Profile of Bob Pontes

Now this is how you do hype creation. After reading this I'm going to F5 until WFA comes out.

Agreed - although in this case it feels like a pessimistic hype

Tried it all.
Waited for the countdown and hit reconnect; verified game cache; restarted game; restarted steam;

Nothing worked so far
Don't wanna trash Relic, but it's *really* frustrating when a patch breaks obvious things.

Edit: Still no success, and realized in the in game chat (which ironically works) that many people are in the same situation.

When you have a feature that part of the community dislikes, only the unsatisfied part tends to come to the forums and complain. And this might give the erroneous impression that "everyone is against this".

So, just for the record: I for once am glad we don't have the vCoH basic matches. That was, IMHO, the worst part of vCoH. The community was segmented into all the different automatch modes, plus basic match, making the time to find a match punishing. If you wanted to play with a buddy, you were pretty much confined to basic match, as the automatch AT modes were deserted.

And that's when the problems started. Most basic matches were set up by a team of buddies, who tweaked the rules as to benefit their faction the most, and played always on a set map, with fixed locations, running a pre-determined "script" every game. Almost every basic match lobby consisted on a game with one team full of players and the other empty. Lots of annihilate games with only the Wehrmacht team filled up. Not to mention that host would often "select" the opponents, kicking anyone who didn't look like an easy win.

It was extremely annoying and it often would take me 30 minutes to start a game, and I'd play a lot of BS matches. Now it takes me less than 5 minutes. If what you care about is PLAY, rather than TALK, I pretty much prefer the current system. I acknowledge that there are things that can be made - a separated chat room where you could friend people and from there play with them could work. But seriously, if Relic ever reverts the matching system to that of vCoH, with lobby, basic matches and everything (which I don't think they will), then I might as well go back playing that game instead.

I find the Elephant extremely useful. You have to use it properly though. It's range is a HUGE - just for the sake of comparison, a Panther has 50 range, an SU-85 has 60, an Elephant has 100.

The fact that it is a huge and expensive tank might induce people to use it as a "spearhead" unit in your attack formation. This is very very wrong. The Elephant has to be kept behind your line. It will shoot from a huge distance, and make a lot of damage. It's DPS (including accuracy) at range 100 is the exact same DPS of an SU-85 at range 60.

Most of the cons you mentioned are not applicable if you use it right - that is, behind your line. At this position it's slow speed doesn't really matter, as well as turret speed, since at long range the turret doesn't need to turn much. Not having AOE is totally not applicable, as this is an anti-tank unit by design.

And on top of all that, it's a hard counter to SU-85 spam.

I think the Elephant is a spot on example of balanced unit. It has a purpose, it's awesome for it, but it doesn't do what it wasn't designed to do.

Ok, maybe I understood the patch notes wrong. But here's what I read:
MG42
• Damage from 4.4 to 5
• Far accuracy from 0.1375 to 0.11
• Far cooldown from 0.8 to 0.85
• Suppression from 0.00159 to 0.00085
• Rate of fire near from 1.2 to 1.1
• Rate of fire far from 1.1 to 0.9
• Weapon horizontal traverse speed from 60 to 25
• Suppression modifier applied to suppressed targets from 0.5 to 1

In other words: there wasn't a single change to the MG42's health. Meaning that this replay was not affected at all by the new patch. Those Conscripts should have killed that MG42 on the same time, on the previous patch. Anyone care to explain if I missed something here?