Profile of sevenfour

Alright, I think the elefant in the room needs addressing.

One of the biggest shortcomings of this game (which I really like) is in my opinion lack of variety. It seems like there is not that many viable strategies. This gets even worse when playing Soviets since if you want PPSHs you have exactly 3 commanders to pick from, if you want the option to call-in Guards to help you with that fast FHT or medium armor later on you have just 1 commander left. This really hurts the variety in a big way and punishes experimenting with new commanders.

Why do you need PPSHs so badly? If you know the answer skip this paragraph. For those new to this game: Well mainly because the current metagame forces you to be aggressive early on and make a bunch of Conscripts to be able to flank HMGs, get some map control, harass enemy`s fuel income and prevent/delay the PIV train. The fact that soviet buildings take a lot of time to put up means you need at least some Conscripts in any case unless you just give up map control entirely. Without PPSHs you will be left after the early game with bunch of Conscripts that loose their effectiveness extremely quickly, once the Grenadiers get their LMGs it`s lights out basically. That way you are gimped for the rest of the game.

Now the proposal is an obvious one. Make the PPSH upgrade gobal, that is make it the same way LMG upgrade for Grenadiers is. Which is why I think it would be fair as well, basic infantry on both sides having the option to upgrade their weapons without having to pick a specific commander to do so. This would make all the other soviet commanders actually viable and the game more varied and fun as a result.

Two concerns may arise. 1) What about the commanders that have the PPSH upgrade now? Well give them something else, simple as that, there is plenty of stuff, especially with the units/abilities recently introduced. 2) Soviet players could hold on to munition in the beginning of the game, not using Oorah etc. to buy the upgrade ASAP which would ruin the early early game balance. Solution: make the upgrade unlock after the tier 1 building is up.

Just for the record and inb4 ppl show up screaming trying to derail this thread into another Soviet vs German OP claims - I play both factions and actually prefer Germans for 1v1s so please lets stay on topic. I only want more variability from the game since it makes it more fun.

Deleting trenches sounds really weird and unnatural. On the other hand I agree the trenches should definitely not be free.

-1 but I am not complaining, I enjoy the drama

To be fair the game is still much more fun than SpamCraft though.

The KV-1 and StuG III Ausf. E should have been just added to their respective tier 3 buildings imo. Well the same could be said for other new units/mechanics too. But that wouldn`t make Relic/SEGA that much moneeeyz. That being said yes I will probably purchase the new commanders, the german ones definitely (if I don`t get them free because of the RS edition), so I guess the business model works :/

I really like the Redistribute Resources for ze Germans, on the other hand AssGrens look like they might just break the game... we`ll see. Soviet commanders are just meh since they don`t offer PPSHs so not sure if they are even worth the money. Forward HQ collapsing after 1 crit from mortar will be hilarious.

Inb4 AssGren spam everywhere.

I would prefer having the current two factions balanced and capable of more different viable strategies to make the game more varied and enrich the gameplay experience.

Making the game varied by adding new factions is imho not a good idea. At least in the current state of the game (but I have the feeling this won`t change very soon).