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Thread: Burnout and Dealing with RNG Frustration 4 Jul 2020, 09:38 AM The most honest way is probably realizing that in 90% of the cases when you attribute a screwed up game to bad RNG, it was actually yourself that made bad decisions. The times I lost a fair game to RNG are quite slim. Even if my tank gets abandoned in enemy territory: I knew the chances before hand, I took the risk and it did not pay off. That is not the games fault. In: Lobby
Thread: Burnout and Dealing with RNG Frustration 4 Jul 2020, 09:30 AM Jump back to quoted post4 Jul 2020, 08:04 AMRosbone snip This is exactly why I like the game. While some things like the crashing planes could have been solved otherwise, I would not play CoH2 if it were just another game where you can exactly calculate how many shots every unit with its laser guided weaponry can take or fire against another unit and the fights will always work the same. There are plenty of games like this already on the market, but the games often turn out to be huge rushes and zerging with a few unit types that are predictably (slightly) better than a comparable unit of the other faction. Just look at high level SC or AoE matches. These matches look weird and alien to me. The main "skill" is not necessarily constantly reevaluating how to approach the attack etc, but just when you have reached the critical mass to destroy your opponent. And this is possible because the outcome of every engagement can be calculated before it happens and it will 99% of the time also turn out that way. The really frustrating issues of CoH2 (plane crashes etc) are also very rare events. And while it is not fun that this happens and potentially loses you the game, for me the game is too good to throw 50 good games away because this big time bullshit happened in the 51st. Also I disagree that the CoH community is small. Only AoE2 can beat CoH2 on steam when it comes to player counts. CoH2 is one of the biggest RTS games out there. If you want to see a community that is "next to nothing" maybe have a look at the steel division series, supreme commander and similars. Some of these games are quite new, and there are only 400 people playing them. THAT is a small community. In: Lobby
Thread: Delete the Schwerer gun from the game3 Jul 2020, 15:04 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2020, 14:56 PMSkysTheLimit I have no problem with it's fuel cost, but it's popcost free and I don't understand why anything of that level of impact shouldn't have a popcost Imo even bunkers and fps should have a tiny popcost Yes I can agree with that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Delete the Schwerer gun from the game3 Jul 2020, 14:50 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2020, 10:03 AMKatitof Bofors is more expensive then schwerer, because you get schwerer for free as a part of the tech. If you can't kill bofors with singular ATG/puppchen, you should not be on balance forum, but strategic one, begging for advise. No, you don't get it free. You pay 135 fuel + 200(?) MP to get this building down and therefore unlock tanks and the gun. Just like OST does not get their rifle grenades and Panzergrenadiere "for free", OKW does not get Fausts for free, SOV does not get mobilized reserves for free and USF does not get officers for free. It's part of faction design and you get it as a complete bundle. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Status of 4v43 Jul 2020, 12:44 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2020, 11:50 AMProtos Angelus Although I agree the text is ...meh I do not agree that Allies have superior arty. USF has little to no arty. IMHO, Walking stuka easily beats every other arty piece that allies can throw, especially since it can be aimed to drop on retreat paths and the whole salvo comes fast and ends quickly (if you didn't retreat during the sound, you need luck afterwards). Soviets and Brits do have non doctrinal arty but that's it. (Major arty takes long to arrive and is bound to his persona which can die easily and as such only good vs MG bunkers and buildings... and he is usually used as a forward retreat rather than arty). Non doctrinal and doctrinal arty is superior on Axis side just as stock infantry is on Ally side. Truth be told, Axis are usually stronger late game due to non doctrinal tanks with lots of HP and armour (brumm, panther, KT) which can be combined with pre-push stuka and werfer to really take any position. At least from my experience playing standard custom games with friends. My friend playing OKW would drop 2 stukas on expected enemy positions in fog of war and right afterwards I'd push with 2 panthers and maybe Tiger + flamer pios or something. It's a pretty much fail-safe combo. Best you can do as USF is drop smoke and pray that the stukas and werfers are on cooldown. Soviets can call in katyusha which empties the area it's targeting and can then proceed to push with IS-2s or T85s or KVs. Brits can push with comets or churchills but can't really send infantry squads to front first to throw the arty flare and get supressed instantly. Point is. The game as such is balanced but the longer the game lasts, the more the emphasis on armour and arty which is superior on Axis side. God forbid you get 2 