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Thread: OKW Commander Revamp 20219 Mar 2021, 13:21 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Mar 2021, 12:52 PMVipper I do not like AT HEAT shell because they are actually very good AI also. I would rather turn them into a passive ability that either increases the penetration values of the guns by around 10% or adding 25% deflection damage. But I have not got to that commander yet . Might be a way to go, but passive buffs are not great design since they require no input. Switchable rounds like the Jackson ones could be useful instead, but this would just again copy mechanics from other factions when there is no need to do so. The current shells are fine in my opinion (I don't own the commander, so I can just talk from the receiving end), I just think they should not go on a JT. Could you explain how they are too good vs infantry? Do you mean because of the 30% damage boost on e.g. the P4? That should actually be fixable by target table or a modifier on the AoE damages (0,77 will return the damage value back to 1). Overall players buy them for the AT damage though, so it is a rather small issue imo. Especially since OKW has no dedicated late game AI tank. In: Lobby
Thread: OKW Commander Revamp 20219 Mar 2021, 12:46 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Mar 2021, 12:38 PMVipper Breakthrough Doctrine Most immortally I would like to see unit move to Armor Elite doctrine and SturmTiger a pure breakthrough unit move to this commander. Then Sturm tiger could be buffed to become more reliable and have better synergy with both AT Fuss and Assault artillery. In addition JT feel far more suited for Elite armor. I think that change in particular is good and also fits better the themes of both commanders, however the JT should probably not get heat shells. In: Lobby
Thread: Opponent started with high army value (bug? hack?)5 Mar 2021, 16:12 PM +1 to elchinos post These are the base defenses (have not watched the replay, but I have seen this multiple times in both my team and opponent teams). Your teammate lost because he played worse, not because OKW cheated In: Lobby
Thread: IR HT's broken ability to come back4 Mar 2021, 14:03 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2021, 13:39 PMMMX not even sure if it was ever figured out what exactly caused the bug, but i'd say it's rather unlikely the 64 bit update fixed it by accident. or maybe it did, that would certainly be a welcome change to the usual introduction of new bugs with each new patch With the amount of bugs that are yet to be discovered, you never know what accidentally got fixed without ever anyone noticing. On topic though: as long as the IRHT has this bug, there will never be a come back of this ability. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Fussiliers vs IS4 Mar 2021, 10:43 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2021, 10:11 AMblvckdream IS have a 0.62 RA while Füssiliers have 0.77. 5x 80 HP with 0.62 RA ends up being 645 and 6x 80 HP with 0.77 RA is 623. This is in cover though so your numbers are probably out of cover. But THB in late-game the whole map is full of yellow cover anyway so the out of cover debuff rarely applies. And considering vet 3 IS and vet 5 PF don't arrive in early game I think it's better to compare it that way. I got the number from serealia where it says 0,66 RA for vet 3 IS. Is that one wrong? In: Lobby
Thread: Fussiliers vs IS4 Mar 2021, 09:25 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2021, 08:02 AMblvckdream Infantry Sections have more EHP at vet 3 than vet 5 Füssierliers despite having one man less simply because their RA is way better. Only if you compare vs 5 men Fusiliers. Otherwise it is 606 HP of IS vs 623 of Panzerfusiliers. In: Lobby
Thread: Snare Inconsistency.3 Mar 2021, 22:55 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Mar 2021, 17:08 PMTobis And soviets do a guaranteed 80 damage. They take the same number of hits to snare a vehicle either way, unless it's a heavy tank where the gren faust is only going to be doing 40 damage. The only axis vehicle that has 800 health so it requires 2 100 damage snares is the Brumbar, which has high frontal armor so it would probably bounce atleast one faust-tier snare anyway. I already pointed out it is a quite minor issue. I was more interested in why Vipper was disagreeing while he usually is for standartizations and removing outliers/weird design quirks. The only thing the current system achieves is unpredictable behaviour vs the Brummbar and the Comet. And in rarer circumstances, it might also screw Ostheer over with mediums. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Snare Inconsistency.3 Mar 2021, 22:42 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Mar 2021, 17:28 PMVipper With 160 total damage 2 AT grenades will always cause engine damage to medium tank. On the other hand 2 faust with 140 far penetration have a 0.24% probability to bounce and not cause engine damage. Allied snare are different not weaker. Imo the penetration and deflection mechanism is fine for snares. I don't think it works like this. If I understand it correctly, the values are given for the Faust weapon which has a max 30 range. Cast range of the ability is 17 (or 18?), which basically means you have a pen value of about 150 at least. The only question remains when the distance check is being done: the moment you click the ability or the moment the dude actually takes his pocket Faust and fires it. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Snare Inconsistency.3 Mar 2021, 16:59 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Mar 2021, 16:49 PMVipper Not really. AT grenades work in smoke and shot blockers, faust does not. I was talking about damage and pen primarily. Soft factors like usability and availability are a slightly different topic, but here only Soviet Conscript builds have similar to even easier "use" of snares. Jump back to quoted post3 Mar 2021, 16:49 PMVipper AT grenades have lower penetration but more deflection damage. Which is better is simply situational. First this is only true for the Grenadier Faust as I already noted, and second Fausts pens (almost) every non-doc vehicle that Allies can field. At this point they basically do a guaranteed 100 damage. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Snare Inconsistency.3 Mar 2021, 16:40 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Mar 2021, 15:29 PMVipper Interacting with armor is neither inconsistent nor random...It like saying ATG are random and inconsistent because they have different penetration values. Not causing engine damage at 75% or dying at 0 HP is an inconstancy and should be fixed. Nobody said anything against the 75% mark. But what is the reason then that Axis (Grens have some limited trade off, Volks none at all) get in general better snares than Allies for the same price and for the same units (i.e. mainline infantry) In: COH2 Balance