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Are people seriously arguing that and UPGRADE (that costs munitions) is SUPPOSED to be weak and non-threatening?

When the enemy faction has BASELINE UNITS that are ten times more threatening, while your units pose no threat to anyone, ever, the game is a complete farce in terms of design.

This isn't even a balance issue. Balance issues require minor tweaks. The COMPLETE lack of threat from both MP40 Volks and Volksgrenadiers in general is a joke.

Same conclusion as with all other aspects of Axis faction design: Allied units are all hyper threatening to Axis units, but Axis units threaten absolutely no one, ever, under any circumstances.

Must have never seen a potent STG volks blob. Come on guy volks aren't nearly as bad as you are playing them off to be.

I will say the added voice lines are giving me a solid coh1 feel. As much as I'd like new content for coh2 Relic has their sights on coh3 and AOE.

I can see why they scrapped this feature, given how community is obsessed with win ratios and that feature being glorified WL ratio chart without context, people would start bitching about balance the minute it would change from 50:50 to 51:49.

Thats a fair assumption knowing how triggered people get over it. The idea of a diverse and dynamic CoH multiplayer landscape does sorta fall into the missions similar to what are available in World of Tanks as well as Ships. It wouldn't surprise me if they scrapped the mode in order to focus on other projects or to simply work on a new game, granted that screenshot -if I recall correctly- came out in summer 2014 and could have been simply a proof of concept that is slightly similar to coh online but could have been the time they decided to make a new faction insted.

As for the future of CoH3 creating a new dynamic mode like that would give the community some nice goals and reasons to play every month+ or so. Along with the new mode we might have even seen a larger pool of maps or ones that switch in and out as we move across Europe and even north Africa if we look at the most recent survey.

i do agree with you the that the unit is almost useless now against half decent players, but before the nerf being able to fire through objects, leaving NO CHANCE for your enemies to react and losing entire squads and tanks was beyond BS, for me it offended worse then demos.

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Firing through objects and shot blockers are just poor gimmicks and punish good players and can reduce the game to solid cheese. I see the sturmtiger as a unit you can take both ways but only one way. Either its a large AOE damage dealing area denial "back the fuck up gun" that it is now or, its the wanna be brumbar with fast targeting/firing but smaller aoe and damage but quicker reload -similar to AVRE-.

Any units that can shoot through things are dumb. Like pak43 is so stupid sometimes.
ISU is pretty hard to field outside of a 4v4 and you really gotta make that thing churn out kills as often times there are LOADS of panthers wanting to flank you. I think the changes to its AOE mean the unit can be valid but not deal loads of squad wipes unless a second or 3rd shot connects which is a pretty fair considering it takes 12~ seconds to reload. Not to mention if you have to keep switching rounds it can get pretty difficult to handle large pushes which I think is a fair trade of for its current stats but I kinda wish He did more deflection damage.

Jagtiger is slow but the HE round changes make for some interesting engagements now but the scatter feels non-existent meaning instead of area denial its more of a pin-point shot. Changes to its range by 5 means a 17 pdr can now counter it which is good and also means you have to be careful where you go with it.


I like the changes to both units since the last patch but sometimes they can simply be unreliable as OP stated but I guess thats just the nature of coh2.