Profile of The_Courier

Alright, 10% more suppression is just what it needed. Let's see how the unit fares from then on.

Being a reporter stops you from being a sissy? Didn`t know that.
Have you listened to how he talks? Every cinematic with him I have the feeling he is going to burst our crying because the evil commissar pushed them to the frontline to fight the invader. I know he questions the ruling regime and their decisions. But at least make him sound more manly ffs. =)

So, what, you want him to be Rambo or something? He's far more real than the power fantasy you want him to be.

He has many signs of a person suffering from PTSD, which given the horrors he has seen is perfectly understandable. If you think PTSD and/or associated disorders make someone a ''sissy'', say so and I'll safely chalk it up to you being an idiot.

I think Relic did go a overboard. Executing the soldiers who courageously saved a superior officier and extending Order 227 all the way to friggin Berlin is just silly and should not have made it into the campaign, as well as the cliche scenes in Stalingrad pulled right out of Enemy at the Gates. It just reeks of trying too hard to find a war crime to jam into the story because Soviets.

On the other hand, the reaction was just ridiculously disproportionate. It seemed like the issue was that Soviet war crimes were portrayed at all. The Western allies were certainly no angels, the Japanese and German civilians can attest to that, but the Eastern Front was still way above and beyond anything else in the war in terms of sheer barbary, save for what the Imperial Japanese did to China perhaps. Apart from those I mentionned earlier, pretty much all the war crimes portrayed did happen, and they didn't even show the worst of what the Soviets did during that time. Trampler squad clearing mine fields with their lives. The incredible callousness with which the Penal Batallions were treated. The Gulags. Mass executions of Polish officiers (among others). The Soviet leadership was one of the nastiest bunch of human refuse to have ever lived. To make a game on the Eastern Front and overlook those aspects would be pretty silly to me, even if again Relic did focus on the war crimes too much.

I also didn't really understand the whole ''No Soviets are heroic!!'' complaint. Uh, yes, they were? The only evil ones were the Commissar, which basically comes with the job, and the Colonel who shot himself over it later. All others were either neutral or portrayed in a positive light for being courageous, and the main character is few things short of a saint.

Just ignore the guy. Hes gonna look pretty silly when MG42 gets buffed and then it will be readily apparent who has had the l2p issues if he couldnt deal with Mg42 even in its current nerfed state.

Lol @ a guy who's way behind me in rank claiming I have L2p issues. Dude, you're a riot.

I see this thread is populated by people who wanna attack-move their MG42 and deny an entire area of the map by its sheer presence or something. It's funny, back in vCOH the MG was similar to the current one, except with slightly more suppression yet so much more vulnerable. A riflemen flank meant a guaranteed kill except if you retreated well in advance; in COH2 you can usually pack up the MG and start strolling away from the offending conscripts with nary a scrath so long as a supporting unit is nearby. And people still managed to make it a center of the meta because they friggin microed it.

Then again, those were also the days rank 60 000 guys didn't try to pull the L2p card.

I dont get it, so a maxim can lock an entire area off by itself stopping multiple squads at once yet, yet an MG 42 which was superior in all aspects cant lock down an area and cant even reliably suppress 1 squad. You find this balanced?

Relic wanted to nerf machine guns so they became support weapons and not front line units , the maxim and dushka are exactly that ,front line units that need virtually no support.

That's just false. A Maxim can lock down one gren squad but falls easily to 2, and that's before you factor in LMGs and riflenades. Not to mention PGrens can almost ignore them. If Maxims were that powerful they would be spammed, and they aren't because they're very much counterable. Maxims with Conscript support are powerful, but that's normal, and so is the MG42 if properly supported.