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The following text below was posted by squad mate Grimripper in the OKW forums,

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Hey there HC.

I am going to be straight up honest with you because I care about this game.

Right now, we are playing Delta Force vs Indians.

This "balance" is a load of horse****. The playerbase is so awful that it makes me sad to see the game where it is.

I as HC wanted to lead a PB and create fun, not sit at the ****ING BUNKER EVERYTIME IM ON.

I am tired of getting killed by BLATANT cheaters, getting in trouble for SPEAKING MY MIND, and getting facerolled evey day I log on because this is a game that is never EVER EVER in our favor.

Doosh made a good point to me yesterday. Summer comes for us in the States, which means winter for the Aussies. Aussies will play Allied while the rest of us are out. This won't be getting any better.

I am not leaving, unless asked to. I am hoping to be a part of an Axis HC that turns the game around. But I will NOT stand for the absolute horse**** excuses I hear day in and day out.

Why cant grenades go in the top of M10s? BALANCE?!?!?!?!?!!? Realistic....

Why do we have so few less units????

Why is the FRENCH SMG a LASER?? The MP40 COULD NOT have been as innacurate as portrayed here. It is more of a shotgun from long range than anything.

Why is the tank to tank ratio so poor? They have what, double our tanks?? I thought this was Battleground Europe 1940.. THE BLITZKRIEG.

Not heres comes Murica to fight young boys and old men in Germany so we better give Germany the ****tiest units. THAT DIDNT HAPPEN.

I do not blame a single person. I blame everyone. The only reason I get on are for people who make me excited to play the game, such as my squad. I WANT to play with them and I have fun doing it. I would rather sit and guard and FB with them all day than waste a second in a stupid AO because GOD KNOWS THE PLAYERBASE WONT GUARD THE FB.

I had to say it somewhere and I was told to stay off the Allied forums, so I guess I should do it here where I can get some legitimate feedback from veteran players.

/endrant

Wow. Is this from you RPW?

No its from Grimripper. I will edit the post to properly show who wrote it and where.

Don't post this stuff on forums, Take it to the RATS!

Here's my suggestion:

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I had posted in the Axis BE forum about watching a P38 strafe and blow up a Tiger tank.. and got the response from someone that it is due to "balance".. what a load of shit that is. If they call that balance, then they need to make our planes turn better so to be "balanced" with the spits/hawks.

a few weeks ago, during the last intermission, some of us got together and worked out the kills points for American Tanks.
We found that an engineer could blow up a Sherman and an M10 and a Stuart if the charge was in the right place.

That no longer works. The RATS fixed that weak spot.

I personally spent a lot of time figuring out how to use the 37mm AT Gun we have. It's small, fast and highly and very accurate. During the first week I used that little bugger to kill dozens of Allied Camper Tanks. Last week the RATS fixed that. I was no more than 500m from a Stuart, it was in perfect 3/4 profile. I fired every single round the ATG possessed at the Stuart. It did not die. I fired an ATR at it from about 100m. It did not die. Vondosh saw this whole thing and PMed me about it. He was pissed.

This week I took out two tigers. I got them quickly away from town in the opposite direction from the action. Then I worked my way around to where the Allied tanks were once again hill camping our town. There was a nice row of 3 or four allied tanks in 3/4 rear profile to me. All Shermans. my range meter said 2.6km. I fire a shot at the closest Sherman. My trace vanished before it hit and there was no explosion mark. I started my engine and engaged the gears. At that moment my tank exploded. This happened similarly twice. My rounds despawned at about 2.5km. Their rounds didn't.

We loose our mortars and Grenadiers very early in the tier system. The Germans used mortars extensively throughout the war, even in the final defence of Berlin. Sherman Tanks and M10s especially were easy kills for even the portable 50mm mortars.

I used to bomb with the 110 from over 6k in altitude. Now I can't even see the ground until about 2km.
I used to park my flak guns in the AB Vehicle Building because it protects you from shrapnel on 3 sides. I watched as a Havoc dropped is load across the AB from me, right on top of another Flak gun parked right against the wall, I believe it was Macspinny actually. I died from that explosion as well.

