Why shame? There is just a single subchat enabled "Test". The channel does currently not support matches, only if you love listening to chit chat and background noise while playing 1v1.
You would need to create some more subchats something like: 1-10 game chats, each with 2 subchats for axis and allies team. Maybe a broadcast channel too, which a member can lock, an afk chat and one for non coh games.
There were already countless threads created, why people avoid this game. So i don´t understand the point of opening another one.
However i appreciate the effort, that a relic dev creates a topic by its own and asking the community for help, since relic communication with the community in this forum is quite rare.
I think the damage should be nerfed, but the AOE increased. The target table can be adjusted that the effect against tanks and buildings remain the same. This way the Stuh gets more predictable for both players.
On a side note: Is it possible to change the AOE of a weapon by range?
I have a suggestion:
What about adding a vote on factions similar to a vote on maps? This way you can decide against which faction you want to get matched. The first steam patch had already something like this because of a bug.
Maybe simplifiy it by activating/deactivation of a lock getting matched against OF factions.