Soviets should be compensated in other areas when the maxim gets nerfed but things can't stay the way they are right now.
Agreed.
Have you even watched ESL?
Have you scrimmed high level 1s this patch?
Wanna 1v1 my Soviets later and show me all these ez counters that every top player is hoping to find?
I play CoH 2 as well thank you very much. Snipers, mortars, rifle grenades, 222, Luchs, Obersoldaten, incendiary grenades, Flak Halftracks, StuG H, mortar halftrack, Flamer Halftrack, LEIG, MG42 lol. I can't tell if you're joking when you're asking me what counters Maxims.
Look what Luvnest did versus maxim spam.
Maybe why Maxim spam is so good vs. OKW is because the meta is Luchs rush? Those first 7 minutes without vehicles can be quite painful. Maybe if they went for the Flak Halftrack instead and the LEIG, then we'd see a different story. The Maxim counters the current OKW meta.