USF in 3v3 game and go late. Team games are all about teamwork. If one player has commander flares, other gets elefant or jagd and 3rd goes some arty.... unless you're as well coordinated, you're pretty much lost. The biggest problem with "balance" are not the unit stats, costs or whatnot but the map design and teamwork problems. I mean I can partially agree. But I would not neglect that Brits have probably the most atrocious commander for team games with Royal arty. Cheap flares everywhere, especially if the map is split diagonally, reasonably priced base arty even with pyro upgrade and the Sexton. I don't think that it is great that you can only pick one or two commanders if you want to be most effective, but it's still how the majority of team games are played. USF is on the weak side arty wise, however I'd say the SOV Katyusha is on par with Axis' rocket arty. Additionally there are more/heavier mortar options with the PaK Howie, and potential 120mm to deal damage. I also find Allies have a bit more common recon options, but maybe that is observation bias. I do not fully follow on the tank argument though. Yes, Panther's are great tanks, but I found it also very tedious to defend against 60 range TDs. If the Allied players regularly probe your forces at the edge of their range, you can farm a lot of veterancy and keep Axis players busy with repairing. But most of these are very specialized points. I agree that the game mostly comes down to coordination. If you blob your infantry or tanks at the right time once or twice, you can pretty much win the game that way. 4v4 is a weird place. To be honest most of my experience for large modes comes from AT3v3 and less from 4v4, so things might look more different there. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Delete the Schwerer gun from the game3 Jul 2020, 10:23 AM Jump back to quoted post3 Jul 2020, 09:25 AMT.R. Stormjäger There’s nothing aggressive about putting the Schwerer just outside your base entrance to cover both a fuel and a cutoff. As Sander said: This is a map design issue then. The Schwerer Panzer HQ risk/reward trade off works well on most maps. If it is possible to lock down half the map by controlling an area approximately as large as an infantry unit can see, then the resource points are too close together. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Faust bug still NOT fixed3 Jul 2020, 10:15 AM Whoops, did not see the description. Well, best thing once witnessed was my Stuka killing itself with an incendiary barrage that it fired into the trees in front of it and set itself on fire. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Status of 4v43 Jul 2020, 10:11 AM Well that was really quite a subpar text to read. I assume that you have not played Axis very much? Allies have excellent units and superior artillery which is probably the most important factor in large team games. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Faust bug still NOT fixed2 Jul 2020, 17:42 PM I have no time to watch the replay right now, but I think it would be good to say at which time the bugged occurred so balance team does not have to watch the whole match and can focus on the bug. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Team Weapons Survivability2 Jul 2020, 13:28 PM Jump back to quoted post2 Jul 2020, 12:36 PMbert69 snip I have to disagree on most points. 1. I find them more to be a muni sink in a faction that uses a lot of munis for upgrading their troops. In long games it van be an advantage when you are able to pile up muni again, but apart from that I use USF's ATG only when I have to. 2. Barrage is a topic to discuss about, but SOV 6 men crews are mostly alright unless they crew an MG42 or something. Especially to fix the death loop and the fact that you need to recrew them with high RA models. 3. OKW has otherwise no reliable AT apsrt from the Puma that costs quite a lot. If you'd lose fuel control, you would be absolutely screwed as OKW. 4.UKF's team wrapons are almost on par with those of OST. Vickers has okay suppression and decent damage, the ATG is almost a carbon copy of the PaK40. 5. One point that I agree with, but on the other hand you get the best team weapons in the game. So there must be a draw back. I can't therefore agree with your solutions. This would just make the units even more similar. Currently, every unit has its own feature that sets it at least somewhat apart. Even if your suggestions would solve the rocket arty issue, they would screw big time with faction and infantry/vehicle balance. Jump back to quoted post2 Jul 2020, 12:52 PMSander93 When will this myth ever end? The HMG 34 has excellent suppression, only slightly worse than the HMG 42. It suppresses squads within one burst (in ~1.3s at medium range in neutral cover iirc). So does the Vickers by the way, which only struggles when it snipes a model (resetting the burst and thereby halting the suppression) or when the enemy is at max range and in cover. I think this mostly shows how Rarely people really play the MG34. OKW does not need it for their builds, so people usually skip it. I have the feeling most people build it when they are already losing the whole game. And if it does mot save them, then the MG must be bad because it is associated with losses. In: COH2 Balance