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Thread: Faster Mortar Smoke4 Jul 2019, 15:55 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jul 2019, 11:38 AMaerafield Dunno, mortar smoke is FREE and has a lot more range than nades or tank shells Is it? You have to buy a mortar for it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer Mobile Defense Puma rework4 Jul 2019, 15:52 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Jul 2019, 15:13 PMTobis Why is that a bad thing? It SHOULD be a valid strategy. If Relic agreed, they wouldn't have removed it from the game. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Faster Mortar Smoke4 Jul 2019, 10:57 AM Anyone else think the smoke barrage on mortars could stand to be faster? Compared to more direct smoke deployment (grenades, tank smoke) they're painfully slow. While this makes a degree of sense from a realism standpoint, it limits the utility of mortars as smoke launchers. Given mortars are now much weaker bleed tools, could they stand to be better at their smoke deploying role? Maybe a responsivity similar to the smoke launcher on the Sherman? By no means ninja smoke, but fast enough to use reactively. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer “theme”4 Jul 2019, 10:25 AM The 222 used to be a light AT vehicle. Ostheer had the 221, a 15 FU light scout car for killing infantry and snipers. You could upgrade it with an AA gun which lost a lot of anti-infantry power but turned it into dirt cheap AT. At some point Relic decided to merge the units, creating a hybrid 222 with both the AI firepower and AT firepower at the same time. They botched it and bugged out the coaxial though, so they got a weird unit instead. Then Relic decided the 222 needed to be more like a Luchs, so they increased its fuel cost to 30 and heavily buffed its health. They realised they'd bugged the coax, fixed it and we've almost got the modern 222. Then the Guards Rifle Meta happened, people went 222 and they didn't do shit to the enemy snipers they were chasing. The modders went into the code and discovered for some reason Relic had given the bugged out coax (which didn't work for years) a hefty accuracy penalty against snipers. You know, because reasons. They removed it, and we get the modern 222. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer Mobile Defense Puma rework4 Jul 2019, 10:19 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Jul 2019, 08:58 AMCorMovus You gave no reason why this idea is bad just pointing out that some players would find it to strong. PG with Pazshrek are the komplett Opposite in terms of at to a puma. Puma is a Vehicle, fast and with good long range capability while PG are inf, slow and only reliable in mid range. With PG you can maybe hold the ground but with a puma, you can even chase down mediums. If you add the Puma to T2 outright, you've already recreated the Mobidef strategy. If you add to to T0, you do exactly the same thing. Furthermore, you'd also create another strategy where you skip T2 entirely in favour of the T0 Puma. Skipping T2 with Panzergrenadiers is already a divisive issue: the 200 MP 20 FU you save not building T2 is a huge deal. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: What USF Commander should I buy? 3 Jul 2019, 16:03 PM It depends what you're after. If you primarily want to win, pick Recon. It's a much more competitive doctrine than Tactical Support. If off-meta jank and unconventional strategies are more up your street, Tactical Support has some fun toys for that. It's one of the two doctrines that can do M1919 RE spam (the other being Infantry Company), the M5 got its price slashed from 350 to 240 (you're welcome ) and the Calliope's not a bad unit by any means. Fair warning though, the Strafing Run is trash. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Machine Guns3 Jul 2019, 13:06 PM I'd trade the Maxim's fast setup and teardown in a heartbeat for suppression worth a damn. I only bother using the DHSK when I play Soviet. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Ostheer Mobile Defense Puma rework3 Jul 2019, 13:01 PM It could maybe stand to have shared veterancy, given it relies on damage to vet and its anti-infantry performance is pretty meh. Its kickass damage reduction aura is what makes it worth giving up a proper P4 for. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: For the Love Of God M1 Pack Howitzer 3 Jul 2019, 12:45 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2019, 12:44 PMKatitof That's making it into a mortar. USF already has a mortar that acts like you want pack howi to. In T0. How so? The AoE profile you quoted doesn't support that assertion at all. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: For the Love Of God M1 Pack Howitzer 3 Jul 2019, 12:40 PM So I went and tested the barrage out a bit in CheatMod, and it appears the Pack Howitzer suffers the classic CoH 2 explosive design problem. It's really inaccurate, but hits like a truck when it's lucky enough to hit a squad. Hugely unreliable, but incredibly powerful when it hits. As a result, it's too much of an RNG cannon to be useful at clearing team weapons, but it's very strong sitting in the back line inflicting bleed and the occasional wipe. The solution to this is pretty straightforward: damage down, reliability up. You can do that by squashing the AoE profile. It's what they did with the Brummbar. Something like this, maybe? Auto Attack reload from 7 to 12. AoE radius from 5 to 8. AoE Distance Near/Mid/Far from 1.5/3/4.5 to 0.75/1.5/6. This particular AoE profile is probably a bit too powerful (I reckon this'd outright kill any team weapon that tries to tank the barrage) but illustrates the concept fairly well. In: COH2 Balance