Profile of donofsandiego

Simply directly punishing a certain way of playing the game rather than adressing the underlying issues is incredibly poor design

I disagree. Again, from my posts on here, you can see that my suggestion just makes sense. The fact that the coh engine can only simulate squad vs. squad combat is a flaw in the design simply by itself. Blobbing would easily become a trash "way of playing the game" (as you put it) simply by rectifying this flaw.

There's no need to buff MGs, nerf smoke, forward reinforce, even include better maps if you simply address the underlying issue (again, as you put it), which is the fact that if CoH did a better job of simulating ballistics, or at least put some effort into approximating it, blobs would not be nearly as effective as they currently are.

I don't wanna have to keep a certain distance between my squads just for the sake of it when double teaming another squad for example

And why not? First off, the kind of thing I'm advocating for is squads literally inside each other being easier to hit. Second off, do you not already do this? I would be surprised if a player of your caliber doesn't already spread out their troops to reduce damage from explosives.

If so, your gameplay style wouldn't suffer from this at all anyways. If that isn't the case, it's a perfect example of why a change like this needs to happen. If even the top players are playing in such a manner, something is off.

I'm just going to rehash the post again to make myself perfectly clear:

As I understand the ballistics system of CoH 2, that is, the lack of one, if you're not a tank, then you're pretty much just calculating the probability of one squad hitting another, and then applying damage and visual effects based on who the squad is "aiming" at.

This is a perfectly fine way of simulating squad vs. squad combat, but IMO it shows its flaws when we bring blobbing into the mix. After all, what is accuracy and recieved accuracy in CoH trying to simulate? It's simply whether or not the infantry squad firing on another squad hit the target it was aiming at or not. What happens to a bullet when it misses its target? It doesn't disappear after it passes by the person that was being fired at. It keeps going until it hits something. Whether that be the ground or something else (the three squads literally standing inside the one being fired upon).

Explosives don't work this way in CoH. They deal damage to any and all models inside the blast radius, even having the ability to kill an entire squad if they're within kissing distance (except for certain explosives that have caps on damage). That's why in previous games, they have been relied upon to counter blobbing.

However, in CoH 3, it is clear that the devs want to increase TTK and have nerfed mortars and explosives accordingly. If they don't want to have explosives destroy blobs, that's fine. It is now a perfect time to adjust the combat system instead; by making blobs easier to hit, or improving how ballistics are simulated, whether in real time or through simpler code.

I'm hoping we can settle on some ideas that improve the situation but do so in a way that doesnt affect people who micro units individually and space them out properly

In my opinion, the best possible way would be as such: First, to implement actual hitscan weaponry. A soldier points their weapon at the enemy, the bullet travels instantly along a line from the muzzle of the gun to the enemy, with a small amount of scatter. From there, when it hits a model, there it does the calculations as to whether or not it's a hit or a miss. Additionally, I would want there to be a "reverse zeal" mechanic but where troops are easier to hit when clumped up together. Say 3 or more squads at least.

The reason why I think this would be best is that it makes sense. If the hitscan weapon misses the unit that it's aiming at, it's still likely to hit someone else, due to the fact that the models are so close together.

That would probably be too resource intensive, though.

Other ideas? Simply adding a "reverse zeal" mechanic where 3 or more squads within a certain range of each other share suppression and damage, maybe even lose accuracy, which increases/decreases moderately quickly depending on how many squads are in the vicinity.

I've always wanted MGs to work in this way:
When firing at a group of squads, any missed shot is then re-rolled and then fired at a squad closely adjacent to the squad the MG is firing at. In this way, blobs recieve way more damage from an MG.

I think that suppression in CoH 3 has its upsides and downsides. I can understand why Relic removed "lingering suppression" (I.E. suppressed squads fired upon by nearby squads stay suppressed), because, hot take, I think that suppression in CoH 3 is way more powerful than in CoH 2. Suppression makes squads waaaay slower. Painfully slow. I don't think that infantry squads should be able to keep suppressed squads suppressed indefinitely, but I do think that they should be able to prolong it, unlike how it is now where it does nothing.

Easy 8 - Overpriced when penetration is barely better than 76MM Sherman. Needs cost reduction so you can actually afford the damn thing without saving up Tiger-levels of resources for a marginally better medium tank.

Yes please god. It's a glorified Sherman 76 (they do the same 160 damage on pen) with better pen and an ability that adds a whopping 20 extra damage to the main gun in return for giving up the best medium tank ability in the game (HE shells). It also costs nearly as much as the Tiger but can only deal a third of HP damage to it in a 1v1 before Tiger turns it from a pile of shit into a pile of burning shit.

It's also got another 160 HP over the default sherman. Which means instead of getting 3 shot by the tiger, it gets 4 shot instead. Big deal.

The main menu has some of the laziest UI design you can think of. From the splash-screen artwork that looks like someone gave up halfway painting it from the sketch to illustration.

To the small details like the radar is being replaced by the spinning dots, or the loading bar no longer ammo-belt being loaded but just a flat rectangle. Call these cosmetic bits tacky, but whoever made them put some effort in.

There is no grand-mastermind plan for the UI, just Relic doing the bare minimum poorly.

I agree with you about the UI being shit, but I'm not talking about the aesthetics of it, I'm talking about the implications of it and the back end.

After cutting so much from the game, why would they choose randomly to add the in-game friends list back from CoH 1 when nobody asked for it? It's not useful to steam users, they already have a perfectly fine friends list to use provided by steam itself.

It just doesn't make sense to add it back, considering all the other things that were removed. Maybe they are just incompetent and have weird priorities, but to me it makes the most sense that these are the foundations for crossplay.

If not, then Relic really doesn't know what they're doing.