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I did not even mention the fact that when you are making a map and rotate the pizza so the gun racks are in front, you run the risk of having 1 or more of the 4 entrances become unusable.

Or times in multiplayer where units in the base next to the USF pizza walk thru the center of the pizza to get to where they are going.

Relic should just talk to me before they do anything.

I would be like "Nah Bro. Nah. Just no. But, you know seriously.... no."

They should have just made the base like this. Everyone would have loved it over the current shit that it is now. I would have even taken a Soviet/Whermacht style approach over this version even if it meant getting rid of the weapon racks.

COH 3 is using the same Engine as COH1/COH2. Would be nice if COH3 had an engine like Ashes of the Singularity.

End game vetted 720mp 270 fuel unit with a doctrinal upgrade can see as far as a 280mp tier 0 doctrinal 0cp unit, fair comparison

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Base Unit Vision is 35 for the King Tiger. Spearhead Vet 1 brings the Vision up to 52 Vision. This is without any Doctrinal Upgrade. Rather than give a flat vision amount Spearhead gives 50% increase in vision.


Panzer Commander gives a flat increase in vision increase of +10 which increases the base amount that the Spearhead Vision Multiplier works on which puts the King Tiger at roughly 68 Vision (Game tends to round up in some instances when decimals are used.)


Using this combo I regularly get a King Tiger to Vet 5 since you have to be fairly retarded to lose your King Tiger when you can visually see almost half the map.

JP4s don't get a tank commander upgrade, so the only 60 range tank destroyer they have can't actually be upgraded. So whoopdeefuckin' do?

Company of Heroes 2 is a game about Combined Arms. King Tiger with Spearhead has more vision than Pathfinder does and a game breaking 68 vision with Panzer Commander which allows the King Tiger to be the ultimate spotting unit that can't be taken out easily allowing your JP4 to always attack max range. Factor in Heat Shells and you have a combo which is almost unbeatable but Jackson having Pioneer vision is too good for the unit but not good enough for Axis apparently.

You know what's funny?

16 may 2018


Only to then give an even better ability to OKW 6 months later

20 Novembre 2018

They also gutted T-70 Vision as well. One of the reasons why Soviets are as good as they are now is because the SU-85 is able to make safe trades from Max Range using the Sight Bonus.



Vision is far more crucial to winning end game engagements which is why you see the rise of Pathfinder spam because it is literally the only viable (Keyword is viable for those who want to point out M20) unit that USF has available or are we expecting every USF player to get a Stuart and have it tickle the enemy for 15 minutes just to get Vet 1 to have the same vision as Pioneer.

There are no high winrates for USF. They are pretty much 50%, slightly better in 1v1 and slightly worse in 4v4.

We get ~50% WR while seeing heavily scewed commander selection, either for airborne only or a triad of commanders, depending on the mode. I've made those points in the previous post, so I won't repeat them again.
It is no proof, but indication that the core faction is not sufficient for competitive play.

Therefore, saying that USF generally does not struggle might be dismissive of what actually happens, because the win rates on which the argument is based are biased.

This has been a long standing issue for both USF and UKF. Lacking core units at the right timing always makes you rely on doctrines to fill gaps. OKW had similar issues, but they have been relieved for example back when they got the MG stock and more recently with easier access to medics. USF still has some core issues that are not as easy to forgo, that's why we're seeing the current commander selection.


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Agreed 10,000%


The issue with USF is that in order to do well you have to be a COH2 Micro God basically. Which for me personally isn't an issue since I have been playing RTS games since Command and Conquer and it is the main genre of game that I play wether it be Starcraft, Age of Empires or COH.



When I played Axis throughout COH2s history wether it was dealing with Sniper Clown Cars (Snipers could garrison within the Soviet Scout Car and shoot from inside of it) or when Rifleman had Smoke Grenades with double LMG upgrades, or even UKF Section spam at its height it never posed an issue for me because I always had tools to adapt to the situation wether it be Whermacht or OKW and part of the success was analyzing what the enemy player would go and picking the proper commanders to deal with the situation.


At one point USF had a similar level of accessibility to Axis factions back when they had smoke grenades. Accessibility was removed from USF forcing you to use Sub-Par Rear Echeclon, Riflemen, and or mortars in coordinated efforts just to bypass MG42 which has been overperforming for years now especially with its Vet 1 ability and how it can almost instant delete vehicles without a chance of reacting (UC for example). Combine that with lane maps (which our shit-tastic balance team also brought us) and you have the current situation we have now.

It is not that Pathfinders are good (Rifleman are way better) its that Pathfinders are more accessible. You don't need to worry about coordinating different units, timing your grenades well, timing your smoke, you just Attack Move basically because it is easy to do and pull off and allows people who aren't as good to crutch on Pathfinders.

Also another thing to point out is that Rifleman are not good at long range which forces you to always be in Medium/Close Range. Imagine if OKW could only use Sturmpioneers. Sturmpio's are a good unit but they need to be at their ideal range to be worth while. Then you had to flank Maxim/Vicker Spam with only Sturmpioneers and that basically explains how it is to play USF Riflemen.

Now since USF is heavily based on flanking for Riflemen play it would make sense if they had some way to scout out these MG's that they are suppossed to flank yet they have more vision (due to Pioneers have extra sight) so they can always see you first before you can see them giving them extra time to adjust to your flank.


USF's core faction is in need of dire buffs. One simple solution would be for Riflemen to get extra sight (42 vision like Pioneers) when getting the grenade upgrade. Then we can nerf Pathfinders down to 42 vision as well (it can go back to 50 with Veterancy). This would be the best option for both USF and Whermacht.

I haven't make priority vehicle for infantry so i don't know whether if the ability from vehicle work on infantry or not.

It will work for infantry but you have to add it for every AT weapon. For Example, Bazooka, Piat, Panzershreck etc because infantry can pick up these weapons.