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Thread: dak is trash26 Feb 2023, 08:29 AM DAK feels like a combination out of the best from Panzer Elite and OKW. DAK is absolutely strong, but no way unbalanced. This faction is very complicated and you have to make the right decissions in order to win. DAK is nothing for beginners. But it's a well rounded faction with all options you need. Maybe the fuel increases on call-ins was over the top. I never had a chance to use them due to their high tech costs and prices. But we will see. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Balance thoughts?26 Feb 2023, 08:24 AM Flamethrowerblob/Tommyblob are no issues when having a well placed HMG. I had no problems dealing with those yet. But it's still not a good gameplay, if the enemy is stomping around with 6 flamer engineers or AT rifles... Therefore I would suggest: Increase flamethrower and AT rifle price from 50 to 70/80 ammo and decrease the range of Boys AT. They seem to have more range than the Enfield rifles... Flamethrowers for the first time in COH feel pretty realistic. They must be deadly, I mean, they are damn flamethrowers.... But for balance purpose, I would decrease their range a bit. Right now due to their range, they can often stay in cover and shoot from cover to cover what makes it very difficult to kill them. In order to balance their high damage potential, flamethrowers should have shorter range and therefore have to stand in the open to shoot you in cover. Haven't yet tested the Guastatori. In: COH3 Central
Thread: Pathfinders are anal cancer27 Jun 2022, 10:10 AM Make them 1CP and 60 ammo sniper upgrade like JLI => USF fixed. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UKF solders. What do you think about?19 Feb 2022, 11:02 AM Problem with UKF is they're the only faction starting with a mainline for free. When Relic decided to put Royal Engineers in T1, they should just have swapped them wit RE. Therefore Brits would start with a pioneer squad just like all other factions do. But they missed the chance to balance this. So we have Tommy blobs for many years now... But Tommies themselves are not OP. As Ost, you have PGrens, as OKW Obers. Just build them and you shred Tommies. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Upgrading ostheer officer8 Jan 2022, 12:02 PM Kar98 was way better in the past... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Poll on new zoom out level in CoH3 alpha5 Dec 2021, 18:12 PM With the new zoom CoH3 feels more like Sudden Strike or Blitzkrieg. Although I really loved those games, the CoH2 feeling is way better. I would prefer the old zoom for CoH3. In: COH3 Central
Thread: USF Pathfinders need to be balanced7 Nov 2021, 10:22 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Nov 2021, 19:37 PMgeneral_gawain Pathfinders have a own bulletin and a second one if you bought Ardennes Assault and finished campaign with Able company. They can’t use the Riflemen bulletins. Personally I do like any variation of the boring 3x Rifle standard opening. So a Pathfinder opening is welcomed. I would vote for 0 CP Cavalry Rifles with upgrades locked by tech too. More variation means more strategy and tactics and that is a good thing. There have to be ways to counter Pathfinder of course but I can see this counters, so I don’t see a general problem with Pathfinder openings. Of course you have to adapt. A defensive MG/mortar build won’t work very well. Grens with LMG upgrade (once MU is available) will work way better. If there is a lot cover where Pathfinders will stay and fire a supporting mortar could work out. Force into trading whenever possible since Pathfinder are expensive at reinforcing. Playing OKW Kubels are a great answer to Pathfinder openings, Pathfinders are way worse vs Kubel than Rifles are. That are only nondoctrinal answers to a doctrinal thread. Try sprinting Assgrens for example, you’ll really drive Pathfinders back with them. Different openings require different answers. It would be boring if you could react always the same way with your standard build to different openings of your opponent. Edit: It is sad already, that WC51 openings got nerfed a little bit too harsh to be of any relevance now. Nerfing Pathfinders would lead to another opening disappearing. You call 30MP reinforcement cost for a 4 men squad expensive? Cool! Then OKW Jägers are SUPER-expensive with 35MP cost... And your whole argumentation targets at a skillful playstyle. Sorry, but we talk about players with very much skill and even they struggle hard and have almost no chance. So don't argue with skill and l2p issues. Thats none of the reason. At this point I should clarify the core of the issue. It's not solely about Pathfinders themselves. It's about the very abusive combo with M8 Scotts, Packhowitzers, MGs and AT guns. As Axis you MUST play with weapon teams. But this combo is a hardcounter to weapon teams. So in order to not nerfing all USF weapon teams (which is nonsense) the only chance to fix this, is nerfing Pathfinders. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF Pathfinders need to be balanced6 Nov 2021, 14:40 PM Jump back to quoted post5 Nov 2021, 18:10 PMKyle Well I can speak for 2vs2 on your behalf consider my team is level 17 with 7 replays on tightrope channel so I myself got some exp in high level 2vs2. Usually my Axis team see this pattern: 1. Pathfinder x2 + Rifleman x1 OR Pathfinder x3 2. .50cal from Tier 2 OR airdrop for Pathfinder to pick up 3. Flak Halftrack 4. AT gun x1 or x2 + BAR upgrade for Pathfinder 5. M8 x2 or x3 6. M36 Jackson And this is pure cancer build: with Panthfinder ready at 0CP, my Ostheer MG42 is useless because they already spot it before I can spot pathfinder and later in the game as Ostheer I would just bleed out from the M8 spam. Tbh whenever my team play 2vs2 and I see (and feel) that the USF gonna play Pathfinder spam I'm just gonna switch side with my OKW mate so he can use JLI to counter this (They come out at 1CP, can detect camo unit + also got 50 sight + can snip the shit out of them). My mate usually mix JLI with Ober in order to kill this Pathfinder quickly. So yeah, either my mate switch side and deal with USF or I say fork it and play a name match. As Ostheer player and at my current level, I'm not capable of dealing with this atm IF my enemies are good at abuse Pathfdiner spam in 2vs2. Same for me an my mate yesterday. We played pretty well in the beginning. We took out Clown Car from Sov player and got good map control. USF started with 3 Pathfinders. My Jägers could hardly fight them but with Luchs support, I had a small chance. But as soon as the AT gun was on the field, Luchs was useless. You cannot flank or attack anymore, just a waste of fuel. And then, few mins later, 3 Scotts were on the field. 2 of my Jägers got wiped out with single shots. GG, game over. This game pretty sucks right now and it has absolutely nothing to do with skill. Its just abusing a pretty bad balanced combo: Pathfinders + M8 Scott. Making Pathfinders 1CP like Jägers would help by a lot. So USF players would need to build some core ifnantry units like all the others.... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF Pathfinders need to be balanced28 Oct 2021, 18:37 PM That would be great... In: COH2 Balance
Thread: USF Pathfinders need to be balanced23 Oct 2021, 07:59 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Oct 2021, 06:48 AMKlement Pikhtura watch the match https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1169866360?t=03h52m41s Okay cool, so if my enemy is braindead and has absolutely no idea what "cover" means, then I have a chance. Thanks for the pro tip! And of course, there is no issue with Pathfinders. Almost every USF player right now picks Airborne commander and just builds 3-4 of them, because the models have such cool skins and voices. Thats the only reason and not their incredibly strong performance.... In: COH2 Balance