4 second reload with 0.65 far accuracy gives it the highest damage output of any vehicle apart from the super heavy TDs.