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Thread: Reduce Braces Effect/ Mortar Pits less accurate9 Apr 2016, 19:37 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2016, 19:29 PMAustralian Magic Sure. Just add 75fuel. I'd pick Pak43 for 500MP any day over 400MP 75F 17pounder. +1 ... and when you are at ressources you forgot to mention the pop 8 to pop 20 comparison :-) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: coh2 dps chart29 Mar 2016, 09:03 AM Wow, thats great! Thanks for sharing your work with us In: Lobby
Thread: Changes to 3v3/4vs4 mechanics20 Mar 2016, 23:56 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2016, 20:55 PMJadame! 5. Whatever, meaningless change. Please explain. Why meaningless? Isn't the timing off vehicle call-ins a very important point? Lets say for example Royal artillery commander would be of any use and people would choose it. While the Valentine isn't very early in 1vs1 already it hits the field in a 4vs4 when it is absolutely redundant because there are multiple medium tanks on the field (+shreks +pak..). Binding it to a Tier level (even if it is a side upgrade) would be the only way to have the timing the same across all game modes. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Changes to 3v3/4vs4 mechanics20 Mar 2016, 20:20 PM Imo these are the mechanics that should change to make 3v3/4vs4 a better game mode in overall: 1. Lower the ressource income in 3v3/4vs4: Owning half oft he map should always result in having the same ressource income no matter the map size or game mode. So points should generate less ressources in bigger game modes. The reason is simple: - early and mid game is way to short in 3vs3/4vs4 because of higher ressource income leading to a faster tech (+ teching beeing less risky if you have a mate that is covering your tech) - all CP call-in units come too late in 3vs3/4vs4 because the teched counterparts hit the field minutes before (you can field a KT long before a Tiger, a M10 comes after the Panther has arrived and so on) 2. Make more maps with 5 VPs and maybe 3 fuel/munition points, because it is more fun and more epic to fight in bigger scale at multiple locations. There could be some bigger maps too to give room for the additional points. It would punish sim city playstyle in addition and thats a good thing. 3. Make teching linear with multiple sidetech options for all factions. If you look at brits tech-wise they are very well designed. They have a linear main tech with lots of interesting side techs at each tech level that are slowing down the main tech but are worth affording it depending on the situation. This would help to solve some problems: - OKW/USF are very hard to balance atm and their unit positioning at their tech levels is a tough one. The problem is their non-linear tech. They already changed soviets in a linear tech for a good reason, why not reworking tech of OKW/USF? - some units that don’t fit very well in their current tech level could moved to a sidetech. T34/76 could be a sidetech of T3, so it would be a kind of an optional T3,5 like AEC/Bofors or Hammer/Anvil 4. Remove any kind of Forward Retreat Point, without removing healing and reinforcing on the field. This really encourages blobbing in bigger game modes and gives a huge advantage in infantry combat. People should be rewarded to withdraw troops in time. Retreating should always result in going back to your base sector. 5. Integrate all kind of doctrinal call-in vehicles into the techtree like T34/85. There could be a T4,5 Upgrade for the heavy tanks. Setting them to 0 CP would address the problem with late coming call-in units too (see number 1, second aspect). 6. Give all factions non-doctrinal suppression, indirect fire and artillery (or rocket artillery). This is not about making all factions the same, they still would be different enough. It is about giving all factions this important mechanics of the game instead of forcing them to start every game the same way with multiple units of the same type. The units we need are already in the game, just take them from the appropriate commanders and add some new abilities instead. Choosing a commander shouldn’t be an all-in choice but a a tactical decision of useful support units/abilities. Especially when I get this annoying bug from time to time when I get no commander at all to choose from. Just my thoughts to improve 3vs3/4vs4. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Soviet faction20 Mar 2016, 13:19 PM Edit: removed - double post - sorry In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet faction20 Mar 2016, 13:17 PM Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2016, 11:58 AMzarok47 A-moving maximspam, the pinnacle of sov micro, tactical thinking and combined arms. Got me to rank 22 in 1vs1. The existence of a single tactic that doesn't need that amount of micro, tactical thinking and combined arms I spoke of in my post doesn't mean that the faction isn't as I said in its overall design. I played that cheesy maxim spam not even once because it is for "pros" who like abusing simple and op mechanics (please don't feel offended). Someday it will be nerfed and people will see how weak soviets are without it if you are playing below rank 1000. Still they will be strong at top skill level without maxim spam. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet faction20 Mar 2016, 11:37 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2016, 11:18 AMNecrophagist Meanwhile Jove and Luvnest have a 70-80 winstreak with soviets. But that's none of my business. The reason is simple: Soviets need more micro, tactical thinking and combined arms. You have to recon and flank your enemy and keep your low health tanks and rocket artillery alive. Thats a lot to do for a player below rank 1000. On the other side the soviets are really strong if you pull it off the right way. Soviets are good at flanking if you know how, their low health tanks are cheap and are capable of doing quite a large amount of damage for their price. I would say Soviets are considerable stronger in comparison to axis faction on a top skill level and worse by far at lower skill levels. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rocket artillery vs. Howitzer artillery20 Mar 2016, 01:11 AM All buffing of the stationary howitzers is redundant as long as even vet3 howitzers get oneshotted by multiple axis abilities and at least one sovjet and one brit ability. They should have a short timed weak kind of a brace ability. Maybe 50% damage reduction for 10 seconds to save it from dying easily to offmap attacks when you pay attention. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Royal Engineers are broken19 Mar 2016, 20:07 PM Really, there are other more urgent problems going on with infantry combat. Beside the sappers vet1 bug which will be fixed for sure they are a really good unit but not broken. Biggest infantry problems: - OKW allround Volks with Forward Retreat Point - USF allround Rifles with Forward Retreat Point - Stormpios on some maps too strong for a a starting unit (not too strong by itself). I myself had a game for example as my starting squad on a building heavy map got 18 kills without loosing a single model, running always into enemy squads around the corner (mainly Engineers/Maxims). That was ridiculous. Opponent was so pissed, that he left. I remember tommy squad in vCoH having worse combat stats on T0 and getting automatically better with T1. They should do something similar here. To be fair they could do it with IS too, but of course they are far less dangerous as a starting unit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Vehicles passing through each other19 Mar 2016, 19:49 PM This nasty bug heavily puts the player who has to flank on disdadvantage. I can't say how many times I got a nice flank on a panther with two M10, blocked it and it just passed through backwards. instead of 2 M10 to 0 Panther it ended with 1 M10 to 1 Panther most often. I lost games I would have won otherwise because of this. I would be happy back in those days to know the solution I know today: Once you are behind the enemy tank, instantly spam stop hotkey. Doing so the enemy tanks will get blocked for sure. In: COH2 Bugs