Profile of elchino7

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Soviet old tech system was barely holding all together due to infinite no tech requirement vehicle call ins.

Once people started to optimize gameplay, they basically remove the weak link which was teching and they basically skipped going for tech which resulted in either KV8 into IS2s or 2x T85s.


Yes, initial T3 with weak T3476 worked due to how broken ram was. Same with Su85 with turbo reverse and main cannon machine gun. IF you go for an army with limited options, then those options were broken. Maxim spam and precision strike mortars. Or double man squad sprinting snipers inside a clowncar.

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The problem is that the game was not designed from it's core as a team game based RTS. It allows to be played in that way, some balance aspects take into consideration team game things, but there's so much you can do with what you have.

Outside of really specific moments in the game life, the main problem for teamgames (3v3+) has always been unit volume, maps and match making.

As far as popularity, i think in order it was 4v4/2v2 > 1v1 > 3v3.

In regards to how balance should be done, EVERY COMPETITIVE PVP game goes from top to bottom. There's a difference between balancing for your best players and down the line and completely ignoring the noobs input. What "bad" players needs is not balance changes, rather than QOL and ease of use patches which makes their experience with the game better. What you aim for is making the game "easier" while not lowering down the ceil floor.

Ex: Reverse hotkey, compared to how it required to be done in vCOH1. Some things that could be done for COH3 could be auto reinforce toggle on/off in base.

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While i might not agree with the execution of all balance changes i understand they have to be pragmatic at some point.

Also, you are confused about some points, cause there are plenty of changes which were done by Relic on it's own way before community balance driven changes were a thing.

"As a game designer, I cannot help but to say that some things can and should be OP for the sake of fun-ness and interesting play, as long as there is a counter."

The problem is that there was no counter and the way factions were released lead to one dimensional style of play while disrupting all game experience in wildly different extremes.

We don't need 80%/90% WR factions killing specific game modes. USF in 1v1 and OKW/UKF in teamgames.

USF needed to get Rifles power budget reduced in order to make doctrinal infantry usable and allow the faction to get access and balance in the support weapon department.

OKW was far out of been an "aggressive faction" outside of the first 5 to 10 mins of the game. They had vCoH levels of turtling and Simcity for the mid to late game due to their lack of vehicle access.

They don't, because they can't run through their own smoke because it's WP. MP40 Volks and Shocks have shared cooldowns so they can't smoke HMGs and immediately kill them with a grenade. If the LT can, that's an oversight that should be fixed in my opinion.

I thought in case of Shocktroops, it was a case of an unfixable bug.

"Due to a programming level bug with Shock Troop grenade cooldowns, a shared cooldown has been reinstated."

Honestly I think the main reason the SU-76 isnt used more is that Soviets "need" to get a T-70 (Due to it being a "necessary" spike, and how overtuned the T-70 is). Their strange balance generally precludes getting a 76, or really most other vehicles (other than the Scout car occasionally) before the t-70, and after that point you're often better served going for heavier gear.

The 76 has decent pen, accuracy, and DPS, and good range, and a very strong ability, especially considering its cost. It just doesn't really fit into a build.

The problem is that it comes to late to hard counter light vehicles (compared to either 222 or Puma) and the T70 does fine in combination with a Zis gun for that period of time.

What you are left off as it's niche, is a counter to either a weird heavy Ostwind rush spam or say if the Hetzer ever becomes meta n rushable. Which the first can still fail to hold the ground due to crap mobility.

The 120/140 dmg per shots also makes for weird damage thresholds for anything that doesn't have less than 400HP.

Overnerfed (due to ambulance cheese) and badly implemented at the end of the day.

From an older post:

There's several problems with how it was implemented.


1- You can not salvage abandoned units. This includes vehicles. Therefore you will never get resources out of MGs or Mortars.

2- Teamweapons such as AT guns do leave a wreck, therefore you can salvage them. They give small amount of fuel/muni.
ISG/Pack Howie gives mp.

3- You can't salvage certain bigger support weapons.
You can do so with Soviet Howitzer, but not with B4.
You can't with LeFH, but you can with Pak43 (both OKW and OH).

4- Values were normalised, but you will never get those values out of it. All wrecks start with 50% HP when a unit is killed.

5- While the LeFH is not able to be harvested, it's the one the exception at been at full health.

If possible i would start by making all wrecks start at 100% HP.