Profile of Enkidu

Totally agree with this. The response time of smoke is just way too slow to be used reactively against players who properly micro mgs and the smoke doesn’t really last long enough to pre saturate an area for a push.

More responsive smoke might actually make it worth using instead of just barraging the target.

Coh 3. An in game encyclopedia that lists squad dps stats at various ranges in graph form (bonus points for nice UI including unit pictures etc). Also have it pull the stats directly from the live game files so you never have to guess if it’s up to date.

In terms of balance: all officer units in every faction getting tweaks. 2cp call in officers moved to 1 cp; USF Lt and Cpt getting their abilities reworked; Sturmofficer being redesigned to lose the aura, lose the force retreat on death and making his Luger be more combat effective.

I don’t really agree that the USF is lacking in core diversity. They are one of my favorite factions specifically because of their versatility. They are now, imo, now one of the best designed factions in terms of choices in mid game. If you factor in doctrines, I’d say early game has a lot of options too. Late game flexibility depends a lot on what mode you’re playing. In 1v1, the options are still wide open but in team games, they seem to get locked into spamming Jacksons and scotts to deal with heavies and team weapons.

So, the problem is that we’re having trouble with the timing on these big, powerful, expensive units right? Being tied to CPs meant they came too late in team games, being tied to tech only means they are at times now coming too early and stomping everything right? In 1v1s stall to heavy is strong enough that other balancing decisions are made around it (cons 7 man upgrade); and across all modes, TDs are oppressively strong largely to deal with them. Seems to me like the problem is more with the heavy units themselves throwing everything out of whack.

Maybe it would require too much tuning, but it seems to me that if you tied heavies to tech as well as cps, but lowered the cp requirement to 8 or 9, then reduced both the cost and effectiveness of heavies down to be more like premium, premium mediums, and capped them to one out at a time, you could let people play with their toys without everything being so life or death.

In the same way that premium mediums are better than mediums but not so much so that regular mediums are obsolete when they’re out, make heavies the same degree of tier above premium mediums. Lower the heavies health and armor down to be a grade above premium mediums and reduce their cost to be more like a panther. Cap them at one out at a time so that they aren’t spammed in team games. (Most are already no?).

If heavies were less powerful, you could also reduce the effectiveness of units like the Jackson, su-85 and panther which many players have recently expressed as feeling too smothering of medium armor.

Making heavies more accessible via cost and timing would also mean that picking a commander with a heavy in it would mean that the player would get to more extensively play with said units every match. Since you could only have one out at a time, you would still maintain unit diversity with cheaper heavies. .

All around seems like a win. Players get to use their heavies earlier and more often but they aren’t such the game swaying units that they single handedly end games without large amounts of dedicated AT.

Like I said, it would take a lot of tuning to get all the numbers right, but philosophically, what I’m suggesting is to reduce the cost and power of heavies so that they more easily fit into builds like other units and don’t cause other cascading balance problems.

I don’t think the smoke would be that meta changing at 1cp but I’m also not opposed to it being tech gated. I’d say start with it unlocked and if it proves problematic, then go back and tech lock it.