Profile of voltardark

MG must be defensive and area denying tool not offensive. Offensive MG it's LMG or guntrack with quads. Main problem with maxim it's that core infantry of SU - conscripts are too weak in comparsion to grens and volks, that was a reason to build only maxim's instead cons. But IMO penals are good, with AT satchels they can fully replace cons as core infantry (it's weird because penals are "elite"), their AI capabilities are pretty solid (without PTRS guns). Also they very good for late game phase where cons absolutely trash. For more aggresive offensive try to use shocks.

Maxim was made to be an offensive weapon.

Shocks are doctrinal are too short ranged.

The maxim change impact too much Soviets.

T2:All the change made where good individually, but has a whole, it remove all the teeth the Sovs had.

The maxim was an offensive weapon, designed to advance and to follow troops (conscripts).
it's why it had small cone of fire, and fast setup.

Having changed that, The Soviets now lack basic offense and attack follow-up.
Their mortars alone aren't good enough to sustain an offensive because it fire to slowly.

Add the toning down of the T-70 and the flack halftrack, sustain offense is now problematic.

T1:
Penals changes are good, but the flamer was the trade off for not building T2 (no mgs), but now again Sovs lost a great offensive weapon, but got better defense.

This also lead to the Katusha being a too great option (Offensive/defensive), now it's way too common.

Now you need T1 + T2 or T2 + and a gards doctrine and both are too slow.

So we need more focus on giving the Sovs a faster offensive.

It's only my opinion.(from a 4vs4 random automatch player...)

Those two game modes are lost anyways, there are structural flaws that will never allow decent balance. The problems are:

1) maps are too large, meaning infantry play usually becomes obsolete at some point, it encourages blobbing and factions with a forward retreat point have a massive advantage in terms of infantry play

2) too many units on the field, which means that it is really hard to keep track of what's happening. With more players/units, unit preservation gets way harder. Also, more units = more cheese.

3) resource income is totally broken, gaining like 50 fuel or 70 ammo per minute leads to spam of tanks (which makes infantry obsolete) and call-in arty/loiters. In those categories the axis usually have an advantage, when one side brings elefants/JTs plus stuka bombs en masse, while the other side has to rely on comet spam and cancer cover.

Imo these points lead to difficulties in balancing those game modes. These modes should be seen "for fun" when you play with friends. I dont understand why people would play those modes on their own, maybe because they like those huge battles of attrition, dont know.

Those are the best formats, it's where the feeling of war is the best. it's also the hardest mode (4vs4 + automatch alone) because you have to cope with all kind of teammates.

It's just that all sides need to have the same tools to fights (some have better tools, some come faster but every one has something for any situations. All of this balanced to be fun.

We are not far from the good balance, just a bit more tuning on the more problematic units (The one being the most used and those that killed too easily without efforts)

Just keep doing the good job at balancing your are doing, til all formats are done.

Some more maps would be fun too.

It's not for everyone, but still those formats are the most popular.

That will keep COH2 alive and kicking !!!

Nerfing the Calliope may be logic and sound, but it's the last good tools the Usa faction have in the largest team format (3v3,4vs4) so the impact on that faction will be meaningful.

Well, chart stabilizing or not, after playing 2521 hours of team format, i can say that the game was more fun then it is now. You can trust me on it.

Recently i watched a lot of matches and the tournament...

Seriously, something has to be done, the team formats feel broken.

Too many mass one shot kill, from arties, mobile arties, brumbars, sturm tigers, stukas, Caliope, Katyusha. They are now too commun and easy to use. Those one don't have really counters, before doing their effects.

You can find a mine/demo combo is you are careful, but it's hard to negate the first shot of a Katyusha or the likes.

Strategy is negated by the use of too common mass destruction units. You don't think, you just click and voila they are all dead. No need to flank anymore...

The return of the blobs with attack ground...

Question : what are the 3 most deadly units in Coh2 (non doctrinal) ?
I mean the one that get the top killer title the most often in a match, from both side.

Oh Relic gods, i beg you to give more scope to the community workers so they can help your game to be great again !