That's a pile bullshit. Their long range was weaker than 5man-section and their short range is on par with Rifles.
Their defensive stat form vet(pre damage reduction change) their RA was 0.63 which was slightly better than rifles at 0.635 and worse than sections at 0.624(pre-nerf). Section had a long range dps of 3.77 while vsl-grens had 3.1 .
What made 5-man grens problematic was the change to 0.8 damage reduction instead of 0.77 RA. That mean you couldn't easily kill them with both balistic or explosive damage. The same problem that Rangers had.
Alright, but what justise this comparing do? I mean, if Ost had only Grens to play with early on, then alright It would have make sence. But at the same time, while having perfomance which allow to compare VSL directly to Rifles, grens also had full access to Ost support weapons power of which is balanced around the fact that grens are 4 men glass-cannons.
On its own VSL is technically alright, but if you start throwing all support units Ost have into the mix, then they are not alright.
And timing is playing a huge role also.
The retarded allied biased balance team just over nerfed these guys without even doing testing.
They just soft disabled it, because they didnt want to spend time on fixing it. Nothing special, but at least they admitted that they will look at it in the future.
But I do agree that currect VSL is objectively shit. 5 models are not worth crippling your Grenadiers even more then G43.
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