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Thread: Faymonville House27 Mar 2018, 20:08 PM Maybe people should actually use barbed wire properly, horizontally, rather than those retarded bits of fence placed at 90 degree angles to doors. Or does that not work either? In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: No Point to Schwerer Flak anymore?27 Mar 2018, 20:04 PM 1vs1 maps are too small to position it in a way that is immune to artillery from the inside the enemy's base (or thereabouts). It's utter trash design that Brits get Brace while OKW gets nothing. But with Relic's blatant Allied bias, this is nothing surprising. As I've noted many times, nothing Axis factions do poses any threat to Allied players, while everything Allies get is threatening to Axis players. You want to take out a British emplacement? You have to commit obscene resources to doing so because of Brace making them effectively invincible, and even if you succeed, that doesn't set the enemy back one bit because of the ludicrous resource income disparity between Brits and Axis factions (same for USF and Axis factions, with USF being able to field an equal or greater number of infantry AND build emplacements). You want to take out an OKW HQ? You just dedicate a single mortar to it that can't even be counter barraged by the abysmal OKW infantry support gun that gets instawiped due to lack of retreat whenever it's rolled outside the base. Zero threat. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: pzgren should be wehr's dedicated tank hunters27 Mar 2018, 06:48 AM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2018, 03:44 AMFiresparks the panzergrenadier's primary role would be to hold the field against light tanks while the tanks get on the field. This would already be the case if Ostheer's infantry ability and upgrade costs weren't absolutely INSANE. Ostheer is utterly starved for munitions at all times, literally having to choose between using grenades and upgrading weapons, while Allies don't need to do any such thing. As it stands, it's impossible to upgrade Grenadiers with weapons (which are mandatory to have any chance against the infinite MGs USF infantry have, the absurdly huge, meaty Soviet squads, or the overpowered baseline damage of UKF squads) and also bring out Panzergrenadiers with Panzerschrecks on time -- oh, and you can forget about mining anything, ever. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is OKW dead? what's your opinion? 24 Mar 2018, 00:38 AM Jump back to quoted post23 Mar 2018, 06:12 AMTheGentlemenTroll Or it could be that mixed Axis teams have the best win rate Who discusses balance in the context of anything other than 1vs1? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Is OKW dead? what's your opinion? 23 Mar 2018, 04:25 AM Jump back to quoted post22 Mar 2018, 18:53 PMmurky depths And yet, every time I play (which is a few days a week) I see people playing OKW just as much as they play Ostheer. That's because, regardless of the relative state of the two Axis factions currently, it gets REALLY tiring having every second squad instawiped due to its four-model count. That's why OKW used to be preferred, as it was a Western Fronts faction, both of which suffer far less in the early game due to having beefy units that can be as aggressive as they like without using cover or line of sight at all (thus utterly breaking the intended game design and never being able to fix it). But instead of buffing the Eastern Front factions to match, we've ended up with the OKW and USF being mediocre, Brits being sickeningly broken not only in terms of unit performance (strictly better four-man infantry, strictly better tanks, strictly better artillery) but in terms of resource costs as well, and Soviets being like some kind of demons with units that do everything at once, are unstoppable and unkillable and with heavy tanks out the arse. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: pzgren should be wehr's dedicated tank hunters22 Mar 2018, 03:04 AM If the 222 were an ACTUAL ARMORED CAR like EVERY OTHER armored car in the game, and if it completely outranged light tanks like it should (as a scout car with a precision AA gun on it), it would be fine. But as long as the complete and total farce that the 222 taking damage from rifle fire remains, there will simply be no reason to use it, either against infantry or against light armor. We're right back to the overarching problem in CoH2: Axis units never pose a threat to Allies, but Allied units all pose extreme threats to Axis -- blatant bias/favoritism at its finest. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Grenades vs garrisons22 Mar 2018, 01:39 AM A hard counter doesn't mean instant death of enemy units... In fact, instawipes happen in CoH2 waaaaaaaaaaay more than in Dawn of War II. A hard counter means that the unit being hard countered CANNOT, under any circumstances, pose a threat to its own hard counter. That is proper design. An anti-tank gun must not be threatened by a tank. A machine gun must not be threatened by a headlong rush directly into its cone. This has nothing to do with support or lack of support (especially since supporting does nothing in CoH2 because of the percent-chance-of-hitting mechanics making it impossible to reliably whittle down enemy units that are focusing on doing something else). In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Is OKW dead? what's your opinion? 22 Mar 2018, 01:33 AM Between the age-old ineffectiveness of the Raketenwerfer, the lack of proper healing when going light armor, and the absurdly overnerfed Luchs, there's just no reason to waste time on OKW. Which says a LOT when you consider the enormous advantage they have over Ostheer with five-man squads, but even that simply can't compensate for the ridiculous nerfs and never-fixed issues OKW suffers from now. So you just play Ostheer with the new awesome five-man call-in squads, and you get the best of everything: proper AT guns that do what AT guns are meant to and deny territory at long range, proper grenades instead of a so-called area denial nade that never ends up damaging anyone, and proper flammenwerfers that don't force you to choose between them and anti-tank damage -- and all that's not mentioning the healing bunker, which you get regardless of tech choices. OKW is such a farce now, it's depressing. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Grenades vs garrisons20 Mar 2018, 02:59 AM Jump back to quoted post19 Mar 2018, 21:03 PMadamírcz I agree with the grenades vs buildings stuff, but... ATs snaring tanks and MGs insta-suppressing their entire arc is just utter BS And yet Dawn of War II still plays more reliably and sensibly than CoH2 ever has, because hard counters actually hard counter their intended targets. CoH2 regressed so far that it's just a fustercluck of RNG and bruteforcing (walk three infantry units into an MG's arc of fire, drive tank past an AT gun and then drive circles around it, etc.) -- zero tactics, just abuse of mechanics that don't work as they are supposed to (and do work like they're supposed to in a nine year old game by the same developer). In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: pzgren should be wehr's dedicated tank hunters19 Mar 2018, 19:55 PM Jump back to quoted post18 Mar 2018, 07:59 AMMackie Ive always felt that pgrens die so easily Three words: four man squads. ALL four man squads die too easily and are 100% unviable. Literally ANY five or six model squad is ALWAYS, under ALL circumstances superior to a four man squad. Doesn't matter if the five or six model squad does a quarter of the four man squad's damage. Doesn't matter if the five or six model squad has no abilities. Doesn't matter if the five or six model squad has no upgrades. There is NOTHING more valuable than stability in CoH2: whoever can get their squads to stay on the field longer before retreating will win. That and the retarded tiny received accuracy reduction on Ostheer units being an utterly nonsensical "solution" to this whole imbalance, as it hasn't done its job since way back when there were only two factions, Ostheer and Soviets, since back then the game behaved far differently from what it's been since the release of the Western Front Armies. In: COH2 Balance