Profile of Alexzandvar

It definitely has a bearing on reality, it is reality. What I think you are saying is it should not have a bearing on balance, which I believe is also incorrect.

AT's will always beat randoms, hard to balance around that. You can make allied team work more intuitive and easier to pull off like it is for Axis, but there is still the issue of 3v3 and 4v4 map's being unrelenting shit which is the biggest killer right now.

A good portion of players play 3v3 and 4v4 (~50%) and saying well you should just expect to lose as Allies when you queue up there is not a good strategy for brand retention. Relic should and will be changing things to provide help to these players and make the Allies a more popular option.

Brits should help things, as it will increase the allied player pool (one of the big reasons allies have a poorer time as well is a very tiny player pool). But again the primary culprit here is maps were it's really easy to turtle on.

I also think you undersell OKW in larger games. Yes when there are 4 of them they suffer, but mixed in with Wehr and you have an almost unstoppable force right away. Kubel synergizes so well with Grens. Volks provide excellent mobile AT in conjunction with more static T2 Wehr play. Artillery means nothing with at least one CAS player, build as much as you like for 50 fuel they can blow all the artillery you can build sky high with a click.

What is your explanation for OKW being unpopular in the LoH tournament then? Because I am pretty sure it's due to a couple of factors:

-Just 1 OKW player can provide you with all the counters you need

-OKW is punished a lot harder by Katyusha's and priests which can't be reliably countered with CAS

-Cannot contribute to the construction of fuel and munitions caches

-Jadgtiger is much harder to use than the Elefant

-The large increase in indirect fire makes keeping vetted squads alive difficult and loss of vetted squads is a game killer for OKW

-Easier to be outnumbered, a JPIV is a amazing TD but when outnumbered 4-5 to 1 is difficult to use. Ostheer can rely on cheaper easier to spam tanks.

-Enemy AT is much more plentiful in general, which makes countering the much smaller in number OKW vehicles fairly trivial. Meaning a greater amount of micro has to be invested in keeping your tanks/light vehicles around.

So all inf squads spread out? Ho Ho Ho Ho Maxim Spam.

Giving USF proper mines.

Also paging Dr. Cruzz. Dr. Cruzz to the Patch room.

Having studied under Dr. Cruzz for a while now I can say with certainty it's kind of hard to extract shadow changes from a patch that has yet to be released and put into the game code.

I can say with some certainty these changes will have *g-man voice* unforeseen consequences......:

Changed time to load into and unload out of buildings to 0.

Removed Accuracy and Penetration from AOE. Accuracy values have been changed to always hit and Penetration value have been changed to the same as the value of the weapon. There were a lot of issues that accuracy value and penetration values created with AOE. One of them being mines sometime doing no damage even when triggered. We raised AOE accuracy so it can no longer miss and Penetration to match the penetration value of the weapon.

Sandbags can no longer be crushed by Light Crush. Only Medium Crush and up.

Dude OS T3 gives you mediums, Soviet T3 gives you lights. You can't compare these two and a lot of people have said this before.

Except Soviet T3 costs a fraction of Ostheer T3. So it's not like your paying the same for less.

First the cost is 15 fuel.

My mistake, I always go for T2 starts these days.

Second, going T1 is supposed to give you dominance early game. You sacrifice any AT options you had in T2 and now must rely on docs or teching to T2 quickly to control vehicle play. OKW needs to be conservative, that's why the scout car is good. It forces the OKW player to pay a cost in giving up map control.

I don't see how this is that hard of a choice when you can get a light vehicle out of T3 that can kill any axis light vehicle other than a Puma out at like 6-7 minutes. Clown car shittery was dumb and silly, it's much better that flamers are actually flamers not some stupid mad max toy. Like you can still use an M3 to get behind and MG or do a flank you just can't chase and flame crit shit all the way back to an enemies base. Reliable performance always beats out everything unless you actually like bullshit RNG.

Going T2 quickly after isn't that hard either when it costs like 2-3 minutes of fuel income at most. The quickest thing the enemy can possibly make is a FHT and even those when rushed don't hit the field till minute 6-7.

I do agree the chasing to base (although this was harder with flak guns, now a reason to get rid of OKW special snowflake base defense), and the flame car is stupid in principle, but if this nerf is to be then I want to see the scout car get some serious buffs elsewhere. It is already completley useless after minute 5.

Outside of doing damage to light vehicles, the flak gun's for base defense are actually worse than MG bunkers. Ever try decrewing one with quads or other stuff? It's really easy.

Blame all those people that whined play2Win during the tiger ace fiasco. They haven't released any new commanders since.

Except the people that whined weren't wrong. I don't see how it's the communities fault Relic is to scared to release more DLC that makes them money.