Sarcasm dude.
I don't even play the game enough to have a viable opinion of the balance I can barely judge based upon the stats and the little bit of time I played the game.
Hard to tell because of avatar and certain group of players warrioring for axis
Let's settle it like this: I never expected them to actually change the LMG34 to an upgrade. I honestly think they aren't useless I imagine them as Grens on Roids without their LMG so they are still pretty good performing. I hope OKW won't be dropped by all the players, I still hope we will see a Meta where OKW will be playable without being OP or nerfed into the ground.
Well, that was the most straight forward and logical change they could get.
At base they have twice the performance effectiveness of grens, free LMG was just the icing on the cake, which was obvious to go down first. Anyway, meta and BOs for OKW should get more varied and interesting now instead of LOLVOLKBLOB with oberspam into panther/KT.
I am also glad they made the Jackson more of a counter to the allmighty Panther again prolly without making it OP because you have to be much more careful now when fighting a Jackson. Along with the changes to the KT and the Blitz-abilities, I think this patch is a great step forward.
And as a side effect, they have made Ost T3 100% viable, jackson is now worse against Ost T3 then SU-85, both requiring same amount of shots to kill the tanks, but jackson having 50% slower ROF. It also makes bazooka more useful thanks to deflect damage it had actually making a difference now.
And not related to your post but the contents of the thread:
Sweet RNGJesus, the axis tears, so sweet and watching alex finally loosing it completely-priceless.