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Thread: Modtools: Update source-files?29 Apr 2017, 18:44 PM Totally forgot to check this one -after- the patch got released Relic will probably updating the mod tools next week, potentially on Monday. In: Modding and Tools
Thread: 1.3 GCS - Maxim Feedback29 Apr 2017, 17:08 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2017, 15:30 PMVipper Actual it is (Recruitment cost-cost of weapon)/(number of entities2) HMG34 (230-30)/42 = 25 HMG42 (260-80)/42 = 22.5 DSHK (300-120)/62 = 15 M2 (280-100)/42 = 22.5 Vickers (280-100)/42 = 22.5 That is why oddly the HMG34 has one of highest reinforcement costs and Dshk the lowest. MG34 crew, like all OKW team-weapons have crews that deal the full DPS of a Volks squad, as opposed to the peashooters other teamweapons get. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brummbär overperforming29 Apr 2017, 13:23 PM Saying that Elefant & Brummbar is OP, whereas dual-wielding Vet3 Riflemen is not, reeks of double standards. If Elefant & Brummbar is OK, then we should have never banned dual-wielding LMGs. Instead, we should have added a 3rd slot to the Riflemen to pick up a 3rd LMG, but increase price-per-LMG to 90MU. That's precisely what it is like to face Elefant & Brummbar; and that's the fault of the Elefant. The whole point is that there are only 2 VPs you need to defend, and the Elefant negates all action on one of them. Then, there 3 teammates left to defend the VP closest to the Elefant. GGWP. If one guy picking the Elefant is forcing the entire enemy team to go try-hard to even have a chance to counter it, then something terribly wrong. This kills strategic diversity for the team that has to face OP Elefants day in/day out, and that will eventually kill the replayability of the game, when there's no OP stuff left to counter the wunderwaffe. If you think this is OK for 1 guy picking a doctrine to force a doctrine-pick on 4 other guys, then there's something wrong with your reasoning. That's because when the Elefant is backed by 3 other teammates, the match is extremely uneven. This is no different from Comet spam or Artillery cover bullshit or landmattress that have already been nerfed. If you believe that the footprint of Elefant/Jagdtiger is justifiable, we should have never nerfed Landmattress/Artillery Cover; maybe just increase their price to make them unavailable for 1v1. Instead, we should have buffed ISU, Priest, B4, Tulips etc; that way there can be enough bullshit for each side to counter the bullshit on the other side. Then, you would never see anybody pick any other doctrine, ever. Just the same bullshit day-in day-out; similar to how if you don't have a 1-2 call-in doctrines in your loadout in 1v1, you're a loser. Now, there's obviously a few remaining shitstains that will get have to get flushed down the toilet (e.g., Crocodile, Elefant, Jagdtiger, Sturmtiger, Calliope, and other things), and then the game can be interesting. We're just waiting for those to enter scope. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Kasarov's Collective Thread of Questions29 Apr 2017, 13:11 PM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2017, 03:34 AMKasarov Permanent weapon switching? I'm trying to add a weapon upgrade that switches the primary weapons of the whole squad and I'd like to not bloat the squad with slot items. I assigned a second hardpoint and tried making them switch weapons from hardpoint 1 to hardpoint 2. However, the change is not permanent, and reinforcements come equipped with hardpoint 1 again. Is there a way to force hardpoint 2 on reinforcements to the squad or is slot items the only way? While we were trialing Penal flamer & ppsh for WBP we did the following. Say that you want your upgrade to switch SVTs to PPSh: In your penal EBPS do the following: - Combat: add ppsh as weapon #2 under hardpoint #1 Create a package upgrade that does the following: - Requirement action -> if SVT active -> change-weapon to PPSh To make this work for reinforced models add a requirement action under penal EBPS: -> Requirement (check once): - Upgrade active - Active weapon: #SVT If yes: change-weapon to PPSh This definitely works if you have 1 slot item (flamer) that you want to carry around. I haven't tried to see what happens if you have 2 slot items that you want your squad to carry with them PS: Would it be possible to create a new thread for every question you ask? That way other modmakers that want to have the same questions answered could find the same answers easier In: Modding and Tools
Thread: 1.3 GCS - Maxim Feedback29 Apr 2017, 10:27 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2017, 09:08 AMtightrope I don't think it suppresses fast enough. Reminds me of the vickers where volks can run head on into it and get an incendiary nade off. It's true that the Maxim might be weak, especially in the early stages. However due to cover bonus manipulation the usefulness of the Maxim scales well into the late-game and doesn't become a basket-case like the Vickers. