I'm always impressed how people around here (and over every coh2 forums) discover, the hard way usually, units and capabilities proposed by the game since it very beginning.
I found the M8 canister shot "new" OPness Beeing today the culminating point of this moving meta.
The commander having this unit is pretty old, 6 months old, and pretty bad since this time. So it has never been that used in the past. But the moving meta changes that. This canister shot has always been there and OP. But I remember months ago, it, alone, didn't worst the investment.
I found the moving meta going more and more deeper in an infantry domination of every strate of the game. That blobbing way of fight. And so makes people to try to adapt to it.
From an USF player perspective I found that OKW is really dominating the actual meta, ruling how the game goes, the fashion way of playing that impact at the end all other factions, including and probably impacting the most the Ostheer faction.
The majority of players has now enough experience with WFA, between 6 and 3 months and knows what strategy does work better than others. And different ways of Blobbing volks/obers seem to be that strategy today for OKW.
How did we reach the point to include the M8 in the current meta?
Playing a lot of game in 1vs1 or 2vs2 modes made me release that even if 2 months ago, people where complaining how the PUMA was OP, Till then nothing has change, Relic didn't modify it but who feels it OPness today? few of us simply because nobody built it, it is better, faster and safer to build 2 more volks with shreck than a Puma, and save your fuel for something else. And when someone finally uses it, the lack of experience with the unit negates his effectiveness, because yes you need to micro it to fully use it potential and it is something different than managing a mass of infantry.
When 3 months ago, OKW players were still trying different strats, with Puma and flak-truck, who would have risk to build a M8? the unit would have been ripped off in a matter of second and not being able to use his canister shot ability, the Commander itself was simply considerate as OK in team game and rubbish in 1vs1.
Today its different, it is safer to call one with the disappearance of Pumas and since everyone asks how to counter this so old "insane" unit.
How have we reach this state, here again, thanks to OKW domination and the Kubel modification.
Which has enforce USF players to use more and more the Utility Car to counter the Kubel, making USF players more and more skilled with this cheap unit. And here comes the insta-facility to use the M8, it is approximately the same unit with same stats, you're microing it as the utility car. It takes the same reasonable amount of time to kill the kubel with, and since the Puma has left the meta, you don't really need that mine anymore, you can wait for better ATs. So an instagib squad becomes a far more interesting ability.
Here again, back 3 months ago before the Kubel buff, who was bothering using the utility car? USF players were rushing the half-track or fast Sherman, and so OKW players Pumas.
Ostheer faction is probably the biggest loser in this meta evolution dominated by OKW infantry spam. Because the faction is more sensitive to meta evolution since it needs to strictly adapt its build order.
If we look at USF, SU or OKW, one more core unit or one less doesn't change a lot since you are using almost every time a core aggressive unit with 1 or 2 supportive ones. Ostheer is the opposite, your core units are the supportive ones and the "aggressive" ones provide a kind of support/capping power until you get your T2/T3. I feel that i won a lot of game vs Ostheer simply because he built the wrong support unit to counter me.
The pak nerf probably helped a lot in that, Ostheer lost the ability to hunt down fast with a really high rate of success any light vehicles.
Now the question is if the Infantry blob tactics will continue to dominate the meta or if an abuse of usage of M8 will shut it down and make PUMAs reappear in the field, balancing the whole.
Of course, this is just my opinion/vision of the game evolution so far. And you, what do you think of the meta evolution?
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