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Thread: Data base15 May 2020, 20:37 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2020, 20:20 PMDarkpiatre Thanks, and does cover affect grenade damages? or it is just how pack your models are? This grenade - cover mechanic is one of the whackiest points in CoH2. (Sander correct me if I am wrong) While cover is directional, grenade damage behaves very weirdly, because as far as I know, the directionality is not calculated from where the grenade explodes, but from where it was thrown. So if you charge an enemy in green cover frontally and lob a grenade behind the enemy, the enemy will get a 50% damage reduction because your squad was still in front of green cover. If you flank them, come from behind and throw it directly at them, the enemy will take full damage although the points of explosion are the same. This leads to weird situation in the game for assaults on units in green cover: If you are already reacting a bit late and did not see the enemy grenade in time, it is often better to just take the damage to get the 50% damage reduction. Don't panic and retreat instantly, because as soon as your infantry leaves the cover they do not get the reduction anymore and take full damage. Instead, just wait for the explosion and retreat afterwards. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Data base15 May 2020, 20:05 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2020, 20:02 PMDarkpiatre Does models have different HP? or does they all have the same with a different "target size"? All infantry have 80 HP except for the sniper with 82 HP. Target size is usually different and this is were infantry toughness comes from. But against explosion damage, all infantry behaves the same. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Data base15 May 2020, 20:04 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2020, 19:44 PMSander93 No it definitely has an effect on squads and not on models. Here's a test that I did: https://www.coh2.org/topic/36347/cruzz-s-the-more-you-know/post/767263 As you can see from the discussion with JJJ, it's uncertain whether it's misses that are being re-rolled into hits or that the squad simply splits its DPS amongst any squad that's within range/firing cone. I think we misunderstood each other. I meant that another model needs to be in the cone of fire, independent if it belongs to another squad or not. Otherwise a hit due to this "scattered fire" could not hit a model of the same squad. But this is very difficult to test... In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Data base15 May 2020, 19:34 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2020, 18:27 PMSander93 It means that when false (on most automatic weapons), a squad will deal damage to several squads in close proximity of each other rather than only dealing damage to 1 (targeted) squad. I don't think it adds any DPS though. I thought it refers to models and not squads? At least that's the way I understood it from the AE comment text In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Data base15 May 2020, 16:21 PM There is no updated database anymore. You can reference coh2db.com/stats for unit stats, but the last update was 2017 I think. For the recent built you have to consult the attribute editor. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Force fire with sniper15 May 2020, 12:16 PM You mean snipers should be able to fire through smoke? In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: CoH3 failure? New employee review15 May 2020, 12:03 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2020, 08:01 AMSander93 Well there's the problem. Their last two games (Three Kingdoms and Warhammer II) have been excellent. Warhammer II is a great casual game with dozens of highly unique factions and a good DLC/FLC flow that the community really seems to enjoy. The latest DLC (hitting next week) currently has the community absolutely hyped. Three Kingdoms is really high quality and polished, making some big advances (like diplomacy), the only issue is that its setting (civil war in China) makes it a bit repetitive to play because almost every faction has the same units and culture. As I've said Rome 2 was a bit of a mess and Atilla wasn't that great, but both Three Kingdoms and Warhammer II have been received very positively, and definitely show CA/SEGA seem to be back on the right track. Might be, I don't know. Good for the people who like it, but from the videos I have seen (not sure if it was three Kingdoms or the Brittania game though) the Warscape engine still seems to have many of the issues that it had back when it was first used in Empire. Additionally the AI has been next to brain dead in the whole series and I highly doubt that they have generally reworked it while pumping out a new game every year in very different settings. For me, the last good game was Medieval2 although it had many flaws. Afterwards it went downhill. The advertisements for Rome2 were a huge lie. But the most glaring problem was the AI and their Warscape engine (which they used from Empire onwards) which made the game a disaster from a design stand point while simultaneously trying to rip off customers with DLCs. I don't trust these companies because I have no reason to, and al long as they don't switch to a decent game engine I do not care much anymore. Which is quite a shame because the premise of this series is very good. But frankly I can spent my money elsewhere. In: Lobby
Thread: CoH3 failure? New employee review15 May 2020, 07:21 AM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2020, 06:56 AMSander93 How so? Three Kingdoms was a huge success and Warhammer II is ridiculously popular with a very positive community and great DLC/FLC. Arguably Rome 2 and Atilla weren't as great but they seem to have really turned it around in the last 3 years. Before that Shogun 2 and FOTS were also great games. The Total War series is by far nothing like it has been 10+ years ago. Empire and Shogun2 were the last games that I felt had some effort put into it because CA wanted to make a good game. But both games failed due to their Warscape engine in the gameplay department (Shogun2 was very polished though and could compensate that way, although the battles have suffered a lot). Now take what I say with a grain of salt. I stopped playing after Rome2 because this game was a frickin mess and still is up to this date and I don't care about Warhammer. But ever since then the series has turned into a DLC cash cow were the base game is super shallow and lacking and you need to buy DLC to keep things not boring (interesting would be too much). Just look at the amount of DLC these games receive, many of it day1, some of it was already included in one of the predecessors. And many games of the series got backlash due to shitty DLC practices. Now obviously this is a matter of personal taste, but I don't care about Total War anymore. Either CA or SEGA make the games shallow to play, and their engine is horrible. Now to the actual post: I am not sure how much to say about one single person complaining about people in their team because this happens every time and in every company. The only thing that is a bit "worrying" so to say is how Relics productivity seemingly has gone down in the last years. They used to launch a new game/expansion almost every year with some projects being worked on in parallel, but ever since CoH2s release there was not much to show for. DoW3 that failed quite heavily, two cancelled games, and AoE4 in the making for years now without any information to the public. So either they go for a strategy of not showing much and keeping secrets to build hype on purpose or they really don't have much to show for. In: Lobby
Thread: [REPRODUCING BUG] M1 81 mortar barrage bug14 May 2020, 10:38 AM Noice. Looks like the mortar's "ToDo list" does not get properly reset when cancelling the barrage. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Have any bugged achivements been fixed?14 May 2020, 09:55 AM I am not aware of any such list. But they for sure will not be fixed. CoH2 development by Relic is over and the game is only maintained from their side, while multiplayer balance is done by the community. Nothing will be done about things that require actual coding, because the community cannot do this. In: Lobby