Profile of GachiGasm

1. You do realize having bolster + weapon upgrade costs 300mp + 50 fuel right? Even then they are not as strong as they used to be. And their strength comes with cover bonus so they are hard to be used on offensive situations.

2. Yes I agree, I mostly meant those two tanks.

3. AEC will never be close to AT to Puma because of it's lack of ability to self-spot enemy.

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5. It is already utterly useless before 1 tier since it cannot upgrade any weapon w/o it. Elaborate more for how it will destory vs OKW matchup? Because of early sniper?

1. Its a common misconception that so called "side-grades" are costing something extra. Its not a vCoH where side grades were effectively delaying you and vere an optional chose, like bars\grens for USF. It was said countless of times, even by dev team, that USF\UKF "sidegrades" are contributing towards final cost of tech and serve as a balancer. In other words if you skip all your sidegrades and go towards final tier rushing it will be more or less cheaper for the other factions.

Also speaking of being agressive. Sure they are not rifles, but at the same time Grenadiers are not offensive aswell, because they are long range inf. You dont have to run and gun with them, because even at range they are killing shit really fast anyway.

3. Well amd AEC still has better AI via MGs then puma + what Sander said. But its not the point. What you are suggesting is to create jack of all trades. AEC already hardcounters all LVs but Puma and can support figting mediums and you are suggesting giving it AI close to the arguably second strongest AI LV. Like come on.

5. Because UKF already somewhat can dominate OKW early on, if not due to SPs/occasional Kubel harrasment and later on JLI\221. Giving UKF sniper will instantly allow UKF to hardcounter units like SPs and damage kubel really bad, while pre-upgrade volks dont even have slightest chance against tommies in cover, let alone supported by Sniper.

You are also free to check http://coh2chart.com

Last update was on april 2017. Even in it you can see pretty much the same numbers as we having now. There was never a time where allies had a better stats in teamgames, unless they\axis were just broken.

Axis advantage comes not from the balance. It comes from the nature of teamgames and to be more specific:

1) Caches
2) Map designes
3) Concentration of whole army in one place
4) Tech rushes
5) Reliance on teammate to fill the holes
6) Overall forgivness

Some ppl preatching that allies are just UP in lategame. Alright.
Why then in 1v1 almost all factions (exept OKW) have 50% winrate? Should we also buff OKW then to make them 50% in 1v1 ignoring the fact that they perform much better in teamgames and it might ruin the balance, but since, you know, we all want 50% winrate in all the gamemodes for all the factions right, it will be alright. We can ignore top 200 players, we can ignore 1v1, sure. Then lets collectively ask dev team to "fuck this 1v1, fuck tourneys, balance game around 4v4", then everyone would be happy?

If anything the only way to balance teamgame - balance mechanics to soften the difference between 1v1 and 4v4. Like for instance limiting howis to 1 or doing something with caches.

It 1v1 its a common situation to have first medium around 15 to 19 min mark, in 3v3 and 4v4 first medium arrieves at 11-12 mins of the game, panthers arive at 14-15 mins of the game.

I'd welcome a counter analysis.

Alright. Soviets do drop models more often thats true, but at the same time they have merge. Medkits are healing all members of the squad, so you always can merge with the most valuable unit you have plus on top of that use commisar medkit on this squad in case conscript squad you merged with was damaged.

Thats why and for what commisar has a medkit.

You dont use it on your mainlines and you dont nessesery use it all the time, the same way Ost is not spamming medkits (unless VSL), but use them on either support weapons of the field or snipers\elites without retreating.

From portrait nerd to portrait nerd - excellent job! If you need any assistance with assets - let me know

Much appreciated. I've enjoyed new portraits you guys made big time.

I think you don't understand what i'm implying. I could care less about un-implemented units, i'm talking about a new different mechanic to be created from nothing.

You are describing a mechanic which not only obliterates "blobs" but single squads. The same problem we had with things like demos or old damage profile of mortars.
For it to work, someone needs to figure out a different way to apply it.

We are just arguing. You think it wont work based on the past experiences, I say it will work if done right. Both points are valid. There is no reason to continue this one, because its just speculation anyway, we wont see untill its done.

We don't have the luxury to "hope" for something to work or be created by "SOMEONE". Which is why i said: unless someone provides already a implementable concept in the form of a mod, the only thing we can do is change stats.
Because even when we had mods, most of the time they are done in a "hack" way that is not applicable into the base game (see USF new redesign base).

While it somewhat true, its unfair to put it this way.

All calls are done by dev team. We dont know how and based on what they do their changes. While some of them are oblivious ajustments of OP\UP units, we also have another examples.

For instance. Arty spam in team games. Some ppl are preaching that the game is balanced around 1v1, its fine. In 1v1 you arent gonna build more then 1 B4\LeFH\ML20 or SPGs at least in reasonable 1v1 game. Why not limit them to 1 then, solving the problem of arty spam in teamgames? In my eyes its a pefectly resonable changes, which allow you to not only solve the problem of arty spam in teamgames, but also buff and ajust thouse units without breaking any gamemmode. But dev team dont think its nessesery, they find it to be fine. Same with Friendly Fire.

Or we have Raid Section. Someone in balance team liked it so much, that he\they tried to push them into the game during 2 pathes now, spending time ajusting them during multiple builds and we still dont know if they will be bat shit OP when patch goes live. At least they moved them away from the top meta commander, which was buffed by adding mortar to it at the same time. I'm sure it was genuine mistake putting them in it, for sure.

Or we can speak about how it was almost a month between last beta build and live build. With 0 feedback, 0 information and on live build we have patch with changes that were never discussed or even brought to disccussion. At this point I am pretty sure dev team just have to make a beta builds to test changes. They dont nessesery want to, they have to. This time because of the bug, last patch iteration hasnt been released and dev team was fine with it as it seems, didnt even post the pre-patch changes before failed release. And these were final ones, I'm not sure that when the patch rolls out anything would be changed.

I remember there was a screenshot, of someone showing the poll in discord regarding one of the changes. And this poll collected more votes against the change. But it was still implemented with a respond "we take polls into a considiration, but they are not a decisive factor".

And it was like this for ages. No wonder no-one (aside from ppl who do it for themselfs) will do a working concept, just for the sake of it proving that it can be implemented. No wonder best we can have is forum discussions, which btw rarely even have a disscussions in them, since the fanboy\rant threads tend to be much more popular and collect 100+ messages, while constructive threads do not.

Imo, from personal feeling, dev team do tend to make better changes then Relic back in the days. Their changes are for sure closer to the reality, then Relic ones, but overall aproach is still the same. And if anything goes wrong its "scope, not a full time job, relic forbits". Maybe its not like this and I'm completly wrong, but it sure looks like it.