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Isnt the rak guaranteed to pen allied mediums? Ive never notuced it bounce.... They dont need to move while cloaked, its bad design but they COULD have bonuses when attacking from camo to ensure that its shortcomings (make it guaranteed or close to guaranteed to hit, or longer range) but creeping rak is cancer and it should go

KV-1 got exact same 270 armor and it doesn't seem to struggle when taking shots from axis meds with superior penetration.

Plus, Panther was made more durable against TDs, that's the thing axis crowd was crying for last Quartal.

Stug rate of fire is THE overpowered thing about it and it'll be back to what it was at vet1, so don't cry, I'd expect further nerfs as this one might not be enough for such potent TD, given the fact it did not got pop increase as all other TDs with 160 dmg nor a hard pen nerf like SU76.

Also, didn't SU-76 had 140 far pen back when it was utterly useless?

140 close if o recall. Plus it was in the same tier as the su85 making it even less attractive because for a bit more fuel got an AT machine gun

Because factions are different. Soviet t1 is made to be aggressive, it doesn't meant to be defensive. While ostheer has supperior support weapons early on, soviet in t1 have superior inf and attack capabilities. If ostheer has sniper you can try to revial it with your scout car, ostheer has no light armor until t2 to chase your sniper, as Soviet you can have it strate of the bat.

Ost sniper meant most of the time to weak the offense, Soviet sniper is meant to weak the defense, while your troops are attacking.

But if you REALLY want an mg to cover your sniper, you always can pick commander with dshk machine gun.

Not to mention that ostheer mortar got nerfed which means that Soviet early inf play become a bit easier.

they are different, soviet has always lacked offensive capability in favor of durability in their infantry and vice versa for tanks. the soviet sniper has LITERALLY no advantage over any other sniper. the only thing halfway interesting is flares, which you can get on a mortar without vet and it has the added benifit of being able to smoke things and wipe squads. for cheaper. and more durable. like LITERALLY no reason to EVER EVER EVER get the soviet sniper unless you are trolling. they could swap it with the M42 AT gun and IT would get more use than the new sniper will because it would at least have some job in fighting the newly buffed 222 without having to get guards or neuter your penals and when a unit looks bad next to the m42 AT gun there is a problem....

i suppose the next step is increasing the price of the t34 to the same as the p4 and cromwell with no other changes because theres and su85 and katy in the tier?

Because soviets have penals and clown car in the same tier, not to mention that you are fighting 4\5 men squads. The fact that soviets could have used sniper as a frontline unit without counter play, was a disign flow.

Also british sniper, is not ost clone stats vise, and ost sniper is better, but for some reason its still very usefull, dont see any reason why soviet sniper would become useless with 1 model, considering his stats got buffed in return.

i never said that the soviet sniper was fine as is, ive even been at the heart of discussion on how to change it, this is the way to remove it from the game.
the faction that suffer most to the soviet sniper is the ost whos mainline infantry gets one of the best long range weapons on one of the most accurate squads in the game in the game making a slip up with 1 man very risky, as well as the absolutely superior German sniper


and when the ost get their sniper they also have the best machine gun in the game and a mortar.
the brit sniper works because it has other utility. it can call in arty and damage light vehcles and even then its still very niche.

pros of the ost sniper: high rof, good vet ability, FANTASITC support options including t0 mg to defend against rushes, natural access
cons: 1 man, expensive
pros of the brit sniper: EZ mode high efficiency healing, cool vet ability providing utility vs natural counters, t0 mg support, high powered infantry support, natural access, arty flare utility, reduced target size with vet.
cons: 1 man, expensive, lowish AI performance
pros of soviet sniper: once it gets vet 1 it has access to an ability it used to always have, strong infantry support (penals) scout car in tier
cons:1 man, expensive, all possible utility tied to vet, slow RoF, no MG access without side teching (fuel cost is low but mp cost is certainly not, given you are already paying the same for less in most early game units including the new sniper, cons, the maxim....), all unit in tier are expensive, only ever can heal in base and only after 250mp upgrade

so you pay the same for a unit that is undeniably worse in every possible way than its counterparts in both its intended role (killing enemy units) as well as any fall back roles (utility) while lacking any support weapons to provide indirect fire or crowd control because in that tier theres an overpowered unit?

Cool. Thanks TIL.