Profile of Vipper

Demolition Charges

We are further increasing the damage demolition charges deal to defensive structures to solidify their role as anti-defense weapons.

Now deal 200% additional damage to bunkers in addition to current modifiers.

Bonus damage against emplacements increased from 100% to 200%
Since the design of demolition chargers as anti-defense weapon the should have their other roles toned down as well. Currently they act also as super grenades and the availability is very big especially for US with infantry support center.

Suggestions:
Reduce the damage to infantry/vehicles possibly removing the wipe probability.
Remove/reduce the efficiency of airdropped units to blow defensive structures.
Increase damage to sandbags, tank traps Bridges

Flamethrowers and Vehicle Flamethrowers

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Suggestions:
Give flamer vehicles a timed ability that light up areas and does DOT. This could either be a static ability or could even be used on the move.

Reduce ready time and increase turret rotation of PZIII since it might for ever to start firing on moving targets.


Salvaging – Recovery Vehicles and Rapid Salvage for Panzerpioneers and Panzergrenadiers

In most cases it was preferable to recover a destroyed vehicle wreck rather than salvaging it. To remedy this, we are now allowing salvaged wrecks to provide manpower, incentivizing this ability to be used to improve one’s economy or in situations where wrecks cannot be safely recovered.

Now provides 30% of the total wreck’s manpower cost in addition to the current 15% fuel.
The salvage /recover mechanism simply need a redesign is it can be exploited in many way it very difficult to balance. It will either be to strong or not worth it.

Suggestions:
Make recover vehicles provide stack that can then be used to repair and upgun vehicles.

FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS


Chat System Improvements

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Suggestions:
What is actually need is to silence specific user and possibly report them for offensive language or a warning should be issued to them...



MULTIPLAYER BALANCE

Sandbags and Tank Trap Defense Target Size

The following change makes it easier to destroy certain field defenses when issuing attack-move commands on the target.

All updated to target size 20 except wire

This is a step in the wrong direction for a number of reason:
Allowing Tanks and Antitank to easily destroy tank traps negates the reason to have them in game in the first place.

Allowing ballistic weapon to target sandbags is counter intuitive and defeats the reason to have the available in the game in first place. As an example I will point out that AT or TD can now be used to deny cover from a very long distance, to make thing even worse explosive weapon can now be used to target sandbags instead of infantry resulting into shots with zero scatter.

If the there is an "over use" of this defenses other solution are better.

Suggestions:
Reduce availability.
Make sandbags Tank traps available to less unit or requiring certain level of tech or veterancy.
Increase build time.

Reduce their effects.
Make tank traps provide yellow cover so that they are used as traps and not cover. Add resistance to ballistic weapon, lower HP.

Create special units/weapon that can easily deal with them.
Certain engineer units could get an ability to dismantle tank traps/sand bags.
Certain vehicles could destroy with with main gun (or barrage) or with bulldozer blade.
Certain units could have better modifiers vs sandbag like mortar or certain type of offensive grenades.

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US force

The US start with the Support centers Tab available and one has to select a support center see the exact tech available and their cost. This is rather inconstant and confusion and less informative.

Suggestions:
Make the Support center tab available always.

Move the 3 buttons (Air Support Center, Infantry Support Center, Mechanized Support Center) to the tab with abilities grey out until one unlocks a center.
This will provide an more informative picture.

Add a button "Support centers" to HQ tab that will open the "support centers tab" for players.

Move all global upgrades (in this case 1 the Improved M9 Bazooka Rockets which is global upgrade and applies to more units) to the HQ tab so player can be aware of existence and check total cost for getting it.

British Forces

British forces stat with training center available from start.

Suggestions:
For reason of consistency should have a button on HQ tab that describes the training center and opens the tab.

Description on training button should become more clear explaining which units are effected more so in the case of vehicles which is not very clear what vehicle is considered light or armored.

Withdraw and refit ability should be move to HQ tab so that players are aware of the ability and how its unlocked.


Wehrmacht

For no apparent reason Wehrmacht has no tech Tab and has the same tech option "support elements" available in 2 buildings. Reason for confusion here is that this works differently from Deutsches Afrikakorps who have a separate upgrade for their 2 buildings.

Suggestions:
For reason consistency and simplicity create a tech Tab.

Add "support elements" there and all 4 quarters (Infanterie Officer Quarters,Luftwaffe Officer Quarters,Panzergrenadier Officer Quarters,Panzer Officer Quarters).

Move armor skirts button and Transfer order Panzergrenadier (add squad), Transfer order-Jager squad to HQ tab.

Deutsches Afrikakorps

For no apparent reason Deutsches Afrikakorps does not have a tech tab at start but one has to click on the armor building to see the Armory level 1-3 that are great out. Once the first building is build the tech level buttons start being replaced.

Suggestions:

Make tech tab always available and move the Armory level "buttons" to the first column before the 3X4 grid.


So basically making tech tab available to all faction from start, adding a button that moves to tech tab of all HQ tabs and moving global upgrade that apply to more units in the HQ Tab.

These changes will create consistency, make things simpler and more informative.

When engineer units target things they can garrison like bunker/fighting position/emplacements the repair ability comes up that means that if the structure is not in full heath they will try to repair. That create an issue because one can not man these structure with these units. Priority should to garrison and to repair, if one want to repair before garrisoning one can simply use the repair button.

I never said that USF cannot provide anything powerful?

I just said that I think it's by far the weakest faction, with obvious flaws in the faction design

My point is that if one is playing vs a team with specific team strategy one also has to play as team and have a team strategy or they will probably lose.