Not gonna lie I haven´t seen someone use an MG42 in months now. Probably because you´re more likely to hit everything around an enemy before him. Bots are absolute gods with it though.
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No collusion, just Axis is easier atm… or did you not notice all the Chinese xp farmers all around you? What did you think they picked the hard to grind side? Since when does the average Chinese gamer ever not Min/Max?
I mean look at the two tech lines and tell me which you would pick.
Allies get pea shooters in comparison to the Assault Rifles and MG’s that are out the ass on the Axis side. Who wants garbage Thompson to fight StG? Honestly.
Almost every single Allies tank could get beaten a revolver because most of them are open topped. This is not an Axis problem.
Thanks to power creep the Axis is far more OP in that campaign compared to say Moscow or Berlin where they face far tougher armor and equivalent automatic rifle and lmg counterparts. The allies get dick to fight the Axis other then that absolute useless M2 with it’s sights that are so bad I’d rather use the starter bolt rifle.
Meanwhile the Axis get their blueprint guns out the yin yang, I mean the Devs just gave out the Conders MG to the Axis which is a complete make believe gun from like 1945 and less then 50 were actually made.
It would be like giving the allies a prototype M-16 but you know they sure didn’t do that. No they gave the Allies another absolute useless SMG that again no one wants.
The Allies Tech tree is a joke; their level 39 tank has armor so thin that an SMG could pierce the front easily. The HMG would turn it into swiss cheese if you ever actually saw one and not just the not stop spam of low levels in light tanks that every match has.
The allied playerbase has mostly moved on most long term game veterans figured out Normandy Allies are UP so they switched to Axis or they play pacific or go to Soviet which is far more balanced matches against Soviets.
So to sum up no collusion just people gravitated towards the easier/OP side and that’s basically who is left really now because the current model is bad for business hence why they are changing it to a matchmaker system to try and make it less broken matches.
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It would be the case for me few months ago but now i can’t win a single game as Allies since Axis is tryharding even more than op Hvar spammers, at least vs them you could build AA gun but vs Tigers? You can’t do anything as engineer or as a tanker if you don’t have 76mm you can only suicide rush with planes or try your luck with demo packs (and you can’t do anything against greyzone campers). I’m glad that matchmaking is coming since this is pure cancer.
Fate of every American tanker at Normandy. Those Tigers are getting so cocky since they know you can’t do anything against them except using planes or demo packs. I don’t remember when i last won non-bot game as them i have 41% WR as Allies and 76.5% as Axis
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M2 sights are so bad that i need to force myself to press rmb to get less obstructing ads that also increase your accuracy, hipfiring is horrible so you can’t really use it either. All murrican guns are pure garbage outside sniper rifles and maybe M1 Garand and Colt Monitor/BAR (they are still weaker than STGs). Finally i understand why people are spamming Hvar/m8 rockets so much, all their gear is just awful to use and they want to get kills. I pity people who bought Calliope, that premium vehicle is not only too expensive but also gets instantly destroyed by Tigers/Panthers in a single shot.
100% agree; planes are such a red herring to complain about. AA takes literally all planes out in 2-4 good hits and now that they devs have got the hit models better it’s far easier to smoke bombers and the P-47-D out of the sky. The only thing thats hard to hit with AA is really fast low flying fighters.
IMO they need to add Engineer III’s who have some sort of very large buildable AT gun that literally takes 20 seconds to load and is huge but is able to one shot all these grey zone tankers. No HE just a single giant cannon for dealing with the people 1.2km away from the fight.
Honestly real a SPG or build able Arty we could man ourselves to blast these stationary lumps sitting in the grey zone would be the solution but I doubt they will add that. I don’t want the HE to spam; I just want them to give us an AP option and maybe smoke.
ATM there is no counter to the armor imbalance in an infantry game which has led to Normandy becoming a who has a better make believe tank campaign and it’s usually Germans on defense so that + the fact you can have infinity vehicles on defense has led to a real problem the devs refuse to admit they caused.
They either need to add real AT counters to Normandy or stop being so generous with the grey zone. The fact that tankers know they can sit in an area so close and shoot while being protected from any TNT blast is stupid.
