Profile of TNrg

The problem with Ostheer is two-fold. MG-42's don't do enough suppression and damage to put down incoming American rifleblobs, especially since they have smoke-grenades, and that American rifles base damage on the M1-Garand is just too high. So high that they barely need the upgrades which make them even deadlier.

The M1919 is the greatest offender, add 2x on 2 or more squads and you end up with unstoppable Terminator Space-Marines from Dawn of War.

Keep in mind that the rifle squad also costs more than a gren squad while grens outscale rifles when they get veterancy and LMG upgrades. IF you get that far, that is. But I agree that the early game is very hard.

I noticed the same thing too, not sure if it actually means red cover or if it's just a problem with the icon.

Keep in mind our focus over the last two months has been gameplay improvements such as the modifications to squad cover behaviour, team weapons, buildings, etc.

These gameplay improvements are highly questionable.

Squad cover behaviour: due to units clumping together even more, cover against AOE damage weapons is actually more dangerous

Team weapons: AT-gun prioritizing vehicles doesn't work properly, AT-guns don't provide green cover to the crew, there's also a bug with at least mortars and AT-guns where they become totally unresponsive to commands

Buildings: buildings are now even more unpredictable; sometimes there's no way to tell whether it will go down after the first grenade or not since the building health bar doesn't seem to correlate with this at all - note: this is just my general feeling though, I might be wrong with this one

Other issues that haven't improved:

*fast forward/lag freezes
*units still getting stuck on dying models
*units getting stuck in base structures (mainly OKW)
*retreat not stopping when reaching the HQ
*RNG criticals (kubel taking 4 SU-85 shots and surviving with a crit every time, imagine if this was a happening with a heavy tank in a tournament situation)
*grenade abilities not working properly

The retreat and grenade bugs were claimed to be fixed in an earlier patch but the problems still exists in the game.


There's probably more but these were the ones I came up with for now.

Like someone suggested, adding a manual reload option would already help a lot. Sometimes the machine gun shoots 2 rounds and starts to reload while there's a blob of 3 squads charging at it.

Implementing a manual reload would make it more useful, even make it slightly better without taking the skill element away - it would actually promote more skillful and generally good MG42 play. However, it still lacks a bit in suppression too.

Before people start freaking out (I know I did when I read the notes on the private alpha forums) - I'm pretty sure the 125 range is ONLY for the JT's indirect fire ability.

The normal range of the JT should remain as it was.

The thing is, units like JT or ISU shouldn't be in the game