Profile of Basilone

When Inverse skips between his HQ and Barracks

bahahaha

[twitch=basilonereborn]2165533[/twitch]

Be sure to check in with CallMeSarge or GenHell if you want to play ACE mod with WmD

Pt. 1 Basic

http://www.twitch.tv/basilonereborn/c/2165533

-deploying mortar
-using aiming stakes, map tools, vector, and range tables
-"mil bearings"
-finding azimuth
-adjusting deflection/elevation
-preparing, loading, and firing rounds


Pt. 2 Advanced techniques

http://www.twitch.tv/basilonereborn/c/2166089

-using compass to find azimuth and target bearing
-suppressing short-mid range targets quickly without any math
-using "optic level" to quickly traverse between pre sighted positions
-manipulating aiming stakes and compensating with "reset"

*The alternate compass view is not something you can toggle in game, you must go to your ace folder and launch aceclippi application to do that.

Before I list all my criticisms, I do think the game has potential and will be a fun change of pace from the stale exploitable vCoH meta. But as the game stands now, will the competitive scene survive 6-7 years after release? Not a chance.

Basic design/mechanics

-The UI is rubbish, there are enough threads about this so I'm not going to bother going into detail. This could be changed (or so we thought) but the UI designer seems so pleased with his new revolutionary layout, and it doesn't look like he is willing to take hints from the competitive players but would rather make it noob friendly.

-Blizzards in the current state are just an annoyance to the player and don't really encourage strategic decisions but instead just slow down the game. As they are right now, I think it should be limited to just basic matches and campaign. The "use halftracks" option isn't very viable at all, since by the time the first blizzard hits, there is already a hard counter to those units. Blizzards occur too often, and the troops die of exposure way too fast. The blurry vision is also ridiculous. The troops already have their simulated view distance shortened, so there is no reason for the player to have his vision impaired from a 3rd person perspective.

*I don't think more than 1-2 blizzards should occur in any game no matter how long it lasts. Every 30 minutes, have the game randomly pick a time for the blizzard to happen, with a possibility of not happening at all. Give more advanced warning, decrease movement penalties, (we already have deep snow for that) and for the love of god give a slower decay on the temperature gauges. Blizzards should be an opportunity to reposition for ambushes or make surprise attacks with the reduced visibility, not slow the game to a near halt while mortaring the hell out of the guys known fire positions.

-not sure why the resource system was changed, it was perfect

-Doctrine abilities are unclocked cumulative, instead of choosing where to spend your points. The strategic of decisions in vCoH doctrine choice like "should I go RHS terror to counter Howi, or LHS to counter Shermans + retreat infantry" no longer exist.

-Tactical map is useless, what should have improved took about 5 steps backward.

-Less functionality on replays, lack of custom hotkeys, outdated menu layout.

-units are terrible at garrisoning buildings, often they run around the house multiple times before entering, or make a long pause at the doorway

-the garrisoned indicator makes it difficult to read the health bar of the unit

-tanks try to run over fire pits at every opportunity, not only damaging engine but making you spend 100mp again to rebuild the fire

+Capping from minimap

+Vaulting

+last man on gun crews retreats off the map instead of mysteriously dropping dead

Balance

-Soviet AT guns are not capable of taking on Panthers/Tigers, nor is anything else without using the cheesy T34 ram ability

-Conscripts nerfed too heavily since alpha, their rifles are comparable to the vCoH Jeep .30cal and their molotovs aren't worth using unless the guy is dumb enough to not move out of the fire

-German sniper fires too slowly to be effective against 6 man squads

-the extra men in the 6 man Soviet weapons teams are just a waste of population cap

-Soviet sniper can insta counter snipe the already useless German sniper, while it would take 2 German snipers to eliminate the Soviet team

*When the Soviet sniper carrying the actual scoped rifle is killed, his escort should retreat off the map like the extra man on AT/mortar crews. Only the escort should be available to reinforce if the real sniper survives. This way German sniper can countersnipe in 1 shot if he targets the right man

-Panzerfaust damages engine every time I think

-Panther is far too durable

-satchel charge on ice+tank= dead tank

*increase timer on satchel

+flamers were nerfed

+mortars were nerfed

+Pak was nerfed

I'll add to this as I remember more stuff

Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

thanks

Yeah I've haven't seen something similar before but only because I couldn't not hear it.