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Can you guys tie the call-in p4 to tech like you did with the puma? It's in the same doctrine and was a bigger problem...

They could make brits a USA-copied cloned, and then no one could say
anything wrong about them.
Brits-USA-Soviets being clones w identical gameplay, just different skins
and voices.

Make italians and Japanese be German clones just w different skins
and voices. Balance issues solved!

Hmm, Japanese tiger in Italy

They need to come up with alternatives if they are going to take stuff out of factions by design.
Having no non doctrinal flamethrowers on WFA and locking indirect fire behind teching was completely moronic on release. Now we have volks flame nade and usf shortrange mortar, which plays alot differently from normal mortars.

I don't know why relic loves to gimp factions and give them gimmicks to crutch on. They would do so much better with faction design if they just included standard tools on each faction AND some gimmicks as alternatives.

I wish they would refine the Panzer Elite model from coh1, that was really fun. The different veterancy system that was intuitive and easy to understand; a simple evolution from the basic US veterancy. Fucktons of global upgrades that gave multiple different openings to go. They just needed to add a minesweeper and take out the blobbing mechanics. PE was the way to do OKW right with regards to support weapons. The MG halftrack was 10x more interesting and nuanced than the suppressing kubel, and they also had the mortar ht to lightly suppress too. Then there was the light AT halftrack in place of an AT gun with low damage but really string abilities. They gave alternatives to the basic faction tools that still functioned to fill their roles.

Then you have brits in both games where they just removed everything useful and stuck it on the sidelines. If they are gonna give factions weird shit that isn't as effective as normal units, they need to offer more ways to get them. Locking USF and OKW and Brits only anti garrison tools behind expensive teching just seriously gimps faction design with their specialist units. Look at soviets and ostheer, multiple affordable choices on multiple teching paths.

Relic really just needs to add more content to base faction design. Factions can't have only one unit in their roster to fill a basic need and then make it skippable with tech. It's just asking for half the faction to be ignored; see USF where LT/CPT meta changes every patch.

Lol people still complaining about the starting sturmpio after 4 years.

That's probably a good point. Although if it was really that easy I think a lot more people would be going LT at the moment anyway.

How do you feel about the other options for mixing the tiers? Combining all the possibilities that mix at least 1 AI and 1 AT per tier...

	LT	CPT
1	MG, AT gun, M20	AAHT, Stuart, Howitzer
2	MG, Stuart, M20	AAHT, AT gun, Howitzer
3	AAHT, Stuart, M20	MG, AT gun, Howitzer
4	AAHT, AT gun, M20	MG, Stuart, Howitzer

P.S. If this is derailing the M20 discussion too much I can always post it as a thread. Or if it's already been discussed to death and I didn't notice, I can shut up

#2 makes the most sense, but I'm not convinced the tech needs to be swapped at all. I think it's more a problem of balancing out LT vehicles better. Putting mg and at gun together in a tier would be too good, nobody would every go for the other tier.

USF has problems built into the fundamental design of the faction. It's really not that bad right now though.

I'm moderately hyped now for the game after the recent trailer.

The lack of realism and all the cosmetic stuff is a bit disappointing, but it's really not that big a deal. They did away with alot of the stuff from bf1 that I didn't really like. Gameplay-wise the game looks fantastic. Plenty of good changes.

I just want to pew pew people with an mp40 and scoped garand, man.