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Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - Ostheer Feedback1 Apr 2021, 00:23 AM 251 Mobile Observation Post see little reason for the flare to cost more than soviet mortar one a price of 30 sound more reasonable. Assault and Hold adding durability seem like a step in the right direction. Assault Officer reinforcement cost reduction is step in right direction but the unit stop contributing damage in late game, add 1-2 ST44 with vet. Breakthrough step in right direction Command Panzer IV nice to see that my suggestion of removing CP is being tested. Some good changes. Forward Resupply Station These ability should probably repair the ambient building, add the repair bunker also for map with no ambient buddings. Hulldown Ability remains pretty useless for case mates. Rename to defensive position and change the bonus for case mates to increased rotation +5-10 sight possibly camo. Luftwaffe Field Officer Great addition, can we also add 2 more officers? A panzer officer and infatry officer? Relief Infantry Reduce the built/reinforcement bonus to 10% make it make it passive from CP 1-2 (same for the soviet ability) Sector Artillery increase tracking speed to much UKF one, tone down ability lower cost CP Stuka Incendiary Bombing Run a much needed change Panzer IV Ausf. J The unit is almost a vet 2 PzIV and does not really bring much to the table, redesign the unit to be closer to 76MM sherman with lower AI but better higher penetration so it can fight Allied heavy tanks better. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - USF Feedback31 Mar 2021, 23:57 PM 240mm Barrage Fix friendly fire the ability does almost no friendly fire Combined Arms Toning down the ability seem a steps in right direction IR Pathfinder Barrage A step in the right direction possibly should be locked behind tech or should be toned down becoming weaker and cheaper. M26 Pershing A step in the right direction M4A3 Sherman 105mm Dozer Nice to see that my barrage suggestion is being tested, pls consider changing the auto-fire to be closer to other tank with higher projectile speed and range for less AOE. The vehicle will get more AT capabilities. Pathfinders Anti sniper capability a change in right direction, apply to JLI also. Rangers A step in the wrong direction. The unit become to versatile with 3 weapons and ability to choose when to increase AT capability. Reduce weapon slots to 2, make super bazookas a weapons upgrade for all USF elite troops. USF elite troops can no longer pick bazookas from racks Rear Echelon Rifle Grenades A change in the right direction but why not simply move the ability to riflemen? Reserve Armor good change removing the dozer upgrade. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - British Feedback31 Mar 2021, 23:43 PM At first glance: Assault Nice to see my suggestions of adding durability instead of pure DPS to this abilities being tested Forward HQ Maybe these abilities should bring the ambient building to a set amount of health? 75%? Hold the Line Nice to see that my suggestion about toning the ability are being tested. M3 Resupply Halftrack Nice to see that the weapon transfer to other player has been removed as I had suggested Vickers K Light Machien Gun Although the change is in the right direction and inline with what I had suggested it seem the wrong way around from realism point of view. Bren should be the weapon able to fired on the move and VickerK the LMG even if that means swapping stock and doctrinal... The new vicker K might be too good for Heavy sappers. Churchill Crocodile Remove flares In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander Update Beta 2021 - Soviet Feedback31 Mar 2021, 23:18 PM At first glance: Assault Guards AT CP2 300MP 3SVT+3Thomspon is recipe to disaster the unit is stronger than live Ranger once vetted 4SVT+2Elite bazookas again recipe to disaster most cost efficient AT unit with decent AI For the Motherland Nice to see that my suggestion of adding durability to this abilities instead of just DPS is being tested KV-1 Heavy Tank Nice to see that my suggestions about increasing pop/removing damage reduction is being tested In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF Commander Revamp 202131 Mar 2021, 16:45 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 15:52 PMSupport Sapper Since when that 4 shot of railway 12 second apart from each other with a scatter twice the size of an OKW base building has become "precise shot" ? Railway has at least one precise shot. Shot fired have scatter but also have big AOE Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 15:52 PMSupport Sapper And since when that those abilities are the same as TOT on being "Slow firing" ? Time between smoke and first shot landing allows mobile unit to move out of they making the ability better vs static target Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 15:52 PMSupport Sapper Cause the last time i play USF, "Time on Target" is something that drop all the shells AT THE SAME TIME. That actually can support the suggestion of increasing CP and Cost. Bottom line is that TOT has lower CP and MU with other abilities with same role for no good reason. In: Lobby
