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Thread: Vehicles crushing infantry: Skill or abuse?3 May 2020, 15:17 PM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 15:00 PMT.R. Stormjäger I dunno about you man, but if I'm in a war and a light tank tries to ram me over, I'm not gonna stand my ground. He was talking about light vehicles, not tanks. If you were in a war, you wouldn't have tried to run over anything with this: In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Vehicles crushing infantry: Skill or abuse?3 May 2020, 15:12 PM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 06:49 AMSuperHansFan I don't think reversing old Cromwell into blobs like an RC car back and forwards for more kills was historical But yes you should be able to run over prone infantry There are lots of tank battle documentaries on Netflix and Amazon prime. Several of the WWII have interviews with veterans who would disagree with you about tank crush being real. I happened to be watching this one (battle of El Alamein) yesterday before I saw this thread. https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B07MG5T6R9/ref=atv_wl_hom_c_unkc_1_1 About 3/4 of the way through, you'll see a German describing the Brits crushing/decapitating/burying alive infantry. I've seen other ones where it was the other way around. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Vehicles crushing infantry: Skill or abuse?3 May 2020, 14:59 PM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 10:07 AMAerohank I think crushing is OK. I really hate light vehicle pushing though - I find it super cheesy when you are in a good green cover position in the early game and the enemy just pushes you around with a Kubel/USF truck/scout car/UC, making your damage output 0 while another one of their squads shoots at you. Who needs flanking when you can just abuse the fact that the enemy doesn't have faust/AT nade yet. Agreed, none of those vehicles should be able to push a unit out of cover. When units are out of cover, then I think it is okay, but don't know if anyone could code this into the game. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Overall community trend3 May 2020, 14:52 PM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 12:19 PMEuan I would guess that 50% of the people at that rank are just playing a mode they haven't played in a while, so the ELO system doesn't know what to do with them... that's one reason why larger games can be so random I think. When you haven't played in awhile, your elo rating goes inactive, not into the 500-1000. From my experience, as soon as you play a game, your ranking becomes active again and is similar to what it was before. I think part of the problem now is that if you're new, you're going to have a mix of wins and losses in your first 10 games. Once you get that ranking, it is really difficult to improve it in 4v4 random. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Crashing in Replays3 May 2020, 06:34 AM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 04:29 AMichoosethesteak This is so frustrating, one of the best things about COH was when you have a great game, you get to watch yourself play in the replay. Now, I'm constantly getting crashes back to desktop whenever I watch replays. It happens at random times and I can seem to isolate what is causing it. I use autohotkeys and basically just use my mouse button for tactical map. I think I can somewhat mitigate the amount it crashes if I don't watch it at accelerated speed and try to not use the tactical map but that makes it too painful to use and still results in crashes. Can anyone offer any advice? Thanks in advance. I've been having bugs where if I hit the accelerate speed too fast or try tell it to speed up when it is already 8x then it crashes to desktop. Once I had a crash on a replay, it seems more prone to crash again. I eventually deleted all my old replays, started slowly increasing speed to 8x and don't usually crash now. The small patch that came out just awhile ago broke old replays for me, so I don't try to play those anymore. In: Lobby
Thread: Vehicles crushing infantry: Skill or abuse?3 May 2020, 06:26 AM While it looks and feels kind of psychotic, it does take skill/knowledge of the game to do it. It's also completely historical. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Raketens should lose their received accuracy bonus3 May 2020, 04:00 AM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 00:26 AMKoRneY putting raks in garrisons is pointless I can't remember seeing any good OKW players put them in buildings. It seems almost counterproductive. Raketens, as a whole, seem okay right now. I used to hate them, both playing with them and playing against them, just for different reasons. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Winter patch Buglist 2 May 2020, 19:20 PM GRW 34 mortar with no UI. Doesn't respond to hot keys. Can provide a screenshot if needed. I tried selecting other units, going back to it, etc. Couldn't find anything that worked. It had the bug before it took any damage. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: IL2 Precision strike seems uncounterable2 May 2020, 18:18 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2020, 15:25 PMDarkpiatre Well the others are arty: cover a different type of area, have a more spread damages and take longer to land. While IL2 Bombing has no RNG involve because it is a fix patern and can be as good as regular Arty against structure while being really good against tank (1 strike seems close to Oneshot an heavy tank). So you end up with a faster, more reliable/precise tool which is more versatile. And since the best comparison seems to be the Stuka dive, I think it can't actually One-shot any medium and above tank (I wonder if it is enough to kill a light though). So if the IL2 is invincible like the Stuka, stuka dive have nothing more than having a long loud song instead of red flares while being worst against tank. Conclusion: IL2 is better while having no drawback/counter. And that is a Balance issue. No, not really, unless you believe that everything Axis has to be clearly superior to anything Allied. Also, are you really sure that the IL2 is faster than the Stuka, 280mm, and railway? I'd be that at the edge of the map, they are comparable (the IL2 might be faster, but would need a stopwatch to tell) but in the middle of Steppes the IL2 is probably slower. In any event, does a second or two difference in the time to counter really create a balance issue? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brit (non-doc) tools to delete OKW HQs are ridiculous2 May 2020, 16:05 PM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2020, 15:25 PMSweetrollNearTheDoor You can't double team an opponent off the fuel, spam trences to deflect the counterattack and build a mortar pit in the meanwhile? Accounting for the fact the pit needs to only exist for a few minutes at max to get the job done? Mkay Once again the life expectancy of the mortar becomes irrelevant after it has fired the needed amount of smoke barrages. For the pit to pay off it does not have to survive the truck kill operation. In addition the skill level of a player has nothing to do with the fact no faction has reliable readily available tools to counter free constantly spammed easy-to-use smoke with 0 cooldown that can be combined with questionable gimmick mechanics without Axis doing excessive/unreasonable investments to counter that single strat. And while you were 2v1 on their fuel, what were your opponent's two teammates doing? Watching from a safe distance? Pinging the fuel and calling the lone defender a noob? How is this different than if you had a MHT, smoked the base defenses, and destroyed base buildings with a shrek blob? You make a big deal about smoke being free. How much more does smoke cost from the LEIG, GRW34, or 250 MHT? I checked your playercard. You're top 10 on one team and most of your teams are top 50. Posting a replay against some much worse players doesn't prove anything. Please post a replay of you doing this against another top 20 team. In: COH2 Gameplay