Profile of elchino7

Have you tried working with your teammate? If OKW is bullying you currently in teamgames you're doing something wrong. You say you get rushed by 2x sturms, but where is your teammate with IS, or cons, or rifles. Of course you're going to lose vs 2x charging sturms against an RE and a rifle.

Welp but he is complaining about the first engagement, on which OKW right now have the tools to bully any faction.

When a faction which has the highest mp start to begin with (initial mp unit cost + spare mp), doesn't waste time building early on, starts with the 2nd strongest unit in the game and has the fastest unit follow up (Volk/Kubel), there's not much you can do on the FIRST ENGAGEMENT. That has been one of OKW strongest point since forever with 2 exceptions. Been scared of pushing too forward against a clowncar flamer when they had no snare and UKF release.

Unless the map has a glaring "imba" house or spawn position, you are not supposed to defeat SP rushing you.

its the slowing action on retreat that is stupid.

Then you should preface by saying that any ability interrupting or disrupting the retreat speed besides unit blocking, should be check upon right ?

I don't really understand why everyone is so hostile. I'd say forcing units to retreat is a big enough reward for a 25 munis ability. All other tools that slowed retreats or enabled cheesy wipes on retreat have been removed

And this is the correct answer. Because OP mention a specific ability for a certain faction, instead of talking about the mechanic as a whole. Another example would be heavy snow.

Buff the damage or let it kill models, but the movement penalty on retreating units should be removed.

The thing is, is it possible? Mind you that we had barb wire fields on beta and they were removed cause they would be cheesy to use in retreat paths.

Then let's nerf Vickers into ground for some suppression? I am in! ;D

Careful what you wish for. Also not sure (not) why you keep mentioning MG34 and Maxims, when there is a perfect T0 MG which could be mirrored to and be even more "OP" than now.

After so many iterations, i think it's in a fine spot, specially after nerfing the extended range and giving it suppression at vet 2.

ELO: your hidden skill measurement. Whether the variation is big or small, depends on the disparity on the ELO between the players.

Rank: for people who had been active on the last month, based on the ELO of the player in that specific team/individual, faction and mode.

Decay: "supposedly" if you are inactive, your ELO slowly starts to go down. Couldn't find too much with the exception of this quote from 2013:

I've asked for information and have a bit to share with you.

We're going to be fine tuning this over the upcoming weeks until we settle on something that we're fully happy with. This was something that you guys have been asking for for awhile and the balance team and myself were pushing for, so I'm glad to see it get into today's patch.

Basically if you haven't played for X days (currently set to a week) then we decrement the top 200 rated players per leaderboard by (rating - 1000)*Y where the current value for Y is set at 4%.

The mathless version is that if you don't play for a week you'll start to drop in rank bit by bit until you either play again, or you drop out of the top 200.

Again these values may be adjusted, so your feedback on how it's working is important.

Now for real ladder experience:
1-decay is imperceptible. Last year, i was inactive with a partner for like 6-12 months, lost my first returning game and i think i gained ranks. Which means that either decay is ineffective or that most top ELO players were inactive.
2- You can be top 200 easily with some few wins in your first placements.
3- You can also climb by sheer volume of games played. If you can maintain a 55/65% WR despite who you are facing, you'll eventually climb and surpass "more skillful" players.
4- Anything bigger than 2v2 random, is meaningless. There's such a huge variance and you are mostly gonna be facing teams, that just take it with a grain of salt and accept the YOLO.

The USF BAR, OST G43 and OKW STG are the only weapon upgrades I can think of which are absolute improvements: the other weapon upgrades make the squad worse in some respect. LMG upgrades make squads trash close up and don't fire on the move, SMG upgrades make squads trash at range.

Slight corrections + additions.

ARs/SMGs also have focus fire false which tend to deal some damage on miss rolls. You were missing also the IR STG which beats the best long range bolt action rifle (Obers) at practically every range plus having better stats against garrison/cover.
Might as well mention here the Thompson for either Ranger/Paras. You already don't want them fighting at 30 range, so the dmg drop off after upgrading is meaningless.

The concept of LMG been trash at close range is practically false. Unless the enemy unit is able to dance around you forcing the LMG model to spin around, the damage difference is negligible and almost only applying to a small range. While you lose "chasing capabilities", the moment you have an upgrade weapon, you are better doing an attack move order and staying still.
The only squads this DPS disparity might be appreciable are with Paratroopers and Commandos, with Commandos been the only one with a drawback IMO.

Even SMG which have a bigger drop off effect, they are absolutely "no brainers" as the alternative is not much better as oppose to the benefits added. Even the Volks Mp40 upgrade which makes you lose far range dps and lava nades, gives you way better close range dps, smoke/frag nades and better RA.


The only choices which have a really repercussion are either thinking Commandos with Brens is a better investment than putting them on any other squad and upgrading units with AT packages.