Profile of FestiveLongJohns

inb4 kubel

The kubel is in no way a reliable means of dealing with shocks. It's only real use is in the first few minutes of the game, before shocks are even on the field, and shocks have smoke to nullify the suppression anyway.

I'm hoping there is a patch soon that deals with the call in structure. Relic has mentioned that they are aware of the issue. I'm also hoping for some sort of rework for the Soviets and Ostheer, because at the moment they feel a little uninspired compared to the OKW and USF.

My boy WeWe beat him 4 times in 3 days with his mad Soviet play. That being said, much respect to this proud axis player.

Honestly, the most exciting thing about this to me is being able to coach friends who are new to the game, and observe a match between players to tell them what they should be doing, pinging where they should be going, what to build next to be ready for whats coming at them etc.

Company of heroes are some of the most difficult games to get into multiplayer, and I would love to get more people into the game. You guys should re-read Ami's big post on why we need observer mode, its not all about Esports.

So much truth in this post. This will help the community improve at the game so much faster. This is a long time coming! Well done!

Thank you for being constructive......

Sorry for being a little salty, here is my opinion a little more in depth.

The faction isn't designed to punch you in the mouth with elite infantry. You have weapon upgrades for your rifles to help them scale into the late game. As has been mentioned before, paras w/ m1919s are amazing, arrive before obers, can deploy anywhere, and reinforce in the field at the same cost as rifles. The infantry commander basically turns your rifles into elite infantry at the same cost of an LMG or BAR.

An argument could be made that the strength of rifleman (and the USF in general) needs to be a little less polarizing, with their early game toned down and their scaling increased, but this would take away much of the flavor of the faction. In 1v1s this creates a really fun and interesting dynamic.

In team games it is much harder to really push your early game advantage, and many players feel frustrated when playing the USF because you really can't afford to sit back and let the battle come to you. The clock is ticking, and you need to win early. The USF is not an easy faction to play, and I think giving them units that deliberately fill the intended holes of the faction is going to be bad for balance and design. Giving the USF a Pershing would be insane, because no other faction has access to such a versatile T4 to back it up with. Just as giving the USF elite infantry would be over the top because they already have so much flexibility with their rifleman and their upgrades, it would feel redundant imo.

Enough with the threads on how the USF need to be the Soviets 2.0 already.

I personally would like the factions to maintain their own sense of identity, instead of homogenizing all of them to the point that we're all playing mirror factions with different skins.

If you don't like the USF play style, pick a different faction. If you want elite infantry, play the soviets or OKW. If you want late game heavies, the USF isn't the faction for you. If you want a fluid and dynamic army with a strong early game and a late game that requires lots of finesse and micro, then hell yeah get on board with the USF.