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As a maxed out Normandy Allies player, I think M2 carbine is quite powerful (for CQB and when being used by AI ). But It’s very true that the infantry weapons and tanks for Normandy Axis are just straight out better than the Allies. Therefore Normandy Allies have to rely heavily on planes, flamethrowers and explosive to win a match.
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Giving Normandy Axis Panthers and Tigers while giving Normandy Allies paper cannon carts are just ridiculous. I still don’t understand why the 76mm Jumbo is not available for Normandy Allies. Those M10, M18 and M4A1 (76mm) feels like a downgrade from Jumbo as they can’t even withstand a shot from Puma…
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Well the Axis community won’t ever let the devs forget the first year when the Jumbo was dominate in Normandy so now the devs seem to put out weaker and weaker and weaker tanks for the Allies while working their way to giving the Axis the Tiger 2 which will just break Normandy.
I’ve got an average of lvl 25 on all the campaigns both sides, to say that the Allies are currently underpowered in their weaponary is probably an understatement.
Like I hated grinding out Normandy Allies because of how UP their crap was compared to Axis and even say Moscow or Berlin. Basically the last good gun they get is the M1 Garand and after that they are all meh. Meanwhile all my Axis squads get to run full FG42s it’s so broken atm.
It is hilarious to watch the bots be beasts at range with the M2; they may be the only ones who can use a sight that blocks 7/10ths of your vision and most of the target and requires you to hit multiple times. As a hipfire weapon sure it’s fine for clearing in cqc, but so is a flamethrower.
Frankly the upcoming changes will be the best for Allies Normandy and Worst for Axis Normandy since most Allies are already only running mid tier equipment and most Axis are running full end campaign equipment squads and tanks.
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Yes indeed the Jumbo was dominating in the first year but it’s 75mm cannon is very weak to kill other tanks (it still struggles to kill any German tanks other than the puma). The German FG42s, MGs, MP44s, smgs are also more accurate at long range, which they could kill most Allies soldiers before they could shoot back. (While Allies only got M1919A6 & BAR for long range, only avaliable to MG gunners) (The M1 Garand is also meh with its horrible shot deviation, despite having a good gun sight)
Oh there is no doubt the overall balance in Normandy is terrible.
Well it’s pretty obvious after playing this game for 2 years the Devs have a preference and is not for English speakers. I suspect some English speaker banged out one of the devs girlfriend when they were young and now were all paying that price in the english speaking section. Hell hath no fury like a cucked hard 4 =/
Currently the rule of thumb in any campaign in this game is pick the non-english speaking side and your picking the better one. If Both non-english then goes Russian speakers and your laughing.
I mean just look at the Normandy campaign trees and overlap the later campaigns and it’s no contest. The axis is overpowered out the ass in the later campaign there. I think they’ve known this for awhile and that’s what this tech tree/matchmaker update is suppose to fix/manage their powercreep ruining the early campaigns.
Yeah I always feel like the Devs are not paying enough attention for Western Allies tech tree. Why the Axis and Soviets get OP weapons in the later campaign while Western Allies get all those “meme” weapons…
The same attitude also applies on Gold order weapons- every Gold order weapon for Western Allies are nearly worthless, compare to those 91-round PPD & G43 Kurz, etc.
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During the past days, the Axis repeatedly carried out boring massacres using STG44, FG, and MG. But things are going to change now. It is expected that the balance that was disrupted due to the update will gradually normalize. In the case of bar2, the random spread has almost disappeared, and m2 is also evolving into a great automatic rifle.
well but…While the m2 still has a narrow field of view, it is tolerable. but The biggest issue is the muzzle flash, which can make it difficult to see the target due to the light emitted from the muzzle.
I believe that the development team will fix this issue as well. Additionally
. I am satisfied with this update.
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Yeah the it is hilarious they included the M1 and M2 in the dispersion buff. It’s almost like they know those rifles are not in a good place.
I’ve tried it since the patch and it’s still not a great weapon. Sure it’s more accurate now that the bullets don’t zing abit left and right from where you aimed but it’s still atrocious to try and aim at medium range with the sights.
The ring sight + muzzle flash is so bad it obscures far too much of the screen to bother trying to ADS that weapon.
Otherwise besides some of the stupid changes to quickthrow nades making them like mines now and not reliably actually thrown and the windows and ledges being weird to get over I’m pretty happy with this update. Wooo WP got nerfed.
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