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Thread: Auto reinforce 23 Jan 2023, 14:09 PM It's interesting to me to see people not being happy about the auto reinforce/vault QoL but do not adress the Tactmap QoL changes. The tactmap now lets you repair vehicles, retreat out of buildings and set up support weapons. Something I really like, but feels more like "dumbing" down the game for me compared to the no brainers like vault/reinforce. In: COH3 Central
Thread: I'm sad17 Jan 2023, 11:54 AM Jump back to quoted post16 Jan 2023, 19:51 PMDonnieChan multiplayer test is over Same Release can't come soon enough for me. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Auto reinforce 14 Jan 2023, 09:57 AM Jump back to quoted post14 Jan 2023, 04:49 AMmrgame2 Yes but gaming is about user involvement, user inputs. how much automations to push for then? they also removed medic stations, now is just another click to unlock. you cannot place a shared medic station in your base now. it is a small thing but a choice nonetheless why even have different base structures and placements then? just have every selections in one structure with same unlockable mechanics? isnt it the same thing, waiting to unlock with accumulated resources, so why need players to move around selecting units from structures so we can focus on the battlefield! how about auto vehicle repairs when you move into any engineers repair range. so you dont have to click to repair especially now we have tank ridings! how about auto mine sweeping? just click to unlock sweepers and your engineers will auto spot and auto clear mines at same time! why not have auto retreat too? that you can set globally in your main base for every match, say if infantry health less than 15%, auto retreat. this can helps with latency spikes! and helps you focus on the battlefield! All those what ifs are… what ifs. Again, there’s a difference between necessary choices and unnecessary clicks. Look at the coh2 improvements over coh1 that people were worried over. Being able to reinforce multiple squads at the same time. Having prioritize vehicle. A reverse button. All those things were being critized but are now standard practices that are fun and player friendly in the end. With these changes February can’t come soon enough for me lol. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Auto reinforce 13 Jan 2023, 20:40 PM I'm loving the QoL improvements. I feel like it benefits every player. There's a difference between macroskill and features that are old and in need of an update. People who forget squads in base get punished enough, don't need to double the punishment and make them wait again on completing reinforcements like in coh2. It feels more modern/updated now. Just like vaulting, why keep it a slog like it is now? Missclicking the vaultable object or getting stuck behind something is annoying and unnecessary in this day and age. In: COH3 Central
Thread: nerf the fking pathfinder and Howitzer12 Dec 2022, 15:04 PM Jump back to quoted post12 Dec 2022, 14:41 PMVipper There is a huge difference between not being cost efficient and being crap. That is probably a oversimplification. If riflemen are behind that has more to do with general power creep the simply smoke grenades. In your opinion was the decision to removed the smoke grenade since the mortar was added a correct one? Since according to you riflemen are fine 1vs1 and Pathfinder as most popular in 1vs1 2vs2, does the argument that people using Pathfinder because riflemen are crap (at least in these modes) hold any water? Does the USF faction does fine in 3vs3/4vs4 in 200 with the highest win rates (for allies in 4vs4)? In the end of the day shouldn't the Pathfinder/Scott combo be fixed and if there is need to something else to be buffed? I don’t think winrate has anything to do with how viable a faction is. In every multiplayer game the most used faction/character is usually the strongest and/or easiest to play. People like to win, and thus flock to the strongest and most forgiving thing. And unsurprisingly the top 3 most played factions are Sov, OKW and Werh. Brits/USF being lesser played factions is not without reason. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why does Overwatch(commander) exist?6 Dec 2022, 18:06 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Dec 2022, 17:00 PMHannibal Paths have been 1 CP before and no one build them. The main problem was and still is that USF is strongly funneled into building Riflemen. At the same time, building the officers takes ages, too. This usually forces you to build 3 Riflemen to keep map presence, 2 Rifles into an officer is possible, but usually not advisable. You'll probably reach 1 CP at 3-4 min, which often coincides with the time you'd roughly get an officer and having no free MP to spare. Unlocking Paths at 1 CP was bad, because most viable builds will already have 3 Riflemen out there. If you build Paths next, you'll delay the officer and thereby a potential support weapon and you LV timing. If you build the officer first and then Paths, you will usually not have the MP to get a support weapon. Also, having 3 Rifles, an officer and Pathfinders will also strain your MP economy a lot. 5 combat infantry squads is only advisable in special builds. Other factions can afford having >1CP infantry due to multiple openings (early MGs or light vehicles like Kubel and UC). But not USF. Making Pathfinders CP0 was a very good idea, but badly executed within the frame work of USF. Yeah the officer build times feel really slow. USF got one of the most awkward timings compared to the other factions. Teching just feels more fluid whenever I play another faction. I guess it's not without reason that the team changed it to 0 cp. