Profile of van Voort

Before the last update from Cynthia I'd be much less happy


However the poll doesn't really reflect how I feel and I think we need some more nuance.


I liked bulletins being linked to achivements, iit gave you a reason to use units you might not otherwise use and break up your gameplay

I liked commander drops and bulletins linked to level.


Duplicates need to be made meaningful, especially we need an answer on whether bulletins stack or not, because it seems some do and some don't and we don't know which is bug and which is feature


So if I had an ideal situation for war spoils it would be this:


You can always unlock one iteration of a bulletin linked to acheivement or level as before


Bulletins to stack


War Spoils to be awarded based on XP not time played (prevents AFK farming and rewards achivement not participation)


XP cost to scale upwards based on how many drops you have already had


War spoil drops to be strongly weighted towards the faction you play and the units you use


I could even go with some of the commanders requiring a special achivement to unlock
(like you unlock Not One Step Back by winning a certain number of games without ever retreating)


Duplicate commanders, skins, faceplates and bulletins need to be made meaningful. Trade will only really work like for like, so crafting looks like the only other option

City 17 Winter was in circulation but was taken out


because it was frequently vetoed

because people hate snow


Rhzev summer was also taken out for being frequently vetoed


I likeed both

Elite Rifleman:
At the moment this ability provides no real downfall to its usage except for its long recharge time. We implemented slight cost increase as well as starting it on a cool down. However we are currently exploring possible redesigns of the ability such as increasing the rate in which rifleman will accumulate Veterancy.

Either push them back to later CPs (like 2)

And/Or

Give them an fuel cost and maybe more MP as elite training works

Soviet Weapon Team:
This has been a hot topic for a while but we are experimenting with 4 men Soviet Weapon Teams. Issue being they are too durable. If a 4 men team loses 2 men, chances of losing that whole squad would go up exponentially. When a 6 men squad loses 2 men the chances of losing that squad still remain fairly low. If overall performances needs to be compensated for reduced durability that is something we could also explore.

I don't know if this in response to Maxim spam being the new meta, or a longer term issue.

I would be very wary of changing the Soviet essence.

Maxim spam is common right now, but the Soviets basically only have three opening options:

1) T2

2) T1 just got nerfed

3) Con spam is difficult right now, especially v OKW, and more seriously US rifle spam is much better than con spam so if you want to do that you have no real reason to play Soviets

If the other two options become better then maxim spam will be less common

I'd like to see new TOW, and Relic may have it on the back burner, but I doubt that it's a good value for relic to make it or people to buy it compared to what else they could be doing

lol i used the heat rounds today. it was like taking a club to a gun fight. it was like a slow motion turd hitting the E8. a kingtiger shooting this looked about as good as it worked. fucking retarded ability. why not TUNGSTEN rounds? they are high velocity AT rounds? no can't have something that makes sense for Germans, like the field repairs, they should have been on ost doc not okw, but that would make sense.

I know I am not going to win any friends by mentioning "reality", but the Germans were short of tungsten by the time of the late 44/45 battles for a variety of reasons not least that the allies out bid them for the very limited supplies availible