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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
Thread: IS fix for the time being1 May 2020, 00:50 AM Jump back to quoted post1 May 2020, 00:41 AMLeo251 Why nerfing IS is taking so long. Its obvious that they need an urgent fix. What is the balance team doing? Arent they working? You do realize that patching a game that is not yours can be quite complicated? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Soviet merge30 Apr 2020, 10:07 AM What Vipper said is right. Imagine it that way: everything related to the squad (weapon loadout, veterancy as well from the game's perspective) will be adopted, everything related to the solder entity (RA, health etc) will stay the way it was. So you basically get a Conscript with different weapon (and suddenly also different vet). Since there barely are units with worse weapons that Conscripts, merging is almost always useful. If you merged, expect your squad to die slightly faster in the next fight, since there might still be Conscript models left. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Cant join any online lobby and vice versa.29 Apr 2020, 07:57 AM If you have been banned then there should be a message box popping up when you go into online lobbies. The box might contain no text though In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: UKF Medics29 Apr 2020, 07:56 AM They should have an aura heal like the ambulance that fixes them in place. Don't know if/how this can be implemented. Currently they are the same squad as unloaded ambulance medics of USF, which are pretty useless due to the bugs. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: Pioneers after early game28 Apr 2020, 20:26 PM Jump back to quoted post28 Apr 2020, 19:42 PMSkysTheLimit But replacing lost mainlines is completely different from replacing engineers. If you're issue is that you lost your pioneers and the new ones you built aren't holding up in combat, I mean, that's tough. They aren't supposed to, and my received accuracy suggestion is only meant to help them a little Biggest reason to want vetted engineers is the repair bonus at vet 2, and they already added a repair speed bonus to the sweeper I have said this for years, they should also get XP from kills/damage they do with planted mines. It seems the modteam doesn't want this or its not possible because its never made it to a patch I have never said that pioneers should be potent fighters. But OPs point was that OST pios cannot really get vet after the midgame, which I find to be true. Giving them higher vet bonus helps only if it can be reasonably reached. In: COH2 Balance