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@Cuzz: Your comment is so blatanly loaded with direct statementd of not caring for balance, that there is no way to respond to it constructively.

So are yours.

If you dont care if MG42 gets nerfed into oblivion, based on your subjective inflexible attitude on Maxims, you disqualify yourself from objective balance discussion.

Yes, I honestly wouldn't care if the MG42 got nerfed to oblivion right now with everything else remaining the same (or with the maxim getting a bunch of nerfs that affect nothing), because this would actually make for more interesting gameplay. Right now germans don't even need the overpowered MG42, yet them just having the option of making one forces the soviets to play along very specific paths.

The current MG42 is good in any sort of situation. The arc is stupidly huge, the swivel speed is fucking crazy (feels about double the vCoH speed), and the pin speed and the time squads spent pinned is something out of this world considering how little time it takes to get into that state, and it has enough view range to operate by itself. Coming at them from the front with any infantry just is never an option even if you use special abilities like smoke (contrast to the maxim that you can just bumrush straight down the cone if you like, though getting out of the cone is a more productive option and several orders of magnitude easier than with the mg42). On maps with cutoff points you're pretty much screwed as soviets if the germans can camp out at them, while you never have this problem against the soviets as the germans.

Even if you by some magic trick manage to get a conscript squad at full strength behind an MG42 without getting them pinned, the german player doesn't have to worry at all as long as he unpacks fast enough to get out of the initial molotov. They can at their leisure try to pack and realign several times, every time increasing the risk that a straggler from the conscript squad will be in the cone and make the entire squad instapin. At no point during this process is the MG actually at risk of dying because conscript dps is so low and mg survivability relatively high.

Looking at the dps google doc it actually looks like the MG42 even outdamages the maxim at <=33 range, you just don't see that because pin reduces damage taken and the maxim never manages to pin anything. So much for the myth of the magic maxim dps...

I guess if I was working on it, I'd start by removing all suppression bulletins from the game, dropping the swivel back to vCoH speeds, reducing the arc by 10 degrees and see how things go from there. These on top of whatever flanking bonuses they're implementing, that is.

In fact, you can exploit the AT nade timing now. Ostheer T1 and then T2 ASAP, build 222 and rally it into enemy base. Will pop about the same time your MG42 forces the first conscripts back and you can slaughter them at their own HQ with the 222. As soviet you have to build AT nade after 2nd conscript or you're dead.

I don't think a fast scout car is much of an issue as a base assault, atleast compared to the alternative ht rush. A flameht rush can be done in roughly the same time and one takes 3 at nades and a bunch of penetrating hits from conscripts to kill and kills at a pretty different rate than a scout car. If you've screwed up as germans and actually let the soviet player kill something from you they might have guards, but a single guard unit will die to the flameht easy enough, while against scout cars they'd actually force a retreat.

I am not sure on numbers here but SU76 should be ZIS AT gun on wheels with muni free barrage, right? So it is not that bad unit but why would you buid it instead of almighty SU85? It needs some kind of wow factor to convince people to build them.

The SU76 is more like the T34 gun on wheels without the infantry damage and with the ZiS barrage.

Ie. it has T34 level penetration and actually less damage now, and none of the shell aoe, so it can't reliably penetrate anything from the front and doesn't even kill infantry ever.

It's a unit revolving purely around the barrage, which is a good ability when it is free, but expecting it to do anything more than extremely light supportive AT otherwise is a fantasy. Even the SU85 is better at killing infantry thanks to low scatter, and even the T34 is better against tanks from the front (and especially from the back) because of the low gun damage on the 76

Then you consider that for only 30 fuel more you can get a katusha with a *much* better barrage that can hang around safe behind your lines unlike the su76 and you can see how the unit doesn't really have any role which the two other vehicles didn't already do vastly better.

How is increasing the cost of RNade a buff?

How is fixing a broken game mechanic to work properly, a buff?

Increasing the cost isn't, but getting it fixed with only a 5 munition increase is definitely a buff.

The M10 in CoH1 had a blank shot bug that was never fixed. Removing it would've increased the dps of the thing by something like 30%. You don't think this wouldn't have been a buff? Bug fixes are most definitely effectively a nerf or a buff to something as long as the said bug had some effect on battles.

Did they not make the rifle nade more expensive? I don't think everyone has the moment every game where they decided against the rifle nade after using it. I also wouldn't call 25 muns way more. Maybe I am missing the point here? Don't know if it was this patch or the last but the 1v1 balance is too in favour of the germans. (early game)

Yes they increased the cost by 5 munitions. The refund change is pretty big because now germans can constantly try to spam nades and make soviets abandon cover, just like molotovs forced germans except getting hit with a rifle nade is worse and nades actually have range so no need for the molotov suicide run.

Blaming this patch is kinda silly because the game already was pretty far in favor of the germans in the previous one, but this one certainly made that gap a bit wider again.