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why does Overwatch(commander) exist?6 Dec 2022, 17:53 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Dec 2022, 17:03 PMVipper If the selling point of JLI is damage the simply compete with other OKW infatry like Ober/Fall. The reason for building units should be because they bring something else to the table and not just damage. Would moving JLI to CP 2 some how make "work"? That change would reduce the number of JLI one could field and make less attractive as they would not work less time in "infatry" phase of the game. It would more like a "Relic type" fix, resulting in moving the unit to obscurity, maybe building 1 during a game. Imo redesign these units would be a far better solution. I have not suggested to remove the critical kill but making it a "timed ability" would help in many ways. What I mean is with the current damage (ambush) they do feel like elite infantry, thus making them 2CP would be a better solution imo. Only being able to build fewer of them sounds great! Every other faction works the same, you get 3-4 mainlines, an elite unit on top and/or replace wiped mainlines with more elite units. So no, OKW would not only get 1 per game thanks to that change. And I didn't mean the selling point is exclusively dmg for JLI/paths. Compared to Obers/Falls JLI have much more utility in the shape of Flares, Sprint, Booby traps, Salvage and Field first aid. I don't think the solution would be the timed ability. Not sure how it would exactly work but it sounds like it would just add unnecessary micro. Better to keep the units intact and change the timing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why does Overwatch(commander) exist?5 Dec 2022, 16:37 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Dec 2022, 15:49 PMProtos Angelus All in all. Use paths if you don't want to suffer. I feel the passion in your post It's honestly sometimes frustrating to play USF rifles and when you play paths the vision makes USF a lot more viable. I feel like in the current game, vision wins games. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why does Overwatch(commander) exist?5 Dec 2022, 16:33 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Dec 2022, 14:52 PMVipper Pathfinder are not support units since in their current implementation they substitute mainline infatry and no there where not meant to be "second mainline infatry". (units like ostruppen and PFuss are meant to act as mainline infatry) Cav riflemen could not be move to CP 0 because the WC51/Cave riflemen combo provides too much wipe out potential too early. OKW JLI and Ostheer C. JLI are completely different units. (the otheer version used to be CP3). Jli received a number of buffs and changes. They used to available to scavenger only a doctrine that is simply poor and they where not very cost efficient at 300 manpower. The first time they where changed they become available to Overwatch (that also received the Lefh) and received a number of buffs. At that point the where broken since OKW could instantly produce them by using infiltration spawn and could apply lots of pressure. Then the received a number of nerf including: Jaeger Light Infantry Cost increased from 250 manpower to 280 Deployment cooldown increased to 100 seconds. G43 upgrade cost increased from 45 to 60 Infiltration Spawn Removed Veterancy 5 -20% received accuracy modifier removed. Point here is not if one should characterize this units "mainline" or "elite" the point is that critical kill mechanism should not be available to units that make the core of an army. Yes, you're talking about changing their roles right? I feel like paths are a great unit for 1 CP. 2 rifles into an officer into Path is a valid build. But imo JLI function more like "elite" units thanks to the ambush skill and therefore I think 2cp is a much more reasonable timing for them. Meaning apart from their timing, I think both units crit ability is fine. People need a reason to build JLI/paths and the crit is a big part of that. I would suggest to change the timing, so they're not working as "mainlines" anymore. But again, why would 2cp JLI not work exactly? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Why does Overwatch(commander) exist?5 Dec 2022, 13:31 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Dec 2022, 13:40 PMVipper JLI should not be a CP2 (they actually where and they did not work). In sort these unit should neither be used as mainline infatry nor should they be "eite" infatry, they should be support unit. I mean Pathfinders are definitly support units, thus 1 CP would be nice. I guess the reasoning was that the balance team wanted to give a second mainline starter option to USF. Sadly Cav Rifles couldn't be 0 CP, cause of reasons of course. USF's other mainline is not cost effective with the current mappool. But how are JLI support units? Thanks to their ambush ability and RA they for sure feel like elite infantry. The JLI werh variant for example, is 2 CP and it works. Could you explain to me why the 2CP JLI did not work for OKW? In: COH2 Balance