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Speaking from soviet experience post patch, it is quite difficult to deal with vetted FSJ.

Their above average-great performance at all ranges coupled with stealth makes it very hard to engage at your units optimum range, and the only generalist all range infantry soviets have are penals which die alarmingly fast to FSJ (due to poor RA vet) although I dont consider this to necessarily be an issue.

I'm not the greatest player but my 1v1 soviet rank has been tanking due in no small part to difficulty countering FSJs.

Maybe it's a learn to play issue, but it feels to me like they are too strong and-and not just a little, factoring in vet.

5 man grens are extremely powerful especially with the new DR buff... your proposal will break the game...


And newsflash 5 man grens come earlier than 7 man cons despite having relatively more firepower (the g43 crit)

Since when did the grens get the "g43" crit with the 5 man package? I thought it was just a standard G43.

Yes but the KV-2 had a messed up reload mechanism to being with...although 2 separate weapons they used to have the same reload and one used to get a bonus when in firing indirect.

Current reload values for KV-2 are:
direct 9-9
indirect 0.75*(10-12)= 7.5-9

Odd that wasnt normalized to flat 9 like they wanted it to be. But if that is indeed the case then it should be patched as it is not working as intended.

When i was working with numerical veterancy, i‘ve asked Harold for some stats, and KV-2 as well. He said, that now reloading in and out of siege is mainly the same, because it is two different guns and reload for them set separately. Now difference in reload time is about 0.25 sec or so iirc.

I may be wrong, but i am realy sure in what i am talking about

If they are in fact as you stated two separate guns and thus have two separate stats. First, I'm puzzled why there is an arbitrary .25 second faster reload in siege mode at all. Why wouldnt it be absolutely identical.
Second, if that is essentially the same implementation as pre"change" kv2, the stats were clearly changed with the patch but not done to mirror the desired changes. This is rather odd.
Third, if indeed this is the case then it's something that could and should be hot fixed.

And even if the siege mode does lack the reload bonus it still has the range bonus and coupled with the standard mode buffs, the vehicle still stands on it's own with 300 armor, 50 range, 1200hp, 240 damage per shot with deflection 50% damage(at vet 3).

Easly replace the 30% turret rotation with a reload buff at vet 3 (hold the title of being the last tank in the game wit hjout a reload buff with vet). But yeah it's just that, at vet 3 the kv2 is just really disappointing as it dosnt really feel like it hasn't really improved since getting it.

I mean whould you prefer to fight a vet 3 is2, isu or kv2?

KV2 is more flexible than ISU and better at defensive play than IS2. In exchange it loses some though not all of the tankiness of the IS2 and the range of the ISU.

The real advantage is that the KV2 synergized especially well with something like the su85 with focus forward.
Defensively the su85 spots and the kv2 bombards. Offensively the kv2 tanks and su85 plays long range support. This flexibility is something neither the IS2 nor the ISU have and it happens to be in a very decent commander as well- urban defense.

Early game urban defense allows for flexible callins to support whatever style you choose. Call the m42 if you are having vehicle issues, call in shocks if you want to push the infantry issue. As a result of this, both tier 1 and tier 2 become viable. Tier 2, stall until shocks using multiple engineers. Tier 1, grab an m42 and skip ptrs on your peniles.


Edit: I also dont know where this idea that siege mode doesnt reduce reload time anymore came from. It does, it just reduces it by 25% now instead of 50% like it used to.
I also disagree that the turret traverse and hp bonus are not good veterancy bonuses. The HP bonus results in a vehicle that is even more durable than a tiger and the traverse buff makes it that much harder to flank- an issue of the stock kv2 if you've used it before.