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Thread: USF emplacement8 Feb 2017, 21:09 PM You know I agree a bit that small arms shouldn't destroy the emplacement, or at least not quickly. But I do think fire, grenades, and such should destroy them rather quickly. It is worth noting that units in the pit already are food for fire and grenades though. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: 39min to bring down one bofors..8 Feb 2017, 21:03 PM Hah, in 4v4 if you don't win the first engagement and hold the field, chances are there will be bofors after your next attempt to take territory. But really what is annoying is that the bofors is a delaying tactic. It's easy to lock down a chunk of the map for long enough to either cripple resource income or create a vp drain that usually can't be reversed quickly enough. I know I can always beat the bofors unless I'm ostheer, but it always takes time and effort on my part that the brit may or may not cgoose to counter. In that time my opponent can support their allies while I'm bogged down with all my time and units attacking a bofors. And bleeding the brit exactly 0 manpower in the process. If they get the bofors up, it's a win no matter how effectively it survives or is destroyed. The resources that go into destroying a bofors highly outweighs the cost of building one. This is 4v4s I'm talking about. My post is about how the bofors impacts team games. I just think repairing should reduce manpower income, if only on the auto repair units, and the bofors should have an arc and need to be rotated like any atg emplacement. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Problem with CoH2’s RNG: Consistency8 Feb 2017, 14:49 PM Jump back to quoted post8 Feb 2017, 14:18 PMSvalbard SD Excuse me, but what kind of excuse is this? "We will make a game, advertise and sell it to you, but don't expect us to maintain it in a healthy, optimised, bug-free condition because we don't have money"? If you create a videogame project to make profits, you automatically take upon you the responsibility of providing support and technical maintenance over it. You can't ask to do half the work and expect it to be accepted as a sensible behaviour. Actually you can do exactly this, you just risk not making enough profit so you can't fund ongoing support. Ideally you want to be able to provide support and technical maintenance, but if there are too many problems with the product, you don't make the profits, let alone fix the product with said lack of profits.. This is CoH2. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: AEF Sniper Help with Targeting Please.7 Feb 2017, 17:54 PM Don't apologise, the mod forum expects delays. But thanks for following up anyway it's good to know what works for future reference! In: Modding and Tools
Thread: German massively underpowered7 Feb 2017, 14:47 PM I dunno, but I agree that it is very Wayne. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: brandenburg 8006 Feb 2017, 22:32 PM I wouldn't gloss over thirty years of a military person's career, nor would I expect any argument gleaned from it to hold much value. Looking at Hiroshima and Nagasaki necessitates the context of the war in the Pacific and the Soviet Union's declaration of war on Japan. Letters from the western front of WW1 requires a bit of knowledge of the WW1. (By the way: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A) The world wars of the 20th centuries offer careers worth of academic analysis and then some. Nonetheless, I doubt much value will come from either political or historical debates, nor will discussion over Relic and CoH2's depictions of those politics or history likely be useful for the game. In: Lobby
Thread: The Problem with CoH2’s RNG: Consistency5 Feb 2017, 17:39 PM Jump back to quoted post4 Feb 2017, 06:08 AMskyshark Btw, absolutely not how indirect fire works "in real life." Mortar crew is nowhere near the fight and almost never observes their own rounds. Instead, the squad in contact is calling for support. First couple rounds will be way off unless the observer is very good, but they'd slowly bracket until they were close, then observer would call for a barrage that's made without adjustments. The variance in those rounds is based on manufacturer tolerances in the mortar tube and ammunition and any crew inconsistencies. The game actually models this part fairly accurately. I have always wanted mortars to be wildly inaccurate at first, and reliably become accurate on the third or fourth shell. It'd make mortars so much easier to balance. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Problem with CoH2’s RNG: Consistency4 Feb 2017, 00:54 AM I can honestly state that the only reason I personally ever started to play DotA since the Warcraft 3 days was to play a game that didn't appear to lag, commands were responsive, and could run on my laptop. Early days of CoH2 were rough on that end and spurned a lot of players from the franchise for good. I mean, every game of DotA was/is a veritable farce of imbalance, but the menus and matches ran smoothly and consistently. Sometimes when you only have an hour and a half to play a game, that became the preferable choice. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: The Problem with CoH2’s RNG: Consistency2 Feb 2017, 14:51 PM IMO the abandon critical is appropriate on light vehicles, but not tanks. Just for halftracks, scout cars, etc. In my mind, the abandoned critical is the perfect answer to a component of COH1 gameplay: bike/jeep pushing. But on tanks and such, it's a little tougher to manage. I think in the first mod i built after WFA, I gave every faction vehicle crews that could be purchased at t0. All abandoned tanks could only be crewed by tank crews. It was a work in progress. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: What should be BUFFED with certainty?2 Feb 2017, 01:45 AM Hey I won a game once in 2014 with the IS-2's capture ability in a clutch moment. /nothelping In: COH2 Balance