Profile of Kurobane

The best thing to do honestly would be to combine the tools, both .50 and AT gun should fall under t0 and unlock once you get either the LT/CPT building upgrade.

If that need some sort of fuel cost increase so be it, either way the lack of tools and the slow tech of USF is rly a kicker.

A side issue of USF is simply the late game bleed, I've suggest an MP cost reduction to reinforce once major is hit to avoid the 4 year old riflemen vet 3 33% received accuracy modifier community complaint.

I agree.

It would be a nice idea, if USF lategame AI didn't keep getting nerfed when it is working right.

Even when USF first launched, before all of the nerfs took place playing as Axis USF were always the easiest Allied faction to deal with and the win rates were fairly even.

After all the nerfs that took place due to the balance team and their infinite wisdom, USF is basically easy mode for AXIS and the only reason any Axis player would lose is because the USF player happened to be significantly better not because the factions were balanced.


Almost every single USF unit was hit with nerfs.
Ambulance
Rear Echelon (even volley fire was nerfed)
Rifleman
Rangers
USF Mortar
WC51 Military Truck
M2HB Heavy Machine Gun
M20 Utility Car
M5A1 "Stuart" Light Tank
M1A1 75mm Pack Howitzer
M8 "Scott" Howitzer Motor Carriage
Calliope
Pershing



Besides the AT Gun, AA Halftrack and Sherman almost every single thing USF has has been nerfed, some units outright gutted into oblivion. USF is the most nerfed faction in the history of COH 2. Seems like balance team wants USF to make Rifles and only that so they continue to spam MG-42's and they can have fun playing a tower defense game.

I don't think USF needs any more buff to the rifle.

It would be nice if the Stuart was on par with the T-70 like it used to be before it was gutted. USF has so many vehicles that are a waste of fuel and don't serve a role or purpose.



USF Mortar - Lets give USF something to make besides Rifleman since Rear Echelon are useless...USF players make mortars making use of combined arms but mortar actually does damage ends up getting nerfed so that it can only tickle enemies while they laugh and sit under constant barrage never losing a model.

M20 used to be a good shock unit but it inconvenienced Whermacht because apparently making a SdKfz 222 Armored Car or gasp using mines was too difficult so it got nerfed.

Stuart got nerfed because it threatened OKW blobs and making 2 raketenwerfers was too difficult so instead lets gut the unit so OKW blobs can run free without opposition.

Great we can still use Pak Howitzers so it will be fine then that gets nerfed afterwards.


Ah yes now USF has to use M8 Scotts now that Mortars, Pak Howitzers, M20 and Stuart has been nerfed to deal with infinite Axis blobs and team weapons, lets nerf that too.

USF - "We still have Calliope though!" and wait here it comes...Calliope Nerfs...

The only thing the balance team has succeeded in is nerfing USF into the ground with their endless crusade of nerfs.


I find it rather appalling that a faction missing out on so many tools (Non Doctrinal Mines, Non Doctrinal Artillery, No Sniper, Lack of Good Sight Options without getting PathFinders for example) has nothing special. M20 is trash, Stuart is trash, M8 Scott is trash.

The only thing that really keeps USF in team games is the ambulance.

They are fine imo.

People who want them nerfed are mostly people who are incapable of using them themselves.

Balance Team mainly plays as Axis. They have been trying to turn the game into a Tower Defense for the MG-42 and have nerfed everything that threatens their tower defense meta. 120MM, Pak Howitzer, M8 Scott, Calliope, Brit Mortar Pit, Land Mattress. You name it if its on Allies side it has been nerfed over the years and now they are nerfing snipers so that OKW can just run freely and the tower defense meta is cemented on the shite maps that they themselves created for us to play on.

Meanwhile every patch Axis get some form of Broken BS (SturmTiger, JLI, Sector Assault, Fallshirmjaeger, invisible grenadier rifle grenades from Ambush Camo..etc)

If snipers qualify as "gameplay elements" of the franchise, then every faction should get them. Stock

Agreed, each faction should have the same access to similar tools. Mortar, Sniper, Artillery, 60 range tanks.

Lofty idea but far more punishing against smaller squads

On the contrary smaller squads tend to get wiped by grenades more often than larger squads. Can't remember the last time I had a conscript squad deleted outright by a grenade where as it happens quite frequently with Grenadiers.

An instance that would have wiped your squad would have been avoided so this buffs smaller squads more than it would with larger squads.

Also to clarify a 2-3 model cap doesn't mean the rest take no damage, it just means squad members killed would be capped.

It's called wehrabooism. Mentality of such people is non-negotiable and therefore, any attempt at reasoning should be met with extreme caution, as engaging with infected individuals can lead to the loss of brain cells (due to cell suicide), time and patience. You have been warned

Agreed. Seems like a Pandemic that is holding the game back from reaching its full potential. Its like American Politics, people rather root for their team (Democrats/Republicans) than do what's best for the country. In this case we have faction warriors that could care less about balance as long as their side is better.

Dunno what you're remembering but the Scott wrecked some shit before it was nerfed. It was borderline op.

You mean an Allied unit was actually effective at the role it was designed to do (shocker since every effective Allied Unit gets crippled into the ground). How is that any different from Brumbar deleting squads and deleting the entire USF roster (Including AT Guns which the Brumbar can face tank no issue) minus Sherman/Jackson. Please take off the Bias Goggles.

Ask yourself why is it ok for one faction to have the ability to delete units but it becomes a huge problem if another faction can do it? Especially when that faction has significantly less commander options, unit options and stock options and sight options in its arsenal.

And people wonder how we got to this point where Axis have almost 60% win rate. If I wanted to play a Tower Defense game then I would hop on Warcraft 3/Dota 2 Custom Maps or by one of the many Tower Defense games on steam. It seems like Axis players want to make only MGs while USF spam hordes of Rifleman. While Tower Defense games can be fun, I want to play Company of Heroes not a Tower Defense Game which is currently how the game is heading towards with all these nerfs every single patch to indirect fire units.


The fact that the Balance Team even thought the current SturmTiger was ok to be released in its current state makes me question their competency and if I will even bother buying COH 3, especially if they will be continuing to work on Balance for COH 3.

Patch after Patch since they started we have had to deal with Game Breaking Axis nonsense Such as Sector Assault that deleted entire Armies, JLI and Fallshirmjaegers which could delete anything and ignored cover, and SturmTiger yet very rarely if ever is something on Allies made into such a state (B4 being the exception).

Look at how meager the Easy 8 is. I am sure if it was an OKW unit though the Easy 8 would have been Panther level strength while costing as much as a Stug and moving at Mach-3 speeds across the map but because its USF they get Mediocre Sub-Par Things.

I am not asking for the M8 Scott to be broken like many other things the balance team has broken the game with I just want balance and better faction design. They remade USF into the feces it is now so now they need to fix it. The M8 Scott sucks Donkey Meat anyone who has said otherwise either hasn't played USF against good enemies or are simply trolling. I would like to see it come to the equal
level of Panzerwerfer/Stuka/Katyusha. Not a unreasonable request. Let USF Delete Squads like almost every faction in the game can Stock so that we can pick something besides Calliope every game.