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Thread: Rifle Company need to be rework26 Sep 2018, 00:05 AM Jump back to quoted post25 Sep 2018, 18:05 PMKatitof I know what the original theme was. But hardly any touched doctrine sticks to its original theme since community mods do the balance. Swap lmgs from infantry with flames from rifle? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: How to fix UKF: Unit overview25 Sep 2018, 15:59 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Sep 2018, 15:15 PMCombatWombat And what is sadder is that the Comet has a lower chance of scoring a penetrating hit against a JP4 than the JP4's chance against the Comet when you take into account accuracy and unit size: Comet chance of scoring penetrating hit against JP4: 37% JP4 chance of scoring a penetrating hit against Comet: 51% Situation does not improve with vet either as the JP4 gets actual befits from it while the Comet does not. Here ye here ye! Dedicated AT unit that can do literally nothing but fight armour and only from head on is better at fighting armour than a generalist unit with utility! Gather yer pitchforks, relic dun goofed! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Panzer Tactician too strong, prove me wrong.25 Sep 2018, 15:54 PM Jump back to quoted post25 Sep 2018, 14:18 PMLoxley 1. No one dives in with a 20% vehicle. 2. Every side has its unique features. It is like I would suggest to give axis tank crews the same repair ability like USF tanks. Axis have very expensive tanks and are most outnumbered in tank battles. Allies dive in with a couple of tanks, the ones who are badly damaged drive back and are fast repaired by their own crew, while axis player, who already paid more for the tank, has to build 1-2 addional pios (to have at least 3) to repair at the same level. But axis have still "mass concentration of support weapons and infantry", yeah yeah. And now you want to take away that smoke solution, which is only in some commanders.. B4 was only in 1 commander, required vet, recon, pre-aiming, a BUTT load of munitions and most importantly: the enemy to allow you to retain your vet and sit still long enough to give you something to shoot at (and then the 4 years of shell travel time) so it was fine? Now it's a meme unit whose vet ability WAS a non vet ability, that costs 90 mu but can still miss... Edit: also if poor "Axis" has to build multiple pios to repair (psst. Sturms can speed up their repair with an upgrade and have a truck that will repair) what does the Soviet have to do? At least pios have the capability to support and get vet by being armed with bullets and not blanks. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rifle Company need to be rework25 Sep 2018, 00:29 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 20:50 PMTheGentlemenTroll The E8 is fantastic on the move, more so then the base Sherman (I believe) which is already excellent. It makes it very good at flanking and brawling other tanks that cannot remain on the move. If anything the E8 could use a reload buff but then it might be way too strong with radio net. Id also consider making it more mobile to benefit from its excellent on the move accuracy but once again that could be op. Or the E8 can fill that role of a bruiser and be able to tank shots better, this would 100% require a price increase though.(Mind Posting the health values?) Some of the stats might be slightly off I've learned, but apearently the E8 has 720hp vs the P4 640mp In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rifle Company need to be rework25 Sep 2018, 00:25 AM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 23:39 PMShadowLinkX37 Although I'm not going to stat check all of these, just by looking at the p4 pen I know that is at least incorrect. P4 pen is now 125/115/110 And not to nitpick too badly, the E8s massive advantage comes from its 720 HP vs the 640 of other stock mediums, which means it takes 5 shots to kill from 160 damage sources instead of 4. My stats are a bit out of date, I made a spreadsheet a bit before stats.hu went away. I tried to adjust the changes I remembered but my memory is only so good, now that you mention it I remember the pen up for P4 but don't remember the E8 health up at all. Thanks for the corrections, I'll commit them to the sheet. The rest should more or less be accurate, either way the jist is there. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Panzer Tactician too strong, prove me wrong.24 Sep 2018, 20:33 PM imo it should fire slightly in front of it instead of hosing itself down like a teenage boy in the locker room armed with a can of axe. an arming time or some travel time would be great but a price increase would certainly be nice as well. id like to see it uses as a tactical aid for panzers (like the smoke allied tanks have) instead of a powdered french flag signaling time for a hasty retreat In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rifle Company need to be rework24 Sep 2018, 20:24 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 17:43 PMmondeogaming1 OKW P4 more ecpensive lat i check htye have exactly same price and P4 has 234 armour and faster realod insanly faster turret at vet and the fastest realod medium tank aside from 76 mm gun sherman from mecha and P4 bounce a lot more