The Axis side is so nerfed as to be utterly useless. The only thing we have left that can kill allied players is the rifle. And even that is getting nerfed as they increase the reload time. I used to be able to fire 20 rounds in a minute. Now it's around 12. I've had dozens of battles with allied eng where they fire two rounds in the time it takes me to fire one.

It's really bad right now. Dark days. And we also have to contend with all the FPS Twitchers who have no concept of capture. Only lurk and kill. They seem to think there is an endless spawn list as well.

Right at this moment I'm in a dark place.

sleeger wrote:

Don't post this stuff on forums, Take it to the RATS!

Here's my suggestion:

You're invited to join our Rat Chat on Sunday April 7th, at 11AM Server Time (US Central, GMT -6). Rat Chat's are designed to bridge the gap of communication between Company and Community, so that you may be better in the loop and have an opportunity to address some questions and listen in to others.

We have a variety of topics to discuss, and the Cornered Rat Software team will provide the opening comments, which will be proceeded by a structured and orderly Q&A session with community members.

TEAMSPEAK 3 SERVER INFO

Channel: Main Lobby [Rat Chat]
Address: 66.28.224.195:8767
Password: (no password)

Well said, I would like all FF to attend the meeting as well as have notes prepared to let the Rats know how messed up things are.

vanhefty wrote:

a few weeks ago, during the last intermission, some of us got together and worked out the kills points for American Tanks.
We found that an engineer could blow up a Sherman and an M10 and a Stuart if the charge was in the right place.

That no longer works. The RATS fixed that weak spot.

I personally spent a lot of time figuring out how to use the 37mm AT Gun we have. It's small, fast and highly and very accurate. During the first week I used that little bugger to kill dozens of Allied Camper Tanks. Last week the RATS fixed that. I was no more than 500m from a Stuart, it was in perfect 3/4 profile. I fired every single round the ATG possessed at the Stuart. It did not die. I fired an ATR at it from about 100m. It did not die. Vondosh saw this whole thing and PMed me about it. He was pissed.

This week I took out two tigers. I got them quickly away from town in the opposite direction from the action. Then I worked my way around to where the Allied tanks were once again hill camping our town. There was a nice row of 3 or four allied tanks in 3/4 rear profile to me. All Shermans. my range meter said 2.6km. I fire a shot at the closest Sherman. My trace vanished before it hit and there was no explosion mark. I started my engine and engaged the gears. At that moment my tank exploded. This happened similarly twice. My rounds despawned at about 2.5km. Their rounds didn't.

We loose our mortars and Grenadiers very early in the tier system. The Germans used mortars extensively throughout the war, even in the final defence of Berlin. Sherman Tanks and M10s especially were easy kills for even the portable 50mm mortars.

I used to bomb with the 110 from over 6k in altitude. Now I can't even see the ground until about 2km.
I used to park my flak guns in the AB Vehicle Building because it protects you from shrapnel on 3 sides. I watched as a Havoc dropped is load across the AB from me, right on top of another Flak gun parked right against the wall, I believe it was Macspinny actually. I died from that explosion as well.

The Axis side is so nerfed as to be utterly useless. The only thing we have left that can kill allied players is the rifle. And even that is getting nerfed as they increase the reload time. I used to be able to fire 20 rounds in a minute. Now it's around 12. I've had dozens of battles with allied eng where they fire two rounds in the time it takes me to fire one.

It's really bad right now. Dark days. And we also have to contend with all the FPS Twitchers who have no concept of capture. Only lurk and kill. They seem to think there is an endless spawn list as well.

Right at this moment I'm in a dark place.

Finally I feel I am not alone when I said almost every piece of equipment we have is nerfed. I remember saying the kar98 is nerfed many campaigns ago, because I no longer could snipe at large distances and everyone told me I was tripping, BS I know I was right because I use that rifle more than anyone in the game. It's sad when you come to play the game to be entertained and play along with friends and have to deal with these issues, it's really making the game not worth playing now a days.

