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Thread: What if allow Grenadier build trench？7 Mar 2020, 14:44 PM As appealing as the idea of standardised bags are, they're this way for a reason. Infantry Sections are builders because Sappers are a T1 unit and Sections are cover dependent. You'd effectively make the whole faction map dependent if you took their bags away. Volksgrenadiers build bags because Sturmpioneers are already an overloaded unit: making them the bag builder too might be overkill. Conscripts build their own bags because they're hybrid utility units, and if Engineers built the bags it'd be a net buff to the Penal build. USF would be even more powerful if Riflemen built their own bags. I could perhaps see an argument for Grens to build bags instead of Pios. The best balancing measure for bags I can think of is to replace all nondoctrinal sandbags with the Conscript variant. That'd prevent you from building bags behind things as easily, making building cover a risk if the enemy then takes your position. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Strange Old Buffs7 Mar 2020, 14:32 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2020, 14:16 PMVipper Pio sight is fine imo, since they promote synergy. Perhaps it should be a standard feature of engineers then? It's odd that just Pios have it. Jump back to quoted post7 Mar 2020, 14:16 PMVipper WC-51 ending up with great DPS/range and lot of utility. While I think that's a separate issue (the previous patch team refusing to remove anything and making a fair few unholy frankenunits crafted from the discarded remains of canned commander abilities) it should definitely lose Mark Target and the 155mm artillery. It doesn't need them and they don't make thematic sense either. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Strange Old Buffs7 Mar 2020, 14:05 PM Early in the game's life, Relic developed a habit of doing little quick fixes for balance problems rather than fixing the core issues. Ostheer T0 a bit weak? Give Pios a load of extra sight so they spot for HMG42s. OKW's early game a little lacking? Let them upgrade in enemy territory. UKF handing out Vickers LMGs to Conscripts? Reduce Conscript weapon slots. They all seem individually harmless, but when you add several years of them all together they make for a rather counterintuitive, mechanically unpredicatable game. Maybe it's time to clean up a bit? Should the balance team take a sweep through the old patch notes and decide which of these tweaks actually make the game better, and which are rotting band-aids the game doesn't need any more? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Proposed maxim buff/rework6 Mar 2020, 21:08 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 20:43 PMT.R. Stormjäger Perfect 👌 Why would you put an HMG in T3? That's really late. Just give it passable suppression and nerf whatever you have to to balance that out. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 5CP Puma is way too late6 Mar 2020, 20:59 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 18:34 PMSander93 Of course. But the circumstances have changed quite drastically since then. Now Cons (and so an abundance of AT grenades) are viable. UKF have snares. USF had a rework that made sideteching easier. Amongst other big meta changes. The doctrine itself has lost a significant amount of synergy because of the changes to the Command P4 (locking it behind tech) and will lose more because of the Puma's build time. The doctrine will now more than ever be a gamble that might fill a gap in Ostheer's early/mid game but leaves practically nothing for the (transition into) the late game. Plenty of changes to make it worth exploring options to let the Ostheer Puma make a return I think. And as I said, it's a superficial change, so it's easily reverted if need be. It's not an issue of balance against Soviet, USF and UKF, it's an issue of balance against the rest of Ostheer. Unless you intend to make Tiger doctrines a similar power spike (and I really hope you don't) then Mobile Defence doesn't have this big late game sacrifice to outweigh its huge early-mid buff: it's got T4 just like the others. If anything, it's better at the late game than German Infantry or Jaeger Infantry because it's got the smoke dischargers to keep its tanks alive. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 5CP Puma is way too late6 Mar 2020, 17:59 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 17:41 PMKatitof I'm quite positive teller secures the kill very well. I must've missed the patch where Tellers move. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 5CP Puma is way too late6 Mar 2020, 17:19 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 17:05 PMSander93 But given the changes to the Command P4 as well as giving the Puma a build timer, we'd like to give the Puma another chance because it's a shame that this unique unit never sees any use anymore. That's a second lesson that never seems to be learned: sometimes it's better to cut things. Past balance teams have taken the stance of never removing anything, leading to the bizarre inclusion of an artillery strike on the WC51, the unholy hodge podge of ditched commander abilities that is the Tactical Support Regiment Forward HQ, and the near universally reviled Sector Assault meta. The BP2 lock on the Puma was tantamount to soft removal, and I have no doubt the balance team at the time knew that. Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 17:05 PMSander93 Without a techless AI tank as a follow-up, and with a build timer added to the Puma so it can't be used reactively, as well as big shifts in meta (for example, the return of Conscripts), I think it's at least worth trying. You do all get why the Puma was a problem, right? This isn't a simple problem like JLI, where you're providing an overpowered alternative to an nondoctrinal unit. You're providing Ostheer with a tool they're designed and balanced around not having access to. You simply can't put something that impactful in a commander and not expect that commander to appear in every loadout. All this is going to do is kill strategic diversity. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 5CP Puma is way too late6 Mar 2020, 17:00 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 16:49 PMSvalbard SD Back in 2015/2016 I used to make well-intentioned jokes about forum posts by then-fanboys like Katitof and Dane. Well, it's 2020 and I agree with every single word typed by the former in this thread. You have Fausts, Pak and Tellers, which is more than enough to at least bridge the gap to Puma, or even deal with the T-70 on their own. The problem with the Puma is that it's a game changer. Fausts, Tellers and Paks can hold off a T-70, but they can't chase it down and secure the kill unless the opponent makes a mistake. They're also infantry speed, which means a T-70 can simply switch sides of the map to avoid them. A Puma can charge down a T-70 and kill it, and that's game changing. I cannot overstate how much of a power spike the CP5 Puma is for Ostheer's 1v1 midgame: it's a huge enabler for both its infantry and its light vehicle fleet. This is a problem because it's doctrinal: you can't balance Ostheer with a Puma and Ostheer without a Puma simultaneously: either the Puma is overpowered or the absence of the Puma is underpowered. It's a perfect recipe for a one commander meta. If Ostheer needs a light vehicle killer, it needs a nondoctrinal light vehicle killer. It stuns me how the balance team are blatantly ignoring the lessons of the past. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 5CP Puma is way too late6 Mar 2020, 16:49 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 16:44 PMblvckdream Heavy tank meta was here before mobile defense got popular. Mobile Defense was a 1v1 thing only anyway and 2v2 has a heavy tank meta since I can remember so I really don't think the two are connected. 2v2 had a heavy tank destroyer meta. The entire rationale for cutting generalist heavies to CP9 was to make them viable in serious team games. The Mobidef meta spawned the 1v1 heavy stalling meta: it was developed as a counter to Mobidef and SpecOps. It turned out to be really good despite heavies being otherwise off-meta, and entrenched even after Mobidef was killed off. Tying heavies to tech was meant to end that, but the accompanying buffs just created an even worse heavy stalling meta. Bringing back Mobile Defence isn't going to help that one bit. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 5CP Puma is way too late6 Mar 2020, 16:42 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Mar 2020, 16:11 PMT.R. Stormjäger Only question is vs which opponents/commanders and on which maps you employ this. It's effectively Ostheer Mechanized spam, except your LVs cost 200 MP 30 FU and they've all got defensive smoke at CP2. USF will probably have the easiest time of it because the Stuart is specifically geared to bully the 222: it's got high armour for an LV which is pretty useless against meds but lets it take on three 222s at once. Commanderwise, probably expect even more use of heavy tank doctrines. Mobidef created the heavy stalling meta in the first place because it was the best counter to it. In: COH2 Balance