Thread: USF Commander Revamp 202131 Mar 2021, 13:42 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 13:34 PMSupport Sapper Infantry company is a strange name for what the commander is about,it should have been something like field artillery company, i believe. Anyway, as far as i see, most pp agree that the commander should focus on arty and remove TOT is again that mind set despite whatever you, Vipper, say. You cant expect pp to not bring in personal stuff when you keep suggesting change that again the majority thought while keep acting like you are the only guy who understand game design. On the removing of tot from infantry coy, im strongly again that. The priest alone will never counter OKW forward base or LEFH, especially the LEFH. For a base building, you can have 2 Priest fire at the same time and still have a chance that the base survive and be fully repair before the cd. Yeah, it can be fire one after each other to prevent repair but there are still chance that the base survive. Having 3 priest is not a good ideal event in team game. Further more, Due to the limited range, on certain long map, priest cant reach what it need, this present most clearly when the target is the Lefh, which often build right outside of enemy base. To make things worse, a barrage from a priest will often just decrew the LEFH and if there are counter battery active, the priest can event be destroy right in the middle of its barrage. That make you end up picking an arty commander but still cant reliably counter enemy static play. In sort, TOT in the form of a LEFH counter is the major part that keep infantry coy viable in the calliop meta. On the other hand, ost have commander with LEFH and stuka dive bomb but i havent see any comment on that. What i want with this commander, is that the "infantry" part, namely field defense and m1919 are replaced by some recon perk like RM flare to make it into a complete arty oriented. But, to be practical, i think they will just increase TOT to 200mu and be done, as the commander is mostly acceptable now. That is one way of looking at things but your argument works both ways One picks a commander with Lefh to counter enemy artillery. Not only Lefh can not counter the Priest effectively but infatry commander come with one of most cost efficient combo that hard counters LeFH. Priest itself is much harder to be counter with an off map. If TOT remains to infantry company than it should it should be closer to "Concentrated Fire Operation", "Railway Artillery Support" and have its CP increased to 12 and munition cost 200+. In: Lobby
Thread: COH2 change proposal vote pool31 Mar 2021, 13:31 PM Soviet support weapons having 6 men crews is ok. Soviets support weapons having 6 entities when using support weapons from other factions is not good and it should be removed. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: OKW Commander Revamp 202131 Mar 2021, 13:05 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 12:05 PMKatitof Then perhaps you should not have whined for nerfs of every single light vehicle in existence, then we would have a mid game, because you wouldn't be able to just ignore mid game for posing too little threat to care. For years you were directly advocating for the game to end in this state by calling nerfs to everything pre med tank phase and now you are complaining about it? This is what you and others always wanted, where is the problem? It is good that you have acknowledged that some of my suggestions make it to game but I am afraid you gone from one extreme to other. I am not the one that decided what goes into a the game Relic. You also seem to have missed many point: I have not call "nerfs of every single light vehicle in existence" Even top players I have asked agree to some light vehicles arrive too early "last tier mentality" for some faction mean unit above medium tank It is also a mentality that was not suggested by me, on the contrary I have advised against it I doubt that light vehicle has become obsolete in game and I see 222 to T-70,Stuart, AEC, 251 regularly Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 12:05 PMKatitof UKF completely voids that argument for stock army and for doctrinal, MP40 volks exist already. If every single role was always needed, as you claim, DLC factions wouldn't be designed lacking these roles by default. I have not idea why you bring UKF design while quoting my post that is about OKW. As for MP40 VG they are close oriented and not mid and I pointed that need for mid oriented squad not close one to fill the gap of the stock roster, MP-40 are also doctrinal. Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 12:05 PMKatitof He said: You are the first one to call them infiltration unit, he didn't even indirectly. Stop projecting your thoughts onto others, its insulting to other posters and shows your utter disregard for their arguments. And actually did no claim that he said that JLI are an infiltration (although it seem he did). It seem that Hannibal is pretty capable of clarifying thing and he does not seem to be in need of an advocated. In: Lobby
