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Thread: USF Airborne Company3 Apr 2020, 07:01 AM Airborne is a good mid-game commander but once late game is up, have nothing really to make it relevant. Every time I see it used in 2vs2, if the player didn't manage to dominate his opponent before 15 minutes it is basically GG. Recon Support is better in that way, butterfly bombs have great utility on the late game. It is better to use them to force move opponent support weapon and give room to your Jacksons than a P47 run that is going to do nothing for double price. Imo this commander has always been a bad copy of Coh1 ones, it has only be relevant because of USF stupid design since the beginning. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Medium TDs will need more accuracy31 Mar 2020, 11:05 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2020, 22:05 PMT.R. Stormjäger You can always make AT guns cost more pop and more mp to buy, but better in doing their job. So if the zis3 was for instance 400mp-450mp and more population and had better pen, damage and accuracy then it would be much harder to go double ATs but the one AT can still do its job nicely and a niche would open up for the Su76 for example or handheld AT in axis side. Lol yes, let's make raketen cost 400 manpower. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Question about 120mm mortar31 Mar 2020, 07:23 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2020, 21:17 PMGrumpy One of them somewhat soft counters an Ost mortar, which somewhat soft counters the standard Soviet mortar. It can slow down harassment of your infantry by LEIG's, which the standard mortar isn't good at doing. It should be a little bit situational instead of the old OP 120. Even with the price decrease, I'd often get the standard mortar for the better ROF and vet 0 flare. then I recommend you to use flare and barrage on its own mortar/leig. I had good success with it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Question about 120mm mortar30 Mar 2020, 20:59 PM Regular Soviet mortar with the flare make it almost must have compared to the 120 where the same ability is behind vet1. I'll say it is even better to back tech T2 for the regular mortar than calling a 120mm. vet0 flare make you own mortar vet way faster since you have better accuracy on your target. So in regard to OP's question, I'll say that even cheaper I don't see what would make me to call one instead the regular one. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Are we still playing Coh2 in 2vs2 or Company of Tigers?30 Mar 2020, 19:18 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2020, 16:41 PMHannibal I know about MMX and his simulation. From what I can tell they are a good model for the data we have. We're currently trying to figure out which improvements can be made, although he is the one to implement them since he knows a lot more than me about the actual implementation into Excel. Regarding the simulation itself it does fit decently well with what I said. The overall AoE gets nerfed only slightly, that's why you see only a small increase in the shot number. The simulation is set up so that the squad just sits there until it dies, so the overall AoE is quite important since missed shots still accumulate damage on all models. The current OHK radia vs infantry go down from 1.0XX to about 0.5 for Tiger and IS2. For the Tiger this leads to a OHK nerf by 78%. So all in all, we should see less lucky wipes on retreating squads and also a little bit less bleed over time, since the Tiger is more unlikely to directly kill multiple models with the first one or two shots. At least that's my theory. If it's enough? I don't know, we have to see My question is why are you only focusing on their AI potential? At the moment my impression is that balance team is only working on what make them over the top when my concern is why should they be the top vs any anything AND be that resilient. Even if they are less potent vs infantry they're going to be the get-to-go because of their insane resilience. Not to mention that Tigers are also part of the best doctrines available. We're not in a configuration of -less than average doctrine but with a Tiger-, quite the opposite at the moment. I just had a game where I managed to have 3 atgun and my opponent be like -Who cares, call in a Tiger, and he was right since he managed to turn the tide with it. There is clearly a problem with here. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Are we still playing Coh2 in 2vs2 or Company of Tigers?30 Mar 2020, 14:32 PM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2020, 12:20 PMHannibal The insta kill radius for infantry has been nerfed quite a lot and shrunk down to a fifth. If my numbers are correct (scatter neglected however), every normal medium and even a command P4 now has a higher wipe potential than the Tiger. Their overall AoE has not gone down that dramatically though, so they have seen the treatment basically every high wipe potential unit has seen in the last years. And balance team has had a good record of rebalancing AoE units so far. This will make AT guns much stronger, because one of the issues was that the gunners could get wiped before getting a couple of shots off. I do not like the current heavy-only meta, but I am against the idea that mediums should be a reliable counter to heavies, because this is one of the main purposes of heavies: not needing to care about mediums anymore if they show their frontal armor. Currently, mediums have about a 70-80% pen chance at max range if they