Profile of rofltehcat

I find that my SSD seems to make very little difference in load times. I had the game on my SSD but later put it on my normal 1 TB HDD and the load time doesn't seem to have changed a lot.

I'm unsure what that means for the bottle neck but load times are really strange sometimes.

Don't give them ideas. It'll just end up being all infrared units and IR upgrades.

Example: IR NV upgrade for the King Tiger. ("Aim at the orange blob!")

I think that in its current role the Kübelwagen should not have the 50 vision range shared by scout units.
Why? Because with the recent changes it was moved more into the role of a HMG. HMGs have a quite large firing range. So large, in fact, that they can shoot farther than they can see (35 vision for infantry). This is afaik intentional, so they require a spotter to function to their fullest.

If the Kübelwagen had lower vision range, it'd be far easier to flank and would be a bit less effective at long range suppression (at least while without a spotter), similar to HMGs. Relying on a spotter for full efficiency would also mean it would be a less efficient harasser (drive into enemy lines, suppress/damage lone squads, drive out) and using it to harass would be a greater risk.


To allow it to spot for other units (like a Raketenwerfer) later on, I'd additionally (would be nice but not necessary) suggest to either:
1. change one of its vet boni to be the removed vision range
OR 2. add "additional vision range while stationary" to one of its vet boni
OR 3. move the vision range onto the vet 1 ability and remove/reduce suppression while the ability is active... this would be more interesting but possibly a balance problem. It'd basically switch into harassment/sniper hunting mode.

Tbh, plotting unit paths with lots of shift-rightclick (or an AutoHotey script) is probably still the best solution (by avoiding the pathfinding AI).

I wonder how the pathfinding AI works. Right now it seems to accept stationary turns as valid solutions because those are the shortest route when it could do a few more iterations and find a much faster route (without all the stops and stationary turns).

Long Range LMGs:
Currently, to take the LMG42 as an example:
http://www.coh2-stats.com/small_arms/grenadier_mg42lmg_mp
Rof multi far:
1.25
Rof multi near:
1.0
Duration multi far:
1.5
Duration multi near:
0.75

This means it has a long burst with increased rate of fire when firing at enemies that are far away and it has a shorter burst with normal rate of fire when fighting close enemies.
This is completely counter-intuitive. One would expect the LMG-gunner to do short bursts of only a few bullets when aiming at targets far away, pausing to aim the gun again and compensating the recoil whereas at short range he could do a little more spray&pray.