They are better at their function (suppressing) It's just retarded how much cushion the soviets get now when they caught in an MG42 arc. There wasn't really a cushion before this patch but the cushion is now too big is my problem.
Of course this is all relative to COH 1.
Personally I believe that we have been a bit spoiled by what the unit did before. It's the same price as a conscript squad and it has the ability to negate an entire push. It will still do that, but will give the player on the recieving end 2 or 3 more seconds to react rather then the one we had before.
Either way I think we need a bit more time to judge. It might need a slight increase.