Profile of Sander93

Why? Right now flag is just useless object in gamedesign, you could click on it and nothing changes.

It serves as the waypoint for shift queuing capture orders, and is therefor already a risk/reward mechanic in itself. The reward being far less micro, while the risk is obviously that a squad bunching up around the flagpole will be an easy target for enemy units.

30% rate of fire increase might as well be swapping out mosins with other guns with how much better it is.

Only in cover. And it's still nowhere near the DPS increase that STG 44s/LMG 42/2x BAR/2x Brens give, so the bonus XP gain is still justified. Is the complete package slightly overperforming in terms of efficiency? I'd say over time it has proven so, but the XP gain bonus is not a part of that problem.

85 can attack first, so no range advantage and 85 wins. It’s also a 1v1 so not sure why Panther range matters since nobody spots for it.

Counting from the first shot, at medium (20) range:
- Panther vs T-35-85 TTK: ~26,6s
- T-34-85 vs Panther TTK: ~51,2s
- T-34-85 (Mark Vehicle) vs Panther TTK: ~38,4s
(disregarding accuracy because scatter shots are too unpredictable to quantify)


And this is disregarding:
- Panther range advantage;
- Panther accuracy advantage;
- Panther vet 1 Blitzkrieg (-25% RA, +15% speed, +30% accel/decel) and Combat Blitz (+20% accuracy and -25% RA on the move, +25% rate of fire, +20% speed);
- Panther vet 2 armor bonus.


There is no scenario, except for the Panther showing its rear armor during the entire engagement or the absolute worst RNG, in which a Panther will lose to a T-34-85.

Jett is right, Cmd Panther exceled at dropping a mark target on an enemy medium and then diving it to quickly get the kill.

Command Panther's Concentrated Fire doesn't actually do anything against 640hp and 800hp mediums because it lasts only 20 seconds, which isn't enough to lower the shots to kill (STK). 20s is good for 2 shots (400dmg), 3 (600dmg) if timed absolutely perfectly. That means (800-400=)400hp or (800-600=)200hp is left so the 5 STK doesn't change. 640/160 = 640/200 at 4 STK.

It only works against the EZ8/SU-76/M10, when there are multiple other AT sources firing simultaneously or if the target was already damaged by other non-160dmg AT sources (Pshrecks, mines, snares, Puma).

In the long run better solution are proven to be easier.

There is no long run. For all we know, any patch could be the last. Which is why we can't go around radically changing things now, risk completely breaking it and have it in the game for the rest of its life.

For example Penals and Volks are not changed because even if they're not perfect they work well enough, and changing a faction's core line infantry has far reaching and unknown consequences we may never be able to deal with.

On the timing issue, what do you think of switching from CPs to an AEC-like sidetech instead? That shouldn't be much of an impediment in resource-rich teamgames, but should blunt the heavy rush in 1v1.

That's how I remember Blitzkrieg mod did it in its vCoH overhaul, and that was my personal originally proposed and preferred option too as it would've allowed to finetune heavies' arrival individually and down to the second, but ultimately the CP/tech hybrid was put in place and we'll have to try to make the best of that with some minor adjustments. Switching to a sidetech system at this point would be a lot of work in itself and it'd basically mean we'd have to start over from the beginning.