Thread: OKW Commander Revamp 202131 Mar 2021, 12:51 PM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 12:41 PMHannibal No, this is an issue of beacon design. They are decently visible to the enemy and get destroyed quickly. It is just not worth the effort of trying to sneak Pathfinders behind the line, set up a beacon in a somewhat disguised spot only to later drop paras (probably hide them without camo until they upgrade) and reinforce there. Chances are that the beacon is already destroyed or that it will be once the enemy sees they are reinforcing. Assuming you can soft retreat in the first place. The game is just too quickly paced in general for these types of play and in larger modes too densely "populated" with units. You're just better of with supporting other units and capping points instead of wasting 1-2 minutes of this unit not doing combat or other jobs. They are just too expensive for that. I agree and is what meant, "rushing last tier" mentality have increased the paced and there little reason to bother using beacons as initially designed. Generally speaking the parachutist offer little other by a nice gimmick and saving some time in entering the field. Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 12:41 PMHannibal Volks are mid to short range oriented. And unless you want to make Falls a replacement for main line infantry, you won't be able to fit more of them into your build than you could fit Obersoldaten (which is usually 1-2 depending on initial build and late game wipes). VG K98 and ST44 are more mid to far oriented and do not really stand a change vs BAR riflemen. Falls arrive earlier than obers and one can fit more than 1-2. One can even spam kubels to fit more falls. Imo a design of fall that made similar to riflemen is use is viable and fill a hole in OKW units. Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 12:41 PMHannibal The infiltration was not meant as the spawn mechanic, but as the role on the battlefield since I was talking about unit roles the whole time. I meant it as their role in recon and trying to slip through the lines. Fair enough and it makes some sense but the game does seem to prefer therm infiltration for unit that can actually spawn from ambient building. (see for instance infiltration commandos) Maybe camo/recon unit would a term better describing JLI/Pathfinders. In: Lobby
Thread: OKW Commander Revamp 202131 Mar 2021, 11:56 AM Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 11:27 AMHannibal ... The beacons are a nice idea, but they don't really work the way you describe. ... That is a problem of the "rush to last tier" mentality but the design is there and is good. Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2021, 11:27 AMHannibal The chances of a model dying is very slim when you place them correctly, especially with the small landing area that Sanders already pointed out. I don't see why they need to have 5 men because of this. .... Regarding Falls, OKW does not have many niches that they would fit in. Currently they have a big overlap with Obersoldaten which is not great either. 5 men could work if they probably lose 2 FG42s and get a slight reinforcement cost buff. But what will be their niche? The only thing OKW needs is an infiltration unit. There are already JLI, so Falls don't need really to provide sniping capabililty or recon (which is already available in the commander with the smoke recon). Regarding damage, OKW has all ranges covered except for a super short range burster like Shocks or Commandos. Potentially they could also focus more on diversion and swap the booby trap ability from Obersoldaten. This would probably be a good change overall since Obers come already loaded with two grenades and a vet suppression ability. Technically, I could even imagine them to have a more "dig in" type of design, allowing them to build trenches (possible in non-friendly territory only). What OKW luck is a decent assault squad that is mid oriented and durable VG simply do not cut it and ST44 obers are do not fit army composition in sufficient number. Fall can easily fill that role with 5 entities. I agree that Ober has little or no reason to have booby traps. JLI are not an infiltration unit since the enter the field normally and not spawn form ambient buildings are closer to pathfinder. In: Lobby