Are those Urban Assault Grenadiers in the bottom left of the picture, they have 2 flamers, and Panzer Grenadier models?
Yeah it is, if you zoom in you can see their MP 40's, which confirms they're not just Panzergrenadiers who happened to find Flamethrowers. |
must be a bug or glitch u might want to inform relic
It's intended. What are the odds they'd actually leave a tank-wide path leading up to a road? |
lol i h8 rolling the RNG dice when i use the M36 against something bigger than a panzer IV
He said increase penetration. |
I wonder how the Hetzer is going to differ from the Jagdpanzer. |
I'm pretty sure he's saying they spawned at that point, but maybe he meant they spawned at the normal one and took the path that is off the map to get to the other entrance.
Nah check the second screenshot. The unit is clearing coming around the corner. Then look at the minimap, they're heading away from the spawn point which is where they spawned. They simply took a different off-route map because he changed their destination. |
I really hope after the British that the next patch focuses on at least narrowing he scope for ridiculous RNG game farts where healthy units are just immediately wiped out by, say, a pak shot as the come round a corner or of a wall. I really find this to be the most jarring part of the game now and when it happens in a really close game it's such a kick in he nads...
Well Relic already announced that all units had their spacing increased. This means in the open they're less vulnerable to wipes. They still bunch up in cover, but this is a trade-off to being in cover. Speaking of u turns this is also a 180 from what Peter said shortly before his departure, that they would not alter unit spacing.
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Id pay for new infantry skins. And Im not the only one for sure.
Feels like a missed business opportunity for relic.
They'll never make alternate Infantry skins, because the skins are important in identifying a unit. This isn't a problem with vehicles because those are large and have distinct shapes. Infantry are small and roughly the same shape, so their skins are one way to quickly tell them apart.
I also don't really understand that weird green color they give some ostheer units. Never seen anything like that before. Tripwire did a good job imo with the eastern front german troops.
Again this has to do with unit identification. Soviets are bright yellow-tan to make identification easy. Same with Americans who instead of olive green are fairly light green, which stands out and is unique, or Volksgrenadiers who have bright grey uniforms. |
I'm guessing this is a relic from when units were originally going to spawn from whichever edge of the map you called them from. Nice find.
Nah, they just took an alternate path because he told them to go somewhere. |
Behind the Flammpanzer 38, is that a mortar halftrack? It has the same faction colour as the hetzer and the infrared halftrack. Could it be that OKW will get a mortar halftrack?
OKW has had a Mortar Half-Track listed in Worldbuilder for months, it uses the Ostheer skin though. Looks like it's finally coming out now.
sweet,I hope they will at it in the game.
Never know there where real flammpanzers on the westernfront.
I knew about the Panzer II and Panzer III flame tanks, but not the Hetzer flame tank.
I mean, for the WFA screenshots, USF was fighting against a million F1 panzer IVs. Though id guess it would be cool to have a hetzer with a flamethrower
And they all had the Ostheer skin. I assume they were placeholders, for what I don't know. Nothing in OKW's Army is similar to the F1 anyway. But maybe it was something that was flat out removed, like the StuG III or Tank Hunters. |
If PGs got a scoped G43, you'd still need the entire squad to have a weapon swap as those assault rifles don't really mix well as you'd want to stick at range rather than mid-short.
Give them something between the Ober and Grenadier Kar98?
Wait why? JLI fight just fine at short range. And taking away the StG's would be a considerable downgrade and nobody wants that. |