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CoH1 did not, not before it landed on steam on maintenance mode at least, CoH2 did not for years after release.

who cares, it's 2023 and with two games already behind us (not counting CoH O), this should be a stock feature

Neither me nor you play 1v1, so why does it matter how strong or OP pathfinders are in 1v1.

And this thread is about pathfinders, not AT rifle spam from another player. If a brit teammate has to help out his pathfinder teammate after 4 minutes already, the strat cant be that busted now can it. And that would either mean the USF guy has to go over to the other side or the brit has to send over section(s) that are missing from his side, allowing your axis teammate to cap his whole side

1v1 balance matters regardless of whether you or he plays it

Most annoying fact from Guastatori is the trap. Like automatic Demo.
Bersaglieri is 440mp, and scaling pretty well in every stage (fuck non vet sprint).

guastatori cost 440mp, bersaglieri cost 320mp

DAK's T4 tech is prohibitively expensive

you need to pay 350MP (not the usual 300MP for the other factions) and 130F just to get to a decent panzer 3 (not even a panzer 4), a 40F (too much?) AT gun and a stuka (which is pretty good).

why go for T4 then if you can just stick with T3 and spam light tanks to cover all of your needs? i suspect that the high price of t4 and it's underwhelming selection of units contributes to (but not exclusively accounts for) the rather stale light tank spam meta...

and then you need to pay 200MP and 150F (!!!) to get to armored call-ins, most of which cost a lot of MP to get, as they contain infantry squads most people probably do not want anyway (same applies to the USF EZ8 call-in)

the only solid call-in in terms of price is the one with two stug Gs.

the tiger costs another whopping 700MP and 180F, and even if you somehow manage to get to that stage, the game is probably almost over because of the overly fast VP tick rate.

these super high tech costs are made worse by the fact that DAK is a heavily MP starved faction... compared to the other factions, i find myself struggling with MP bleed all the time - losing an infantry squad like a pgren or an assgren is really crippling, and the armory upgrades (the half of which you actually need) are all MP based.

thoughts?

CoH3 has a lot of issues right now that hurt the player experience.

Tank explosions is not one of them.

well it does hurt my experience, i cannot shake the feeling that what i got with coh3 is a visual downgrade compared to its predecessor, a 10year old game