From what I understand Grimripper never listen not even once to Darthmarty's advice yet you guys get on his ass for leaving. Kinda disappointed in grimripper since he himself said he did what he wanted while MO yet advice was given to him by Darthmarty. I told you officers to watch out for him but yet support him, obviously since grimripper didn't have access to that section of the forum so he wasn't aware of it. We need to have better comms between officers and everyone else.

NO NO NO! Did i say that enough yet?
In no way does Grim need to follow Darth Marty's advice when he or anyone else has map. Do NOT give Darth Marty any excuse what so ever! If he wants to run the map he can join GHC. Instead he took off again and joined AHC. In absolutely no way is Grim or anyone else in FF responsible for him leaving and running back to the Allies.

Darthmarty, good player, reasonable HC, not god.
Grim reaper, no idea yet.

Grimripper, squaddie
Darth Marty left us twice
Its pretty clear to me

You guys are way to butt hurt by darthmarty, it's just a game but one thing is for sure, darthmarty helped our only HC on with a glitch in game that didn't allow him to move brigades. That says a lot, he was trying to help sometimes and when you are a new HC officer why wouldn't you listen at least to someone who is a Allied vet officer? Because no one knows everything in this game and it does help to learn from others no matter who they might be.

I clearly told every officer exactly what was going to happen, he was going to come play Axis for a little bit and leave. Big Deal.

I prefer Grimm over Darth any day of the week, because he is my squadie. But I want every officer to learn as much as possible from anyone that knows what they are doing. Couldn't hurt to know more than what you already think you know. When I was young and full of cum I used to think I knew everything in life and with more years of life under my belt I realize I didn't know shit because life is a learning experience if you ain't learning something every once and a while you are doing something wrong. Knowledge is power gentlemen, simple as that.

Sry double post

Double Post sry

What I meant was:

I know Darthmarty and I personally would listen to him, but we don't see things the same way, it is unlikely I would heed his advice because I often think he makes choices I would not.

As of yet I've had very little experience with Grimmreaper. I don't know him enough to say whether he knows enough or not.

rpw1 does know how to move units effectively.
genthc is pretty good in his map understanding, though he makes choices I would not.
Who else was mentioned as listening or giving advice?

Anyway, as map officer you can choose to listen, assess and still disagree.
I don't see how that has anything with Darth moving on to Allied. He said was coming for one campaign, well campaign over.

And Frankly I don't care if Allied HC takes him back one day after being Axis or not. They aren't winning the maps on superior map skills anyway. Let em do as they please.

I just want my 20rnds per minute back. And I want my grenades to kill the enemy when it kills me. I'm not above the odd Pyrrhic victory.

Maybe I'm ranting too much.

Shutting up.

2 more weeks and then Exams are OVER!

He left after 2 week or so Hefty, thats why I was pissed.

See, I knew I should have shut up.

From what i know of Grimreaper, i like him. He seemed to be an officer who was willing to listen and learn as well as play the game instead of dictating to the player base (unlike the majority of GHC). As for darthmarty, he was cool to play with but i have to agree with the point of him leaving twice....

Anyways, ill be gone for another two to three weeks, so don't expect me for awhile guys. Life sucks somtimes

Just so you guysnow, its Grim 'ripper', nit Grim 'reaper".

rpw1 wrote:

Just so you guysnow, its Grim 'ripper', nit Grim 'reaper".

As it happens, I've met 'Grimreaper' in real life. He lives up new Newcastle in the north east of England. It's a grim place too.

No idea who Grimripper is though.

I wasn't aware of any problems in between the tow myself, but if your response to a situation like that is to walk out the door rather than attempt to see the matter resolved, well you aren't helping yourself much there. As for myself, when I have the map, I don't mind listening to other opinions, or bouncing my ideas off of others. But once I make a decision, that's it, and let's get the job done. The only time in the past that I deviated from this manner was when I was overruled by the CinC, and his word is law. I didn't argue with him, I apologized to those that had spent their time setting up the AO in question and asked for their help where the CinC permitted us to attack. It didn't go very well, but folks tend to get worked up too easily over disappointments.