I can bet on it that the buff across the board was unintentional. The game treats anything that goes boom as HE. Change a value and it changes for arty, mortars, bombs, rockets all the same.
Same happened for the spawn protection. It’s more lazy coding from the past haunting now.
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That is most likely the case, and it is not even first time it happened.
Actually enjoyable gameplay > Anything IRL related.
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Not necessary lazy coding. Not everyone follows the mantra of Dice where weapon damage is just a curve that can be edited by any gamedesigner. When you use more “sim” like approach, having a consistency of how thing behave is more important for code cleanliness and debugging but it makes harder to adjust individual objects from a game design perspective. This is a classical issue in racing games for example, where you either get a full precise control over how car should behave, using curves, but lose physical simulation, or you get proper physics sim but spend a lot of time tuning cars to behave how designer wants and not how physics dictates.
75mm+ HE got a bit crazy with the bug fix and might need a change depending on the lethality the devs are going for
but anything smaller than that seems fine
Nah, HE is already balanced since it’s not as strong as it should be. Now you can actually clear buildings with it. Not just tickle them, i have no problems killing tanks with infantry and I have no problems killing infantry with the tank.
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Games are really boring for now with this insane buff to arty and bombs.
Get bombarded all over the place all the time on a stamp map size isn’t what i call having fun.
Tanks are ok it’s deadly when used correctly but slow and easily countered
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Yeah I totally agree. In an “Assult(hope they keep it as Assult cuz it is so funny)”/Invasion match, the defenders can die immediately at the start of the match if the spawn on the capture point is open, and the person using the arty can get a free 15-25 kills for just clicking on a map. At times it can just guarentee a free capture for the "Assult"ers.
I don’t want to say something bad, about devs, but they don’t play with their game? Testers (not players) are not notice these micro-issues/failures? 
'Assult is a really old spelling mistake from start of OBT, and noone from higher levels noticed that thing, xD
…or just they could spend a little time to search-notice and correct thing, that would be great (I talk about every other problems)