Profile of Blovski

If you go straight T1->Penals->M3->2xCons the DPS can often straight up kill an MG and steal it. Not a great build in general but pretty effective if you suspect MG spam from the bulletins.

Like all Tier 1 builds, not going for guards and a sniper afterwards means you're liable to get your cut off sat on by an FHT and an MG or two.

I've been looking through some of this forum's threads, and almost in all of them u're the guy who keeps whining and bitching about how soviets are op and stuff. I've really seen a ton of ur snots that can be easily taken as a "biased german rant". Would u be so kind and provide ur steam ID so anyone could take you as a guy who really wants to even things out and not a girl that gets raped everytime she launches this game

You may not like Nullist (I've come to find those ornery ways vaguely loveable) but that is a fucking horrible misogynistic thing to say.

I suspect part of the reason Shocks have not been that popular in high level play is that a Tier 1 to Tier 4 player has snipers for anti-infantry and needs guards as a way of protecting them from the Flamer Half Track or Scout Car. Now that no longer seems to be an easy go-to strat for high-level players, shocks might make a comeback.

Additionally, the grenade situation does seem to me to make guards often able to fill the role of Shocks against p-grens and actually somewhat better at filling the role of Shocks against MGs, just because the grenade's likely enough to decrew an MG to prompt a retreat.

Without grenades, shocks basically always beat pgrens.

When they were 360MP people did just spam Shocks. I'm still seeing quite a lot of people at lowish level play going for the Shocks -> KV-8 commander. More because lowish level players love the KV-8 baserush than anything else but y'know.

Pulling stats from here:

Guard Nade
Guard grenade is 45 munis.
Bundle Grenade
Bundle grenade is 45 munis.
Shock Troop Grenade
Shock grenade is either 30 or 35 munis, 30, I think.

(warning: in the topic I pulled these from some people had trouble with the links going to the wrong things for some reason)

There was a thread recently on guard grenades, which had a little comparing with the Pgren bundle grenade. Anyway, the basic difference as far as I can see (please correct me if I've missed something important) is that Guard grenades have half the windup time (.125 as opposed to .25) and 1.5 as opposed to 1.0 'accuracy' in open terrain for some reason. I don't know if that has any effect on things or why there's a discrepancy *just* in open terrain.

When you go over to Shock Nades, the RG 42 has a radius of 4 as opposed to 6, has a near and far range of 1 and 2 as opposed to 1.5 and 3. Windup is .25 like the bundlenade. Otherwise target tables for the three grenades look pretty similar for all real occasions.

So, of the three units, the most AT unit has the best anti-infantry nade (not a big difference in the raw stats from the bundlenade aside from the weird open 'accuracy' difference which looks like a mistake to me, but as it's against smaller squads I'd say it's way better in practice). The most AI unit has far and away the weakest grenade.

So, leading question time. Is this maybe part of the reason Shocks are kind of underused right now (the stat difference definitely explains how underwhelming Shock nades are)? I mean, Guards as a useful multipurpose AT unit will often win an engagement with P-grens through a grenade, whereas shocks as a dedicated AI unit will often lose one after taking a grenade.

I'm still having the same lag-kick issue. Sent a complaint to Sega about it. I'm almost certain it's not (or at least not just) on my end, just because three consecutive games display completely different levels of lag with no obvious difference in the internet connection.

It seems absurd offering a lag kick option for often unperceivable lag in 1v1. For heavy lag it's more understandable.