Profile of sluzbenik

At Vet 3 you have the ability to deploy KITT from the back.

I'd like to get back into COH but I'm now completely addicted to COH2 Gridkeys.

I found this link describing how to do it but only one comment saying it failed: Gridkeys hack.

I also understand you can use Autohotkey scripts...Are these fast enough? The notion of a script moving the mouse for me to a button in-game makes me uncomfortable.

And would anyone want to share their config file? I want essentially "QWERTY-ASDFG-ZXCVB" layout the same as in COH2...

I think if AT guns could be made more reliable, then a number of other balance items might become a lot easier to manage. Ie., right now it's not so great that Tigers only have a 40-60% chance of being rammed, but if you can at least scare them off with reliable AT, it might help.

Obviously in COH1 AT guns were a lot more reliable. Here are the differences I know:

1) In COH1, AT Guns ordered to attack a target will continuously turn without additional input from the user. In COH2, AT guns must be manually rotated or spammed with attack unit commands to get them to keep turning.
2) In COH1, the turning speed seems to be a lot faster. AT guns pick up and then continuously turn until they can shoot their target, but in COH2 they pick up, turn, then set back down even if the target has already moved out of the firing arc. COH2 AT should continuously rotate better and NOT set back down if the target is not in the firing arc.
3) AT guns in COH1, if given an attack command will continue to move forward if the target moves into the fog of war. This can clearly not always what the user wants, but it's a behavioral difference worth noting, and sometimes you MAY actually want it. It's more a less a bug, in my opinion, that COH1 AT guns "know" where their targets are even if in the FOW. This was common unit behavior though in COH1, units given attack commands will briefly follow targets into the FOW.
4) Generally COH2 AT guns movement speed seems slower, but maybe someone can look up the stats. It is nearly impossible to chase a tank with an AT gun, even with a damaged engine unless it was less than 1/3rd of a screen away. In COH1 this was much easier to do.
5) Target priorities still don't feel right in COH2. Even if you've given an attack command, if the target is out of the arc, the AT gun will waste a shot on infantry. This is really, really bad in close battles where that fire/reload time matters a lot. There's got to be some delay on firing at infantry, or a timer because chances are the vehicle target will be back in range in another second. Maybe AT Guns could be programmed to never fire at infantry as long as a vehicle is in its general vicinity or some such? Ie., visible on screen.

Please note any stats you can dig up, I really, really think the AT mechanics are at the core of a lot of other problems...

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That's why I said we should use be able to use fuel to open up more commander slots. Or abilities or something.

I'm not sure COH1 was all THAT strategic...Eventually the US meta revolved around being conservative with rifles until you had a howie or Calliope to devastate unreachable Wehrmakt positions. And as for micro, most COH games at the highest level revolved around who had the better counter-sniping micro, a rather intense and difficult process that is far harder than dodging nades. I quit playing 1v1 when it turned into this crap, because it was just stupid and games were won and lost on the countersnipe.

The games aren't that different. In either game if someone goes T3, you have to get a pak, if you can't pull off a flank you wait for him to hurt himself attacking you before you counter-attack, you have harassing units and shock units (Rangers are really quite similar to shock troops, with added anti-vehicle). Mostly I think it's the fuel upgrades and fuel usage choices that separate the games, as well as the also rather arcadey nade/dodge game. Bars capable of suppression was also a really big part of COH in the early years, though in the last tourneys you saw it used less and less, but was a powerful force multiplier that added more resource-usage decision-making to the game...But arty made bar suppression less useful for most players once they realized that it wasn't really helping kill the med bunker.