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Thread: Wait cromwells 2 May 2017, 02:16 AM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 02:15 AMDanielD Interesting, had no idea. I will stop wasting my time spamming stop while wiping grens, thanks! You should keep spamming stop as you have; scatter penalties for moving are quite brutal, even for USF/OKW tanks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teamgame dominant meta2 May 2017, 01:59 AM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:50 AMKothre First off: can we please get some workshop 4v4 maps put in the ladder next patch? I'm practically begging here. Anyway... Could you provide me with a list of 4v4 maps you found to your liking? Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:50 AMKothre Priest should remain de-crewable if only to let it repair itself. USF late game sucks enough as it is. I would honestly be okay with the Calliope getting this ability back if its health gets lowered (which I support) We could, alternatively fix USF popcap abuse by making decrewed tanks retain their popcap. That would require us to rework a crapton of USF squad popcap values, otherwise USF late-game is toast. Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:50 AMKothre Nerfing the Calliope barrage. If it's going down to Katyusha levels, then why should it cost 140 fuel? Just keep it the way it is. The health is the only problem with it. What I meant by nerfing Calliope to Katyusha levels, I meant nerfing alpha strike. The current barrage pattern is 10-8. We could turn it into 6-6-6 or something like that and see how it works. Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:50 AMKothre Heavily nerfing Firefly performance, at least with its current price. I'd prefer just leaving them how they are. The moment 2 Fireflies join forces, it is impossible for Axis tanks to penetrate Fireflies.. unless there are heavy TDs involved, which we also nerf. Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:50 AMKothre USF needs a more reliable way to give vision to Jacksons M20 would automatically become more reliable by the nerf to heavy TDs. No longer will the minelayer/scout unit of the USF be blown up just because an Elefant/JT stared at it for a second Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:50 AMKothre Shermans shouldn't stop moving when launching their smoke bombs. This seems like an oversight that's never been fixed. We can't fix this; if we fix it, this might break Sherman smoke to malfunction like Cromwell smoke shell (Fixed Cromwell smoke shells now also cause Cromwells to stop moving). You can issue a movement command right after the smoke command, and the Sherman can keep moving. Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:16 AMLoopDloop But what about stuff like the kt, elefant, or jt? Unless you have like ten fireflies, they'll just waltz away after being hit by the rockets and there's nothing the brits can do about it, unless they are extremely severely ridiculously overextended without support and some guy happens to have an aec to maybe stun it if it doesn't get blown to shit by at or miss. If all that gets is disabled is vision and weapons, it's literally just the stuart stun shot with longer range, some (pretty good) damage, and two times the cost on a vehicle three times as expensive (and the cost to upgrade the rocket racks). It practically won't be worth using on heavies except to finish them off. If brits had a traditional snare, this would be fine. With repair speed normalization it will be a while until the heavy kitties can re-enter the field. At the same time, you can start pushing the enemy off, or chase after with your flanker tanks. The job of Fireflies is to soften enemy heavies and keep them at bay. If you want to go for the kill, you need to have some flanker tanks nearby to finish the job. If you really want to snare something, build an AEC. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Wait cromwells 2 May 2017, 01:51 AM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:32 AMLoopDloop ... what the actual fuck. There better be no more bitching about the damn ost panther's moving acc now. We're planning to see how the new Hold Fire ability works with respect to inaccurate tanks. If you feel that a particular vehicle is too inaccurate on the move, feel free to use hold fire & stop micro. The fact that you have to micro your shots means that it will be more difficult to use Cromwell spam to its full advantage. High moving accuracy values tend to have the following effect: - Too easy to control swarms of tanks - Promote a run-and-gun attitude for already advantaged tanks (e.g., OKW Panther 0.65 moving accuracy with Combat Blitz active means you will never miss) Giving fast durable tanks high moving accuracy means that there is very little incentive to slow down, which means medium tanks will be at an even greater disadvantage chasing after the more expensive Panthers/Comets. IMO, high moving accuracy should be the benefit of USF paper tanks, and USF paper tanks only (M10, Jackson & Sherman). Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 01:48 AMDanielD They are so quick that glide shots are pretty easy to land if you're microing the cromwells. I think this is good as otherwise you can just right click past enemy inf and wipe them on retreat, now there's a micro burden to do that. Does make it harder to micro other units in big battles. Note that moving accuracy modifiers have nothing to do with accuracy vs infantry; this is controlled by moving scatter modifiers. The only tanks to have ever had lower-than average scatter modifiers are USF tanks and OKW tanks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Modtools: Update source-files?2 May 2017, 00:43 AM Tools are updated! Let me know if you run into issues. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: How badly is the maxim broke? heres a little video i made 2 May 2017, 00:41 AM 1. Volks were behind Green cover (demo crater?) which dramatically reduces incoming suppression 2. You didn't use the Vet1 ability that was designed to counter just that In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teamgame dominant meta2 May 2017, 00:37 AM Jump back to quoted post2 May 2017, 00:15 AMShadowLinkX37 * I'm concerned about fully removing the stun because axis tanks, should they be hit with double rockets and no stun is applied can just blitz away from danger and then regain vision/repair etc. Maybe you could have 30% slow + blitz disable for duration of vision disable + 3 seconds. OST Blitzkrieg won't be enough to get the tanks out of the danger-zone easily. We are scheduling to tone down OKW Blitz (which is blitzkrieg on sterroids). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teamgame dominant meta1 May 2017, 22:03 PM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 21:58 PMferwiner I don't think the price is the answer here. In many cases 600mp can be considered less than 400/50. The real problem is one click counters. So what if the artillery came with detachable crew (like usf vehicles) so that you could soft of hard retreat it from the offmap and then crew back the gun and repair it? I mean, I know it may be impossible from modding perspective but maybe it's worth trying. From my own experience with 4v4 maps, artillery pieces need to be kind-of counterable, otherwise they become unstoppable. If you increase the cost disparity between single-click wipes and artillery pieces, that might be good enough. Like, if the map is so bad that you can't reach the enemy artillery, you could try counter-playing by capturing enough territory and hoarding munitions. Requiring a team to spend 250MU to wipe a 400MP artillery piece would be what I would consider a fair trade. An alternative would be to give arty pieces a short 5-second brace, at least to prevent single-click wipes, or make offmaps a bit less accurate, so that you don't have guaranteed wipes vs artillery (frustrating RNG though). In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teamgame dominant meta1 May 2017, 21:49 PM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 21:47 PMWaegukin A hell of a lot of good stuff in here. Only things I'm concerned about: -As others have said, nerfing the Calliope to Priest levels is a bit much. I think 60 armor + 480 HP would be a bit more reasonable. -The theoretical fuel prices for Howies and Pak43s seem really high. I could understand if they had brace-esque protection from one-shots, but I think its a bit much in its current theoretical state. Other than that, this all looks absolutely amazing for the game. Just killing Calliopes, SDB and CAS loiter alone would make 2v2s a hell of a lot healthier, I'm excited to see what it'll look like when its done, Scope (TM) permitting. Feel free to recommend a fuel price for Howies/Pak43. Would 50-ish fuel be OK, or too low? Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 21:19 PMelchino7 Croc: not particularly in favor of increasing the damage of the main gun. If the Croc becomes something you can remotely call a generalist, it doesn't have to be such a wiper; we can maybe cut flamer damage by half of what it currently is. The idea is that the main gun should double-time it to make up for lacklustre flamer damage. Since gun accuracy, generally, sucks while chasing, the Croc is no longer crazy good. To differentiate it from Vanilla Churchill could be given close-range penetration buffs to be a potential threat to tanks. Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 21:19 PMelchino7 FF: fine with acc nerf. Open mind to changes to Tulips. Vet3 bonus could be cut down to +40. Correct me if i'm wrong, but can't remember other 280dmg source. Any damage value that goes higher than 210 means you can now 3-shot medium tanks (including JP4). OST could use Stugs to counter FF's. OKW might be in a sticky spot. If the FF is to be specialized vs heavies, it had better be open to counterplay from mediums. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teamgame dominant meta1 May 2017, 17:02 PM As long as a particular strategy (or commander) completely trashes all late-tech options of a particular faction, this is an abusive strategy and needs to be corrected. Call-in meta does that indirectly in 1v1, as it completely prevents players from even investing resources in teching up. Call-in meta is abusive and, sooner or later, is going to be corrected. Heavy-TDs do exactly the same for USF and Soviets. OK, Soviets can build Katyshas, so they are not completely useless. USF is completely fucked, however as, by the time of heavy TDs, there's also King Tigers and Brummbars around, which also hardcounter their infantry. This forces USF players to almost always go for an artillery doctrine. This leads to stale meta. Due to the choice of late-game options for Soviets/USF, there is absolutely no amount of changes we can do to either faction to overcome this difficulty, unless we start adding bullshit. Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 15:47 PMPanzerGeneralForever Third: you say both the jagdtiger and elephant are over powered in team games. I disagree and here's why: They are purely AT units with zero anti infantry capabilities. All three allied factions have very reliable infantry with tools to deal heavy damage to vehicles including satchels, AT nades, gammon bombs, flares, piats, and zooks. That's why both units will be given either a cost decrease and/or some anti-infantry capabilities. Sure, if you always play Brits (because, fuck Soviets/USF) and you always go Hammer (because, fuck Anvil), then, yes. Perhaps you have the right tools to play keep-up with Super-TDs (not 100% sure after Hammer nerfs, though). So, I'm curious. When you play as Soviets or USF, and you encounter either the Elefant or the JT in 4v4, and somebody else in the team has fielded either a Brummbar or a King Tiger, how do you counter that? If your only answer is "oh, I don't have to deal with that, because I pick doctrine X", then this proves my point. If the only counter-pick to a strategy is forcing a particular commander choice, then you have a self-reinforcing dominant meta. I have nothing against you, if you are OK with using Jaeger Armor Commander, day-in, day-out. However, what's not OK is to expect it's OK to limit other people's choices when they have to face Jaeger Armor. Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 16:41 PMcapiqua I do not want to deviate with this topic, but the danger of the artyfest in teamgames is due to the flares, laser scan, planes, because: Infrared halftrack doesn't belong to non-doc OKW because it is so situational. A better idea would be to move it to the Overwatch commander (and merge the passive abilities), or swap it with the Goliath. Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 17:01 PMEsxile Nerfing the Calliope is required but at the same time USF need an Arty dealer late game. I'm afraid that nerfing it would make the USF faction completely helpless on teamgame. Do you think moving the Priest stock would be possible? it could be nerfed a bit, disabling the crew option, it could also requires all officers to be bought before being unlocked. And that would make any other USF doctrine much more interesting. USF have pack howitzer, the M8 scott and the Major for that role. USF late-game is its own can of worms, and needs to be fixed in relation to 1v1. Nerfing Elefant/JT means that the only non-doc scout unit of USF (M20) will no longer get oneshot. This already means that there's something that can provide vision for the delicate Jacksons. Even though that won't solve all problems, that could be a start. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Teamgame dominant meta1 May 2017, 15:43 PM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 15:05 PMDonnieChan Is there, by any means, any chance to switch the brit Mortar Pit with a mobile mortar? you could use the US mortar model and give it the OST mortar stats (i think nobody would be against). then the mortar pit could be doctrinal in, let's say the Royal Artillery Doc. That would lead to so much more dynamic gameplay... My own personal taste would be remove emplacements altogether and rework them into trenches, etc. However the following buzzwords are too sexy, and it would be -really- difficult to convince the powers that be to do that kind of rework: - Asymmetric balance - Non-linear tecnhing Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 15:19 PM0ld_Shatterhand Good stuff, I agree with everything. And if you maybe change the howitzers so that they can't be destroyed by a single ability would be great, they should survive with a slither of health so they can be repaired and recrewed. Also if you nerf the mortar pit you have to give the brits some replacement. I personally hope for a mobile mortar, but otherwise (for the sake of army diversity) buffing the base arty, so that it can act as a solid and powerful mortar replacement would be good. Maybe lower the damage and change the accuracy, so that it will land in a predictable circle independent from the range. Also, improve the time it takes to land and the recharge time, it shouldn't be much longer than the recharge of the pack Howie barrage and maybe shorten with vet. That way you could reliable force MGs to reposition without wiping stuff too much. Finally, a smoke barrage would be perfect, but that's maybe a bit too much. Buffing base arty is our original plan, due to asymmetric balance. From my scratchpad: Jump back to quoted post1 May 2017, 15:28 PMRedT3rror ISG and Packhowitzers could get a vet0 ability to fire timed shells similiar to those of the USF mortar halftrack. - or incendiary. Delayed fuse shells were actually our first idea for USF mortar Vet1. The reason we didn't proceed with that was because we found them out to be OP as fuck. In: COH2 Balance