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Fixing frustrating RNG wipes is trivial to implement. Just set "Maximum models hit" to 2-3 depending on the weapon, this means a mortar or tank shell will never one-shot instagib an entire squad because they clump around something.

This is exactly what mines do, remember how mine RNG wipes were a problem until they implemented that?

Either way the big changes that need to happen are squad spacing. Indirect shouldn't need as adjusted as it is. The easiest and best change, imo, is that indirect fire should only be able to kill 2 models MAXIMUM of a full health squad, much like the change that happened to mines some time ago, I still really don't get why this hasn't been changed as I feel its a pretty safe and straight forward fix.

Preach. I did this is in my mods and such a simple change makes an incredible difference, so much less frustrating RNG and more room for actual calculation of engagements. In particular, it's a huge buff to 4 man survivability who otherwise can easily get one shot. (where as 5 & 6 man squads rarely get 1 shot.)

This legal talk is ridiculous lol, please stop pretending this is a bigger deal than it is. This is a conversation about etiquette that should have been resolved privately.

I certainly think it's disrespectful to be shoutcasting live alongside the main event, and it's annoyed me when it's happened to me in the past. It's a bit different if someone was streaming their first person perspective of them competing in the tournament or just laddering as opposed to casting the event, because that's not really "Competing" in the same sense and there's no reason why they can't just shoutcast the replays later.

If people want to cast it live, well, you can't stop them and it's in there right to do so given the observer mode functionality, but it's important to support event organisers because they help keep the community alive which leads to more people watching streams. (Don't bite the hand that feeds you, as it were)

The real issue here is Coh2's lack of custom game tools that prevents people you don't want observing from observing. You can create a 15 minute delay with password bypass, but to spectate live in practically every RTS game you have to be in the lobby, so the official casters naturally are the only ones doing it. It's still worth doing the password though, having a 15 minute delay would discourage people from watching alternative streams compared to the official stream which is live.

I would also say there needs to be more emphasis on making sure all these replays actually get posted, most of the replays from events such as King of the Hill never get posted (and I'm guessing many of these replays from the weekend weren't posted), so if I wanted to cast those replays I would have to do so live for myself. You can't really say "Oh can you just cast the replays later on so you don't compete with our stream" but then the replays don't actually get posted.

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USF doesn't have anymore an emergency tank at disposal.

Emergency tank? ;D