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Also, rather than main gun destroy at 25%, i would rather have more interesting thins like main gun locked or different injured crews which still affect the performance of the vehicle without outright killing them.

So i would had those lesser crits re introduced and appear at say 35% HP and the heavier ones (engine dmg/main gun destroy) appear at a lower HP of around 10%/15%

Yeah I love this idea. Tier 1 has always been a cheesy risk/reward tier because of lack of support weapons, especially AT guns. If M3 wasn't available at the very start of game like it is now, it could get a lot of buffs without being too cheesy and OP.

It's not that cheese is bad, but most of the COH playerbase are lactose intolerant. The cheese was removed and now you have a tier which lacks the punch but has all the risks still attached to them.

That would mean meds would be completely exempt from them unless faced specifically infantry AT.

As it should be.
Or when they are not fully repaired.
Or hit by other soft units/abilities outside of 160dmg tank/AT guns.

Give release COH2 Penals with flamer and 6 G43 like Rifles. You can't powercreep if you "nerf" them back to what they originally were.

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Power Creep
When first Patched Penal completely dominated the meta and continued to do so for years which is unhealthy for the game. As result conscripts received a number of buff so that they now dominate the meta. The change in Ostheer that made Ostruppen more viable was the "coup de grace" since although they could keep up against the Penal they could simply out cap the.

Now there a number of planned buff on Penals. In sort penal dominate meta, so conscripts are buffed, conscripts are dominating the meta so Penals are buffed. This is vicious circle of power creep in purest form and it should simply stop.

Small correction. Power creep was necessary due to how strong were all new released factions.

OH received buffs to be able to account for USF release.
SU required buffs in some units in order to account for OKW and OKW post rework. Specially when the strong SU units were been nerfed/removed from the game (2x sprinting snipers and maxim spam).

Conscripts didn't received buffs due to Penals suddenly replacing them. They required buffs in the same way OH needed their MG42 buffed and moved to T0.

Conscripts were fine as long as the faction had overwhelming number of wiping tools outside of their infantry. Hint: they were nerf/removed from the game.

Identity issues

Does anyone really know what Penal are supposed to be?

If T1 has issue penals simply can not be the solution to all of them.

Can we pls adress the elephant in the room and redesign the Penal giving them a specific role to fill and create a strategy around T1 and stop with the baindaids?

I agree with this. With the exception been that the elephant in the room is the whole tier 1 and not Penals.
But the mod balance team has cornered themselves when adjusting the tier and what has been given to other factions.

Snipers were nerfed from having sprint + double man squad and they are receiving further nerfs on this patch. Don't expect anything extraordinary to happen here, specially when a lot of people hate playing against them.

M3A1: the unit was niche to dead against OH pre rework and useless post rework. Unit was good pre OKW rework and niche post rework. Useless post PF rework and T1/Flak HT buffs.

Good changes overall but i don't think they are enough to account for the T70 nerf (1v1) and ram nerfs (teamgames).

All these new Soviet changes look amazing! I'm confused about the change to Mobilise Reserves though. It is now unlocked when you buy the Tier 4 building and not when it finishes construction? My concern is that even before it's never worthwhile spending the cash to get it in Tier 3 when it unlocks for free when you get Tier 4. If that's the case then it's even more of a no-brainer to just build tier 4 instead of unlocking it at tier 3. Making the tier 3 upgrade cheaper would have been an interesting alternative.

It would make more sense if the total or part of the cost of the upgrade is discounted from the T4 building. Cause you can't survive with just staying at T3 when call ins still require T4. I agree and don't expect people upgrading at T3.

Not really. In the WC2019 out of 35 T-34/76 ram was used 5 times in 2 games.

I think ram plays a more vital role on teamgames than in 1v1. On 1v1 you have enough space where you can still bully single infantry units way into the late game as well as outmaneuver vehicles to account for the lack of AT performance on the unit.

You have to take into account that ram on itself is not a good ability as it requires another unit/ability to synergy with.

IL2 bombing strike is not used on 1v1 and Airborne tactics saw a single game been used.