Applied.
Last time it was fun to discuss balance without all the usual lolcakes and get a coherent arguments with actual stats and situations without theorycraft bs(most of the time), up for it again if it'll help avoid balance disasters of WFA.
HMG34 is fine.
Its osttruppen among HMGs and why it should perform on pair with others?
Not a single less then 240mp unit is as effective as 240mp or more units, spammability is the strength of them(unless we talk irregulars and partisans, where even spamming them isn't redeeming factor).
I like when people on one hand say its impossible to counter an IS2 with Dual Pak guns because they are fragile but thought the Pre Buff Jackson was just fine to deal with King Tigers....
When the Pak...has...better pen, same range...better DPS....is cheaper....
Just make a new tournament,the reality will be well exposed.
Till then dedicated ost players,stay off the game like me or play a-move is-2iwin soviets.
You don't really know how statistics work, or why 20-40 random players are no indicator of anything, do you?
You want reality?
Ask relic to give more data to Legends so he can compile another set of W/L graphs for factions.
Wait how do you fail to see? Okw got majorly nerfed (rightly due) but Ostheer go nerfed as well. = Deductions to blitz on panthers & tigers (making them slower and easier to surround now with their limited numbers.)
That HMG, pio, sniper and 222 changes nerfed the shit out of ost indeed.
It really needs its 25% received accuracy removed and the 10 armor upped to 70. I mean why the hell does the DSHK and 0.50 cal have 10 armor while all other ones have 70? It makes them super valnuarable to riflegrenades and nades which means you have to constantly repair them...
That also means HMG42 incendiary rounds are able to destroy the gun easily if such stronk USF hmg.
Alex is the only one on these and official forums saying its useful and used.