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They are.. weird.. those mines. To this day I am not sure if they are working, as I had things happening with them that were not represented in the files.

They do very little damage (20 I think). Their main strength is the ability to apply criticals (engine damage, crew shock, ... such stuff). This depends on how many mines you hit in the recent time.
Each time adds a debuff (and refreshes previous ones) for a few seconds (8 IIRC). Depending on the amount of debuffs it has it can apply a critical. The more debuffs the higher the chance and the more severe the critical. Besides that the criticals are also divided in groups, so light vehicles get crits easier than heavy tanks.

Edit: The corresponding part from the file if you want to try to decipher it.

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The main problems are scapegoating and a general sense of negativity. I'm not saying I'm flawless (just kidding, I am \o/), a certain Relic Dev tends to call me Negative Nancy and I guess that's not without a reason. It's all in good humor though (I hope ).

People tend to blame rather certain individuals than the company as a whole, even if those persons are just acting on orders. Peter and Braden are the primary persons getting blamed for balance issues, Brad also for bad manner. Noun takes all the FlaK for community interaction. All of them regularly get criticised for their secretism.

Those people are humans and they like the game and are dedicated. I've played countless games with Devs after hours and discussed balance as well as general CoH issues with them. In their free time. In the Western Fronts Alpha they completely overhauled the Oberkommando faction 2 (or 3 times) due to the player input. We had daily meetings on Mumble discussing changes and usually they got implemented pretty fast. They take the criticisms and suggestions seriously and listen to them. A lot of the changes that were done to certain units stem from players showing the problems to them. Sometimes I wish they'd listen better and you wouldn't have to shove it in their face, but at least if you do, they react.

Before now anyone again complains about the 'special treatment' - just look at the forums. There is so much noise, it wouldn't work. A lot of the Alpha people read the forums and link to 'good' threads in the public forums or bring suggestions to Relic directly.

My biggest problems with Relic are usually the priorities and some general structure issues. I don't think I can talk about those things publicly. They just seem to have too many projects running at once and lack the manpower to handle everything the community wants from them. Still, even though Relic is sometimes slow to improve or adapt, it seems to improve a bit. If I compare the community interaction now to the one at launch? Forum posts, Twitch streams. Better patch presentations. An Alpha to let parts of the community present feedback more directly and test improvements. Besides that also changes in CoH2 itself - Less commander DLC releases and a War Spoils system (which is by far not perfect, but a lot of people asked for free ways to get commanders). A map rotation to showcase community maps, custom games. Obs mode in development. Of course also something a lot of people forget and which was a major improvement - battle servers. As I mentioned earlier, that's a lot of different projects and most of them (to me) feel half-finished. It's like they want to add all those cool things, but do not have the time or manpower to really polish them :/

Stormtroopers have a bonus of 25% less received accuracy. Falls have 13% and obers have 30% for example
Tactical advance:
-50% movement speed
+50% accuracy
+150% burst duration (I don't know exactly how much this has an impact on DPS, maybe it fires 150% more bullets per burst but might be completely wrong. regardless pretty good)
+50 received accuracy

Data I get from the attribarchive.SGA file and looking in the EBPS and SBPS folders
Check out http://www.coh2.org/guides/11637/extracting-statistics-guide on how to extract.
I do it slightly different due to SSD storage problems but that guide should work perfectly fine.

Burst duration is the time in which they shoot. Rifles shoot a single shot (take one tick .125 seconds) where burst weapons shoot several shots in a variable amount of time. The amount of time is the burst duration and the amount of shots gets set by the rate of fire. The latter is always per second.

Assuming .4 second burst duration and 15 rate of fire
.4 * 15 = 6 shot bursts over .4 seconds
and with 250% burst duration
.4 * 2.5 * 15 = 15 shot bursts over 1 second

This increases the damage since the time spend firing compared to the time on cooldown/reload/aiming etc improves, yet it's definitely no "250% DPS improvement".
PGren (as they use the same weapon) DPS short / mid / far
13.219 / 6.795 / 1.206
And with 250% burst time (not the higher accuracy or anything else)
18.430 / 11.692 / 2.765

Ya, Brad already talked about that in Skype earlier. I didn't watch it yet, but it's a nice proof that it can be countered. People mostly like to complain first instead of trying to counter

Don't dare tell me to l2p. I was RANK1 4v4 allies AT for quite a while before the patch. And about 30 in 2v2 random. You are waaaaaay below that.

I can in fact have an opinion on balance because i have seen quite a few units interacting with each other, if you believe me that.

YOU WERE RANK1 4v4? WOW. *bows*.

But now honestly. It's not hard. It usually goes 9 wins => unranked. 10th win => top 5.

Why?

ELO decay. Unless you play a game with that exact configuration every X days, your 4v4 AT ELO will decay. That's why that ladder is so incredibly useless.

I didn't say I am good at 1v1, I don't even play it. (Because I have friends lol)

=> Slight at 1v1 players for not having friends.

I mentioned it for comparison with milka, for telling me to l2p.

Besides that I never told you to L2P. I said it's a skill issue, a L2P issue. Allies can win 4v4 just like Axis can, but you need pass a certain skill level to be able to micro the Allied tanks and units. For Axis you tend to need even less micro than in 1v1, since the maps are smaller => easier to lock down with support weapons. As 4v4 is usually played by more casual players the differences between Axis and Allies get magnified.

Talking about toxicity....

Dude, you are the one insulting developers, trying to gather people behind your banner to rage at Relic and attacking people if they disagree with you.
If you actually wanted to IMPROVE the game like you stated, you should always test playing all factions / sides. You need to know what's OP and exactly why and you only get that by using it and having it used against you. With that you could've gone to the forums and made a thread with proof, as in replays and such.
Nope, you raged. Not just now, but also in the past. That's toxicity.

http://www.coh2.org/topic/19053/question-about-the-kv-8-health-increase/page/1#post_id170960 D:

I know my ranks aren't good. I'm not playing Live since ages. I spent more time Alpha testing than Live by now, and I put a shit ton of time into learning the mechanics to provide accurate feedback. If I lash out a bit at people who are so offensive and obviously not doing shit, yet claim they contribute so much, then please allow me a bit of toxicity. Compared to others, it really isn't much D;