hit the rear armor, which goes up by a couple percent if you go to range 20. MMX study on the matter seems to show something different: https://www.coh2.org/topic/104512/tiger-main-gun-nerf-too-much-winter-patch/post/812126 It is hard to make a good opinion at the moment on what will be the situation in the next patch and honestly I'll prefer too much nerf than not enough when it comes to heavies. They don't bring anything to gameplay, they weren't needed before their boost and they're completely suffocating the game at the moment. I think mediums should still be a treat to heavies and not only by flanking behind with all the at snare and atgun that are around them. It is too easy to have your tiger wiping the place with a couple of at snares and an atgun behind to prevent flanking. Atgun problem is their lack of reliability vs heavies. USF ones is probably the worst offender here since you must spend a shitload amount of munition to be effective when RNG jesus doesn't decide to fuck with you anyway. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Are we still playing Coh2 in 2vs2 or Company of Tigers?30 Mar 2020, 10:14 AM Jump back to quoted post30 Mar 2020, 09:18 AMblvckdream Play games with the Winter Preview Patch and give your feedback if nerfed heavies will still be too strong or not. /thread They´re still going to be super effective vs infantry - check (on this matter Thighrope test has been quite revelating on people horrified that Tigers wouldn't be anymore super effective vs infantry and Sanders coming back to the rescue to confirm the opposite) they´re still going to be super effective vs medium tanks -check They´re still going to be uncounterable by Anything else than other heavies or dedicated TDs - check. We're in a game that's supposed to be based on a rock/paper/scissor balance mode and you bring a unit that counter rock, paper and scissor altogether. So yes the patch will make them a bit less effective vs scissor, what a great news. Me I'd like to see penetration bonus for Atgun vs them, I'd like to see deflection damage for medium vs them, something that not make you completely relying on a single unit to keep them at distance while in the mean time if it fail due to bad luck the Tiger just ripe off half of your army because reason. I'd like to see someone investing in 3 or 4 shermans/t34/cromwell having a good chance to take it down and not just continuously bouncing shot because game devs decided that Tigers should only be countered by FF/Jacksons/Su-85 or die. Because that's actually the case in 2vs2- You have an even game till 20 minutes then Tigers appear and ripe-off everything because if one side didn't preventively invested in 3 or 4 TDs that's game over. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Are we still playing Coh2 in 2vs2 or Company of Tigers?30 Mar 2020, 09:03 AM Twenty 2vs2 games played this week-end, something like 35-36 Tigers met. And only because I'm no counting the game I won before our opponents could call in them and that one game where a Sturmtiger were built (refreshing game to play) The modus Operatus today always the same: OKW insta pick Grand Offensive Ostheer insta pick whatever commander they like with a Tiger in it. Some say it is because without using them Ostheer and OKW are helpless and would lose irremediably every time. Well I'd like to know how they can affirm that since nobody play anything else. Some other (or the same) say that because of the IS2/ISU, on my 20 games I barely saw 2 or 3 of them together. I'd like to put some pressure on the balance team to solve this issue. If the game feel more balanced to a certain point, that particular point is definitively the moment Tigers hit the field. And from what I saw from the patch mode, Tigers are still going to be the no brainer go-to-rape your opponent who stupidly decided to play with other doctrines than IS2-ISU-Pershing etc... Yes guys, others doctrines exist and your commitment to balance those super heavies between them is completely pointless if you don't balance them with the rest of the doctrines available for each faction. So please, bring them back to an acceptable level of play. That's not a question of price but powerlevel, I'd like to do something else than being force to spam Jackson or SU-85 because there nothing else that can stop them. Atguns frontally depop in a matter of seconds etc, at infantry being pointless... ah yes remains the ram+airstrke, don't you feel there is an issue when the only counter for a unit is such bs action? Please be kind, do something effective, stop with the "we slightly reduced their opness vs infantry" attitude. The problem is the unit, not how they deal with infantry. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Tiger main gun nerf too much? (Winter patch)27 Mar 2020, 12:02 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2020, 10:32 AMblvckdream Overall I find JP4 to be way better than FF for example. It's not as good as Jacksons and SU 85 but that's because these units are OP and not because JP4 is too bad. JP4 is actually the most fun TD to use because of camo, small target size, decent armour and 800HP at vet 2. It is just OP in is own category but I guess defining it as fun to use is more common language. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: ISU-152 HE shell range should be reduced?27 Mar 2020, 10:15 AM Jump back to quoted post26 Mar 2020, 21:54 PMKoRneY I guess to someone who loses squads to a heavy tank destroyer it really really does. Gj Falling short of argument, personal attack mode engaged. GG In: COH2 Balance