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Looking at it as an outsider, I see (almost) exclusively balance changes to a game whose balance has never been its primary issue. It just seems like after all the time and hype for this patch, there needed to be something a little more. It'll freshen things up for a few months, no doubt, but the game's core issues remain untouched, and people will be back to complaining once the meta settles down.

It's also hilarious how people (the vast majority of whom are overwhelmingly mediocre at the game) are suddenly experts able to analyze the balance changes before they've even played them. But that ignorance has traditionally been one of the CoH community's greatest strengths. By which I mean, above all else, it's the one thing this community is truly good at.

The truth. Nobody is going to admit it though.

Close game, lots of stupid one shots from the mortar and priest. Can somebody tell me how to use USF tanks properly ? I keep failing to make any good use of them.

1. I used the phosphorus barrage multiple times but it kept shooting normal rounds instead
2. At some point it completely stopped shooting and I decided to suicide it (when it had 15 kills I think)
3. Apart from those bugs it seems a little too strong one shotting Alastors 4men squads

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I watched plenty of vCoH 2.601 games a few months ago. I picked them from the most wubbed replays on GR and they included players like Razor, Seb, Freestyler, GosuStarcraft (aka HuK), Kot, Aimstrong etc. And to be fully honest the meta back then was just as bad as what we have in CoH2 atm if not worse. Almost every single game goes like this (maybe 9 out of 10):

-high skilled early game by both players with nice rifle flanking great mg play->highly entertaining and nice to watch and waaaay better than what we have atm
-ami goes infantry in every single game
-wehr goes either t1 t2 t3 or t1 t3 and ends up spamming pumas but even the very best players with top notch micro have awful vehicle control and suicide them like crazy against Rangers, Sticky Riflemen, M10s or AT guns.
-american build is heavily infantry based (eg Rifles+multiple Rangers+Supply Yard Upgrades+Inf Upgrades+Howitzer)
-players stick to their build no matter what happens->howitzer gets destroyed after one barrage by firestorm ? Build another one ! First Puma dies after one minute ? (this happens in a surprisingly large percentage of the games) Build another one !
-some units are built in most games but barely have an influence (Nebelwerfer get like 3-4 kills per game on average, other than that all they do is denying ground and forcing american at guns who seem to miss pumas 90 % of the time to move)

Some serious clashes against Inverse in this thread. Inverse has proven that he knows what he's talking about(Can't say the same about Van Vort) time and time again, AND he's a veteran CoH1 player, so why Van Vort and his crew are ganging up on Inverse I have no clue why. Inverse stated himself that he's making theories BASED on the actual leaks and what we know from those leaks; he then gets attacked by the single-player elitist group for voicing his opinion.

It's almost hilariously comical because those single player elitists call 1v1 competitive players the Taliban of video games, but their behavoiur is exactly the same, except their allegiance is to the CoH SP/3v3 and 4v4 matches.

I agree with Inverse that the system from the leaks seem to be heavily influenced or copied and pasted from CoH Online, and could very well be the same system. I'm waiting on a solid explanation on Relic's part before I congratulate them or give them hell in a written letter(I've already written a few letters to Relic).

Here's hoping it isn't a copy-paste job from CoH online; that game was poison for competitive players, was unbalanced and wasn't very fun; luckily it got shut down shortly after release.

Couldn't agree more with your 2nd paragraph. Angry bear members should think about this for a moment.