Profile of spam.r33k

AOE Profiles

Very similar to the changes made to grenade AOE profiles. Long and mid-range AOE no longer has a chance to miss its target, the weapon profile damage has been averaged out to compensate. Slight adjustments to AOE radius or distance values were made on a number of support teams to better align them with their intended performance.

Jump back to quoted post6 Feb 2014, 18:19 PMCieZ

As far as I've tested (and this has been reported) the second Soviet sniper model is immune to countersniping while inside the M3. It can still die to anything else (mortars/mines/nades) etc etc. I wouldn't really call it an exploit because I don't think anyone knew about it (myself included) until a friend and I extensively tested it, so I don't think anyone was purposely abusing it. Additionally I've ever seen anyone but myself and a couple close friends countersnipe into the M3.

Anyways, a lot of this game is dependent on RNG and it is easy to chalk up mortars to just being "rng" counters to things but you could claim that about a mortar shooting at any squad. Sure there's a small chance that you can go an entire game without your mortar landing a single hit on anything, but it isn't likely. Even a perfect PGren flank could fail to kill both models because... well... "rng." Part of this game is creating situations where rng favors you, and taking advantage of that. The mortar HT (or even a regular mortar) over the course of a game will have a pretty damn good chance of instantly killing the sniper, but even if it doesn't it still puts heavy bleed on guards and the incendiary round is an extremely useful area denial tool.

The 222 is great just to keep the M3 at bay and to force guards to be constantly present. Sure you're probably never going to actually kill the M3 against a good player, but you also shouldn't lose your 222. Guard/Sniper early game is generally something like 1 Sniper, 1-2 Cons, 2-3 Guards - the important thing is that they usually only have 5 infantry squads, even less if they go double or triple sniper. If you force one guard squad to constantly babysit the M3 because of your 222s presence on the field they only have 3 squads (4 if you really want to count CEs as a combat squad mid game) to contest the rest of the map, in which case you should have a larger portion of the map held than the sniper player.

To beat a strat you either have to undermine its strengths, or exploit its weaknesses. The strength of sniper/guard is extreme manpower efficiency since you're almost never directly engaging in infantry combat, and your sniper can put heavy bleed on the German player. I've played sniper/guard/su85 since beta and trust me when I say, if you start losing lots of guards you're going to be *extremely* manpower bled, ultimately making it very difficult to tech or get T34/85s. Consequently the best ways to bleed guards, while avoiding snipers are the German sniper, and mortars/mortar HT.

Alternatively you could exploit the weakness of this strat - map control. You don't want your sniper to be capping, and you always need a squad spotting for the sniper, and you probably won't have PPSh or molotovs which means your Cons will lose to grens, badly, as soon as LMGs/G43s enter the equation. All of this culminates in the fact that if the German player spreads himself out and caps multiple points on the map simultaneously it becomes difficult to hold onto everything, since you'll probably only be winning fights where your sniper is present. Guards with DPs can stand up to vanilla grens, and can beat LMG grens if you land a good grenade but in terms of MP efficiency you'll still probably be on the losing end of the trade.