shots trust me cuz Allied AT sux alrighty so heres the numbers i have... pen (c/m/f) P4 120/110/100 E8 175/.165/155 armour (f/b) P4 234/80 E8 215/80 chance to pen others front armour as percentage (c/m/f) P4->E8 56/51/46 E8->P4 75/70/66 conclusion: despite the p4s vaunted armour, it has significantly lower chance to pen the E8, having a lesser chance to pen it E8 at point blank than the E8 has tom pen it at max range reload P4 5.63 E8 6.43 scatter / what i recall moving acc being P4 6.4 / 0.5 E8 6.2 /0.8 AOE P4 2.5 E8 2 conclusion: the p4 is better at killing infantry, better reload plenty offsets the slight edge the E8 has in accuracy... when stationary. the E8 however fires much more accurately on the move making it a great chaser. acceleration/ deceleration/ max speed P4 2.1/4/6.1 E8 2/4.1/6 Conclusion: the E8 is more mobile, by a tiny insignificant margin, literally .1 of a unit in all categories bonus at vet 1 the E8 gets radio net which improves los by 5% and accuracy by 10% per allied vehicle grand conclusion: E8 superior in all fields save for killing infantry, and even there i think the .50 cal is a better MG than the mg34 on the okw p4 which may help make up for it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rifle Company need to be rework24 Sep 2018, 19:48 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 18:14 PMKharn It may of needed to be knocked down, but a Jackson should win fights against a PZ4 as it costs more fuel and it's only job is to fight tanks. The Pz4 on the other hand is quite good AI. People always cite this, a T-34/76 is 90 fuel so it obviously loses to a 135 fuel PZ4. But isn't a jackson 140 fuel? Yet it has to ALSO contend with the fact it is open topped and believe me, in large team games this matters because all of the indirect fire can often mean long repair times for Jacksons as they tend to take a lot of extra damage from it. The su85 is more expensive than a p4 also but if used poorly it will lose. The Jackson lacks the drawbacks of ANY other TD in the game. Its doesn't need to self spot too. Snipers are dedicated AI and cost more than most infantry squads yet are designed that if you fuck up you lose them. If a p4 manages to close 1/3 of the Jackson's range it DESERVES the kill, or at least to out the hurt on it (which of course the Jackson can fix up all by itself if it escapes). Dedicated counters doesn't mean immunity it means they work bloody well, and nobody can deny the Jackson's performance. It's accurate, mobile and now durable too. HVAP allows it to scale incredibly well and from there it also gets some incredible vet. Ain't nothing wrong with the Jackson. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Rifle Company need to be rework24 Sep 2018, 16:24 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 16:13 PMmondeogaming1 E8 still struggles to pen OKW p4 and OKW p4 is stock unit and dotn forget the support cuz normally E8 wants to go aggresive vs P4 and as OKW raketens mines snare waits you Why shouldn't it struggle with the rather expensive okw P4? If you make it too good against that then Ost is hopeless. Iirc it has a higher movement accuracy, something like 215 armour (making it the only allied medium aside from the comet that has any chance of bouncing any proper AT) and a respectable gun, better than the t34/85 for pen if I recall properly. What do you want from it? Immunity to bad play? Snares and mines should remain viable and AT should still be a threat, which it is. Less than any other medium but it needs to be counterable. You can't expect a single unit to just plow through the enemy's combined arms... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Flame Halftrack24 Sep 2018, 14:18 PM Jump back to quoted post24 Sep 2018, 12:11 PMSander93 The UC vs Volks thread happily established it was acceptable OKW should sacrifice their build order to get out an early Raketten to counter it (which is a valid argument). I don't see why this shouldn't be the case for the Soviets. If they want Penals but don't want to get rekked by a 251, they should build T2 and get a Zis instead of stubbornly stalling for their precious T-70 with softcounters. If they want to take that risk, they should be willing to accept that PTRS do not hardcounter the 251 and that they might lose units to it. How are you with math? So building a 270mp unit in t0 that can retreat when threatened and cloak to stay out of trouble deviates okw from their combat potential despite starting with the most aggressive engineer unit in the game AND volks only cost 250mp. Assuming it's say the 3rd unit built you spend a total of 770mp on units and nothing on teching. You have 3 combat units and a back capper That is some how comparable this for the soviet: Conscriot for 240mp Build t1 for 160mp Build penal for 300mp Look at that already up to 700mp But wait, there is more! The combat ineffective CE is withdrawn to base (not back capping) Spends another 160mp building t2 Then another 320mp to build a zis. So 3 combat units (if you can somehow count CE as a combat unit...) and an AT gun for Soviet costs 1180mp and 30 fuel as well as spending time in base building (something okw doesn't have to do) So for almost the cost of 2 volks the Soviet player can side tech and get out an AT gun totally the same! In: COH2 Balance