Profile of Hannibal

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I agree with your sentiment about CB, but you are missing the point in quoting me. What I tried to make clear to you is that the post you were quoting is referring to the tracking behaviour only, not CB itself. So please if you use this post as a basis for response, then refer only to the tracking as well because that is the main (only?) thing I was referring to. I am also not connected to Sanders or the balance team at all, and again you are referring to CB in general which I tell you now for the third time was not my point at all.

For all we can assume the tracking is difficult to abuse and an overall rare event. Please provide some reasoning why you think this occurs so often. My reasoning is that in almost all cases Allied barrages fire for so long that the LeFH will turn and CB trigger before the unit has left the cone. And even less likely be back in base.

The Elefant is not related. Even at 320 damage, it was working as intended. It is just stupid design. The tracking is not working as intended. The Elefant is - if at all - related to CB itself, which again was not the focus of my post.

And one note repeating what I already said: The tracking does not make CB stronger in a sense that CB is suddenly stronger this week in contrast to pre patch or before. The feeling of strength of CB that you get when using or receiving it is exactly the same. It's more akin to finding out the Riflemen nade had increased damage on every 100+th nade thrown. It were a stupid bug that should not happen in the first place. Yet having this knowledge did not make the nade suddenly stronger. If the ability is seen as too strong it is not due to something bugging out once every blue moon (slight exaggeration for clarity). If the ability is seen as overall bad design it is also not due to something bugging out once every blue moon. The ability had the same strength before and after gaining knowledge of the bug.

Divorcing CB and the tracking bug implies no status on either of these.

1) what should that achieve? USF armor comes at similar timings as all other factions. Resource investment is similar to OKW and Soviets.

2) USF has the strongest main line in the game, I don't see why they need a non doc elite infantry.

3) OKW T3 tech was split only to allow better timing of Obers and doctrinal units. It had nothing to do with the gun, since the cost for getting the gun stayed the same. If you want to lock down a sector with the HQ, you do it in almost the same time as before

Yeah exactly. Note "barrage" not "counter-barrage". I'm asking you to implement things youve said evenly to other units. Are you really asking me a redundant rhetorical question when yes thats exactly what I'm doing?

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The units you are referring to have had their barrages buffed to require more manual input.

But that would lead too far offtopic now, this can be better discussed in one of the patch threads.

this is not the main issue with cb unless you have an apm in the single-digits. you pay for that tiny bit of convenience with not being able to barrage WHERE and WHEN you want, and that is a huge trade-off in most scenarios.

I've already pointed it out in response to Sander's, but I think the issue with CB is that the micro advantage is very different.
Higher tier players can more easily track down the cooldowns, know instantly where to place it etc. But the majority of us scrubs does not. I personally keep forgetting to use my arty from time to time. If it just sits around for one minute twice a match I could have fit in a full barrage.
At the mid to low level game play, the reward/micro curve just flattens. A mid level Soviet player will still need to not forget, track the CD and aim his ML20, a mid level LeFH player does not have to.
The trade off of this ability is that it might not hit as perfectly. In mid/low tier CoH2, a place barrage would not hit perfectly anyway. So there is no trade off anymore, just the plus side that you don't forget to use it anymore. That's what in my opinion is "the most wrong" with this ability.

Or CB was always dumb and this just pushes it over the top. Imo the only real issue here is ml20 vs leFH. I have a much harder time killing leFHs with ml20s than vice versa, and I'm not sure why there should be such a difference. Unless that's just my experience

I just want the people discussing here to calm down and make a decent discussion again. The last page was quite wild.

It is not like we got a recent direct/indirect buff that now makes it OP or that a new glitch was discovered that can be heavily abused. We're still seeing the same LeFH and CB as we have seen for the last 8 years.