Profile of GachiGasm

You are still missing the point, which is important, while in 1v1 they are shit, they can be considered OP in teamgames, because of G43 and the nature of teamgames.
And the single reason why they are OP in teamgames, because they are shit 1v1, in other words G43 grade makes up for the fact that they start as a total garabge.

They are supposed to be alternative, not complete replacement.
They are not?
Alternative is not the same as replacement.

What is alternative? In standart game you rarely go for more then 4 squads of mainline, even going 5 can be considered too much. So you cant start with standart 4 volks build and later throw PFs because there is no point in doing so.

You objectively dont want to mix them with volks, because they are very weak early on. You dont want to replace volks with them in smaller gamemodes.

In this picture you really want to maybe just have 1 sqaud of them to either use flares or give them schrecks, not G43 because you missed the time to vet them and obersts arent too far away by that point.
Considering this, its not an alternative squad then, its a highly specific squad which you wont use more then 1 or 2, then why balance them as an alternative to volks begin with?

Good example of Alternative are ass.grens and assault sections. You either can mix them with standart mainline or you can play only with them, both ways works, both ways have advantages\disadvatages.

To tone them down from team games, where they are as overpowered and oppressive as penals used to be before people learned how to actually fight them.
The unit has a very clear role.
Now it needs to be polished to fit that role without completely stealing it from volks.

Well they took weapon slot from them, alright. This fixes absolutely nothing, because in teamgames PFs G43 blobs are OP af and not because they had one weapon slot and in smaller gamemodes they are still pointless. This is my exact point, that this balance flips are for nothing and solves nothing.

You either should make them into a proper replacement and balance upgrades\stats\abilities according to that or if you dont want them to be a replacement, then they should be made into something more appilling as a supporting\additional unit.

It has been fixed though. Check the thread https://www.coh2.org/topic/105654/adjusted-commander-portraits

Well, when unstalled Beta to check the new portraits, it wasnt fixed. But probably it wasnt just uploaded.

Was saying because, I'm not sure if portraits added into the beta are final but bugged version or its not just fully implemented.

It is more like you give up a lot of close to mid range DPS to gain a okay to decent DPS increase to long range and okay to very good when moving.

I'd say it is a side grade for sure, but it is not a clear upgrade as you say. Overall the upgrade a weird design for PGrens when looking at the additional abilities

Its not weird. It makes your PGs better against pretty much every single type of inf enemy can throw at you. Yes you trade close range DPS, but at the same time your PGs gaining the ability to always engage at their terms.

You want to keep distance against close range squads? You can do it + you have a grende. You want to close in vs long range squads? You can do it. You want to chase someone or push? You can do it.

You are looking at raw DPS and for some reason, you think that huge close range DPS is somehow better, then over-all DPS. Also you shoudnt forget that G43 is a rifle and it has tendency to drop models with few good RNG rolls, unlike StGs.

Very good way of saying loud voice crying baby gets what he wants?

Pretty much. No offence, but all this thread is capable of - attracting addicts who will voice their delusions in public.

If balance is not based on the stats, what they should be based on?

It was said multiple times that UKF is not attractive in comparison to USF\UKF case is closed. There is no point of creating 100% threads about UKF having low stats, we got it, we see it.

Not because they are weak or unplayble, its because they are very exploitable and cheesy. They are heavy case of OP cheese mixed with very easily exploitable weaknesses.

And this is what ML guys are stated. They didnt state "british are fine", they said "its expectable to have such picture, considering the state of faction" if you rephrase it, but you for some reason see it as them saying UKF is just fine.

UKF need full faction rework, not a bunch of buffs\nerfs like some ppl propose. Because indeed with desing faction have right now, you either will have OP shit if you buff them or UP garbage if you nerf them.