Profile of A_E

Excellent work on the writing as usual GBPirate! 👊

This Saturday you'll see eight of the finest CoH2 streamers/players facing off against one another in Master League Streamer Cup.

All matches played live on Twitch with web cams, under Master League rules with the loser of each series hosting the winner, until we have two streams left standing!

We'll also be using the balance mod so it will be one of our first chances to see how the changes play out under pressure.

The matches start at 2pm GMT and the tournament will be completed in a day.

Prizes:

1st: $200 - 2nd: $50 - 1st-8th: 5x sub gifts ($33 each)

(the event is funded via the Master League in a joint effort to raise awareness of the league's patreon, and the player's streams)

Eligible players:

The following players accepted invites/ were available on the day suggested:

https://www.twitch.tv/OrangePest
https://www.twitch.tv/fahu
https://www.twitch.tv/helpinghans
https://www.twitch.tv/Greyshot117
https://www.twitch.tv/SiberianGT
https://www.twitch.tv/Elpern
https://www.twitch.tv/The_Angry_Dutchman
https://www.twitch.tv/majorboneslive
https://www.twitch.tv/Borobadger_
https://www.twitch.tv/duffmanntm
https://www.twitch.tv/ed80hertz

(the eight players that check in first on the day will be entered into the brackets)

Brackets to be made on day of tournament: https://tinyurl.com/1v1StreamerCup

No bros you're not getting what I'm saying, players under top level right now don't use snipers very much because they don't use them in a safe way and get burnt, aka always playing with them exposed and not having a faust or at nade handy to stop LV rushes. So yeah they might get a cheeky mg wipe or whatever in the first 15 mins but that sniper is dead by 20.

This patch is telling them to play it safer, keep your snipers back, and let them do their work and accumulate mp over time, whilst staying protected. Which is actually how pro players use their snipers in CoH2 from like 2018 onward. DevM, Luvnest, Talisman had a big impact on this in a public setting. Noggano is a great example in 2020 during CoHrona Cup semi finals.

It's like how directly using your mortars in CoH2 most of the time, results in less work over time than just letting the AI fire for you all game. People think too hard with snipers and try and be too clever.

I'm suggesting that if the balance team start pushing players to using their snipers synergistically it'll actually have a weird counter intuitive effect on the playerbase of making them use snipers more.

That's my take anyway.

All Snipers
The intended change is to make Sniper less capable of operating on their own when they do not have veterancy. This will force the player to have forward spotters to fully utilize the range of their sniper or move the sniper closer to their intended target. Quality of life implements have also been added.
- Cost from 360 to 340
- Sight from 45 to 40
- Will no longer auto-target vehicles.
- Veterancy 2 +20% sight bonus to +25%; total is now 50 from 54

This is going to work against you, playing with sniper out on his/her own is fools work anyway, you're now encouraging a generation of players to learn how to spot for their snipers properly!

If you want to nerf snipers slightly or something, encouraging synergy spotting play might not be the best way. Could in fact slow games down as players learn to use the 'meat shield' more often.

Basically I see this 'nerf' as a global buff to snipers due to player dynamics.

Sturmpioneers
Adjustments are being made to Stumpioneers to allow their Panzerschrecks to be a functional upgrade and diversify OKW builds. Their high costs and fall-off in the AI role mid-game makes it impractical for multiple Sturmpioneers to be fielded in higher level games. Population is also being reduced to help OKW's population issues in the late game.
- Panzerschreck and minesweepers no longer mutually exclusive with each other
- Panzerschreck cost from 70 to 60
- Population from 8 to 7
- Concussion grenade cost reduced to 20 at veterancy 4

Yeah.......... my spider sense says you just borked team games XD

Self mine clearing shreck blobs incoming!