Profile of elchino7

It sometimes happens for no apparent reason.
However you can't watch replays from before patch without them bugging out completely.

You can only in cases that any changes applied on a patch didn't change anything at all for the replay.

% of players searching is irrelevant, i promise you no matter how nerfed axis are they will always be popular.

First part is correct, second part isn't. OKW and UKF releases begs to differ.

OP, i think in general, that if a big change goes unnoticed (gren vet change for ex.) that it might been a right move all along.

I thought the volks change happend before the penals. The maxim nerf in its golden days revaeled maxims kept stg volks in check.

But i could be wrong about the time when penals got changed.

Broken faction design from day 1 which up to this day we are still trying to fix.
-Volks didn't force Penals to change. Penals were bad since after we left release of the game basically. Whether we like it or not, the whole Soviet/Easter front design of teching and building vs just unlocking tech which came with new factions, forced the status quo we have now.

-Current Volks situation is a compound problem.
OKW didn't get access to support weapons (mg34 doctrinal and ISG even more crappier than now against buildings but insane at sniping models) and struggled against garrison. They even had reduced munition income which made use of nades more restrictive.
While FHT was great at those times, by the nature of the unit it wouldn't be as good as today P2 (which was on the latest tier) against maxim spam.
Volks schreck was decent AI and let the unit vet easily. Volks blob kept vehicles in checked (even without snares) while late game vehicles sealed the deal for OKW. Basically it was a race on whether you hold ground and win late game or you were rushed down early on.

1- Volks are given a lava nade, because normal nade doesn't dislodge buildings. Stuka is too restrictive and hit or miss for the job.
2- Rewind Rework time. 100% resource OKW steamrolling on the first days.
3- Volks get their schreck removed. They are given a faust + STG upgrade. This made Conscript obsolete against them (even more than before). They are still screwed against maxim spam, even with whole rework,
with STG + lava nade and access to faster P2.

At this point is on which Penals get reworked into Penals OP with flamethrower.

Volks are the way they are because:
1- We are trying to balance 5 factions in an assymetrical game.
2- Only OH get's access in a timely fashion to units and tools to deal with any problem. Other factions are limited by field presence, tools and time and resources to acquire those. This means they will actually have to brute force it in some or other way.

This makes balancing grens far easier than Volks who have to "heavy lift" and be able to tackle down, Conscripts, Penals, Maxims, Rifles and IS.

I like the concept behind this idea, i would just make slight changes to it.

T1 Truck:
-Medic doesn't come for free. They cost 60 munition (equal to both OH/UKF bunker medic).

For the rest i agree.

T2:

If there are teching upgrades as with USF, T2 cost can be brought to be equal as T1. My only concern is how fast a Puma might arrive into the field when the fuel cost of the tier is brought down by 20f.

For consistency and simplicity sake, i think that a single upgrade for unlocking both P2 and Stuka should be made. Engineers are kept the same as now. Instead, if this kind of rework is possible, i would rather the Stuka be changed to work as a mortar HT with barrage only (flame kind) for the mid game and the HE shells be unlocked once the T3 is setup and some level of teching been unlocked. Then you could just upgrade the Stuka for a similar total cost as other rocket artillery.

T3:

Same as before.

Make the tier slightly more expensive than now and the upgrade slightly cheaper. Let the Obers, weapon upgrades and JPIV arrive with first stage. Some doctrinal vehicles at this stage as well.

IMO try to keep it a bit more simple. I also agree that the upgrades should not be lost, specially if you make the Schwerer slightly more expensive base instead of the teching upg.

OKW: they still have flak bunkers as part of their base HQ defense layout.

USF: on top of having a really stupid (gameplay wise) base layout, they have for some reason MG bunkers on it which only works on certain maps depending orientation.