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Thread: THE MONTHLY OP POLL! (RANT HERE)5 May 2020, 18:02 PM MAKE MODERATION TEAM GREAT AGAIN! ALWAYS NO 1 In: Lobby
Thread: Scatter This! - Your trusty scatter calculator5 May 2020, 15:50 PM Jump back to quoted post5 May 2020, 15:44 PMMMX Just had a quick look and, indeed, you're absolutely correct, thanks a lot for the hint! The array function counting the OHKs seem to work... sometimes, but not consistently for whatever reason. I've switched it out against a non-array version that seems to have no issues. However, I couldn't reproduce the counting error for natural hits in any way. Do you consistently get this or only once in a while? I think I used the sheet only twice (Excel starts) by now without PC restart, but it did not work on any of these occasions. I will retry tomorrow and write you. Or maybe someone else can post in the meantime. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Scatter This! - Your trusty scatter calculator5 May 2020, 14:35 PM Jump back to quoted post5 May 2020, 10:29 AMMMX oh, that's strange. worked for me last time i checked. i'll investigate what's going wrong there! I mean the counting formula looked fine on first glance, but I did not have a deeper look. Just noticed that although the detailed table reported a natural hit, the summary did not. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Axis OP5 May 2020, 14:32 PM /lock In: COH2 Balance
Thread: This patch litteraly ruined the game.5 May 2020, 14:31 PM Jump back to quoted post5 May 2020, 11:28 AMJeppeFTW -snip- I rate this post 5/7. If you argue with stats, OP, you should at least read them correctly. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Scatter This! - Your trusty scatter calculator5 May 2020, 08:17 AM Jump back to quoted post5 May 2020, 03:39 AMMMX haha, i wonder if the hard-coded 500 max shots the sim can handle will be enough in this case... I remember that a friggin Jackson once sniped my last Sturmpio model on retreat and thereby wiped the squad. RNG was strong that game. There seems to be an issue though with some counters in the summary table. At least for me natural hits (and I think the OHKs) were not counted properly and always showed 0, although the shot table registered them. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Scatter This! - Your trusty scatter calculator4 May 2020, 15:07 PM Finally I can look up how long my SU85 needs to take out that damn Volks squad. What a happy day In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Scatter This! - Your trusty scatter calculator4 May 2020, 15:00 PM Very great work! You put plenty of time into this. The text of the post alone... wow! I think this will be especially useful for balance team to determine scatter and AoE changes on units. But obviously this will clear up a lot of questions and discussions about AI performance. Let's see how forum discussions go from here on onwards, I hope less toxic. Jump back to quoted post4 May 2020, 12:56 PMJohnSmith Wow, very well done! That is a nice neatly complex implementation, big thumbs-up for doing the most difficult part and time-intensive part of the work which is the coding & thoughtful academic design! Well done to you MMX for all of that and to Hannibal for laying the coding ground work - I also really like the clear and distinct examples of how you use the file. Excellent. edit: giving it a go right now, that is proper good stuff! I want to point out that I have provided nothing other than discussion and some of the spacing presets for this. I had nothing to do with the coding, that is all MMX's work. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: IS fix for the time being3 May 2020, 18:48 PM Jump back to quoted post3 May 2020, 14:06 PMSgtJonson so instead of chasing retreating squads it would be more logical to stay there? That is a different story. For most units and in most situations it makes sense to chase squads. But I was talking about how a soldier picks picks a model of the targeted squad. Nobody knows exactly how this is determined, but I am sure (this means I saw some values referring to this in the editor) that distance is a factor. So if another enemy soldier comes closer than the originally targeted one, this could cause a target switch. I was always under the impression that this does not happen that frequently, but Sanders post read as if this was regularly the case, and he is way more experienced than I am. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: IS fix for the time being3 May 2020, 09:29 AM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2020, 13:22 PMSander93 It does happen to all other units too but Infantry Sections do seem to get it slightly more often. No idea why though. The only thing I can think of is that perhaps because of their lower target size (0.85-0.8) they have enough effective health per model to endure a full clip of Kar 98K rounds, after which there's a good chance that the reloaded Kar 98K model targets another IS model. Rather than focussing down one model per reload cycle. But I don't know how targeting works exactly so that could be wrong. It might also have to do with the IS' squad formation never really having one model in front (as opposed to for example Grenadiers who move in a V-shape formation). Not 100% sure, but what I remember from test is that infantry does not switch the target in a static fight. But for movemrnts I think it is different, as another model can get closer than the originally targeted one and cause a target switch In: COH2 Balance