Profile of rofltehcat

It is interesting that you see it as a particular problem in team games when caches are better in team games because each player on a team gets their bonus income and because team games tend to last longer (further increasing the overall gain from caches).

I agree that 150 munitions or 50 fuel for 200 manpower is strong but I think the downsides outweigh that(requires 2 CP, requires infantry unit and player attention to pick up, can be stolen!, requires control of a muni/fuel point to be activated, isn't available before and in blizzard).
It is certainly better designed unlike other resource boosts like Soviet Industry.

If you had problems fighting against it, I'd certainly like to watch those replays.

There are already criticals in the game that make tanks lose their tracks and other vehicles to lose their wheels (though they normally don't survive a 400 dmg hit). However, the only weapon this applies to is the Riegel AT mine and the T-34 ram, at least to my knowledge.

Does this work for automatch?
Other than that you can also switch the language in Steam. You'll probably have to download the language files once but after that you can switch basically instantly. This requires a restart of the game each time, though.

It seems to increase the sight range to 50, which is the same as a sniper or scout car.

AT guns have a range of 60, so they can shoot the T70 before it can see the AT gun if the AT gun has a spotter.

The "run up to an MG and hurl a Molotov" problem and the randomness perceived by different people here is a result of the MG42 (and other HMGs) only doing 50% suppression against targets in light cover.
Even the smallest crater or tuft of grass can be enough to prevent the MG42 from suppressing and small patches of light cover are very plentifull. This affects the other two HMGs as well but not nearly as severely because they have a higher base suppression and thus are more often able to ignore the short effect of small light cover areas against suppression.

I think infantry just moving by a single tuft of grass should not receive the bonus but this probably isn't as easy to code. Even if some of the soldiers get the cover bonus, the HMG may target others that currently do not have the cover bonus, adding further to the perceived randomness.

A fix for this would be to buff the MG42 back to roughly the same suppression as the Maxim and adjust it in other ways. Its primary job is suppression and its current performance means it isn't adequately doing its suppression job, resulting in its low survivability becoming a huge liability and thus even good use of the unit being perceived as "simply not worth it" over other units.

It is really the same problem AT guns had (even worse) before they buffed their accuracy and the same problem mortars had before they changed buildings: Units that are not able to fill their primary job are not worth it. Support weapons are especially affected by that because their low mobility and lack of any flexibility means that if they can't fill their primary role, they do not have a secondary role to fall back on (or cannot use that secondary role because they are always either dead or running away).


Remember that the whole suppression system is working with thresholds: If the MG42 cannot reach the threshold for the suppressed state to kick in in a sensible manner, it doesn't really matter if the suppression it deals ends up at 40% or at 90% of the threshold.
The squad still doesn't go to the suppressed state and their suppression recovery isn't reduced (thus regenerating the suppression from the first burst pretty quickly). [disclaimer: Lower suppression recovery while suppressed was at least that is how suppression recovery worked in CoH1.]