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This map does not have many issues IMO, however....
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The buildings that cover the cutoffs for the fuel points are extremely dominant. Multiple windows are facing the cutoff and they are made of cement as well. There are windows on all 4 sides as well. Basically you must hold them at all costs which is kinda annoying and limits dynamic play on this map.

Not only that, but...
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there are also 2 buildings (1 on each side) that are essential for holding the fuel point. All together limits dynamic play even further cuz those buildings are way too important and effective for ignoring them. This also makes the map kinda unbalanced for factions that are not that good at clearing buildings unless you pick a certain commander (UKF, USF, OKW).


My suggested options to improve this map are:

1) swap the cement buildings at the cutoffs (pictures 1 & 2) with a wooden structure, for example a wooden church like the one on semosky left to the middle VP or the one on General Mud above the right VP.

2) Replace the houses that cover the fuel (pictures 3 & 4) with heavy cover, e. g. a destroyed-tank-wreck.

3) remove the windows on the cement cutoff-houses that cover the side that is facing the middle of the map to make HMGs inside those houses less dominant and flanking more accessible
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4) add more heavy cover (e. g. truck wrecks) around both cut-off houses, especially on the north side. The south player already has a little truck wreck near the southern cutoff house which makes the house a little bit less frustrating to deal with if the opponent captured it, but the north player only has a truck wreck which is located on the left side of the northern cut-off house, on the northern side of the house there is only a little fence that includes minimal heavy cover.


Needless to say it should be enough to pick ONE option.

This thread is so FailFish lol, but what else can you expect from most .org threads?

Katy wasnt nerfed in last balance patch.

this.


By the way, the Katyusha isnt weak at all. IMO it definitely belongs to the top 2 of rocket arty cuz of its consistency. Some say the Panzerwerfer is better, but IMO the Panzerwerfer is more situational. Pwerfer is better at getting wipes on short and mid range and it's pretty effective vs mobile infantry as well, but it kinda sucks on long range. Katyusha covers a very big area and has a lot rockets equipped that deal a lot damage. The Stuka is the best rocket arty in the game vs weapon teams, shutting them down completely and arriving on the battlefield the earliest out of all arty pieces, but it's pretty useless vs mobile infantry. Land matress and Calliope are pretty meh nowadays.

How about "This is what we've trained for" or "This is it", both are quotes from the OKW Sturmpioneers

DevM's quote:

Faction design in CoH1 was in many ways superior to CoH2's , many of the basic tools were already there without the need for a commander and the original factions played out in interesting ways due to the high costs associated with any major teching decision. What CoH2 factions have going for it is a more noob friendly approach,[...]

I am sorry but where exactly is the difference to CoH2 here? Can someone explain this to me? Where exactly do Wehr and Soviets in CoH2 lack a basic tool you need to pick a commander for instead?

And DLC factions lacking basic tools and going for a noob friendly approach is exactly the same in vCoH. Brits have terrible design (just like CoH2 brits) and are easy to abuse, and Panzerelite is very similar to OKW's release state... No HMG (OKW HMG34 used to be a commander call-in), no snipers, means the majority of your army consists of frontline infantry and vehicles. No flamers.
The craziest part about vCoH DLC factions is that they do not have ANY mobile team weapons AT ALL. ( I do not count the commando vickers/mortar from the HQ glider).

About the points in the text that are kinda objective (and not personal preference) I agree, especially with the complaints about CoH2 DLC commanders. But oh well, unfortunately this is what nearly all videogames these days developed into.

A few things I would like to add are:

- as mentioned before, the complaint about demos is out-dated since demos in CoH2 already got changed and are the exact same like vCoH demos now
- not a single criticism about vehicle call-ins in vCoH not costing any fuel

That's a really hard question cuz there is so much shit patches to choose from. (Not the community patches tho, overall they were awesome IMO)

I would say the one where Mobile Assault and Advanced emplacement regiment got added. Not only that both doctrines were beyond broken and OP (5 CP land matress destroying an OKW HQ in 1 barrage; free counter barrage vs mortars that attempted to destroy the almost unkillable emplacements), but it also removed veterancy from all units, caused the 100-man RE squad and 5x schreck /4x sweeper etc. bug on all squads after reinforcing.
And it bugged out the automatch map-pool as well. IIRC every 1v1 was played on Stalingrad, every 2v2 on Kharkov, every 3v3 on Rzhev Summer and every 4v4 on Steppes. No matter what maps you vetoed.

And it was during ESL as well