I wonder about this also. One day the average player will be at rank 100, or at least closer to it. Does the matchmaker only take rank into account or also games played, win-streak etc.? Would be really annoying to see the real pros getting matched with the average player - for both parties.
Since the patch and the 6 rounds or so played I didn´t get one winter map in 2v2 . Before the patch it was about 2/3rd winter maps. This was indeed a good patch. However I think so many players have the wintermaps locked in automatch that you get Rhzew (Summer) quite often.
Haha, the 222 is awesome now. I played three games today and won all three due to scout cars. Try them with the 10% range increase bulletin! I always built 2 of them with the 20mm upgrade and it was well worth it. They reach vet 3 so fast that all my 222s reached vet 3. They are awesome versus infantry and now can finish off the T-70 (without being ineffective versus anything else as before). You can dominate early game with them - even guards in clown cars aren´t a counter as you can kill the CC some seconds faster.
They seem like the PEs 222s in the original CoH now - only that most damage is done by the MG and not the main gun.
Unnecessary, unwelcome change for me. It wasn´t needed. The armies were small enough for my taste. Now an Elephant will cripple your popcap - how the hell am I supposed to support my heavy tank with a medium tank if that drains my population so much I have to fear to run out of infantry.
I´m somewhat disappointed. As a 2vs2 player I can see how insane the now stronger T-34s + Su-85 is going to be. The main issues remain:
- StuG will still totally lose to a su85
- Su-85 can still zoom the hell out of the zone
- Tiger and JS-2 remain the same
- Ram might be somewhat nerfed but it´s still available on every T-34, which is now probably going to be more present on the battlefield
- Wtf does the pop cap increase do? I felt it was borderline how FEW units you could field at a time. So if I buy a Tiger now I CRIPPLED my popcap by a quarter? Smaller armies is very bad imo.
Meh, will see. But I can see Russkies rubbing their hands.
On a related note: Why isn´t it possible for German infantry to fire from the 251 - like the Soviets can from their clown car? After all it was the Germans who invented and massively the concept of mechanized infantry firing from halftracks. Russians were more relying on tanks to move their mechanized infantry. Hell, for balance they could lock Schrecks from going into the 251. Is it possible for the Russians to fire from their halftrack?
So the only reason to build the halftrack would be the Flammenwerfer or Quad upgrade? No thanks!
I make excessive use of the 251 and its reinforce ability as Germans. I would hardly build it, if it was only possible to do so in my own territory. The advantage the 251 has over bunkers is its mobility and the fact that it can support your infantry pushing into enemy territory. As Soviets I don´t use it that often as Tier 3 is not attractive. Nerfing the halftrack would make Tier 3 even less of a choice.
I like to see some infantry pushes actually being combined/supported with halftracks. It not only looks nice but is combined arms and should be rewarded.
Also by the time both halftracks come out there is/should at least be one AT unit on the field which takes them out quite fast.
This must be the long awaited patch where they make the SU-85 shoot rubber rounds and they make the Tiger shoot nukes.
Why so sarcastic about it? I think everybody interested in balance will agree that the Tiger/ IS-2 is to weak for price and the Su-85 is to much for its cost. There better be some nerfs for the Su-85 or I´m starting to nerd-rage.
Problem is not the ISU-152, it´s the Su85 which totally negates the hard-counter to the ISU (Panther). If the Panther wouldn´t be outperformed by SU-85 it could fight versus the ISU.
I saw you demand a faster ROF for the IS-2. As of now it fires every 9 seconds. I´d like to remind you that the real thing could fire about one shot every 30 seconds so to allow it to fire more shots is ridicolous.
Buff to armor and damage, yes - but only with SU-85 nerf.