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Thread: Design versus reality..27 Mar 2016, 14:33 PM Jump back to quoted post27 Mar 2016, 05:49 AMMarkedRaptor That OKW one is a load of truck. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Design versus reality..27 Mar 2016, 05:21 AM I don't really think factions should necessarily be designed around being powerful at certain stages of the game, especially by stripping them of options to cripple their capabilities. The way the factions are considered to have an 'advantage' at certain stages of the games is inelegant at best. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Sturmpioneers - Uberpioneers25 Mar 2016, 18:17 PM If you can drop the Sturms to 3 men with your CEs or REs, you've won the push. A lot of OKW players will tend to try and capitalize on the Sturm's power early game and attempt to rush your engies or REs if you run them out first. Once a model drops on the Sturms they'll be unable to hold the ground against whatever infantry you use. One thing to keep in mind about Sturms which I don't think people take into account is that they are not slowed down by terrain effects. As a result they're exceptionally good at chasing down squads, on retreat or not. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: DLC missing...24 Mar 2016, 20:59 PM Same thing happened to me: https://www.coh2.org/topic/50678/suddenly-can-t-play-wfa-and-british-factions All it should take is restarting steam. In: COH2 Bugs
Thread: osttruppen in 1v122 Mar 2016, 20:59 PM The best way to deal with Ostruppen is pretend you're playing Axis: use team weapons. Get a couple MGs, and a mortar team if Soviets (or mortars in general) to support any engagement made by infantry. Cover your infantry advance with an MG, and ideally keep your mortar covered with an MG. Those Ostruppen are a meat shield designed to bleed your infantry for little gain. It takes mere seconds for a 1 man squad to return to full power, and it costs very little manpower to boot. As such, focus fire, focus fire, focus fire. Don't a-move a blob of infantry into an ostruppen blob, it won't serve you manpower-wise. Focus fire one squad at a time. Ostruppen are flimsy and easily wiped, despite being 6 man squads. Also, don't bother focus firing ostruppen sitting in cover. Just ignore static Ostruppen and move to flank or just mortar them. *edit Also, if your opponent is constantly hopping buildings to avoid your nades, after the second or third dodge, just toss a grenade in front of the building door. You'll likely get a full squad wipe, as well as deter your opponent from acting with impunity with those buildings. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: what do you think of 2v2 at the moment?22 Mar 2016, 20:52 PM Mixed factions are rather imbalanced. The best matchups for 2v2s are double Soviet v double Ostheer, or double USF v double OKW. Double Brits is usually just asking for emplacements, so typically team games with Brits are going to be tedious. Plus there's no equivalently designed faction to match up the Brits, although they are probably the only faction that has the tools for mixed Axis teams. Just like Opposing Fronts before, USF and OKW were only designed with each other in mind, not the original factions. Ostheer v USF and OKW v Soviets have been problematic since WFA's release in every size of matchup. The way the factions synergize in mixed teams isn't that balanced, so 2v2s (and to a lesser extent 3v3s and 4v4s) are best played with ONLY vanilla factions or ONLY WFA factions. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Changes to 3v3/4vs4 mechanics21 Mar 2016, 20:25 PM As far as auras are concerned, such as with the P4 command tank, is that they should not benefit from their own auras. The command P4 with its own aura becomes much harder to kill. If it didn't get its own damage reduction, it would be that much more of a killable target, and once killed, eliminates the aura. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Changes to 3v3/4vs4 mechanics21 Mar 2016, 06:22 AM 1. I don't agree with the logic, but the CP income rate in large games is indeed wonky. Resources are shared, but command XP is not. 2. With 2 fuel points and 3 VPs you already have the potential to create five frontline battlefields. This game doesn't fully realize cut-off points but those are also potentials for engagements. Problem is, this has everything to do with map design, not game mode. Many of the existing 3v3 and 4v4 maps are not really designed or balanced with gameplay in mind, to put it bluntly. 3. The Brits aren't so much well designed as they have access to more tools and options without doctrine choice than other Allied factions. They're like an Allied Ostheer that has the option to be a major dick in team games. But even though the t34/76 is in an awkward place, soviet players are still only going to build T4 for the katyusha. The Soviets already have a strong initiative with their T3. Putting out a tank that is weaker than anything that counters everything in Soviet T3 is still a bad investment. (Also what's the difference between skipping a tier and skipping a side tech, really? Having to retreat an engineer?) 4. Yeah the Forward Retreat Point thing can be kind of annoying, especially when you're the lone Ostheer or Soviet. But at the same time, sometimes it's nice to know your army isn't perpetually about to get bombarded with artillery as they reinforce. Plus, halftracks are neato. 5. I feel like this is leaning into the punch. All this means is players would cheese out doctrinal units as fast as they get the fuel. If there's a problem with KTs coming too quickly the solution isn't to make everything else come out too quickly to match. 6. Everyone has indirect fire, except maybe brits because emplacements make the baby jesus cry, and only OKW lack non-doc suppression. The artillery thing is kind of a mixed bag, but commanders are pretty much a choice between what flavor of artillery or heavy tank you want as it is. Point is, I don't think any of this would particularly improve 3v3/4v4s, but it does highlight that there may be issue worth addressing with how xp for CPs are handled in team games. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Getting the same commanders21 Mar 2016, 05:39 AM Jump back to quoted post20 Mar 2016, 19:03 PMDAZ187 welcome to the club. also after u buy a commander in store it will drop within a week Or the very first game after purchase. I will never let it go. In: COH2 Gameplay
Thread: Sturmpioneers - Uberpioneers21 Mar 2016, 05:37 AM Honestly, if I can hamstring my opponent into making more Sturmpioneers I get to reap the benefits by rolling over an army that's helpless against MGs and vehicles. Sturmpioneers are a tough unit to handle in the first engagement, that is true. However, you get to see what factions you're up against in the loadscreen so if there's an OKW, maybe hold back your RE or CEs from rushing the front immediately. It's better against OKW to hold off an assault on the SPs unless you can get them out of position or kite them off a cap zone. As long as you focus fire the SPs the OKW will likely be only left with volks or a kubel, which are easy to overwhelm. If the OKW follows his Sturmpios with more sturmpios, again, you'll easily overwhelm them as long you don't march in one unit at a time. I think only the Brits might struggle with that war of attrition, but then again, all they need is a Vickers and the sturms are pretty much relegated to defensive operations. In: COH2 Balance