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brummbär overperforming29 Apr 2017, 07:52 AM Jump back to quoted post29 Apr 2017, 06:35 AMPanzerGeneralForever Elephant is OP on certain maps. On others its completely useless. Keep that in mind. Some units simply shine more in certain scenarios than others. Elephants for example are useless in more urban maps with loads of flank points which is where faster allied tanks excel. I think elephant is fine. With scopes? No longer fine. I think thats the reason you arent saying jagdtiger is op? Jagdtiger is beyond OP. The reason I'm not bringing this up is because Brummbar is not an Ostheer unit. The reason why Elefant is OP is because it is a medium-tank wiper machine. You get an Elefant Soviet TDs are out of the game. Suddenly there's nothing that can counter the Brummbar anymore. This is a bit like the old Firefly. Was the cost fair? Absolutely. Was it annoying as fuck how it would insta-kill mediums; yep. Elefant damage has to be nerfed slightly so as not to be an assassin (on top of tanking so much damage), and then the cost can get down too. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Vanilla factions´s repair rate28 Apr 2017, 18:55 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Apr 2017, 17:01 PMROMEAT Soviets have some doctrinal repair options like cheap self-repair or cons repair kit or repair stations. Ost has nothing but pioneers, and this is the problem imo Let's not forget that higher-quantity paper-armour tanks take damage in more consistently, hence require more time to repair. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brummbär overperforming28 Apr 2017, 13:13 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Apr 2017, 12:43 PMIntelligence209 It's beyond me how units that haven't been changed in months suddenly become OP. I mean with virtually no comments/complains mentioned by units, then one week it's OP. And it's not patch related. 1. Infantry just received a spacing modification 2. Brummbar with elephant? The fuel requirements alone for both these units is atrocious 3. It's one of the few axis units that keeps allied infantry from just roaming around in all the yellow cover created by the landmattress/katushas/calliope,. Units that you virtually see every game.... 4. Back to the brumbar with elephant, the time OH receives both these units I couldn't imagine the amount of mediums/heavies allies would have. 5. It's pathetic due to the fact OH is always reacting to the allies strategies, very rarely does the OH has a shock unit or shock strategy that forces the allies into a commander choice or tier build in the same concept, it's a lethal unit, it's supposed to be. 6. Next week what's next that's OP? Oh wait it's the elephant lol another unit that is suddenly OP without change for months/years. 7. Not to say wrongs makes rights, but damn, it's not like the panzerwerfer does its job, it's not like the oswtind does its job, it's not like the p4 does its job, they are all shitty AI. 8. So OH is supposed to use AT guns (which we all know how long these last against allied artillery) to stall to a late tier, then bust out a AI unit. So stall with a brummbar/AT guns till you have enough fuel to get an elephant. Smh. okayyy Balance is relative. Changes to counterparts are enough to make untouched things become OP. Allied infantry has been nerfed. Light vehicles (of which allied ones were the most powerful) were nerfed. Brit tanks and most OP commander abilities have been nerfed. All of this creates a power vacuum that the next-in-line OP units can abuse. OP Elefants and Stuka Dive bombs have been part of the abuse-meta for ages. However those were kept in check by equivalent OP allied unit/ability scaling. With the counterparts nerfed, those remaining units that were justifiably OP are now unjustifiably ridiculous. However, once again IMO, the OP is not identifying the cause of the imbalance correctly. It's OKW teammates and OP Elefant doctrine that's causing the issues; not the Brummbar per se. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brummbär overperforming27 Apr 2017, 16:18 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Apr 2017, 16:16 PMRedT3rror Except following things are not possible with the Ostwind: - wiping sqauds instantly - guaranteed model kill with each shot - can frontally counter AT guns on range 60 (!) thanks to bunker busting barrage. - survives 4 pak shots - uneven terrain or fences dont bother the gun - can shoot over shotblockers iirc bunker-busting barrage has 80 range. The point is, with the Elefant commander you can't even use AT guns in the first place. All their veterancy is gone when Dive Bomb is called in. What you're describing here is the entire Elefant doctrine being OP; not the Brummbar. OST late-game is a completely different story without Elefant commander/JU-87; those other doctrines need the Brummbar to fulfil that role. And no; USF non-doc late-game is just hopeless; there's no need bringing that faction's name up in a late-game discussion. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Brummbär overperforming27 Apr 2017, 16:11 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Apr 2017, 16:09 PMaerafield Well I have to agree here.. in the latest big 2v2 tourney from Currahee I had a longer match vs the very good team c.B. I was constantly using ground attack with my Brummbär, leading to many one shot full squad wipes or killing 4-5 models of a soviet squad with a single shot. At the end my Brummbär had 169 kills! http://imgur.com/a/Q8LhE http://imgur.com/a/FUkLr That's because you also used the Elefant commander. With one shot, half health is gone. Brummbar can somehow penetrate tanks and then they need to run away. If you think that Brummbar & Elefant is OP, wait till you try Elefant & Hulldown Ostwind, lol. Best thing is that you don't even have to tech and you also get Stugs from the same building. Guys, it's the Elefant that's OP; not the Brummbar. In: COH2 Balance