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Thread: WBP v1.4+ light vehicle vet3 high score table10 Jan 2017, 09:22 AM I had for the first time of my life a 251 reaching vet3 without the flamer upgrade. Does it count? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.4 Update8 Jan 2017, 21:09 PM Note for the modders, imo the USF mortar is still too potent. it still wipe full heal squad faster than you can react. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Maps in automatch (wb Rzhev (S), bye Hill 400)7 Jan 2017, 19:45 PM I played on Rzhev Summer on automatch two days ago on 3v3, thought it has been added to the pool. In: Lobby
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.4 Update7 Jan 2017, 19:16 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Jan 2017, 18:38 PMImagelessbean The reason you are seeing lots of changes back and forth is because of feedback, its exactly why things are changing. And by definition no one knows exactly how to balance the game with a single button click or they would, it is a bit of test, hence the mod. The problem with penals is that they are an orphan unit from when Soviets got guards or shocks. Now that you are supposed to not need them how do you make them relevant if you do get either? Giving them flames in current patch turns them into a straight upgrade to the engineers and provides them too much utility. Giving them PTRS would make them guards. Instead what they are trying to do is find a niche where the player decides. Do you need a downgraded guards squad? Upgrade PTRS. Do you need potent AI in close in battles? Get flames. Do you like to sit at medium and long range and pick off models? No upgrades. The goal, whether you agree with them or not, is to force the player to make choices. There is little choice in that, just adaptability to what your opponent is doing to stay on the field. When Penals hit the field, they are the best infantry squad in the place, they dominate anything the Axis player can throw at them. So the moment the Axis player finally manage to stabilize the situation or to go for a hard counter, the Soviet player already have the counter ready, he just needs to upgrade one or two squads with flamers or PTRS. This has nothing to do with decision making. Honestly regarding at how Axis light vehicle are squishy, Penals should remain as AI specialist units with some little nerf on their vet and Guards seeing their AI damage going to oblivion. So the Soviet players is forced to A) Penals + T2 or T3 to sustain its AT capability B) Penals + Guards but guards are now a fully dedicated AT unit, also the Soviet players knows that guards aren't going to scale super well late game. C) Mix of A) and B) This is decision making. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.4 Update7 Jan 2017, 10:55 AM M3: check Kubel: check WC51 ?? super high fuel price, high mp price and no buff. survivability down with earlier pfaust. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: OstGrenadeers - glasscannon with no damage. 3 Jan 2017, 11:49 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Jan 2017, 11:28 AM__deleted__ IS get wiped by second doubleleigt shot as well if not moving. (UKF mortar have 2 mortars in 1 pit). Its job of mortars. Keep in mind that mortar means 1 less squad on field for player so you can push and force mortar to retreat. Then cap cut off and get tank faster to outbleed him You should probably stop with the theory and play more. USF mortar is so strong vs Ostheer that it doesn't mean anything like "1 less squad on the field". I have countless of squad wiped or half dead in one or two shots that I, as Ostheer player, have "1 less squad on the field" after a couple of minutes. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW Minesweepers vs Demo Charges.2 Jan 2017, 09:24 AM Jump back to quoted post2 Jan 2017, 09:18 AMMoerserKarL give them a 3 second timer This, so it become something a bit more skillful In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer Faust requires the existence of T122 Dec 2016, 08:06 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Dec 2016, 07:34 AMVipper It would be if: A) Ostheer was not the only faction that does not have T0 mainline infantry and thus has to spent time and resources in order to make mainline infantry... B) If other Factions like UKF and USF did not have the luxury of not have to rebuilt anything but just repair... C) If Soviet lost any abilities b losing their T1...(not that I am suggesting that they should) There is hardly any justification making sense that Ostheer should lose faust in their grenadiers if they do not have the T1 building. Are you trying to tell us you want Ostheer to build T1 and need to research from T0 faust upgrade? Something that would simply double the price of gren/faust? In: Lobby
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.3 Update20 Dec 2016, 08:11 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Dec 2016, 19:39 PMDevM snip Good post. About Soviet, I always imagined a kind of withdraw and refit ability for Conscript. Like you reach vet2 and you can replace the squad with an elite one, Penal, Guards or Shock. A simple way to get access to elite infantry for a cheap price with some decision making. The ability itself could cost some ammo but at the end as reward for good play you get a elite squad for 240mp. This could be implemented with really little changes, If you want to pay full price for Penal, or you prefer call shock or guards from their doctrine, you can do it. I also imagined a similar ability for the T34-76, here again, you reach vet2 and you can replace it with a T34-85 and maybe SU-85. Same logic behind as for Cons. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.3 Update19 Dec 2016, 07:42 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Dec 2016, 06:06 AMpigsoup high risk high gain. you either do enough damage to go directly to T3 or pay measly 160mp and 20fu to get a ATG. 3. the conclusion is that flamers on DURABLE squad is the main problem. Even though it might seem like that I am leaning towards removing flamer, I honestly think flamer is the only way to give sov T1 the umph to be "high risk, high reward" without making T1 OP to make it high reward. My idea is: make penals 4 men initially (make penal SVT 1.5 stronger so if you want to keep penals as mid range unit, you can) ~~- they gain 5th man when T3 is built~~. I am not sure if they still got that "till last man" zeal bonus but have that so when they are 4 men, they have health of 4 men but when they are 3 men, they have health of 3.25 men, 2 men - 2.75 men (or simply a slight reduced received accuracy but zeal will make the first kill much easier and wll cause a huge drop off in dps). Give 80muni upgrade of flamer +3ppshs ~~(4th ppsh for the fifth man)~~. Why I think this will fix the problem: with flamer and ppsh, the T1 will still have that umph to be very aggressive and more mobile and hard hitting IF DONE RIGHT compared to pure con spam or maxim spam. and yes, sov can still have an army of flamer penals but they will be more squishy but penals still keep their current role. The problem with the concept of high risk / high reward unit is definitively the balance. Flamers (all from all factions) could do less damage and have more utility. Like not being so deadly vs garrisoned units but having a mechanism disabling their main gun. So a garrisoned HMG would not be able to fire back and would be force to leave the building. On the open, I still don't know what kind of utility could bring the flamer in exchange of less damage. My view differs from your on the point that the biggest nerf should go to Guards, not Penals. Make it 4 men squad but keep its price. Guards by themselves are making Penal low risk / high reward units. In: COH2 Gameplay