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Thread: USF and MP bleed17 Sep 2021, 17:09 PM I do find it very challenging to play versus spios + kubels to bleed USF from the start while having good map control with OKW. It is especially effective vs USF PF build but strong vs Rifle build too. Playing this tactic with OKW myself and waiting for a player who shows up to counter it without endless bleeding until USF gets sufficient AT. I thought about giving a doctrinal answer at least. While Assgrens have sprint right from the start (Oorah too, but Cons are less powerful at short range) Fire Up comes with Cpt/Lt build. Maybe granting Fire up from the start too would give USF some doctrinal counterplay to Kubel kiting and would make spios+Kubels less of a no-brainer build. E8 commander could use a small buff after all since the E8 rework didn't worked out that great (Imo the reason is that its AI damage is still too low to replace M4A3/Jackson combo). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)17 Sep 2021, 16:26 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2021, 09:12 AMMMX EDIT: this one. a bit outdated but still a good read Thx, this gives some insight at least. But I do think it got worse with dwindling player base and it should be harder most probably to get somewhat even matches for teamgames. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why is the Pak 43 allowed to shoot through obstacles? 17 Sep 2021, 16:21 PM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2021, 13:50 PMSander93 There's not a single point on any map with 80 range of open space in all directions. You usually build a 17 pounder in a spot that has plenty of direct LOS, but there are plenty of cases where the world piercing shots ability can come in handy because the enemy is on one of the flanks or whatever, behind shot blockers. Most maps are designed to have big shot/sight blockers to divide up the open spaces specifically to limit the effectiveness of long range direct LOS weapons, where world piercing can give you an advantage every now and then. I would say at the middle of Vielsam. But yeah of course there is always some spot with a shot blocker. On the other side many of that shot blockers are not in an angle that count that much so its very situational. I can think of abilities that woulfd fit the 17pdr better. But the 17pdr is one of the least problems for brits... missing rocket artillery... cough, cough.. :-P In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)17 Sep 2021, 07:29 AM Jump back to quoted post17 Sep 2021, 07:14 AMMMX As to the matchmaking, I also agree that the most important function should be to produce fair match ups that are fun for everyone. And this should be totally possible if the game is balanced from top down, desite potential skill gaps between individual factions. The latter can simply be evened out by pairing lower-skilled players using an easier-to-play faction with higher-skilled ones using a more difficult faction to master. This will of course only work for maybe 80% of the playerbase, as for the highest/lowest 10% there are simply no better/worse players available to draw from. And that is also the reason why the game needs to be inherently balanced for the top 5-10%, for anyone below this threshold matchmaking can take effect (well, minus the bottom 10% I guess). So how does matchmaking work exactly? We don't know, because it keeps hidden. Relic isn't very transparent here. If you have a team of USF/UKF in 3vs3/4vs4 for example playing versus mainly Ostheer. Does matchmaking means that their 2000K players are playing versus 2000K players. That woul be a bad thing already, because there are less UKF/USF players, so you can assume that a 2000K Ostheer players should have higher skills than a 2000K USF/UKF player. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why is the Pak 43 allowed to shoot through obstacles? 16 Sep 2021, 23:55 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 23:13 PMPip It can't with its autoattack, but the 17 pounder does have a world-piercing ability. But that ability makes no sense because you won't build your immobile 17pdr behind a shoot-blocker to only use this ability from then on for 60mu each time you use it. You'll always build it with open shooting field. It would be a whole different thing if a mobile 17pdr would have this ability. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why is the Pak 43 allowed to shoot through obstacles? 16 Sep 2021, 22:43 PM Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 17:37 PMGachiGasm Its not data and its not an arguments, its my subjective opinion based on my game understanding and possabilities factions have in early\mid\late game and how they can use them to snowball. Thx for clearing that up. The data about pro games differs from your perception. Its a 20% gap at Top200 players only between UKF/Soviet and OKW. USF and Ostheer are a little bit closer. Just saying. Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 17:37 PMGachiGasm Random allies are harder alright. But for people who actually know how to play as allies and when they are not matched with idiots its a completly different story. Axis is easier with randoms its a known fact, and pretty much easily noticable via win rates. I'm absolutely with you about winrates and allied beeing harder to play with randoms. The problem is that it doesn't change at top level play at least for random games. The stats I posted were from all players beeing located in Top200. They should know how to play the game and you still have that 20% gap. Imo that is too much of a difference by far to call the game anyhow balanced. Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 17:37 PMGachiGasm But speaking of USF, just give a pathfinder spam a go, at least in 4v4. vs OKW you can go even 3 PFs into agressive ambu and just push OKW off, since it wont be able to do anything to you. Vs USF I usually go with starting Spios + multiple Kubels since USF not really can do something against it. I wish you a lot of fun with PFs, this will bleed you hard right from the beginning. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why is the Pak 43 allowed to shoot through obstacles? 16 Sep 2021, 09:42 AM Jump back to quoted post16 Sep 2021, 05:59 AMGachiGasm Good Axis vs good Allies - more or less fair, slightly in Allies favor Pro Axis vs Pro Allies - in Allies favor According to coh2stats.com the winratio of the 4vs4 games played in Top200 only since mid of june (commander patch) is: UKF: 40,7% Soviet: 40% USF: 45,8% Ostheer: 55,2% OKW: 60,1% On which data are your arguments based on? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)16 Sep 2021, 08:24 AM Jump back to quoted post15 Sep 2021, 20:23 PMPip 1v1 and 4v4 need separate balancing, but I'm not seeing how I'm "ignoring" that. You've been specifically complaining about the "top 5%" of players, not so much 1v1 vs 4v4 games. 4vs4 needs no own balancing it just needs two things that are related to map design and ressource allocation: 1) Much wider maps (-> double the width of the current ones): - allowing tactical movement / evading... - breaking up MG lockdowns - breaking artillery dominance (less crowded maps / less accuracy because distances are bigger) - blobbing is more of a disadvantage (giving up map control) 2) More strategic points + 4 fuel + 4 munition with each player gaining only a 1/4 of the total gained ressources. - leading to a longer early / medium game - more points of interest = more interesting and shifting game In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)15 Sep 2021, 10:29 AM A game can be balanced for lower skilled players. Imagine you have two factions: Faction A) slow, defensive, sturdy, good relation of cost to damage and health points/armor, complete roster Faction B) fast, aggressive, high damage but low health/armor, many special abilities, roster with holes Faction B will be very strong in the hands of skilled players which have the micro skills and the understanding to utilize speed and combinations of abilities to full effect. In addition a skilled players can partly compensate the missing pieces in a roster. As a result Faction B will be nerfed constantly although it was underpowered in lower skilled play from the beginning. In addition Faction B will be better in 1vs1 and worse in 4vs4. Reason: At 1vs1 maps there is a lot more space for moving, flanking, evading and relocating. Exchange Faction A with Ostheer and Faction B with USF now to get the idea ;-) For a good balance across all skill levels all factions should have units that fit the style of Faction A and Faction B. CoH2 severely fails at that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USA scotts (M8A1)12 Sep 2021, 12:49 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Sep 2021, 12:27 PMSturmpanther - yes panzwerfer/ katy have in a short time more firepower - no, because they have long CD, meanwhile scotts can fire all the time And thats way better in favor of Katy / Panzwerwerfer / Calliope / Walking Stuka. Wiping a single quad is soo much better than forcing two damaged squads off in terms of MP and Vet. In the long term the game comes down to retainig your vetted squad and preventing bleeding out. Apart from some very lucky hits Scott won't wipe anything. Even multiple Scotts have a hard time on that. In addition rocket artillery forces a lot of full retreats in teamgames, which is great at those big maps. More damage with longer CD is overall better. In: COH2 Balance