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Actually, it's pretty applicable. It's clear Relic is taking inspiration for this commander system from free to play MOBA style games, as a way to monetize the game after release.

I also think the MP mode should go free to play with just 3 free commanders, and maybe 1 co-op ToW mission and some better tutorials.

But they kind of have to fix a lot of technical issues before that.

Can the ISU-152 even shoot while moving, or does it have a long aim time?

I just don't think the Wings/Ricky game was all that interesting, it was just a spam fest that reminded me of team games than a skilled 1v1.

Look closer at what the German player did, he basically just spammed Tigers and drove them straight at the enemy, then every now and then clicking a button to pop smoke. Then did that even more once vet 2 ridiculousness came out.

Wings did just build SU-85s, but that was in prep for the tiger he knew was coming, and even that's boring.

Last I checked, vehicle spam of any kind isn't considered a high watermark of play.

But, the cast was still entertaining, so a good one due to the number of vehicles.

Nah, it's most likely a percentages issue. Remember that it fixes up T-34s and SU-85s to full from almost nothing, and those have considerably more HP.

Somewhere there's a misplaced decimal point or something that's causing that last 1% to stay broken. Trick is, finding that bit of code doing it.

Trip flare is fine by itself, but also highlights why making it infantry deployed is problematic.

People don't use trip flares enough because there is already a gobsmackingly large amount of micro needed to play this game.

Humans, despite what the media and society says, are not good multitaskers. In fact, the people who think they're most able to multitask are the ones who are the worst at it.

Most of how you win in CoH games is catching people making mistakes in micro/multitasking. Any ability that adds another thing to multitask tends to be used less because even if it is useful, it adds to the windows of opportunity for your opponent to make his move and really hurt you.

Heck, see anyone ever really use the Riegel half-track mine? It's very powerful, but again, no use because you need a specific unit to place it, then to micro that one thing out of your entire army to to do so, then pay a higher than normal cost.

I purchased the Soviet DLC commanders once it was announced that bigger balance changes were in the works, and actually shown some of them.

I'm cool with the need to get income, and yadda yadda. It's always been about maintaining actual balance of the whole game.

But I'm going to have to say it, while I don't think these new commanders are overpowered (besides bugs and unintentional issues), I do think they they provide a distinctly powerful variety to a player who has them.

Variety meaning they have more tools at hand, meaning they're more likely to have the right tool for the job, even if they can only take 3 commanders at a time into a match.

Variety is a quality of its own, and this shows even more in team games.

As such, I'd like to see some free commanders at some point that have 1 of the unique abilities of these commanders. Basically, it makes 1 of the unique abilities of each DLC commander into something freely usable. However, the remaining ability stays locked behind the pay wall, and of course any similar mixes avoided.

Alternatively, some kind of rotation of these paid DLC commanders into free use, every weekend would do a lot help the community adjust to both their use, and how to fight against them.