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Here an excerpt of the penal entity blueprint. The crits the unit receives when at 0 HP:

| | | critical_group: {
| | | | critical_info: [
| | | | | info: {
| | | | | | 0x9F66C8E7: {
| | | | | | | 0x6C96A366: true;
| | | | | | | 0x9657F82A: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | applicable_weapons: {
| | | | | | | ballistic: true;
| | | | | | | explosive: false;
| | | | | | | flame: false;
| | | | | | | small_arms: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | critical: "soldier_killed";
| | | | | | weight: 75f;
| | | | | };
| | | | | info: {
| | | | | | 0x9F66C8E7: {
| | | | | | | 0x6C96A366: true;
| | | | | | | 0x9657F82A: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | applicable_weapons: {
| | | | | | | ballistic: false;
| | | | | | | explosive: true;
| | | | | | | flame: false;
| | | | | | | small_arms: false;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | critical: "soldier_killed_death_intensity_100";
| | | | | | weight: 5f;
| | | | | };
| | | | | info: {
| | | | | | 0x9F66C8E7: {
| | | | | | | 0x6C96A366: true;
| | | | | | | 0x9657F82A: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | applicable_weapons: {
| | | | | | | ballistic: true;
| | | | | | | explosive: true;
| | | | | | | flame: false;
| | | | | | | small_arms: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | critical: "make_casualty";
| | | | | | weight: 25f;
| | | | | };
| | | | | info: {
| | | | | | 0x9F66C8E7: {
| | | | | | | 0x6C96A366: true;
| | | | | | | 0x9657F82A: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | applicable_weapons: {
| | | | | | | ballistic: false;
| | | | | | | explosive: false;
| | | | | | | flame: true;
| | | | | | | small_arms: false;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | critical: "burn_death";
| | | | | | weight: 90f;
| | | | | };
| | | | | info: {
| | | | | | 0x9F66C8E7: {
| | | | | | | 0x6C96A366: true;
| | | | | | | 0x9657F82A: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | applicable_weapons: {
| | | | | | | ballistic: false;
| | | | | | | explosive: false;
| | | | | | | flame: true;
| | | | | | | small_arms: false;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | critical: "burn_death_out_of_control";
| | | | | | weight: 10f;
| | | | | };
| | | | | info: {
| | | | | | 0x9F66C8E7: {
| | | | | | | 0x6C96A366: true;
| | | | | | | 0x9657F82A: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | applicable_weapons: {
| | | | | | | ballistic: true;
| | | | | | | explosive: true;
| | | | | | | flame: true;
| | | | | | | small_arms: true;
| | | | | | };
| | | | | | critical: "soldier_flamethrower_explode";
| | | | | | weight: 25f;
| | | | | };
| | | | ];
| | | | max_health_percentage: 0f;
| | | };

Look at the last one, right at the bottom.
If you want you can even work out the chances. Basically take a look at all parts where it says "true" for a class (ballistic, explosive, flame, small arms), sum their total weights up and then calculate the relative weight for the critical

Small arms is 25 / 125 I think, so 20% chance.

They were in multiple streams. I think the one yesterday explains a lot. Not sure if we can discuss this outside of the stream as it might be considered a breach of NDA :/
Look if Brad made a highlight out of it / captured it or ask people who watched

Actually you can't throw grenades through houses AFAIK. You can throw them inside the house, but if you try to riflenade through a house or throw a grenade through it will get stuck.

I would really argue if its better then 34/85.

It got weaker AI and less HP and against dedicated AT only HP matters for anything else then heavy tanks.

E8 has far better AI than the T34/85. Main gun is similar in performance, but it has better MGs (and more).

I also got mostly 50 / 50 searches in the recent days. Besides that, CoH2 has players that prefer one faction, players that play all factions or players that only want to win and play the flavor of the month. That means if you actually want to link searching% to balance you'd have to observe it over a long time to try to remove the first two groups out of the calculation.

Besides that, it's as GustavGans said depending on ELO. If it say 30/70 for you, it's maybe 50/50 for someone else. Additionally those values only count players currently searching for a game.
Really simple math with a few assumptions:
Constant amount of players, all games take on average 30 minutes, search time is on average 3 minutes.
1000 players, starting to play at different times. 3/33 are searching and 30/33 are currently playing, which means 3/33*1000 = 91 players searching and 909 are playing.
Let's assume the people searching are 70% Axis as you said. That results in a total split of:

909/2 + 91 * 0.7 = 518 Axis players
909/2 + 91 * 0.3 = 482 Allied players

Can you now see why this amount of people searching has little to no actual relation to people playing a faction, as it ignores all people ingame as well as only being based on your ELO and the gamemode you queued for?

So could we please stop with that stupid discussion. Relic has far more detailed and actually useful data which we sometimes get access too (but which I can't reveal due to NDA) and if such a problem would exist they would notice it.




On topic:
I think the Easy Eight is almost fine for strength. I would reduce the AoE on it's gun a bit (I feel it's a bit too strong vs infantry) to make it a combination of Jackson and Sherman. It's MGs are already really hurting infantry, but with a main gun that's also really accurate it simply performs too well vs inf. Besides that it's far too cost-effective, as it is stronger than a T34/85 in my opinion, but quite a bit cheaper. Having a superior gun to the '85, better MGs and similar defensive stats and mobility I'd say it's superior. There are some times where the hitpoints of a '85 are better, like vs PaK43 which hardcounter E8, but those are just some rare cases, in general it's still worse. I would put this tank at 400MP/145 fuel.