Profile of donofsandiego

I feel like USF is the faction in this game solely balanced around 1v1 performance. The other factions have much more effective and damaging tools but it's like USF doesn't get to have any of it because of the fact that it's on a knife's edge balance wise in 1v1s.

When I used to play USF 1v1 (and I was never really that good, I got to level 14 on the leaderboard and that was the highest I got) it really felt like US was unstoppable early game. And despite the tanks being a little on the lightly armored side they were so much more useful utility wise with sherman shell switch and smoke and repair crews etc.

Forgive me for my somewhat aimless meanderings here. Basically what I want to say is that USF in teamgames is hamstrung by how it performs in 1v1s. It has to have ineffective units just because all of them working in tandem are so strong together. But this of course means that the whole army is made of weak links when it comes to teamgames where one enemy can specialize in one area (say ant infantry blobber) and just murder your army one on one.

...They did that in CoH 1. It was insanely complex...

All I'm saying is that balancing one unit to be properly balanced against 2-3 other factions units is a tall bloody order. The lack of fine tuning from CoH2's health+recieved acc system necessitated years and years of trial and error to get it to an acceptable level.

I don't think that target tables + infantry types are a bad idea. I think that players just need to have a way to see it in game. Again, like the unit encyclopedia of Men of War.

Or even Lambda Wars, where each infantry unit is Light, Medium, or Heavy. Each unit type is affected more by different weapon types, consistently.

And also in Lambda Wars, the unit description at the bottom of the screen lists the infantry type and its weapon, and when you mouse over this, it tells you the modifiers against other infantry types.

It doesn't even die to 1 mine anymore.

Can anybody name a single t0 unit Axis have that has the same power as the M3 scout?

First of all, M3 isn't a T0 unit, it's a 15FU T1 unit that Soviets give up early support weapons in order to get access to.

Second of all, if the kubelwagen doesn't die to one mine, and it costs zero fuel to build, why on earth should the M3A1?

Third of all, I think that what you're talking about is a bug that's existed since CoH2 released, where small arms fire from an attack-move or automatically attacking will attack troops inside the troop carrier if the rear is facing towards the enemy instead of the carrier itself (I actually tested this, it's still a thing. Actual panzershreks and AT guns still automatically target the vehicle though)

Mines being capped at 3 instead of 2 models.

Please this would be hilarious. Imagine playing against SOV as OST and then all of a sudden you hear two explosions, notice you're down a panzergren squad and all you see is a flare in the distance

PLEASE don't add bullshit like random abandons, Main Gun Crits, and other awful mechanics back in!

Disagree. They're fun mechanics from perspectives other than L33T gamers. I say leave them in as options for custom games if they're so terrible.