Profile of elchino7

This game wasn't and never will be competitive. So, if you insist in balancing it for the 100 guys in the top of the ladder, then only those 100 guys will be the ones playing and having fun.

This game is unforgiving and hard to grasp for the average player. Being OKW a terrible faction to play against, specially in teamgames.

Obers and volks+schreck blobs are an issue for most allied players, and personally I hate the stupid survivality that Puma has, making it a pain to destroy one if it's well microed.
I don't care if for high level players the game is well balanced if the number of average players decrease instead.

So what's your solution?
If you balance for the average joe, you are gonna have plenty more abusive things in the game.

I'm not saying Ober shreck blobs, 3v3+ axis predominance or USF late game micro tax are not issues. Just tell me what change has been done which affects the average player and not the top guys. They were gonna put a heavy micro requirement for the ISU152 and the JT and they back it up with the decision.

-3v3+ has been broken since the release of the game. Sometimes more, sometimes less, but always axis favoured.
-Then we have 1v1 and 2v2 which has gone back n forth.

The Puma is a great overall unit, pain in the ass to deal with when microed, but on the same scale such as double sniper with sprint, M20 or even M3 (eventhough less seen nowadays).

Since i see you just play mostly 2v2 Soviets, i'm sorry to tell you that if you have problems with the game, it's mostly your own issues.
The only problem as Soviets is when you try to go for more "hipster" doctrines or you get overconfident on trying to just play with stock units and your opponents manage to comeback.

TA's MP and Fuel reduction is until the unit dies.
Also, When accounting for the hull dps upgrade take into consideration it cannot shoot at aircraft like the turret can.

As i said, i'm not sure if they have fix that "feature".

Regarding the MGs, they might have not update the DPS since the top gunner DPS buff on all tanks.

WTF Strummingbird! Lol so much win XD!

And what happens when one faction is easier to play than other? Are OKW top players equally skill to USF top players?

Little secret: they are the same players.

It's time to put some perspectives. First of all, since i won't dive into the gamefiles, this is just info collected from the differents stats sites which may or may not be updated, experience and memory.

-It's accelerates/decaccelerates faster
-It's hull/turret mg has higher DPS to account for the lack of gunner upgrade. The DPS is basically the same as a Tiger with a gunner.
-Increased sight (specially with bulletins)
-TWP working as Stugs TWP meaning that it doesn't target ground.
-I'm not sure but does it have 160+ hp ?
http://www.coh2-stats.com/vehicles/tiger_ace_sdkfz_181_mp
-25% less MP and 90% less fuel for as long as the TA is alive or 10 mins*
*Someone corroborate this plz.

TA cost: 800mp + 75mp*min + 90% of your fuel income. It hurts if you have map control, it doesn't if you don't have it or if you don't actually have fuel (P4 all day everyday).

On a 50/50 situation, it would have cost you 180-200f.


Why the TA is good:
-You don't have map/fuel control? Don't worry save mp.
-P4 heavy into TA. The moment you call it, you are 260f + 200mp ahead of your opponent (Tank is valued more or less as 1000mp 260f). If you trade inmediatly for example with an IS2 you are ahead.
-Trade P4 1v1 with T34s/Sherman/Jackson and then call TA.
-Use it when the game is ending since there is no drawback when the game won't last 10 more mins.
-CPs after 7-10 are obtained pretty quickly since combat scales pretty fast. 4 more CP than a normal Tiger is not as much. And still, you don't neccesarily want to get it inmediatly.

TL;DR: the unit is "fine", how you get it's not. On 2v2 is bearable since you can focus fire it with your parnter and on higher modes you have plenty of support and resources (fuel) don't matter as much.