Profile of rumartinez89

ppsh penals should come at cp1 like they used to and that would make it a worthwhile strat

Yea, would give them a decent time to do some damage before Axis LV hit the field. CP2 is pretty late for a upgrade that does not give smoke/camo/sprint. Camo and sprint I can understand but smoke would at least allow you to close in on MG or long range infantry. Diversion would actually allow the unit to shine in situational engagements. It sucks that they didn't just fix the whole conscript SVT balance. It is literally in almost every casted match.

No its not, not in a single way its a good mechanic. Not from pro-players perspective, not from the casual perspective. Abandonment is an example of pure, non-player dependant RNG.

Abandonment either gives one player a second chance when he player wrong or it punishes the player when he player right. Not speaking about situations when abandonment happens in the middle of the map, so it just as good as dead anyway.

But for instance I had games, where I miss player and let enemy dive my rocket arty, instead of being destoyed it got abandoned. Or when I dived to finish the enemy and in process my tank got abandoned.

Not even talking about the frustration aspect, but from a pure army value perspective. Because any tank is a huge boost to your army value and quite big res investment and the fact that one player can essentially get such unit for free based on RNG is just a bad mechanic.

CoH2 is full of RNG, but most of the RNG is predictable. Sure BS sometimes happens, like PIVJ being able to either deflect all shots or being penetrated all the times, but its predictable RNG.

Abandonment on the other hand is like downed plane killing your whole army, because RNG event decided that you need to lose the game, just because. Without your involvement and without any possible counter-play, because its either happens or its not.

Aside from "Wow, lol, cool haha" factor, abandonment has absolutely 0 possitive value.

I agree with everything you said and a possible solution could be ranked and unranked 1v1 since it is creates the largest swing in this mode. Leave the extreme RNG mechanics in the larger modes to keep the flavor and wild memes going.

You are not fully countering what he said. Your first point about the frag shells combined with a loiter requires specific circumstances when the ISU152 and KV2 can both handle the situation with less micro/overall investment. So the IS2 does not bring something different.

Since the game is not played in a vacuum your 2nd point makes sense however the 2Pak40 and 1 Panther will have an easier time dealing with the IS2 and 2 ZIS especially when vet gets involved and target weakpoint is used.

I understand what your putting out about OST and tiger but none of that applies to OKW which can field a Tiger and KT. Depending on commander OKW can do everything you say and more. Shit overwatch docterine you get AI/AT loiter in one along with the ability to make howitzer and JLI to spot for the abilities. You can use heat shells or even back tracking to your original statement you can equip a Panther with arty call in and force the zis to move while it and the PAK force the IS2 into submission. Hell, the other fusi doctrine has that artillery which can also be used as a breakthrough so its not unique at all to the IS2 doctrine.

It’s probably from when they added rear armor. My guess is the game treats the tank as two separate entities which is why they could never add side armor.

I noticed some weird shit like this a few months ago when OST would pop smoke and I would frantically attack ground. I think it works better with turreted tanks since I have never seen it with SU85.