Profile of blvckdream

Ranked, I only play USF. Wouldn't be caught dead playing Nazis with some sort of record being taken. [...] The balance team is doing a pretty good job if you ask me.

Short summary of coh2 balance in August 2020.

V0.9

- map widened a little to make pathing easier in the industrial area

- adjusted/bug fixed green cover at fuel

- northern and southern corners have now a bit more space (between bunkers and between houses)

- optimised base bunkers

- improved detailing in non-playable areas

- added wooden bunker in the northern corner to balance the wooden bunkers in the south for infiltration units

It's weird how everyone hates the same maps but in the map statistics everyone seems to play them.

Road to Kharkov second most played map, Rails third most played map. Poltawa 7th most played map.

And if you look at Siphon's statistics it isn't super elo-dependend either. How often the maps are played is spread relatively evenly.

I got some feedback from the tournament last weekend and implemented some of it.

V0.8

- fixed mini-map/tac-map image
- slightly increased brightness
- lowered train tracks and highway so there is almost zero elevation
- removed red cover from road
- some pathfinding improvements
- slightly changed the position of the bridge walls as they weren't 100% symmetric before
- fixing unintended little things


-recuded size of LOS blockers on highway next to middle VP

- increased this gap so attacking is easier and you don't have to go through a narrow channel for the shortest way to the enemy`s fuel + the LOS blocking bushes are now crushable by heavy tanks so they will eventually disappear



- removed the tower and silo object at base exit so less chances of retreating tanks getting stuck



- moved the LOS blocking objects next to the munitions point on the highway more towards the middle so players have these 3 general combat areas better defined (picture from rosbone)



Undecided question

I am not sure if the LOS blockers on the highway around the middle VP will remain or be deleted. They are supposed to stop the dominance of support weapon play which was previously too strong because you could shut down vehicles and infantry too easy by getting 2 AT-guns and/or MGs. This would then result in rocket artillery spam. A lot of people complained this area is too open so I put the LOS blockers in.

Now after putting them in others have complained that there are too many LOS blockers. I will decide if they are removed or remain after I get more feedback on them.

Soviet are on par with Axis on 1v1 and inferior meta wise.

More like Soviets are slightly better than OKW and slightly better than regular Ostheer. Only time they are inferior is when Ostheer skips T1 with doctrinal infantry into fast Pgrens/Flame HT. To some degree also 5 man Grens but that is something every faction struggles against at the moment. OKW has no "meta" that is superior to Soviets.