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Thread: Winter Balance Suggestions.8 Jan 2017, 18:04 PM Bump. Soviets: Maxim moved to T1. Sniper Team moved to T2. Conscript molotovs and AT grenades merged into a 125mp 40 fuel upgrade. Demolition Charges and Satchel Charges locked behind a 125mp 30 fuel upgrade from HQ. Real sweet and simple. I am juggling whether or not to merge the changes I made with my other test mod where I swapped Guards and Penal Battalions in addition. (Penals became doctrinal. PTRS stayed doctrinal. Guards needed the conscript grenade upgrades to throw their grenades. Scaled Guards down slightly.) In: Lobby
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.4 Update7 Jan 2017, 19:09 PM At this point why not just make them guards? Swap guards and penals. Make penals the call-in. Make em 0 CP like assault grens or ostruppen. Satchels and flamethrowers make them a niche unit anyway. Though I still think you'd need to keep PTRS a doctrinal choice. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.4 Update7 Jan 2017, 14:57 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Jan 2017, 11:56 AMMr.Smith Ok. To think of the counterplay to flamer-Penals, try to think of how you counter Sturms in the early game. Defeat with maxim? If Sturms push, and they are at full health, you fall back to a supporting squad and gun them down. If Sturms take the cover, you harass them from far. Sturms will either have to move out, or be bled. Or: point maxim. Point next maxim at next OKW unit. Do this until you can tech. In the lategame, when everything revolves around long-range, Flamer Penals will be terribly outscaled. Thus, your enemy will not want to upgrade more than 1 (2 max) Flamer Penals. Actually, at the late game it's not exactly about long-range. It's about suppression platforms and being able to keep units at range. All allied infantry are going to be moving into point blank range to kill squads/clear team weapons. The exception is m1919 laden squads. It doesn't matter what the allied infantry is holding lategame as long as they can get around an mg and/or clear a pak quickly. (Which flames do nicely.) In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: CoH2 Mod Tools Error -17 Jan 2017, 03:45 AM If I could harvest the QoL changes, bug fixes, and the combo Satchel I wouldn't object in the slightest. But when you say "once mod changes have been finalized." do you mean like v1.4 right now or once Relic officially releases a patch? In: Modding and Tools
Thread: Call ins: The overlooked problem7 Jan 2017, 02:40 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Jan 2017, 22:42 PMscratchedpaintjob that was actually the better way to balance call-ins in my opinion. the higher manpower cost compared to coh2 meant that going call-ins would diminish your chances of using your fuel for teching, so one wasted this ressource entirely. in coh2 sherman spam for soviets for example is a ressource-effective way of teching, one uses his fuel That's actually a very good point. When your call-ins are competing with teching for fuel, the call-ins tend to have the most value. Teching can't produce a Puma or StuG E for Ostheer or a Pershing or Calliope for USF. And when you have to spend a hundred fuel to spend a hundred fuel on a medium tank, why not just spend two hundred on a heavy tank? If the unit isn't built from a tech building like, say, the t34/85, it might warrant trying to convert the fuel costs of actual call-ins to manpower. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.4 Update7 Jan 2017, 02:25 AM I have to reiterate, AT Satchels are beautiful. This combo version is even better. But man, forget about the PTRS... I'd so much rather see Satchels and Demos be locked behind an HQ upgrade. Merge molotovs and AT nades into a conscript grenade package for like 30-40 fuel. Demos/Satchels could cost the same. Also, the reduced vet of handheld AT is a great (and long overdue) change. I look forward to testing to ensure damage stays consistent. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Some QoL suggestions7 Jan 2017, 01:44 AM Jump back to quoted post6 Jan 2017, 22:39 PMMr. Someguy That's a shame. And here I was thinking the rotated carts made the perfect props for my coal mine map. Shame it rotates the cover icons too, making them next to invisible on the upright cart. It works best on small entities that can be crammed into a 2x2 space at the largest. And it's perfectly fine to do so for artistic purposes on the edge of maps or to add more flavor to forest groves, building ruins, etc. In: Lobby
Thread: Call ins: The overlooked problem6 Jan 2017, 21:00 PM Sort of... There was a lot more variance between territory points and resources could be cutoff and denied in coh1. The values were relatimely the same, it's just players ability to manipulate those values is severely reduced. Fuel had more uses than primarily teching to build tanks as well. CoH2 is amazingly close to being opened up to allow for those kinds of dynamics but unfortunately this has been the case since 2013 with no signs of interest to change that. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Some QoL suggestions6 Jan 2017, 20:55 PM God almighty I wish there were a way to do that Mr Someguy. There unfortunately is no way to do so without making it a visual object only which doesn't work well for anywhere gameplay where pathing or combat is occurring. Working around the clunky chessboard that are coh maps can be extremely frustrating. In: Lobby
Thread: Relic Winter Balance Preview v1.4 Update6 Jan 2017, 20:45 PM So it looks as though penal ptrs is here to stay then? Oh well. Once again excellent qol changes and bug fixes. Balance changes are questionabe at best. What is the replay threshold for listening to feedback this time around? In: COH2 Gameplay