Profile of The Blackfish

Provide a screenshot, replay or broadcast of a rifle nade taking out an entire soviet squad in one shot. Also the squad cannot be stacked x6 men on top of each other, nor be in a building.

I have got some really nasty rifle grenade shots off, its usually much much worse when your opponent is in no/red cover, or backing off. In my opinion, a lot of the time, its much better to stay in cover and just accept the rifle grenade if you can't avoid it, backing off across flat ground usually makes it worse, but like I said, they're not consistent.

The soviet frag grenade is usually much worse, less telegraphed and harder to avoid in my opinion, and I have lost whole squads, sometimes multiple squads from one well placed grenade. I will try and find evidence, but I'm not complaining about them or saying they should be changed, I think they can both be deadly when used properly.

That is exactly right!! The one thing that was the conerstone of the Russian attack and defence, was the Conscripts!!

Now, micro skills dont even matter for Russian players.. You can control the whole map and by mid/late game its GG regardless of what units or combination of units you put on the field.. German win with AC/Shrek spam..

They may well have been the backbone of the soviet faction but they most definitely aren't the only units available to you playing as the soviets in this game.

What would GREATLY help Soviet play is a less retarded vehicle AI. I can't emphazise enough how a unit doing what you tell it to do would improve Soviet gameplay.

I think this applies to both German and Soviet, the AI is still rather stupid, I've had loads of retarded retreats which end up with squads getting stuck, and telling tanks to reverse and all they do is turn around on the spot for five minutes before getting a rocket up the arse.

I really don't think there's anything wrong with rifle grenades though, no more so than the soviets grenades, I've had two whole squads of Panzergrenadiers killed in one grenade, whereas I'm lucky to kill a two man sniper squad with a rifle grenade now, they do get some nasty hits but not consistently, sometimes a rifle grenade does almost fuck all.

You can win as much as you want vs germans early-mid, they'll still just own you in the late game. I am done with this game until the next patch arrives.

That's kind of always been the point hasn't it? German armor was more powerful back then, and has always been powerful late game, just like in COH 1. As Americans, you couldn't allow the Germans to gain fuel or you'd suffer late game.

Still doesn't explain why the majority of soviet players think they should be able to win purely with conscript spam, I mean really, what the fuck?

Rather than trying to spam infantry, try using a balanced army and apply some strategy and tactics.

The infantry is totally broken even in green cover. I used to be able to handle anything the German player had just with my conscripts

That says it all my friend, if you could defeat everything a german player has with conscripts, that just shows you how imbalanced the game was. Before this patch the soviets seemed more powerful in every area possible, both infantry and armor, tigers and panthers may as well have been taken out of the game completely they were so bad. It hasn't been worth playing as germans since the last patch, a ball of conscripts could run around the map and destroy everything with ease.

I'm not sure exactly why this patch seems so much better, because in the notes nothing major has been changed, but it does seem to have improved the game somewhat and made things more balanced.

I'll agree on one thing though, the scout car does gain veterancy too quick, but I think it should as it never stays alive that long, and a hard counter to the soviet clown car spam is much needed. Also, before this patch you couldn't do much scouting with it because it was so weak, should be quicker and have a longer sight range if you ask me, after all, it is a scout unit. In COH 1 the scout vehicles were very weak but very quick, you could scout forward positions and get out of harms way in a jiffy, now in COH 2, not so much. It only takes a single grenade to kill the scout car, whereas the clown car will take 2 panzerfausts. Because of the truesight system, scout units should be valueable, but as soon as mid game approaches, they're all useless, all scout units should get a buff in speed and sight range and be less effective against infantry.

I really don't see what the fuss is about, we can clearly see from the patch notes that nothing major has been changed, its definitely not the worst patch in history that's for sure, but maybe the previous patch was, I almost gave up playing the game after the last one, could barely win a game as germans.

Just my 2p.

Peace.